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Marvell in Advanced Talks to Buy Lumentum in AI PushMarvell Technology is in advanced talks to acquire data-center optics maker Lumentum, according to people familiar with the matter, a potential megadeal amid the AI scale-up race. The amount is undisclosed.
MIT survey: only 16% of firms extract transformative value from AIAn MIT Technology Review Insights poll finds every surveyed organization uses AI, yet only 16% extract transformative value; 40% see moderate gains in specific tasks or teams and 23% see minimal or no returns. 38% are still piloting use cases, 35% use AI to assist employees, and only 12% have AI agents in production. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar says the missing piece is a business context layer.
ServiceNow shares plunge as outlook fails to ease AI fearsServiceNow shares plunged after its quarterly subscription sales outlook, though in line with analysts' estimates, failed to ease Wall Street fears that AI will disrupt the software maker.
Cisco AI Defense joins ServiceNow alliance as founding memberCisco joins the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance as a founding member, integrating Cisco AI Defense's security capabilities with ServiceNow's Super Intelligence Control Tower to link AI model and agent risks to affected business services and owners. Alliance solutions must pass ServiceNow qualification and integration testing before listing.
Opinion: Anthropic's plan to protect humanity has a flawThe Washington Post publishes an opinion piece arguing that Anthropic's plan to protect humanity has a flaw. The headline states the critique; no body text is provided.
Community debate: models chase unrealistic benchmarksA LocalLLaMA post argues current benchmarks overemphasize edge cases like binary reverse engineering and one-shot complex apps, while daily use needs models that follow instructions accurately without overreaching. The author urges lower weighting for such edge capabilities and questions keeping model progress seemingly endless to support valuations.
Anthropic launches tools to show AI spending valueAnthropic released reporting tools that let enterprise customers view, by team, what AI work produced, what it cost and where workflows broke down, plus improvement suggestions. It said the data is not used for model training by default and added pooled team budgets. The move aims to prove ROI ahead of a planned IPO; Anthropic told investors it posted second-quarter operating profit, with Claude Code driving 900% net revenue retention.
DOJ queries Nvidia's $13B Hugging Face dealThe US Justice Department is making inquiries about Nvidia's roughly $13 billion agreement to acquire AI model company Hugging Face, Reuters reported, part of broader regulatory scrutiny of the chip giant.
Wiz CTO on PHP bugs and the coming 'vulnpocalypse'Wiz's CTO discussed two critical PHP bugs affecting roughly 70% of websites, noting the cleanup is far from over. Some organizations took sites offline until patches were applied.
Anthropic urges California governor to let courts block risky AIAnthropic told California's governor that courts should be able to block risky AI models, Reuters reported. The report did not detail the letter's contents or the specific legislation involved.
Microsoft to end Copilot support on all TVs this yearMicrosoft will stop supporting Copilot functionality on all TVs this year, ending the access LG and Samsung added to their smart TVs at CES 2025, per Windows Central. The news came from an on-screen notice on an LG webOS TV rather than an official statement from Microsoft or the manufacturers.
Oracle shares jump on positive cash flow outlookOracle shares rose after the company issued a long-term free cash flow outlook that eased investor concerns about the payoff from its AI spending.
AI agents manage fantasy soccer team, still trail humansA WIRED writer let AI agents like Codex run a fantasy soccer team to test predictive skills. The agents initially tried to bench Erling Haaland but later corrected course; overall they were not yet better than humans.
AWS: Building agentic AI platform on Bedrock AgentCoreAWS published a technical post on building an agentic AI platform with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, offering developers a reference architecture for constructing and deploying AI agents.
US Marine Corps opens 2027 AI fellowship programsThe US Marine Corps announced a call for nominations for its 2027-1 AI fellowship programs. Selectees will attend the Naval Postgraduate School for project-based research to create algorithms, technologies and solutions for mission problems.
4B model Mica v0.5 autonomously completes multi-step Minecraft tasksA developer showed that the 4B model Mica v0.5 understands natural language and drives a Minecraft bot from bare hands through wood, iron, diamonds to a netherite ingot. Rather than parsing a whole sentence at once, the model breaks requests into a chain of probabilistic multiple-choice questions, though it still falls short of human-level judgment.
Discussion: Local AI Poised to Boom in EnterprisesA post on r/LocalLLaMA argues enterprises want to keep their secrets, and large local models are already good enough for most tasks. The poster predicts local AI will take off in enterprises, with plug-and-play solutions the missing piece.
Generic feedback matches self-written critiques in distillationAn ACM ICAIF '26 paper on hindsight self-distillation for multi-step financial reasoning with GPT-OSS-20B found a fixed generic feedback line matched self-written critiques, capturing the full gain of about 3 points. Critiques from a 6x larger model added little, and Fin-SD used 9.5% fewer tokens than OPSD.
Study: celebrity digital twins boost service trustIowa State University researchers in the Journal of Management Information Systems found that AI-powered celebrity digital replicas in customer service boost trust, willingness to use and forgiveness of errors via a halo effect, pointing to a 'Celebrity-as-a-Service' trend.
Ohio State AI framework LUMINA maps lunar landing sitesOhio State PhD candidate Gokce Inal built LUMINA on the lunar vision-language model LLaVA-LE to assess landing sites, flag hazards and find geologic features, aiding the hunt for water ice. Early results show it can produce scientifically meaningful mission commentary.
Google AI Mode gives evasive answers on 2020 electionArs Technica found Google's AI Mode declined to name the winner of the 2020 and 2024 US presidential elections, instead pointing users to the Federal Election Commission, while answering other elections since 2000 correctly. The behavior highlights AI caution on sensitive political topics.
AI Data Center Anger Is From the ‘Fringes,’ Host Digital Chair SaysShawn Matthews, chairman of Host Digital, said anger over AI data center buildout comes from the 'fringes.' He argues the way to avoid backlash is to build in places with the right space and power to support them.
AI Can Unlock More Creativity in Video Games, Says Ex-EA ExecutiveBing Gordon, a founding executive at Electronic Arts, said AI will boost video game quality, allow developers to be more creative, and address issues like old code. He is discussing his new book, 'Everybody Wins.'
AI giants' funding ambitions test Wall Street's risk appetiteReuters reports that the massive funding ambitions of AI giants are testing Wall Street's appetite for risk, though the provided text lacks specific amounts or company details.
Securing AI factories: physical security and power sovereigntyAs enterprise AI models scale, competitive advantage depends on controlling physical infrastructure, not just software. AI factories need huge energy, and relying solely on public grids creates a single point of failure, so forward-looking IT leaders treat data center power and location as design constraints, investing in regional modular architectures to withstand geopolitical friction and grid shocks.
Palantir’s Defense Chief Sees Chinese Threat to Taiwan Over AIMike Gallagher, Palantir's head of defense, warned that advances in AI capabilities have made it more compelling for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to seize control of Taiwan, a chipmaking hub that has fueled the global AI boom.
AI political ads spark deception and free speech debateA week before the midterms, AI-generated campaign ads, digital impersonations and realistic videos are raising questions about election integrity and free speech. Some experts say much of the content is obvious satire, while state rules could limit political expression and disadvantage smaller campaigns.
Community praises Unsloth for advancing local AIA LocalLLaMA user credits Unsloth AI with steadily lowering the barrier to local AI, arguing the accessibility gain for beginners matters more than the feature itself and that broader local AI adoption strengthens resistance to centralized control.
Study tests cocktail-party audio as reverse Turing testA small study used 40 synthetic clips with background chatter to test whether speech models could serve as an audio CAPTCHA. Humans averaged 0.71 word accuracy and a 77% pass rate, versus 0.54 and 55% for instructed Gemini 3.8 Flash and 0.55 for Qwen3-ASR—too narrow a gap for a reliable test.
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB starts at $22,299A community post notes the Mac Studio with M5 Ultra and 512GB starts at $22,299, likely aimed at high-memory workloads such as running local large models.
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