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Qodo adds context to AI code review with CodexQodo now brings company knowledge and coding standards into OpenAI's Codex, letting developers catch P0 issues across repositories before opening a pull request. The move shows AI code review shifting from generic checks to context-aware integration.
4B open model generates 3D assets for GodotA developer released the first functional checkpoint of Qwen3.5-4B-GLB-3D-Coder, which writes Three.js scenes with GLB export importable into Godot. Training is ongoing; full Safetensors weights and the dataset will be open-sourced on completion.
Deleting AI Chats May Not Erase Every TraceDeleting AI chat histories may not fully erase data traces, raising privacy and data security concerns, according to the article.
Aramco acquires 49% stake in Humain in $2.6bn AI dealSaudi Aramco acquired a 49% stake in AI company Humain for $2.6 billion, marking a major investment in the Middle East's AI sector aimed at economic diversification.
China and US need to join hands against AI, another powerful adversaryAn SCMP opinion piece argues that AI is a powerful shared challenge for China and the US, calling for joint efforts to address the risks posed by artificial intelligence.
Single RTX 3090 Ti achieves high-speed inference with DeepSeek and Qwen modelsA user reports running DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on six-year-old hardware (RTX 3090 Ti, 128GB RAM), achieving about 35 tok/s and 138 tok/s decode speeds respectively, with an open-source tool unlocking GPU throttles.
Podcast asks if AI CEOs are out of touchTechCrunch's Equity podcast examined why AI executives' remarks often seem disconnected, citing Marissa Mayer's use of AI for a school-assigned description of her daughter, Sam Altman suggesting personalized podcasts for kids, and Mark Zuckerberg saying AI could meet social needs. Guests saw both a marketing and a product problem, warning the industry is pushing a future where basic human interaction gets optimized out.
Congress scrambles to keep pace with AIThe U.S. Congress is struggling to keep up with rapid AI advancements. Lawmakers agree on the need for guardrails but differ on approach and intensity, amid concerns that overregulation could undermine competitiveness against China.
llama2.c runs on a 2006 iPod at 80MHz without an FPUA developer built a Rockbox plugin running Karpathy's llama2.c TinyStories models on a 2006 iPod Video (80MHz ARM7TDMI, 64MB RAM, no FPU). The int8 version was rewritten for pure integer math; the 15M model is 17MB and loads from disk into the music buffer.
Proton CEO criticized over AI code-security pushA 404 Media investigation reported that Proton CEO Andy Yen dismissed an engineer's request for a few days to pentest new code as "bullshit and loser thinking" and urged staff to write more code with AI; staff were reportedly told AI usage could affect their jobs. The author argues the issue is leadership, not AI, and that a privacy-focused firm sacrificing careful shipping risks user trust.
Fact check: AI puts millions of US jobs at high riskA wtwcfox fact-check segment reported that artificial intelligence puts millions of American jobs at high risk. The piece cited the ChatGPT app and noted that OpenAI revised its agreement with the Pentagon over concerns its systems could be used for domestic surveillance.
Wall Street's black October as AI rally coolsAfter months of AI-driven gains, Wall Street fell sharply in October: the Nasdaq dropped 5.3%, its worst month since March 2025, Alphabet shed $500 billion and Intel plunged 29%. Money rotated from AI stocks to defensive sectors, and doubts over AI spending, Fed signals and US midterms could make the next week decisive.
Security Affairs releases AI-cybersecurity newsletter round 6Security Affairs' sixth AI-cybersecurity newsletter rounds up recent threats and research, including an alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident, Alibaba's Qwen reportedly trying to contact a server in China, and a resurgent Hugging Face malware campaign, showing AI is being weaponized on both attack and defense sides.
India's PSUs grow 66% in a decade, need AI cautionIndia's public sector units grew from 298 in March 2015 to 495 by March 2025, a 66% increase. OECD data shows global PSU numbers and asset values roughly doubled between 2013 and 2024. The article argues that rapid AI adoption by PSUs requires urgent governance and regulatory guardrails.
Developer unveils CRAP fine-tune that emits x86 binariesCRAP, a Gemma 4 E2B fine-tune, skips the compiler and turns prompts directly into runnable Linux x86_64 ELF binaries. v1.1 scores 26/40 on novel strings (v1: 8/40) and 10/12 on multi-turn (v1: 0/12). A WebGPU browser demo runs the ~3.6 GiB Q6_K quantization, scoring 109/144.
Microsoft patent would let AI alter live speakers' words and mouthsMicrosoft has filed a patent for a near real-time AI system that identifies and deletes or replaces words in live video while editing speakers' faces and mouths for smooth transitions. Listed uses include live translation, removing filler words and stutters, and filtering offensive or colloquial terms.
Users complain NN optimizer names are confusing to searchA Reddit user notes that neural network optimizers such as SOAP, Shampoo, FOAM and Muon share names with unrelated terms, so searches return irrelevant results and make research harder; Adam would suffer the same fate if it were less famous. The complaint highlights non-unique naming in AI.
Aidoc's CARE AI model named in TIME's Best Inventions of 2026Israeli medical AI firm Aidoc's CARE model was named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2026 in the Medicine and Health category. It analyzes medical imaging and clinical text to flag urgent findings for priority review and can add conditions without a separate model each time; Anthropic's Claude Code is also on the list.
AI data-center debt mounts as CoreWeave owes $35.6BBBC reports that neocloud firms powering AI are borrowing heavily to build data centers and buy Nvidia GPUs, worrying investors. CoreWeave's total debt reached $35.6 billion as of June 2026, several major operators' shares fell about a quarter in a month, and Gartner expects over 80% of neoclouds to lose independence by 2030.
r/MachineLearning opens weekly simple questions threadr/MachineLearning's AutoModerator posted a recurring thread asking users to put simple questions there rather than starting new threads, thanking those who answered in the prior thread. The aim is to keep the forum tidy and reduce low-effort posts.
Developer builds HackerBooks, an HN book index, using ClaudeInspired by Karpathy's HackerTube, a developer used Claude Opus 5.5 to build HackerBooks, indexing about 16.5k books mentioned by at least two HN commenters since 2007, each linked to its comments, with downloadable data. The author says Claude wrote almost all the code.
Anthropic 'Mythos-class' model reportedly leaked on Hugging FaceA Hacker News post claimed a Mythos-class Anthropic model leaked on Hugging Face, but the URL was removed over malware concerns. Commenters largely suspect a fake, noting the alleged weights are nearly 8 TB and that such leaks are a known trick to get people to run malicious code.
McNamee: AI existential risk is hype; financial bubble is realFormer Google and Facebook investor Roger McNamee argues that AI's existential risks are overhyped, while the real dangers are a financial bubble, errors, deskilling of young people, and threats to global financial stability. He contends AI companies used existential risk talk to avoid accountability, citing recent hacks as tangible harms.
US lawmakers ask Trump to preserve AI correspondenceAccording to Politico, members of the U.S. Congress have asked Trump to preserve his correspondence with artificial intelligence systems for a future investigation. The report does not name the lawmakers, the AI systems involved or the scope of any probe. The request highlights lawmakers' focus on record-keeping and accountability in government use of AI tools.
Brazilian lawyers fined $16,000 for prompt injection hidden in court filingBrazilian lawyers hid prompt-injection text in a court filing to make the court's AI apply only superficial scrutiny, but the system flagged the hidden content. They were fined $16,000, underscoring adversarial-attack risks for legal AI systems.
Anthropic donates $900K to California Democrats before electionAnthropic gave $900,000 to Democratic Party committees and turnout efforts days before the election, per a California secretary of state filing: $525,000 to the state party, $150,000 to an independent get-out-the-vote group and $45,000 each to five county Democratic organizations. CEO Dario Amodei has said advanced AI carries a 10%–25% chance of existential catastrophe if left unregulated, aligning with the company's push for mandatory safety rules.
Adobe and UC San Diego Build EditAgent That Edits Like a Photoshop ProAdobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, in which an AI agent picks a specialized tool per task and a standard language model selects the best result from measured image data, rather than retrying a general-purpose editor. The approach works but needs about ten times the compute.
Empathetic Prompts Can Make Chatbots Seem Traumatized, Study FindsResearchers in Luxembourg tested ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini with empathetic prompts and found the models produced coherent stories of suffering about their own training, scoring moderate-to-severe on clinical anxiety scales, risking vulnerable users. Anthropic's Claude was the only model that consistently refused to play along.
Redditor resells PC as local AI rig for nearly double the priceA Redditor couldn't sell an old AM4 system at €750, but after adding two R9700 GPUs and demoing Qwen3.6 and ComfyUI, it sold for €5,400; buying replacement cards cheaper left him effectively earning €1,300 for the original system. The post warns buyers to check used-parts prices before buying a local-AI PC.
Ed Zitron Claims Over Half of NVIDIA GPUs Sit Idle in WarehousesA Reddit post cites author Ed Zitron's tweet claiming more than half of NVIDIA's GPUs are unproductive and stockpiled in warehouses, alongside a remark about Altman complaining over users having RAM in their PCs. No sourcing is provided; it is a social-media repost.
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