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2026-10-13 · TUESDAY · 21:10 PDT

  1. 1 Google DeepMind and Singapore's GovTech fine-tune Gemma to catch conversational scams on phones DEEPMIND BLOG Google DeepMind and Singapore's GovTech presented an on-device scam detector at Singapore International Cyber Week, built by fine-tuning Gemma on local scam conversations. A lightweight classifier screens incoming messages and sends suspicious ones to Gemma for multi-turn analysis, warning the user on the phone rather than scanning traffic on a server. DeepMind says scams are over half of Singapore's reported crimes.
  2. 2 Science Corporation implants its PRIMA vision chip in a first Stargardt disease patient TECHCRUNCH Science Corporation has implanted PRIMA, its vision-restoring retinal chip, in a first patient with Stargardt disease, chief executive Max Hodak said on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. The device is already sold in Europe for geographic atrophy, and Hodak counts retinal prostheses as one form of brain-computer interface. Stargardt disease is considered incurable and has cost about 150,000 people their sight.
  3. 3 Character.ai's bankruptcy filings show compute costs ran far ahead of revenue 404 MEDIA 404 Media read the narrative Character.ai filed in bankruptcy court on Tuesday and reports the company spent $13.8 million a month on AI compute in 2024 and $10 million a month in 2025. Subscription revenue peaked at $2.8 million a month, while all revenue including ads peaked at $5.3 million. An affidavit from chief executive Colin Adams says the company always struggled with profitability.
  4. 4 Parsimony is an open-source benchmark that ranks coding models by how much code they add PARSIMONY · VIA HACKER NEWS · 61 PTS · 9 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION A Show HN post introduced Parsimony, an open-source benchmark that measures how much code AI coding agents add rather than whether they solve a task. It parses the patches other benchmarks already publish and counts syntax elements such as statements, calls and literals, ignoring line counts and subtracting deleted code. Pass or fail comes from SWE-bench Verified without rerunning any tests.
  5. 5 A developer answers prompts from an 80B MoE in a Chrome tab, paging experts off disk R/LOCALLLAMA A developer ran Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B, a 48.4 GB GGUF, inside a Chrome tab on llama.cpp's own WebGPU backend, holding 4.89 GB on the GPU and paging experts in from the browser's private storage. On a 24 GB MacBook Pro M4 Pro the recording shows 2.9 tokens a second for the 80B, which the author calls a proof of concept, and 22.4 for OLMoE 1B-7B. An earlier version needed a hand-written engine per model.

2026-10-13 · TUESDAY · 18:09 PDT

  1. 1 Undeclared AI use is the most reported form of misconduct in UK graduate hiring THE GUARDIAN The Institute of Student Employers says reports of misconduct in graduate recruitment have hit a record, with 92 percent of employers suspecting or confirming it during assessment and selection, up from 85 percent a year earlier. Unauthorised use of AI in interviews and online assessments was the most common form, cited by 66 percent of respondents.
  2. 2 Anthropic asks the Washington appeals court to rehear its national security designation case BLOOMBERG Anthropic has urged the federal appeals court in Washington to revisit its decision upholding the Trump administration's designation of the company as a supply-chain risk to US national security, Bloomberg reports. A panel upheld that designation 2-1 in September, after a district judge had found the blacklisting unlawful.
  3. 3 Facebook adds Your Algorithm, letting users steer their feed in plain language TECHCRUNCH Meta launched Your Algorithm on Facebook, which lets people describe in their own words what they want to see more or less of in Feed and Reels, with recommendations changing in real time. Meta also reworked the three-dot post menu so the controls sit beside the interested and not interested options. Instagram got the feature for Reels in December 2025 and for Feed and Explore in June.
  4. 4 Scientists suspect AI companies are presenting their own ideas back as model output SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN · VIA HACKER NEWS · 41 PTS · 23 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Scientific American reports that researchers who use chatbots as a sounding board increasingly worry AI firms repackage their contributions as model results. It cites an NYU mathematician who said OpenAI took credit for his progress on a million-dollar prize problem, and a Copenhagen biologist in a similar dispute with Anthropic. Both companies deny training on the uploaded work.
  5. 5 SolidCraft is an open-source parametric CAD app in Rust that agents can drive over MCP GITHUB · VIA HACKER NEWS · 133 PTS · 45 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION A Show HN post introduced SolidCraft, an Apache-2.0 parametric 3D CAD application written in pure Rust that runs on the desktop and in the browser through WebAssembly. It exposes modelling operations over MCP so AI agents can build and edit parts directly. The project has gathered about 1,800 stars since it was published on October 7.

2026-10-13 · TUESDAY · 15:11 PDT

  1. 1 Bloomberg says China's lead in robotic hands sits at the center of a $5 trillion humanoid race BLOOMBERG A Bloomberg feature reports that advanced humanoid hardware, and robotic hands in particular, is one of the strategic high-tech fields where China holds an early lead over the United States. Bloomberg places the component at the center of a humanoid development race it sizes at $5 trillion.
  2. 2 OpenAI engineer arrested over a recording device hidden in an executive conference room THE SAN FRANCISCO STANDARD · VIA HACKER NEWS · 87 PTS · 109 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Federal prosecutors charged OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan with using a device to intercept oral communications after a recorder was found behind a television in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office. OpenAI says its countermeasures team found the encrypted device on Sept. 30, used its own models to analyze it, and referred the case to the FBI. He was fired the day of his arrest.
  3. 3 OpenAI and Anthropic tell British lawmakers that voluntary AI safety pledges are not enough WIRED At a cross-party Commons committee session, Anthropic's head of Europe Liam Booth-Smith said AI rules should be binding, and OpenAI vice president Tom Duff Gordon backed a statutory framework starting with mandatory incident reporting. Google DeepMind and Meta declined to support new legislation. Cabinet Office officials confirmed the UK regime is still voluntary.
  4. 4 A developer finds AI crawlers, not readers, behind the slowdown that followed his Hacker News post SAMMY'S BLOG · VIA HACKER NEWS · 137 PTS · 78 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION A developer traced the worsening slowdown of his feed reader sprinklz.io to bots rather than readers, finding that most requests never ran the page's JavaScript. Nearly half of all traffic came from a single service that polls sites to generate AI newsletters, alongside identified crawlers from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google and a few vulnerability scanners.
  5. 5 OpenAI says Higgsfield has taken AI video from about a minute to more than ten OPENAI BLOG OpenAI published a customer story saying the AI video company Higgsfield has gone from about one minute of generated video to more than ten, built on GPT-6 Astra. The post credits GPT-Image-2.5 for more precise visuals and points to GPT-Live as a path to voice-driven filmmaking.

2026-10-13 · TUESDAY · 12:10 PDT

  1. 1 Zuckerberg says Meta committed hundreds of billions to AI infrastructure before knowing it would work BLOOMBERG Mark Zuckerberg said Meta had to commit to spending hundreds of billions of dollars last year on the infrastructure behind its AI products before the company had any idea whether those products would succeed. Bloomberg puts the scale of the bet at about $200 billion.
  2. 2 Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B reasoning model that keeps only 2B parameters active HUGGING FACE BLOG · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a mixture-of-experts reasoning model with 24B total and 2B active parameters, aimed at agents that run on local hardware. The company reports 48.09 on LiveClaw against 38.19 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, which carries about 50 percent more total and active parameters. It cites 184 tokens a second on an Apple M5 Max and up to 21,000 output tokens a second on a single Nvidia B300.
  3. 3 Google says Gemini 4 Argon tops the ERQA physical reasoning benchmark at 87 percent GOOGLE DEVELOPERS BLOG · VIA HACKER NEWS · 83 PTS · 22 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Google published a robotics guide for Gemini 4 Argon, saying the model scores 87 percent on the Embodied Reasoning benchmark through reasoning alone and beats every other frontier model. The post covers zero-shot robot control, rebuilding calibrated MuJoCo twins from camera feeds or sketches, and self-improvement on hardware. One demo has a Boston Dynamics Spot practice in simulation before stepping on a bin pedal.
  4. 4 Jensen Huang says Nvidia will announce $2bn in European investments within a week BLOOMBERG Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said the company plans to announce $2 billion in European investments over the next week. He spoke at an event in Paris on the first day of a tour that will also take him to London and Berlin.
  5. 5 Anthropic replaces git with an in-house version control system after merges hit 30,000 a day ANTHROPIC · VIA HACKER NEWS · 164 PTS · 127 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Anthropic says source control became its biggest development bottleneck as merges to its monorepo grew from about 2,500 a day in May to more than 30,000 in September. It built an in-house version control system called Scion and moved the monorepo off git in five months, along with a code review surface, code search and a source control IAM system. The main branch history alone is close to 100GB.

2026-10-13 · TUESDAY · 09:11 PDT

  1. 1 Google releases Gemini 4 Argon to Pro and Ultra subscribers at a fifth the price of rival frontier models THE VERGE Google made Gemini 4 Argon public after an initial limited release to trusted cyber defenders. It reaches Pro and Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search at an introductory $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, doubling at the end of November. Google claims it beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on coding, cybersecurity, science and law benchmarks.
  2. 2 Employers pull back on AI as staff spend their time cleaning up its errors, the Guardian reports THE GUARDIAN The Guardian reports that employers are restricting AI use after a fast rollout left staff correcting errors and low-quality work. Meta has scaled back plans to cut jobs and lean on AI agents after finding employees spent more time fixing technical and security errors, while Microsoft and Nvidia limit internal use. An Atlanta Fed paper finds 90 percent of executives report no productivity gains yet.
  3. 3 The AFL tells betting partner Sportsbet to stop putting its players in AI-generated videos THE GUARDIAN The AFL has told Sportsbet, its official gambling partner, to stop featuring high-profile players in AI-generated social media content without their permission, the Guardian reports. Sportsbet deleted a video depicting the player Lachie Neale thanking himself for believing in him, and says it is working with the league on the evolving use of AI in its content.
  4. 4 Moderna founder Noubar Afeyan calls for urgent regulation of the AI agents tech firms are selling BLOOMBERG Moderna founder Noubar Afeyan called for urgent regulation of the AI agents that technology firms are now selling, Bloomberg reports. The biotech investor warned that waiting for a disaster before acting would repeat the mistakes the drug industry made in its own past.
  5. 5 Gina Raimondo warns countries against going it alone on AI and calls for a governance framework BLOOMBERG Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warned against countries taking an isolationist approach to AI, saying governments and companies need to work together to manage the technology's economic and security risks. She argued for a governance framework covering challenges that include AI agents going rogue.

2026-10-13 · TUESDAY · 06:10 PDT

  1. 1 Apple launches HomeView, its first smart display for the home THE VERGE Apple launched the HomeView, its first smart display, at $299 with pre-orders open and shipping on November 13. A 7-inch square screen on a speaker base, it runs Siri AI with personal context gated behind facial recognition and works as a smart home hub, Matter controller and Thread border router for a new Apple Home line of cameras, thermostats and a door lock. It goes on sale in eight countries.
  2. 2 Amex introduces a framework to prevent AI agents from making unauthorized purchases TECHCRUNCH American Express introduced an Intent Intelligence Framework that captures and authenticates a customer's purchase intent before an AI agent completes a transaction. It begins with a Create Intent API that records the constraints behind a request, such as merchant, maximum budget and product preferences, and extends the agentic commerce toolkit Amex launched in April. Amex wants it to become an industry standard.
  3. 3 Character.AI files for bankruptcy and agrees to sell assets to Disney THE VERGE · VIA HACKER NEWS · 60 PTS · 29 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Character.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to clear the way for a sale of the company and its assets. The filing lists estimated liabilities of $50 million to $100 million, with Disney as lead bidder at $20 million for undisclosed assets plus a nonexclusive IP license. Disney had accused it of exploiting its characters.
  4. 4 The biggest pro-AI super PAC network has poured millions into Nevada shell companies WIRED Federal campaign finance records reviewed by Wired show that super PACs funded by the pro-AI network Leading the Future have paid millions to four Nevada LLCs with no apparent presence beyond a mailing address. One, Lantern Production Consultants, has collected about $20 million since last year and lists only a post office box in a shopping center. The network has raised over $140 million for the November midterms.
  5. 5 Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic MICAH LEE · VIA HACKER NEWS · 165 PTS · 156 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Security engineer Micah Lee argues that users should abandon OpenAI and Anthropic for open-weight models, which he says now come close to the closed frontier even on work like vulnerability research. He points to running weights on your own hardware, providers that serve them inside secure enclaves, and the ease of switching vendors, and says ChatGPT and Claude sessions are never private even with training opt-outs.

2026-10-13 · TUESDAY · 03:08 PDT

  1. 1 Alibaba unveils a new generation of its smart glasses at $450 BLOOMBERG Alibaba unveiled the new generation of its smart glasses on Tuesday at $450, Bloomberg reported. The company presents the device as an extension of its artificial intelligence strategy rather than a separate gadget line. The launch deepens Alibaba's move into consumer electronics as Chinese and US firms compete to put AI assistants into eyewear.
  2. 2 Geoffrey Hinton says the field is creating alien beings and that he will be selfish and choose humans THE GUARDIAN In a wide-ranging Guardian interview, the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton said AI research is creating alien beings and that he is willing to be selfish and choose humans. He argued that Donald Trump's fixation on the term superintelligence proves he knows nothing about AI. Hinton said the hardest adjustment ahead is accepting that humans are not the only intelligent beings.
  3. 3 AI labs are buying the code and email archives of shut-down startups to train models MIT TECH REVIEW MIT Technology Review reports a growing market in which founders winding down startups sell their code bases and internal data to AI labs and training-data vendors. SimpleClosure says it has handled more than 150 deals and expects to return over $10 million to startups by the end of 2026, with 47 percent now including code or data. One attorney calls the assets legally radioactive.
  4. 4 Murata weighs more capacity for the ceramic capacitors that AI servers consume BLOOMBERG Murata Manufacturing is considering additional investment to expand production capacity for multilayer ceramic capacitors as demand from AI servers keeps accelerating, Bloomberg reported. The components are passive parts that server boards use in bulk, so the supplier's capacity plans are a read on how far down the supply chain the AI buildout now reaches.
  5. 5 Anthropic says new defenses cut the reasoning data distillers extract from Claude by 90 to 99 percent ANTHROPIC · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION Anthropic published the defenses it built against distillation attacks, in which networks of fraudulent accounts harvest Claude's reasoning transcripts to train rival models. It now summarizes reasoning before users see it and runs a two-stage classifier with a false positive rate under 0.1 percent. Anthropic says extracted reasoning tokens fell 10 to more than 100 times.

2026-10-13 · TUESDAY · 00:11 PDT

  1. 1 Bloomberg says tech and chipmaker stocks are sliding from the US into Asia as the AI trade wobbles BLOOMBERG A Bloomberg television segment walks through what is pulling technology and chipmaker shares lower from the United States into Asian trading. It frames the Asian decline as the latest leg of a cooling AI trade rather than a regional shock.
  2. 2 A critique calls OpenAI's claimed faster Fourier transform a galactic algorithm ARGMIN · VIA HACKER NEWS · 97 PTS · 65 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Ben Recht examined the faster Fourier transform claimed in OpenAI's recent dump of machine-written math papers and found the gain is asymptotic only, a slightly smaller log factor hidden behind constants no real input would ever reach. He adds that the construction assumes exact complex arithmetic on numbers whose size grows superpolynomially, which no computer provides.
  3. 3 Researchers hide encrypted networks in model weights that capability audits provably cannot elicit ARXIV · VIA HACKER NEWS · 142 PTS · 74 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION A NeurIPS 2026 paper embeds encrypted neural networks inside a host model's weights, decrypting and running them only when a secret trigger arrives. The authors argue digital lockers make the hidden circuits provably hard to elicit or interpret even for someone holding the full weights. Their PyTorch demonstration on chemical reaction prediction survived fine-tuning, weight noising and trigger search.
  4. 4 WindBorne wins an Air Force contract worth up to $49 million for its weather balloon data TECHCRUNCH The US Air Force agreed to buy atmospheric data from WindBorne, a Redwood City company that flies about 700 autonomous weather balloons and feeds their readings into its own AI forecasting model, WeatherMesh 6. The deal is worth up to $49 million, was awarded without competitive bidding and pays only as data is ordered, with $1.7 million ordered so far.
  5. 5 Qwen details QwenGyre, an elastic RL framework for agent tasks that run for hours ARXIV · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION Qwen detailed QwenGyre, a reinforcement learning framework that shifts GPUs between rollout and training without interrupting live executions and folds branching agent runs into deduplicated trajectory trees. Training Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B at about 700K tokens per rollout, it lifted NL2RepoBench accuracy from 52.5 to 58.5 percent in 48 steps and cut end-to-end training time about 44 percent.