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Studies Show AI Models Love to Share With One Another (and Do a Little Price Fixing as a Treat)

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-23 03:10:01

Sharing is caring. Two recent studies took a look at what happens when you let AI models communicate with each other. Both should probably give us pause about letting these machines make friends with one another. The first study—a preprint paper out of Northeastern University’s National Deep Inference Fabric, which seeks to peer into the black box of large language models and understand how they work—found that AI models pass along hidden signals to one another during training. That can includ

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Zuckerberg signals Meta won’t open source all of its ‘superintelligence’ AI models

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-23 08:56:58

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision on Wednesday for “personal superintelligence,” the idea that people should be able to use AI to achieve their personal goals. Smuggled into the letter is a signal that Meta is shifting how it plans to release AI models as it pursues “superintelligence.” “We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible,” wrote Zuckerberg. “That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We’ll need to be

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M5 MacBook Pro could pose a big dilemma for upgrade decisions

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-23 22:50:54

If you’re interested in a new MacBook Pro, the current M4 model is an excellent option. But the M5 MacBook Pro will launch in the coming year too, and decisions about whether to upgrade could be a lot more complicated than usual. M5 vs M6 MacBook Pro: Two very different options For anyone expecting to upgrade their MacBook Pro in the coming year or so, Apple may have two very different options for you. The M5 MacBook Pro, which will launch either later this year or in early 2026, isn’t expect

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Arcee opens up new enterprise-focused, customizable AI model AFM-4.5B trained on ‘clean, rigorously filtered data’

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-23 08:26:29

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Arcee.ai, a startup focused on developing small AI models for commercial and enterprise use, is opening up its own AFM-4.5B model for limited free usage by small companies — posting the weights on Hugging Face and allowing enterprises that make less than $1.75 million in annual revenue to use it without charge under a custom “Arcee Model Li

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Apple's MacBook Air M4 drops to a record-low price on Amazon

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 08:04:53

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Whether you need a new MacBook for the upcoming semester or you've just been itching to upgrade from an older machine, now's a good time to buy. Amazon has a sale on the latest M4 MacBook Air that knocks up to 20 percent off many configurations. The base model is where you'll get the

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Psychedelic Therapy Crashed and Burned. MAHA Might Bring It Back

wired.com John Semley 2025-12-23 00:00:00

This was supposed to be the year of the MDMA revolution. About this time last year, prescription MDMA looked like a sure thing. After decades of clinical research, political wrangling, and aggressive promotion, the popular underground club drug was set to be tamed and medicalized, with a stamp of approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. Then, it wasn’t. In a stark change of course, the FDA rejected the MDMA therapy it had been considering by a 10-1 vote. The decision derailed psyched

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Galaxy S26 is dead, long live S26 Pro: Another leak points to Samsung’s flagship shakeup

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 18:42:58

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR We previously found code evidence within One UI 8 suggesting that Samsung’s next flagship lineup could consist of the Galaxy S26 Pro, Galaxy S26 Edge, and Galaxy S26 Ultra. However, GSMA listings for the base Galaxy S26 contradicted this finding. Previously listed as “Galaxy S26,” updated GSMA listings were spotted for SM-S942, which now list the same model number as the “Galaxy S26 Pro.” This corroborates our previous finding and suggests that the Galaxy

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Pkgbase Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 12:05:46

Hi, after short discussion here: - https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2485 I got REALLY concerned. One of THE features and selling points of a FreeBSD UNIX system is the 'untouchable' Base System. Without PKGBASE all the features are preserved. But when You convert to PKGBASE its ... GONE! Consider this command: # pkg delete -af What it does? It removes all third party packages on 'classic' FreeBSD system without touching the FreeBSD Base System. What the same "pkg delete -af" command does on

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Acree opens up new enterprise-focused, customizable AI model AFM-4.5B trained on ‘clean, rigorously filtered data’

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-25 08:26:29

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Arcee.ai, a startup focused on developing small AI models for commercial and enterprise use, is opening up its own AFM-4.5B model for limited free usage by small companies — posting the weights on Hugging Face and allowing enterprises that make less than $1.75 million in annual revenue to use it without charge under a custom “Acree Model Li

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RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2025-12-25 06:57:47

Shunsaku Tamiya, former president and chairman of Tamiya, Inc., passed away on July 18. His death was announced on July 21, with funeral services attended by close family and friends. Mr Tamiya led the transformation of Tamiya into a world-renowned manufacturer of high-precision plastic model kits, radio control vehicles, and motorized Mini 4WD racers. He joined the company founded by his father originally as a transport firm, and switched to supplying lumber after the war. That brought about

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Positron believes it has found the secret to take on Nvidia in AI inference chips — here’s how it could benefit enterprises

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-25 10:45:40

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now As demand for large-scale AI deployment skyrockets, the lesser-known, private chip startup Positron is positioning itself as a direct challenger to market leader Nvidia by offering dedicated, energy-efficient, memory-optimized inference chips aimed at relieving the industry’s mounting cost, power, and availability bottlenecks. “A key diffe

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Delta Engineered a Pricing System That Sorts You by Economic Value

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 11:30:40

Delta's New AI-Powered Pricing Strategy Delta Air Lines is embarking on a bold experiment in airfare pricing. At a recent investor presentation, the airline announced plans to expand its use of artificial intelligence for setting ticket prices to cover 20% of its U.S. domestic flights by the end of 2025. This move comes after limited tests last year (affecting ~1% of fares) and a current rollout on about 3% of tickets, with early results described as "amazingly favorable" for revenue. Delta is

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How Does Lightning Start? New Research Provides a Groundbreaking Theory

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-25 15:35:00

Lightning has long terrified and fascinated scientists and non-scientists alike. For something so relatively common, the precise atmospheric events that give rise to a lightning strike have been shrouded in mystery, but new research is offering some tantalizing clues. A team of engineers and meteorologists believe they’ve cracked the curious case of how lightning forms in the cloudtops, and their solution comes from an increasingly influential contender for cracking climate mysteries: mathemati

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Playing with Open Source LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 22:36:51

Every 6 months or so, I decide to leave my cave and check out what the cool kids are doing with AI. Apparently the latest trend is to use fancy command line tools to write code using LLMs. This is a very nice change, since it suddenly makes AI compatible with my allergy to getting out of the terminal. Me, browsing HN from my cave (by Stable Diffusion) The most popular of these tools seems to be Claude Code. It promises to be able to build in total autonomy, being able to use search code, write

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Apple just lost another AI researcher as it weighs shift to third-party models

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-26 03:34:38

Apple’s foundation models team has been bleeding staff, and today Bloomberg has reported on yet another departure while Apple continues weighing a major AI pivot. Meta has poached four of Apple’s AI staff in the past month It’s been a rough month for Apple’s AI ambitions. First, Meta hired away Apple’s head of foundation models. Then, two important colleagues followed their former boss to Meta. Now today, a fourth foundation models staff member has reportedly gone to Meta’s new ‘Superintelli

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Scientists Unveil the Shocking Truth Behind Lightning’s Mysterious Birth

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-26 03:35:00

Lightning has long terrified and fascinated scientists and non-scientists alike. For something so relatively common, the precise atmospheric events that give rise to a lightning strike have been shrouded in mystery, but new research is offering some tantalizing clues. A team of engineers and meteorologists believe they’ve cracked the curious case of how lightning forms in the cloudtops, and their solution comes from an increasingly influential contender for cracking climate mysteries: mathemati

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Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-12-26 08:10:42

Mark Zuckerberg is on a warpath to recruit top talent in the AI field for his newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs. After trying to gut OpenAI (and successfully poaching several top researchers), he appears to have set his sights on his next target. More than a dozen people at Mira Murati’s 50-person startup, Thinking Machines Lab, have been approached or received offers from the tech giant. (Murati, for those who don’t remember, was previously the chief technology officer at OpenAI.) One o

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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge US defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-26 03:05:34

In the summer of 2021, Dimitrios Kottas made a move that would be unfathomable to most Silicon Valley engineers: after leaving his coveted position as an engineering manager at Apple’s Special Projects Group, he packed up his life in California and moved back to Athens to start a defense company. Three and a half years later, his startup, Delian Alliance Industries, has set up solar-powered surveillance towers that monitor some of Greece’s borders around the clock and detect wildfires on remote

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New iPhone 17 Pro video shows full color lineup with dummy models

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-26 17:46:08

Apple’s official iPhone 17 Pro unveiling is only about six weeks away, and leaks have ramped up this week. Today, a new video offers a great look all the rumored colors for iPhone 17 Pro using dummy models. iPhone 17 Pro dummy models shown in five rumored colors It’s been a fun couple days for iPhone 17 Pro-related news and rumors. First, the device received three new rumors around camera features. Then someone spotted what seems like a very genuine iPhone 17 Pro being used in public. Now tod

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I tested Dell's XPS successor, and it beat my $3,000 Windows laptop in almost every way

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-26 17:00:00

Dell Premium 16 ZDNET's key takeaways The Dell Premium 16 starts at $1,800. This is a premium laptop capable of handling heavy workloads, especially graphic design, thanks to its top-notch hardware. However, it does share some of the same issues as its predecessor, like its tendency to run warm and power-hungry battery. View now at Dell I've been dying to get my hands on the new Dell Premium 16, mainly because it is a follow-up to the Dell XPS 16, a laptop that I reviewed back in early 2024 a

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Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Looks Absolutely Stunning

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-26 17:10:33

When Guillermo del Toro finally got the chance to make his dream project, an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, you just knew it was going to be beautiful. Del Toro’s films are known for a lot of things, and sumptuous production design and costumes are right near the top of the list. So, it almost goes without saying that a group of new images from the film are stunning, but these almost go beyond that. First revealed in an article by Vanity Fair and then released by Netflix, 10 new ima

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My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)

news.ycombinator.com Simon Willison 2025-12-26 22:45:07

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday—new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such as Claude Sonnet 4. The models are pretty big—the smaller GLM-4.5 Air model is still 106 billion total parameters, which is 205.78GB on Hugging Face. Ivan Fioravanti built this 44GB 3bit quantized version for MLX, spe

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Meta's AI spending spree is Wall Street's focus in second-quarter earnings

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-27 03:00:01

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives for the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Meanwhile, revenue growth in the second quarter likely slowed to 15%, down from 22% a year earlier, according to LSEG. It would be the slowest rate of expansion for the company since early 2023, and analysts are expecting lower levels of growth in the coming quarters. Although Meta's AI talent grab may not result in the company raising its projection for 2025 total expe

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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-27 03:05:34

In the summer of 2021, Dimitrious Kottas made a move that would be unfathomable to most Silicon Valley engineers: after leaving his coveted position at Apple’s Special Projects Group, he packed up his life in California and moved back to Athens to start a defense company. Three and a half years later, his startup, Delian Alliance Industries, has set up solar-powered surveillance towers that monitor some of Greece’s borders around the clock and detect wildfires on remote islands, along with a pi

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Exclusive: Galaxy S26 series could represent a major shake-up in Samsung’s flagship lineup

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 10:30:50

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR The Galaxy S26 series could not only ditch the Plus model, but could also kill the standard model. Evidence found in an internal One UI 8 build suggests a lineup of the Galaxy S26 Pro, Galaxy S26 Edge, and Galaxy S26 Ultra. That means Samsung may rename the base model to “Pro” and replace the “Plus” model with Edge. Samsung’s next major release is the Galaxy S26 series, with the launch of its latest foldables now behind it. Earlier reports suggested S

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Chinese startup Z.ai launches powerful open source GLM-4.5 model family with PowerPoint creation

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-27 17:33:40

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Another week in the summer of 2025 has begun, and in a continuation of the trend from last week, with it arrives more powerful Chinese open source AI models. Little-known (at least to us here in the West) Chinese startup Z.ai has introduced two new open source LLMs — GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air — casting them as go-to solutions for AI reasonin

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How much pollution does AI create? Mistral breaks it down

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-28 17:55:00

What just happened? Mistral AI, a Paris-based venture focused on developing open-weight, open-source large language models, is now contributing to the AI discourse with a comprehensive lifecycle analysis of one of its models – guided by the same principles of openness that define its work. Mistral recently published an analysis of the environmental impact of one of its large language models. As chatbots and other AI-powered technologies become increasingly embedded in the global economy, Mistra

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I switched to the Dell 14 Premium for a week, and it makes even the XPS feel outdated

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-12-28 17:07:00

Dell 14 Premium ZDNET's key takeaways Dell's latest high-performance laptop is currently on sale starting at $1,500. It's superbly designed, with a sleek, modern build and powerful, but accessible, hardware. It runs warm, and requires power management from the user to get the most out of the battery. View now at Dell Dell's laptop rebrand may have resulted in some shuffling around of naming conventions, but the new Dell 14 Premium -- Dell's refreshed high-performance line of laptops -- looks

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Runway Launches New Aleph Model That Promises Next-Level AI Video Editing

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 15:58:49

Runway, a pioneer in generative video, just unveiled its latest AI model called Runway Aleph that aims to redefine how people create and edit video content. Aleph builds on Runway's research into General World Models and Simulation Models, giving users a conversational AI tool that can instantly make complex edits to video footage, whether generated or existing. For instance, want to remove a car from a shot? Swap out a background? Restyle an entire scene? According to Runway, Aleph lets you do

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Subscribers to Fashion Magazine Vogue Disgusted When They Realize Where Its New Two-Page "Photos" Really Came From

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-28 21:27:12

Subscribers to the iconic fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue were horrified after spotting a double-page ad for the brand Guess, featuring a blonde model who didn't look quite right. Unsurprisingly, a small caption in the top left-hand corner revealed that the two images, which showed the fake model sporting two different looks, were "produced" by AI marketing company Seraphinne Vallora. Vogue isn't just another fashion rag; it's a flagship brand of Condé Nast's publishing empire, as well as

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Latest Tech News

Studies Show AI Models Love to Share With One Another (and Do a Little Price Fixing as a Treat)

Zuckerberg signals Meta won’t open source all of its ‘superintelligence’ AI models

M5 MacBook Pro could pose a big dilemma for upgrade decisions

Arcee opens up new enterprise-focused, customizable AI model AFM-4.5B trained on ‘clean, rigorously filtered data’

Apple's MacBook Air M4 drops to a record-low price on Amazon

Psychedelic Therapy Crashed and Burned. MAHA Might Bring It Back

Galaxy S26 is dead, long live S26 Pro: Another leak points to Samsung’s flagship shakeup

Pkgbase Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature

Acree opens up new enterprise-focused, customizable AI model AFM-4.5B trained on ‘clean, rigorously filtered data’

RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession

Positron believes it has found the secret to take on Nvidia in AI inference chips — here’s how it could benefit enterprises

Delta Engineered a Pricing System That Sorts You by Economic Value

How Does Lightning Start? New Research Provides a Groundbreaking Theory

Playing with Open Source LLMs

Apple just lost another AI researcher as it weighs shift to third-party models

Scientists Unveil the Shocking Truth Behind Lightning’s Mysterious Birth

Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target

This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge US defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

New iPhone 17 Pro video shows full color lineup with dummy models

I tested Dell's XPS successor, and it beat my $3,000 Windows laptop in almost every way

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Looks Absolutely Stunning

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)

Meta's AI spending spree is Wall Street's focus in second-quarter earnings

This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

Exclusive: Galaxy S26 series could represent a major shake-up in Samsung’s flagship lineup

Chinese startup Z.ai launches powerful open source GLM-4.5 model family with PowerPoint creation

How much pollution does AI create? Mistral breaks it down

I switched to the Dell 14 Premium for a week, and it makes even the XPS feel outdated

Runway Launches New Aleph Model That Promises Next-Level AI Video Editing

Subscribers to Fashion Magazine Vogue Disgusted When They Realize Where Its New Two-Page "Photos" Really Came From

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