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The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in

Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.

WeLion New Energy and its semi-solid-state batteries

WeLion New Energy is on a quest to make safer, better batteries. The company’s semi-solid-state cells could improve safety and offer greater energy density than lithium-ion batteries to power electric cars, boats, and drones. From the EVs that carry commuters home to the ships th…

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How AI decision models could change content moderation

On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.

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Stanley Kubrick’s Estate Will Soon Auction Some Beyond Iconic Items

From Jack's axe in 'The Shining' to the baby from '2001,' the collection will travel to New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and London.

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Go All-Electric By July 2027: Maharashtra Govt To Bike Taxi Aggregators

The Maharashtra government has reportedly directed all bike taxi aggregators, including Rapido, Uber and Ola, to transition to an all-electric…

Hollow-Core Fiber Enters Commercial Use Between Ningxia Computing Centers, Cutting Latency Over 30%

Hollow-core fiber is now in commercial use between intelligent computing centers in Zhongwei, Ningxia, cutting latency and loss by over 30% as light travels at 99.7% of its vacuum speed.

As China’s AI race accelerates, ‘model fatigue’ becomes the next challenge

On September 22, the global artificial intelligence landscape spun on its axis within a matter of hours. In Beijing, Xiaomi engineers went live with an unusual broadcast, streaming the training run of their new MiMo-V2.6 model. In San Francisco, Anthropic unveiled its frontier Op…

POWERCHINA Connects 1-GW Gonghe Solar PV and Molten-Salt Tower Project in Qinghai to the Grid

POWERCHINA's Gonghe project in Qinghai, pairing 900 MW of PV with a 100 MW molten-salt tower plant and 10,310 heliostats, is on the grid, completing China's first three-tower solar thermal base.

Insurance Brokers Oppose IRDAI Reforms, Project 70% Revenue Loss

The Insurance Brokers Association of India (IBAI) has said that the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India’s (IRDAI) recently…

Richard Yu Says Huawei Has Mass-Produced 381 Tau Chips, From Phones to Smart Cars

In an October 4 video, Richard Yu said Huawei has designed and mass-produced 381 Tau chips across phones, AI, general computing, networking and smart cars,.

Paramount And Warner Bros Are Officially One Mega Company

David Ellison prevails in his quest for media domination.

OpenAI Announces Their Text Watermarking Plans

OpenAI, today: The EU AI Act requires generative AI providers to make generated text identifiable in a machine-readable way. Text watermarking and detection remain early technologies with significant limitations, and views about their benefits and responsible uses are still devel…

Crunchbase Data Shows AI’s Most Active Startups Are Becoming Serial Acquirers

Some of the AI industry’s fastest-growing startups are becoming serial acquirers, buying smaller companies to fill product gaps, enter new markets and bring specialized teams in-house, a review of Crunchbase data shows. While AI giant OpenAI is by far the busiest of these buyers,…

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Why LLMs Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong

When LLMs sometimes agree with incorrect claims, it is mostly because their training rewards such behaviour. This reward system is built on several things at once, such as accuracy, helpfulness, politeness, and responses that people like.

A Headset Fit For A Hackaday Writer

I started writing this from a commuter train passing at speed through the outskirts of London, and my headset had just broken. The flexible joint that attaches one earpiece to …read more

Scientists Create Hexagonal Packed Ice at Extreme Pressures

One of the problems with planetary science is that you generally cannot easily investigate the exact conditions in their interior, so you’re left to extrapolate what is happening inside them …read more

Using LineageOS for Phones and DIY Smart TVs is Pretty Nifty

Although Android is essentially just another Linux distribution, most people only experience it in the form of the rather restrictive and proprietary versions found on smartphones, tablets and smart TVs. …read more

The EDG C++ Compiler Frontend has been Open Sourced

Recently [John Spicer] of the EDG C++ compiler front-end project announced that the project will be made open source, from now on managed by the non-profit C++ Alliance. Related source …read more

Mistral Large 4

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Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

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The LLM Blindspot: Why Models Forget What’s in the Middle of Your Prompt

In this article, we’ll look at why LLMs have this bias against middle information.

JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025

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