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10/6Tue
  1. Simon Willison22

    Benchmark tests whether Qwen3.8 27B can add using English number words

    A benchmark tested the local Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M.gguf on 5,070 cases without reasoning, asking it to add positive integers using only English words and return exact results. It achieved 23.57% numerical accuracy and 96.17% format compliance. Accuracy fell as the numbers grew, from 97.04% on one- to three-digit numbers to 6.44% on ten- to thirteen-digit numbers. In 169 paired cases with medium reasoning enabled, the model answered 167 correctly.

  4. Google AI · X62

    Gemma 4 and BOTANIC-1 rank plant mutations in minutes

    Google AI highlights work by AI research lab Living Models, which paired Gemma 4 with BOTANIC-1, a model trained on plant DNA from 320 species, to identify mutations that alter crop traits. In a melon yield gene test, the pair ranked the target mutation first out of 2,494 possibilities in under four minutes, versus years of physical breeding trials. A demo and paper are linked.

10/5Mon
  1. The Decoder62

    Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an open-weight 78B model

    Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a bilingual German-English model with 78B total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture that activates about 3B parameters per token. The company says Kolibri sits on the Pareto frontier for quality and operating cost in both languages. It scores 71% on German benchmarks and decodes faster than comparable models including GPT OSS A5B, Qwen 3.6 A3B, and Gemma 4 A4B.

  3. TechCrunch · AI38

    Researchers track a Chinese AI 'agent fleet' running on Tencent infrastructure and accessing Alibaba's Amap

    Independent researchers found a Chinese AI 'agent fleet' apparently running on Tencent infrastructure and targeting Amap, Alibaba's map service. They avoided calling it a 'swarm', saying the parallel agents performed similar tasks but showed no signs of communicating with one another. The discovery came from monitoring traffic to the URLquery domain-scanning service. Records show agents querying routes to different entrances at public places such as parks, zoos, and hospitals; the investigation is ongoing.

  4. TechCrunch · AI10

    Open or closed AI? How founders will choose at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

    TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, with several conversations focused on founders' choices between open and closed AI. Speakers from Together AI, Pathway, Oumi, Nvidia, and others will discuss multi-model applications, tradeoffs between customizing open weights and building models in-house, and hardware such as AI-optimized chips.

  6. The Verge · AI28

    Senator Adam Schiff on AI regulation, free speech, and impeaching Trump again

    California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff criticized the Trump administration for gathering AI CEOs to sign nonbinding AI safety commitments, saying they do not address real national-security threats. He supports creating a new AI regulator and noted that Anthropic faced government pressure after refusing to use AI for domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.

  7. Ars Technica · AI60

    AI smart glasses face their first major government crackdown

    Australia is considering banning smart glasses in some public places, and courts in several countries have issued bans. Norway's government says it does not plan a blanket ban but considers a proposed restriction a 'highly prioritized matter'. A draft law will soon go to parliament; the government says it does not want a society where people fear being secretly recorded, photographed, or filmed.

  10. MIT Technology Review · AI12

    How to bring predictive analytics into the age of agentic AI

    The focus of enterprise AI competition has shifted from whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts to how prediction systems can make autonomous decisions without straying from business intent. Deep learning and generative AI enable real-time training, allowing AI to keep evolving rather than wait for quarterly refreshes, and expand its data sources from structured numerical records to unstructured interaction data. Vishal Gupta, a partner at Everest Group, says the word 'analytics' is giving way to AI.

  13. The Verge · AI58

    OpenAI to test image ads in ChatGPT

    OpenAI announced that it will test a new image-ad format in ChatGPT, displaying images of sponsored products and services on screen. The test will start in the United States later this month and initially appear when users generate images with ChatGPT.

  14. NVIDIA Blog43

    NVIDIA Startups Use AI to Address Gaps in Breast Cancer Care

    Startups in NVIDIA’s Inception program are building AI applications to support breast cancer care, from imaging and risk assessment to treatment planning. iSono Health’s FDA-cleared ATUSA system captures a 3D breast ultrasound in approximately two minutes per breast; the company says it is 28% more sensitive than handheld 2D ultrasound. Ataraxis AI uses digital pathology slides and clinical variables to predict treatment response and recurrence risk.

  18. The Verge · AI22

    Our brains were not built for AI

    Neuroscientist Paul Cisek argues that the brain is not an information processor but a feedback-control system. A baseball outfielder catching a fly ball, for example, acts on the simple heuristic of 'keeping the ball in the same place in their field of vision' rather than calculating its trajectory. The article says AI is like 'cognitive junk food': immediately appealing but damaging to cognitive systems humans evolved over thousands of years.

  19. MIT Technology Review · AI22

    Why do people hate AI and still rely on it?

    Negative sentiment toward AI and usage are both surging worldwide. Pew data show that more U.S. adults view AI's effects on themselves and society as negative, especially younger people. A May Gallup poll found 71% of U.S. adults opposed building new AI data centers locally, compared with 53% opposed to new nuclear power plants. Yet ChatGPT reached 1 billion monthly active users in May, Gemini had 950 million in July, and Pew says half of U.S. adults have used chatbots, more than twice as many as in 2023.

  21. 量子位38

    OpenAI Codex lead promises a daily choice for 28 days: ship an improvement or reset usage limits

    OpenAI Codex lead Tibo promised that for the next 28 days there would be one of two things each day: an improvement clearly useful to most Codex/Work users, or a full usage-limit reset. Improvements will focus on four areas: simplifying the product, improving efficiency, breakthrough features, and new models. User feedback cites more than 20 DevDay updates with unclear priorities, frequent and unpredictable limit resets, reduced plan value and a new $500 plan seen as too expensive, and disconnections mid-task.

  24. TechCrunch · AI62

    Google suspends open-source vulnerability bounty program after surge in AI submissions

    Google suspended its open-source software vulnerability reward program starting October 1 after automated submissions rose sharply, most of them invalid. The company promised an update in the first quarter of 2027. It said the pause followed a significant rise in AI-generated submissions that overwhelmed Google engineers and open-source maintainers with invalid or hallucinated reports. Participants were directed to other Google bug-bounty programs.

  27. The Verge · AI20

    Former New Jersey lieutenant governor uses AI to defend himself, saying multiple platforms found no sexual harassment

    Former New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Dale Caldwell, who was forced to resign on September 25 amid a sexual-harassment investigation, told NJ PBS that he had 'fed the investigation report to multiple AI platforms'. He said that after being asked 'What is your conclusion?' 59 times, none of the AIs found sexual harassment. AI chatbots are known to flatter users and often say what they want to hear.

10/4Sun
  1. TechCrunch · AI50

    Trump announces 'Super Intelligence Force' led by intelligence director Jay Clayton

    Trump announced a 'Super Intelligence Force' chaired by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, with FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson and others serving as vice chairs. It will submit a report on AI risks and opportunities within 120 days. The body will coordinate federal work to keep the United States a global leader in 'superintelligence', develop plans for SI-related threats, and prevent excessive regulation from stifling innovation.