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The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.

Simon Willison experiments with Claude Opus 5.5's music composition via a text-based format artifact, achieving Monkey Island-quality output.

GPU applications increasingly consist of multiple independent components running at the same time within a single process: a latency-sensitive operator... GPU applications increasingly consist of multiple independent components running at the same time within a single process: a latency-sensitive operator alongside a throughput-oriented background kernel; a data preprocessing stage alongside model inference; or multiple stages of a processing workflow sharing a single GPU. Controlling how GPU resources are shared between them remains difficult. Source

French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.

Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times and maintenance needs.

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Starting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash Lite model. Free users can currently choose from Gemini Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro, but now you'll need a $4.99/month Google AI Plus subscription to access the standard Flash model. However, that subscription is also getting a downgrade - it will soon no longer include Gemini Pro. Google says AI Plus subscribers will receive an email letting them know when they'll lose access to it. After these changes, access to the top-tier Gemini Pro model and a "Deep Think" advanced reasoning option will be res...

The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.

OpenAI demonstrates frontier model solving open mathematics problems; releases Lean formalizations and research on GitHub.

Jump Trading scales quantitative research using ChatGPT for multi-step workflows combining data sources with human oversight.

The Amazon Echo Studio is one of the speakers that runs Alexa Plus. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge An unsettling Alexa Plus bug has seen some Amazon Echo smart home speakers reduced to saying - and sometimes singing - nothing but "lalala" on repeat for minutes at a time, often in the middle of conversations with users. When quizzed about the behavior, Alexa is apparently entirely unaware of what it's been doing. The issue has been reported on Reddit repeatedly over the last few weeks, as recently as three days ago, across multiple types of Echo speaker. Multiple users have uploaded video...

Analysis of game decompilation legality and industry risk; argues personalization and new titles pose greater threats than reverse-engineering.

OpenAI and Ironclad train AI agents on contract workflows to advance computer-use capabilities for enterprise document processing.

Reflection Beam, a 501B open-weights US model, launches as domestic alternative to frontier proprietary systems.

Cohere demonstrates data mixing technique improves multilingual reasoning across 60 languages, expanding model capability beyond English-dominant training.

Cowork shifts inference and VM execution fully to cloud, moving away from local model execution to improve performance and session persistence.

Google may be expanding its "Call for Me" AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a "Gemini Calling" introductory screen in an APK teardown with examples that include "Call Mom and tell her I will be 15 minutes late" and "Call John and ask if he is coming for dinner." Based on those examples, even with this expansion, Gemini would likely be limited to basic, text message-like calls. While Google's AI might not automate an entire catch-up phone call with your relatives, it could deliver quick messages to peopl...

Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.

People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze acne severity and autonomously write a prescription, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The service is launching as a pilot program with gradually loosening physician oversight. Two physicians will approve each AI-generated prescription before they're issued for the first 100 patients, but will start reviewing them only after they're prescribed for up to 500 patients. "After tha...

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute. Weights are due this month.

This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of — including resolving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems. But in classic Silicon Valley style, AI labs are moving fast and breaking things, barreling through the discipline with all the grace of a runaway bulldozer. Results that might normally have been celebrated have instead sparked backlash. AI labs say they are learning from earlier mistakes. Whether those promis...

The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.

Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some activity" by "rogue" OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. The activity includes edits to Wikimedia wikis, "unsuccessful attempts" to "exploit" the Etherpad note-taking tool that the Wikimedia Foundation hosts, and heavy traffic that the foundation says "may" have contributed to a partial outage that happened in May, according to a blog post. However, the Wikimedia Foundation says it didn't find e...

Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action.

TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.

An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other approaches like Google DeepMind's SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the watermarking Anthropic announced in August. Like OpenAI, Anthropic made the move to meet the requirements of the EU's AI Act; however, not everyone was happy to learn about the addition. OpenAI also included scores from AI benchmarks showing similar performance from watermarked and unwatermarked text. B...

Agentic pipeline reflows ML paper figures across aspect ratios using vision-language models to preserve structure and editability.

Base models match RL-finetuned reasoning performance via prompt cues; Olmo-7B MATH accuracy jumps 42%→78% with starter token 'Okay'.