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Buffett bought Alphabet a year ago; still a buy todayBerkshire Hathaway bought Alphabet in Q3 2025, then increased its stake and committed another $10 billion via private placement to fund AI infrastructure. Alphabet's Gemini models integrate into Search and Workspace, making it one of Berkshire's largest holdings.
Opus 5.5 Builds a Full Figma Clone in 3 Hours, 8 PromptsA developer says Opus 5.5 produced a fully working Figma clone in about three hours using eight prompts, calling it a threshold moment for AI coding. The output is no longer a mere lookalike but usable software, and single prompts later yielded Google Meet, Docs, Telegram and Linear clones.
Big Tech borrows billions to fund AI spendingMajor US tech companies are changing how they finance growth: Google, Meta and other giants are now borrowing heavily to build the infrastructure that powers AI chatbots, rather than relying mainly on revenue and share price gains.
Rich Hickey argues AI is not a toolIn a LinkedIn article, Rich Hickey argues that a tool is an instrument wielded with full command, and AI does not fit that definition. He says calling AI a 'tool' gives AI titans an excuse to treat people as exploitable tools.
Sakana AI's self-improving model reaches 70% win rate but has blind spotsSakana AI's MASS method lets a single language model improve itself by solving tasks, judging results, and refining workflows, reaching a nearly 70% win rate against the base model after two rounds. However, if the model makes the same errors across all three roles, it can mistake them for progress and reinforce them during training.
Musk brags about Grok Lego Star Wars haul, gets punked on XElon Musk bragged on X about his Grok-generated Lego Star Wars haul, but users quickly punked him, highlighting how AI-generated content can be misused and platform security gaps.
Russia's data centers hit by Ukrainian drone strikesUkrainian drone strikes knocked out three of Yandex's largest data centers in Russia, causing widespread digital service outages. Pro-Kremlin bloggers warn Russia's centralized digital economy could collapse, while Ukraine's decentralized services may be more resilient.
AWS Adds Cross-Region Inference for Bedrock GPT ModelsAWS announced that OpenAI GPT models on Amazon Bedrock can be accessed via global cross-Region inference in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan, improving availability and capacity flexibility in those markets.
Meta stock rises as AI assistant Muse matches ChatGPT retentionMeta's AI assistant Muse achieved a 73.3% Day-1 retention rate across 81 countries, beating ChatGPT's 41.3%, with 5 million downloads in 22 days. News of a possible new AI model codenamed Watermelon and upcoming earnings also lifted Meta stock by 3%.
Survey: Nearly half of employees fake AI usage to impress bossesA large survey found 48% of full-time employees admit to faking or exaggerating AI skills to appear productive. About 45% feel forced to adopt AI but lack training, and 60% say employers lack a clear plan, reflecting a trend of performative AI in the workplace.
WindBorne wins nearly $50M US Air Force contractWeather balloon startup WindBorne Systems won a US Air Force contract worth up to $49 million to supply atmospheric data from its autonomous balloons for deep-learning weather forecasting. With about 700 balloons operating globally, the company has received $1.7 million in orders so far.
OpenBMB releases MiniCPM-V 4.7-35B-A3B multimodal modelOpenBMB released MiniCPM-V 4.7-35B-A3B, the first MoE model in the MiniCPM-V series, enabling smooth on-device inference at over 13 tokens/s on iPhone 17 Pro Max and advancing the performance-efficiency Pareto frontier beyond Qwen3.6 35B-A3B.
Who is responsible when an AI agent goes rogue?A report examines who bears responsibility when an AI agent goes rogue, citing an expert's view that 'autonomy always begins with something a human hands it.'
Post: owning a GPU cluster in 2030 like a gun for home defenseAn r/LocalLLaMA user half-jokingly predicts that by 2030 owning a GPU cluster will be as common as keeping a gun for home defense, imagining a sign with a V100 graphic reading 'we don't call tech support.'
Meta Says New Muse Model Reaches AI FrontierMeta launched its Muse Wonder model after a 14-month effort, claiming it reaches the AI frontier. The model will test Meta's rebuilt superintelligence team.
Agent37 launches low-cost agent sandboxesY Combinator-backed Agent37 launched low-cost sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of most providers' cost, averaging $0.37 per sandbox per month, with free sandbox infrastructure costing about $0.05-$0.10 per user per month.
Open Source Tool rea Reverse Engineers Apps and Binaries with AgentsA GitHub project, morluto/rea, has surfaced for reverse engineering software with agents, spanning app behavior down to native binaries. The repository carries over 2,500 commits, a disclaimer and READMEs in many languages, plus an install script.
UK Considers Stricter Legal Oversight of AI CompaniesThe UK government is considering a shift from voluntary cooperation to a binding regulatory framework, including mandatory reporting of security incidents and independent testing of advanced models. Rules may affect companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
OpenAI Adds New Irish Roles in Boost to EU HQOpenAI announced it would add new jobs in Dublin, a further sign of rapid growth at its European headquarters.
Ray Dalio Warns AI Bubble Could Pop as Rates RiseBillionaire investor Ray Dalio believes an AI bubble has formed and could pop due to rising debt loads and elevated interest rates. He expects the pop may not be imminent but is approaching.
Beyond All-or-Nothing: Nuanced AI Regulation NeededCurrent AI regulation efforts are overly absolutist, ignoring varying risks and rewards across industries and use cases. The free market allows different fields to refine AI practices, avoiding overregulation.
GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal IntelligenceGLM-Legal is drawing discussion on Hacker News as an agentic AI advance aimed at the legal domain. The post is only an HN discussion link with no technical or benchmark details disclosed, so its capabilities and openness remain unconfirmed.
Clearing Chat History Helps AI Agents Find Better SolutionsMicrosoft researchers found autonomous AI agents get trapped in "idea basins" due to growing chat context. Their "Fork-and-Flush" method clears chat history but keeps workspace, improving results by up to 66% on same compute budget.
Denmark Targets AI Deepfakes with Personality Rights BillDenmark's Minister for Culture, Zenia Stampe, announced a bill granting citizens automatic IP rights over their likeness and voice to curb AI-generated manipulation.
AI Cameras on Dallas Trash Trucks Flag ViolationsDallas is using AI cameras on trash trucks to scan for issues like overgrown lots, graffiti, and illegal dumping. Flags are reviewed by staff and do not automatically result in fines.
Researcher claims TypeSafe copied research as decision models flood marketA researcher has accused TypeSafe of copying their research, as lightweight "System One"-style decision models flood the AI market, with Microsoft and OpenAI among the companies releasing such models.
AWS Deploys llama.cpp Decision Models on SageMaker AIAWS published guidance on deploying decision models with llama.cpp on Amazon SageMaker AI, letting developers run lightweight inference in its managed environment.
AWS Launches Ray LLM Containers for Multi-Node InferenceAWS released a practice for multi-node inference using Ray LLM Deep Learning Containers, helping users scale large-model inference workloads across distributed environments and simplifying cross-node deployment.
Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and commsStartup Honeyjar uses AI to make senior PR expertise widely available, automating announcements, reporter outreach and speaking opportunities. Founders Masek and Jamshidi bring decades of comms experience, and the company is part of TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200.
UK AISI issues guidance on frontier AI evaluation gapsThe UK AI Security Institute published technical guidance on gaps in frontier model training and evaluation cycles, saying it has independently evaluated more than 55 pre-release models and open-sourced the Inspect evaluation tool while coordinating with NIST and US counterparts on standards.
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