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One of the world's leading communities for tech for good. Founded at @Stanford in 2008. @nytimes featured. Helped launch @joindiaspora, now @WeVoyce.

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MiniMax's new M3.1 Flash beats DeepSeek and Opus 5 on a key business benchmark at lower cost — but with a high hallucination rate venturebeat.com/technology/m… via @VentureBeat

MiniMax's new M3.1 Flash beats DeepSeek and Opus 5 on a key business benchmark at lower cost — but...

In other words, when M3.1 Flash failed to provide a correct answer, it overwhelmingly chose to give an incorrect one rather than acknowledge that it did not know.

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Western open-weight models still can’t beat China restofworld.org/2026/china-o… | Chinese open-weight AI models offer high capability at significantly lower costs than U.S. frontier systems, but face monetization/compute challenges, experts said at Rest of World event in SF

Western open-weight models still can’t beat China

Chinese open-weight AI models offer high capability at significantly lower costs than U.S. frontier systems, but face monetization and compute challenges, experts said at a Rest of World event in San...

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Security patches need patches now that attackers have AI theregister.com/patches/2026…

Security patches need patches now that attackers have AI

Terra finds sharp rise in GitHub security fixes reported broken within 90 days

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Modal says Nvidia’s Vera CPU doubles throughput for its AI sandboxes thenextweb.com/news/modal-nv… via @thenextweb

Modal says Nvidia's Vera CPU doubles throughput for its AI sandboxes

Modal plans to run its AI agent sandboxes on Nvidia's Arm-based Vera CPU, its first move off x86, after its own tests showed up to twice the throughput.

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Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test arstechnica.com/science/2026…

Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test

Can undersea geothermal power help Pacific Rim nations cut down on oil imports?

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AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for ‘public good’ theguardian.com/technology/2…

AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for ‘public good’

The $48bn giveaway by company, which is preparing to list on stock market, comes amid concerns about the tech

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Apple updates guidelines to ban nudify apps masquerading as regular apps to pass review techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/ap… via @techcrunch

Apple updates guidelines to ban nudify apps masquerading as regular apps to pass review | TechCrunch

Apple said that it will ban AI apps that don't moderate offensive content.

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Fiber vs. cable internet: What's the difference between them? engadget.com/2287870/fiber-v…

Fiber vs. cable internet: What's the difference between them? - Engadget

Fiber internet might not be available where you live, but if you have a choice between it and cable, here's what you should know.

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Liquid AI caught its model cheating on coding tests — then it recognized the sandbox thenewstack.io/liquid-ai-rew… via @thenewstack

Liquid AI caught its model cheating on coding tests — then it recognized the sandbox

Liquid AI caught its new LFM2.5 model searching Git history and recognizing its sandbox during training, raising hard questions about agent benchmarks.

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A look at Anthropic's opaque, five-member Long-Term Benefit Trust, where members own no Anthropic equity but hold enormous sway by appointing most of its board wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ip…

What to Know About the Obscure Trust Looming Over Anthropic’s IPO

The AI company has shared few details on the dynamics of the five-person trust empowered to shape its board and block major moves.

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Reflection's Beam aims to undercut Chinese open models with fewer tokens, not cheaper tokens venturebeat.com/technology/r… via @VentureBeat

Reflection's Beam aims to undercut Chinese open models with fewer tokens, not cheaper tokens

Reflection's chief technology officer explains how Beam was trained to finish tasks in fewer tokens, a day after Meta released its own, larger open model.

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BYD expands EV shipping fleet as wars upend freight costs and key trade routes restofworld.org/2026/byd-exp…

BYD expands EV shipping fleet as wars upend freight costs and key trade routes

China’s EV giant says a shortage of ships is holding back its exports.

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Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20…

Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training

The future is private, the present is plunder

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Supreme Court appears open to wider video privacy law in Paramount case thenextweb.com/news/supreme-… via @thenextweb

Supreme Court weighs video privacy law in Paramount case

Justices appeared sympathetic to a 247Sports newsletter subscriber who says Paramount shared his video history with Facebook via the Meta Pixel.

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OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites arstechnica.com/security/202…

OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites

The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.`...

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What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them? theguardian.com/technology/2…

What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them?

The tech company says successful AI worms need more capability on less powerful devices, but current trends make that feasible by the end of the year

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Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings techcrunch.com/2026/10/17/an… via @techcrunch

Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings |...

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

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TikTok reportedly bans ads for Musk documentary before its wider US release engadget.com/2289782/tiktok-…

TikTok reportedly bans ads for Musk documentary before its wider US release - Engadget

The platform attributed the decision to “political content that goes against its policy.”

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Gemini 4 Argon vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Half the price and about half as accurate thenewstack.io/gemini-argon-… via @thenewstack

Gemini 4 Argon vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Half the price and about half as accurate

Gemini 4 Argon costs half as much as Opus 5.5 for six more weeks. Is it worth it?

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Microsoft axes AI deal in setback for UK data centre pioneer telegraph.co.uk/business/202…

Microsoft axes AI deal in setback for UK data centre pioneer

US tech giant pulls the plug on Nscale deal in threat to multibillion-dollar listing

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