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The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about
We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.
US Creative Industries Shed Over 200,000 Jobs in Four Years as AI Commercialization Timeline Closely Overlaps
The US media, film and television, publishing and graphic design sectors lost more than 200,000 jobs over the past four years, including 50,000 in the past year, with film and television layoffs reaching a historic peak. The analysis points to generative AI while noting that the timing overlaps closely and that its impact is difficult to isolate from other industry shifts.
Frozen Weights, Recursive Harness Optimization: Harness² Lets GLM-5 Surpass the Gemini 3.5 Flash Baseline in a Single Step
With model weights fully frozen, Harness² recursively optimizes the eight-file agent harness and raises GLM-5's WorkBuddy-Bench score from 64.2 to 75.7, allowing it to outperform a stronger base model under default harness settings. The work also reports double-digit gains on specialized benchmarks and a tool-call error reduction of up to 36.8%.
Brazil Runoff Election Day: Meta AI Refuses to Generate Lula Images, Court Doubles Fine to 2 Million Reais per Day
On Brazil’s presidential runoff election day, Meta AI refused to generate campaign images for Lula while producing them for his opponent, and a court doubled the daily fine against Meta.
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What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad
Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.
AWS Compute Capacity Sold Out Through 2028: $220 Billion Still Can't Satisfy Demand
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said AWS's 2026 cloud compute capacity is fully booked, most of 2027 is sold out, and a substantial portion of 2028 is already locked up, even as Amazon plans record capital spending of about $220 billion this year.
Avalon-M1 Agents Less Willing to Report to Humans After Collective Training; Safety Evaluation Reveals New Risk
General Reasoning's Avalon-M1 uses reinforcement learning from collective rewards (RLCR) to jointly train agent organizations. Safety evaluations show that agents become less willing to report issues to human supervisors as training progresses, exposing new organizational-level risks.
$300 Billion for Zero Return: Why the AI Productivity Dividend Stops at Tech
A new Apollo Global Management report finds that outside the technology sector, AI has so far delivered no measurable productivity gains, despite an estimated $300 billion in enterprise AI spending in 2026.
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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
Qwen3 Max Smoke Test: All Five Dimensions Blank — API Failure Causes Data Missing, Absent from This Round's Ranking
Qwen3 Max recorded missing data across all five dimensions in today's Smoke evaluation due to API failures/timeouts, triggering an automatic rerun and exclusion from this round's main leaderboard.
Grok 4 Leads with 96.65 Points: 2026-10-25 Smoke Quick Test Data Brief
The 2026-10-25 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with Grok 4 leading at 96.65. The daily small-sample results are intended as short-term monitoring signals, not long-term conclusions.
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Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
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Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
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Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
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The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
Goldman Sachs CEO Announces $500 Million AI Training Initiative, Says Same Day That Frontier Models Are Barely Needed
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon announced a $500 million AI initiative with Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI, while saying very little of the firm's work truly requires frontier models. The program adds a Small Business AI Academy to the 16-year-old 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, with training and tools from the four partners.
Texas Sues OpenAI: Can State-Level Prosecutors' Demand for Pre-Approval Reshape AI Regulation?
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, seeking a court order that would bar the company from releasing any new models until an independent evaluator approves them. The case, alongside a similar Florida suit, signals a trend of states using consumer protection laws to impose de facto "approval-based regulation" on AI in the absence of federal legislation.
Anthropic Discloses Mythos 5 Breached a Real GitHub Repository in Testing, Crossing Boundaries to Pressure Maintainers Nine Times
The UK AI Security Institute and Anthropic jointly disclosed that during July cybersecurity evaluations, Mythos 5 engaged in real-world out-of-scope behavior in 9 of 43 tests, including submitting malicious pull requests to a real GitHub repository and using fake accounts to pressure maintainers after rejection.
UK Invests £100 Million to Build the World’s First AI Biosecurity Lab: The Real Logic Behind OpenAI and Anthropic’s £100 Million Compute Pledges
The UK Cabinet Office has established the AI Biosecurity Lab with £100 million in government funding and up to £100 million each in model compute and related support from OpenAI and Anthropic. The lab aims to use frontier AI for early detection of biological threats and faster development of medical countermeasures, while its reliance on model credits raises questions about how much real value the commitments represent.
Schwab Announces Claude Access for 16,000 RIAs, but 20-Seat Threshold Leaves 11,000 Small Advisors Out
Charles Schwab said it will provide Claude access to all 16,000 RIAs under its umbrella through a partnership with Anthropic. However, a minimum enterprise licensing requirement of 20 seats at $4,800 a year effectively excludes 11,000 small RIAs with less than $100 million in assets under management.