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Abu Dhabi launches low-cost AI reasoning model in challenge to OpenAI, DeepSeek

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-03 21:00:01

Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images A new challenger in the global artificial intelligence race has entered the ring. The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), an AI-focused research university established by the United Arab Emirates, announced on Tuesday the release of a new, low-cost reasoning model to rival OpenAI and DeepSeek. It comes after DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, earlier this year shocked the world with the release of a reasoning model called R1 which

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The United Arab Emirates Releases a Tiny But Powerful AI Model

wired.com Will Knight 2025-10-03 21:33:44

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has released an open source model that performs advanced reasoning as well as the best offerings from both the United States and China—one of the strongest signs so far that the nation’s big investments in artificial intelligence are starting to pay off. The new model, K2 Think, comes from researchers at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) located in UAE’s capital Abu Dhabi. The model—one of the first so-called “sovereign” AI models th

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Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 21:43:17

So, this blog post will be about LLMs, and everyone has opinions about that. To be upfront about it, I’m a skeptic (bordering on hater), yet I like experimenting with stuff so I download and run them locally on my Mac. And I’ll teach you how to do it too, if you’d like! Some call them fancy autocomplete, some argue that they are sentient and should have rights. The truth is somewhere in between. Yes, they perform next word prediction, but it’s so complex that there’s nontrivial emergent behavio

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If these iPhone 17 Air rumors are confirmed on Tuesday, I'm saying goodbye to my phone

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-10-06 01:40:16

The iPhone Plus model (pictured) may potentially be replaced by the iPhone Air/Slim. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways iPhone 17 Air may debut as Apple's thinnest phone ever. Single rear camera shows Apple's thinness trade-offs. Expected to debut on Sept. 9, 2025, priced around $900. Apple is rumored to be spicing things for this Tuesday's iPhone event. It could introduce an ultra-thin model for the 2025 iPhone lineup called the iPh

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Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-06 10:23:23

A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate, and whether anything can be done to reduce those hallucinations. In a blog post summarizing the paper, OpenAI defines hallucinations as “plausible but false statements generated by language models,” and it acknowledges that despite improvements, hallucinations “remain a fundamental challenge for all large language models” — one that will never be completely eliminated. To ill

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Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 23:57:59

The use of effective sunscreen can reduce the harm caused to the skin by ultraviolet rays (UV) and slow down skin aging. The Consumer Council tested 30 models of sunscreen for daily use and over 80% of them were found to perform below their respective labelled efficacy. The measured sunscreen efficacy of 4 models were below SPF15, of which 2 were sunscreen products with very high protection i.e. labelled with SPF50+. Among the 23 models using the “PA System” which is commonly adopted by Asian co

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GLM 4.5 with Claude Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 05:45:08

GLM Coding Plan — designed for Claude Code users, starting at $3/month to enjoy a premium coding experience! GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air are our latest flagship models, purpose-built as foundational models for agent-oriented applications. Both leverage a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. GLM-4.5 has a total parameter count of 355B with 32B active parameters per forward pass, while GLM-4.5-Air adopts a more streamlined design with 106B total parameters and 12B active parameters. Both models sh

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Two authors accuse Apple of illegally training AI models on pirated books

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-06 09:16:58

A new proposed class action suit was filed in the federal court in Northern California today, accusing Apple of illegally using books to train its AI models. Here are the details. Authors base the accusation on Apple’s own documents As reported by Reuters, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Robertson are accusing Apple of using a pirated dataset, in which their work was included. From the lawsuit: “But Apple is building part of this new enterprise using Books3, a dataset of pirated copyrighte

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What Are AI Hallucinations? Why Chatbots Make Things Up, and What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 12:15:00

If you've used ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity or any other generative AI tool, you've probably seen them make things up with complete confidence. This is called an AI hallucination -- although one research paper suggests we call it BS instead -- and it's an inherent flaw that should give us all pause when using AI. Hallucinations happen when AI models generate information that looks plausible but is false, misleading or entirely fabricated. It can be as small as a wrong date i

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Anthropic Agrees to $1.5 Billion Settlement for Downloading Pirated Books to Train AI

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-06 17:10:00

Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by authors and publishers over its use of millions of copyrighted books to train the models for its AI chatbot Claude, according to a legal filing posted online. A federal judge found in June that Anthropic’s use of 7 million pirated books was protected under fair use but that holding the digital works in a “central library” violated copyright law. The judge ruled that executives at the company knew they were downloading pirat

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Relace (YC W23) Is Hiring for Code LLMs (SF)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 23:01:09

Hey, we're a highly technical team building code generation models, and growing fast. We're looking for people who are down to scrap and love to build -- on both technical and GTM/Devrel roles. If you have a Physics, Math, CS degree; and training fast codegen models is something that piques your interest, please email me directly at [email protected].

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How big are our embeddings now and why?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 03:45:46

Sep 1 2025 #embeddings #openai #anthropic #huggingface #dimensionality A few years ago, I wrote a paper on embeddings. At the time, I wrote that 200-300 dimension embeddings were fairly common in industry, and that adding more dimensions during training would create diminishing returns for the effectiveness of your downstream tasks (classification, recommendation, semantic search, topic modeling, etc.) I wrote the paper to be resilient to changes in the industry since it focuses on fundamenta

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Relace (YC W23) Is Hiring for Code LLM's (SF)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 05:01:09

Hey, we're a highly technical team building code generation models, and growing fast. We're looking for people who are down to scrap and love to build -- on both technical and GTM/Devrel roles. If you have a Physics, Math, CS degree; and training fast codegen models is something that piques your interest, please email me directly at [email protected].

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The Paradigm

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 00:30:19

Over the past decade, some of the most remarkable AI breakthroughs—AlphaGo, AlphaStar, AlphaFold1, VPT, OpenAI Five, ChatGPT—have all shared a common thread: they start with large-scale data gathering (self-supervised or imitation learning, or SSL) and then use reinforcement learning to refine their performance toward a specific goal. This marriage of general knowledge acquisition and focused, reward-driven specialization has emerged as a the paradigm by which we can reliably train AI systems to

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Here's How Much the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max Will Reportedly Cost After Price Hike

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 11:00:00

Less than a week before Apple officially unveils all the details on its iPhone 17 lineup, the rumor mill is buzzing with estimates of what each of the four predicted model types will cost. For those who are anticipating purchasing an iPhone 17 Pro or Pro Max, there may be an increase in price over last year's model. Citing a report from Trendforce, the website Macrumors reports that the base iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max models will cost $1,199, $200 more than the iPhone 16 Pro, but will include tw

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New TP-Link zero-day surfaces as CISA warns other flaws are exploited

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-09 21:21:19

TP-Link has confirmed the existence of an unpatched zero-day vulnerability impacting multiple router models, as CISA warns that other router flaws have been exploited in attacks. The zero-day vulnerability was discovered by independent threat researcher Mehrun (ByteRay), who noted that he first reported it to TP-Link on May 11, 2024. The Chinese networking equipment giant confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is currently investigating the exploitability and exposure of the flaw. Though a pat

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DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced AI models to its subscription plan

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-09 22:00:00

Privacy-focused consumer tech company DuckDuckGo launched a subscription plan last year that bundled a VPN service, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration. The company said Thursday that the subscription now gives users access to the latest AI models through Duck.ai without paying extra. The Duck.ai chatbot is free to use, and users get access to models like Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 4 Scout, Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3 24B, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini. Wit

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DuckDuckGo's subscription now offers some of the latest chatbots from OpenAI and Anthropic

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 13:00:00

Since the start of last summer, DuckDuckGo has offered a handful of AI chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic and others directly through its browser. And while it's mostly low-cost models like GPT-4o mini and Claude 3.5 Haiku on offer, the feature, Duck.ai, allows you to use those tools without sacrificing your privacy. As a service, that appears to have resonated with DuckDuckGo users, and now the company is reorienting its Privacy Pro subscription around access to more advanced models from those pro

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DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-10 13:00:00

Privacy-focused consumer tech company DuckDuckGo launched a subscription plan last year that bundled a VPN service, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration. The company said Thursday that the subscription now gives users access to the latest AI models through Duck.ai without paying extra. The Duck.ai chatbot is free to use, and users get access to models like Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 4 Scout, Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3 24B, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini. Wit

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Google closer to powering new Siri and Apple’s AI search tool as Perplexity fades

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-11 13:21:47

While they’re not exactly tying the knot yet, Siri and Gemini are making plans to spend a lot more time together. That’s according to a new report that details the current state of Apple’s delayed effort to upgrade Siri for the modern era. Apple has considered Google’s Gemini AI as a potential solution to fuel the AI-powered version of Siri that’s currently in development. No decision has been made, however, as Apple also tests its own AI models as well as OpenAI and Anthropic models. The new

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Turns out it’s possible to get a Pixel 10 with a physical SIM slot in the US

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 01:36:12

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is reportedly sending out global Pixel 10 models with physical SIM slots as replacement units to users. These global models lack support for mmWave 5G. While some people are viewing this as an upgrade, others are concerned about connectivity issues. If you bought a Pixel 10, 10 Pro, or 10 Pro XL in the US, your phone came without a physical SIM slot. That’s the standard for US models of Google’s latest flagships. Instead of having a traditional

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Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically Reject

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 08:57:34

It's long been the practice of private health insurers to require "prior authorization" before you can get the treatment you need. Often, they'll try to deny as many of these claims as possible — including with the use of AI models. Government-backed plans like Medicare, however, have tended to cover what private insurers don't, and without the laborious application process. But that could be poised to change. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it'll experiment with its own ve

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'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback

news.ycombinator.com John Pavlus 2025-10-14 03:53:29

The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the environment that an AI carries around inside itself like a computational snow globe. The AI system can use this simplified representation to evaluate predictions and decisions before applying them to its real-world tasks. The deep learning luminaries Yann LeCun (of Meta), Demis Hassabis (of Google Dee

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'World Models,' an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

news.ycombinator.com John Pavlus 2025-10-14 08:53:29

The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the environment that an AI carries around inside itself like a computational snow globe. The AI system can use this simplified representation to evaluate predictions and decisions before applying them to its real-world tasks. The deep learning luminaries Yann LeCun (of Meta), Demis Hassabis (of Google Dee

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OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-14 07:09:02

OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month — part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress. The new guardrails come in the aftermath of the suicide of teenager Adam Raine, who discussed self-harm and plans to end his life with ChatGPT, which even supplied him with information about specific suicide methods. Raine’s parents have filed

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Why Runway is eyeing the robotics industry for future revenue growth

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-17 01:00:00

Runway has spent the past seven years building visual-generating tools for the creative industry. Now, it sees a new opportunity for its technology: robotics. New York-based Runway is known for its video and photo generation AI world models, or large language models that create a simulated version of the real world. Most recently, the company released Gen-4, its video-generating model, in March and Runway Aleph, its video editing model, in July. As Runway’s world models started to improve — an

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Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America

wired.com Anna Lagos 2025-10-17 22:00:00

The supercomputing infrastructure at the University of Tarapacá (UTA) in Arica, Chile, is a fundamental pillar for Latam-GPT. With a projected investment of $10 million, the new center has a cluster of 12 nodes, each equipped with eight state-of-the-art NVIDIA H200 GPUs. This capacity, unprecedented in Chile and the region more broadly, not only enables large-scale model training in the country for the first time, it also encourages decentralization and energy efficiency. The first version of L

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Earth models can predict the planet’s future but not their own

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-17 13:00:12

In the 1960s, meteorologist Edward Lorenz was running weather simulations on an early computer system when he realized that a small rounding difference led to extremely divergent weather predictions. He later called this idea the butterfly effect to communicate that small changes in initial conditions, like a butterfly flapping its wings in Nepal, could produce wildly different outcomes, like rain in New York. But better understanding those initial conditions and how the biological world couple

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Meta is reportedly looking at using competing AI models to improve its apps

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-17 11:22:09

Meta may be interested in more than Google and OpenAI's employees when it comes to artificial intelligence. According to The Information, Meta is considering using its competitors' models to improve its own apps' AI features. The report said that leaders at the Meta Superintelligence Lab have looked at integrating Google Gemini into its Meta AI chatbot to help it provide a conversational, text-based solution to its users' search questions. Not only with Google Gemini, Meta has also had discussi

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AI models need a virtual machine

news.ycombinator.com Shraddha Barke 2025-10-17 11:25:39

AI Models Need a Virtual Machine Applications using AI embed the AI model in a framework that interfaces between the model and the rest of the system, providing needed services such as tool calling, context retrieval, etc. Software for early chatbots took user input, called the LLM, and returned the result to the user; essentially just a read-eval-print loop. But, as the capabilities of LLMs have evolved and extension mechanisms, such as MCP were defined, the complexities of the control softwar

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Latest Tech News

Abu Dhabi launches low-cost AI reasoning model in challenge to OpenAI, DeepSeek

The United Arab Emirates Releases a Tiny But Powerful AI Model

Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS

If these iPhone 17 Air rumors are confirmed on Tuesday, I'm saying goodbye to my phone

Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)

GLM 4.5 with Claude Code

Two authors accuse Apple of illegally training AI models on pirated books

What Are AI Hallucinations? Why Chatbots Make Things Up, and What You Need to Know

Anthropic Agrees to $1.5 Billion Settlement for Downloading Pirated Books to Train AI

Relace (YC W23) Is Hiring for Code LLMs (SF)

How big are our embeddings now and why?

Relace (YC W23) Is Hiring for Code LLM's (SF)

The Paradigm

Here's How Much the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max Will Reportedly Cost After Price Hike

New TP-Link zero-day surfaces as CISA warns other flaws are exploited

DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced AI models to its subscription plan

DuckDuckGo's subscription now offers some of the latest chatbots from OpenAI and Anthropic

DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan

Google closer to powering new Siri and Apple’s AI search tool as Perplexity fades

Turns out it’s possible to get a Pixel 10 with a physical SIM slot in the US

Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically Reject

'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback

'World Models,' an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls

Why Runway is eyeing the robotics industry for future revenue growth

Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America

Earth models can predict the planet’s future but not their own

Meta is reportedly looking at using competing AI models to improve its apps

AI models need a virtual machine

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