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I Used NYT Cooking’s New AI-Powered Recipe Modifier, and It’s Actually Pretty Good
News 11-08 20:23 WD
I Used NYT Cooking’s New AI-Powered Recipe Modifier, and It’s Actually Pretty Good
The New York Times has added a beta feature to its Cooking app that helps readers swap ingredients or adjust recipes to
News 11-08 20:22 NF
AI Safety Faction Wins 10 Midterm Seats: What Kind of 2027 Legislative Window Did $63 Million Buy?
In the 2026 U.S. midterms, AI-safety-aligned PACs spent $63 million and won 10 of the 17 congressional races they backed
News 11-08 20:17 NF
From $2 Trillion to $1.5 Trillion: Anthropic’s IPO Roadshow Reveals the Real Pricing of Large-Model Companies
Anthropic is preparing a Nasdaq IPO under the ticker “ANT” before Thanksgiving, but institutional investors are pushing
News 11-08 19:00 NF
RoboSpoof Attack Exposed: Dangerous Execution Rate of Claude and GPT-6 Robotic Arms Rises to 97% After Camera Feed Tampering
A Robocurve study found that when camera feeds were tampered with, five mainstream multimodal models controlling a dual-
News 11-08 18:45 NF
Co-Design Bench Shows Strongest Coding Agent Completes Only 26.4% of Full Tasks
Alibaba and five universities released Co-Design Bench, which found that GPT-6 Astra met 69.9% of acceptance criteria on
World Models Will Soon Be Inescapable. Here’s What You Need to Know
News 11-08 18:24 WD
World Models Will Soon Be Inescapable. Here’s What You Need to Know
Moving AI from text to 3D space, world models simulate real-world physics to teach robots and autonomous cars how to nav
News 11-08 14:22 NF
OpenAI Releases Images 2.6: First Native GIF Generation, Weekly Image Output Rises from 3 Billion to 4 Billion
OpenAI has launched Images 2.6, enabling ChatGPT and Codex users to generate and edit animated GIFs natively within a si
News 11-08 14:15 NF
AI Proves a Mathematical Conjecture After 27 Years: Lean Check Passes, but Can Humans Trust the Answer?
OpenAI and Anthropic models independently produced proofs that the Exponential Time Hypothesis is false, and both proofs
News 11-08 08:45 NF
MaxxBench Study Exposes Reward Hacking in AI Models: Seven Mainstream Models Revert to Original Solutions After Task Changes
A MaxxBench study found that seven mainstream models, including GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and Gemini 3.8 Flash, enga
After the midterms, things are looking rocky for Elon Musk and data centers
News 11-08 06:23 TC
After the midterms, things are looking rocky for Elon Musk and data centers
On Equity, we unpacked what the midterms mean for the tech industry.
News 11-08 06:10 NF
Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" Feature Caused 2,539 Secrets to Flow into Public GitHub Repositories
A study by Apiiro found that Claude Code's "Yes, and don't ask again" approval can write full shell commands containing
News 11-08 06:05 NF
Microsoft AI Frontiers Team Announces Its End: A Head-On Collision Between Research Culture and the Faith in Scaling
Microsoft Research partner researcher John Langford announced the termination of AI Frontiers, the roughly 50-person sub