Friday, October 2, 2026
Apple Inc. said it plans to introduce new privacy controls for Mac users, warning of the growing risks around granting broad data access to third-party software, including artificial intelligence agents.
Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.
Big swings in the price of chip rentals are spurring the creation of a trading opportunity
Legal cases rise as universities struggle with approach to technology
Gary Marcus, Robust AI Inc. co-founder and former CEO, argues that developers, including OpenAI, lack sufficient safeguards for systems they can't reliably control. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on Bloomberg's "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)
Associate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to help map out improvements to transportation and other multifaceted systems.
Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed.
Debt financing for data centers and related infrastructure has grown rapidly enough that it’s become its own category these days—credit analysts are breaking out AI versus non–AI-linked debt across markets to analyze new issuance and performance.
Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.
Anthropic will invest $100 million to train nearly 10,000 AI engineers, partnering with a number of consulting firms.
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
Suno is adding a feature called "Speech" to its AI music generator that creates spoken text with matching background music in a single audio track. The company says it's built for things like poems, meditations, and bedtime stories. Suno hasn't said how the model was trained.
Since fall 2025, Anthropic has quietly flown in dozens of religious thinkers to talk about whether Claude might be conscious. Co-founder Christopher Olah described the language model as potentially capable of suffering and asked guests to help shape its moral character.
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Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.
With Clef and Clef-flash, Cloudflare is challenging TypeSafe AI's Jev decision model. Clef-flash delivers classifications in about 39 milliseconds, making it more than ten times faster than Jev.
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) was hit with a cease-and-desist letter this week over an AI deepfake he posted falsely depicting his Democratic opponent voicing positions her campaign says she rejects.
Benchmarking an LLM here with a NVIDIA RTX 5070 12 GB VRAM here I had been working on a llama.cpp based expert streaming setup for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 177B (UD-IQ3_XXS) on Windows. Benchmark is about 11.5 tok/s, up from roughly 7 tok/s on the inherited setup.
Qwen Flash Next now uses less VRAM
I've noticed a trend with most new models with regards to their writing style. They are creating a new style, and this seems common among them. It's very information-dense. Here is an example from GLM 5.3 Flash.
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