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New Video-Generating AI Trained 100 Percent on Public Domain Films

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-21 02:00:38

Few tech products have been as broadly contentious as video-generating artificial intelligence. These complex algorithms, which cleave millions of datapoints together into seconds-long gobs of video, are notoriously trained on proprietary material, leading to widespread ethical and legal concerns. (That's before we even mention how much energy it takes to synthesize an AI video.) Tech billionaires tend to argue that this is simply the way things need to be — if you want AI, we need to feed it

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The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 14:59:30

The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil Jun 20, 2025 GPT-3 showed that simply scaling up language models unlocks powerful, task-agnostic, few-shot performance, often outperforming carefully fine-tuned models. Before GPT-3, achieving state-of-the-art performance meant first pre-training models on large generic text corpora, then fine-tuning them on specific tasks. Today’s reinforcement learning is stuck in a similar pre-GPT-3 paradigm. We first pre-train l

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ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 20:45:10

Earlier this week in Geneva, around 50 leading global initiatives and organisations dedicated to open-source LLMs and trustworthy AI convened at the International Open-Source LLM Builders Summit. Hosted by the AI centres of EPFL and ETH Zurich, the event marked a significant step in building a vibrant and collaborative international ecosystem for open foundation models. Open LLMs are increasingly viewed as credible alternatives to commercial systems, most of which are developed behind closed doo

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AWS doubles down on infrastructure as strategy in the AI race with SageMaker upgrades

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2026-01-24 06:37:51

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 AWS seeks to extend its market position with updates to SageMaker, its machine learning and AI model training and inference platform, adding new observability capabilities, connected coding environments and GPU cluster performance management. However, AWS continues to face competition from Google and Microsoft, which also offer many featur

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LLM-Ready Training Dataset for Apple's Foundation Models (iOS 26)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 10:52:28

The only comprehensive training dataset for Apple's Foundation Models Framework (iOS 26) What You Get Three technical specification files for training LLMs on Apple's Foundation Models framework: 1. Core Framework Guide SystemLanguageModel availability, LanguageModelSession management, response generation, and context handling. 2. Advanced Implementation Guide @Generable/@Guide macros, constrained decoding, Tool protocol, and performance optimization. 3. Strategic Features Guide Adapter

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Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 09:13:40

SmolLM3: smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner Published July 8, 2025 Update on GitHub Base model: https://hf.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base Instruct and reasoning model: https://hf.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B Small language models are becoming increasingly important as users seek capable models that can be deployed efficiently. The community has produced a fascinating range of capable small models, each pushing the boundaries of what's possible at this scale. With SmolLM3, we're excit

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How ChatGPT actually works (and why it's been so game-changing)

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2026-02-01 04:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Back in the day (and by "in the day," I mean late 2022, before AI chatbots exploded on the scene), tools like Google and Wolfram Alpha interacted with users via a single-line text entry field and provided text results. Google returned search results -- a list of web pages and articles that would (hopefully) provide information related to the search queries. Wolfram Alpha generally provided answers that were mathematical and data analysis-related. ChatGPT, by contra

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Garmin Is Going Nuts for Prime Day, Forerunner 255 GPS Smartwatch Is Now Almost Free

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-01 06:40:11

Garmin doesn’t actually have a direct competitor out there with a wide range of models that cater to professionals and amateurs. For Prime Day Amazon is offering a whopping 43% discount on the Forerunner 255, bringing its price down to just $199 from its regular price of $349. This is the company’s best-selling product, and it has a 4.7 out of 5 rating and it can be purchased as a limited time offer that does not require a Prime membership. See at Amazon Quality and Tracking Its slender prof

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Garmin Fenix 7X Pro Solar Is 40% Off, Amazon’s Giving Up Its Entire Margin for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-03 17:27:57

Garmin is the gold standard for smartwatches for athletes and the fēnix series is firmly at the top of their line. If you don’t have to spend over $1,000 on the latest version, the Garmin fēnix 7X Pro Sapphire Solar is an amazing second choice and it’s a team favorite in our editorial staff’s athlete corps. For Prime Day early, Amazon is losing all its margin and pricing this watch at 40% off, and brings the cost down to a mere $599 from its usual $999. This is the all-time low for this model,

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Tesla's Self-Driving Mode Causes It to Get Hit by Train

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-09 15:25:04

Tesla's so-called "self-driving" features have some serious issues with train tracks — and in a recent instance, it led to a small collision with a moving freight train. As Pennsylvania-based broadcaster WFMZ reports, a family of three was forced to exit their Tesla in the wee hours of the morning after it decided, when in an assisted driving mode, to turn left onto some train tracks. Jared Renshaw, the fire commissioner for Southeastern PA's Western Berks County, told WFMZ that the car was in

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Can the music industry make AI the next Napster?

theverge.com Elizabeth Lopatto 2026-02-14 06:30:00

is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Sure, everyone hates record labels — but the AI industry has figured out how to make them look like heroes. So that’s at least one very impressive accomplishment for AI. AI is cutting a swath across a number of creative industries — with AI-generated book covers, the Chicago Sun-Times publishing an AI-generated list of books that don’t exi

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Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-14 15:53:42

Key Points After finalising the purchase of a home in Melbourne's northern suburbs, a Melbourne man found something unexpected. There had been no mention of the expansive model train network beneath the home's floors. Coincidentally, new owner Daniel Xu is a keen train enthusiast and engineer. As any new homeowner will know, there are always unknown things to be found in a new place. From a kitchen cupboard that never seems to close properly, a curiously painted over area or the real per

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I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn't Terrible

wired.com Victoria Turk 2026-02-17 06:00:00

The worst part of travel is the planning: the faff of finding and booking transport, accommodation, restaurant reservations—the list can feel endless. To help, the latest wave of AI agents, such as OpenAI’s Operator and Anthropic’s Computer Use claim they can take these dreary, cumbersome tasks from befuddled travelers and do it all for you. But exactly how good are they are digging out the good stuff? What better way to find out than deciding on a last-minute weekend away. I tasked Operator, w

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Did AI companies win a fight with authors? Technically

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2026-02-16 22:30:00

In the past week, big AI companies have — in theory — chalked up two big legal wins. But things are not quite as straightforward as they may seem, and copyright law hasn’t been this exciting since last month’s showdown at the Library of Congress. First, Judge William Alsup ruled it was fair use for Anthropic to train on a series of authors’ books. Then, Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed another group of authors’ complaint against Meta for training on their books. Yet far from settling the legal co

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Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

news.ycombinator.com Timothy B. Lee 2026-02-13 11:29:59

It’s Agent Week at Understanding AI! This week I’m going to publish a series of articles explaining the most important AI trend of 2025: agents! Today is a deep dive into reinforcement learning, the training technique that made agentic models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o3 possible. Today’s article is available for free, but some articles in the series—including tomorrow’s article on MCP and tool use—will be for paying subscribers only. I’m offering a 20 percent discount on annual subscriptions

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James Wan Offers a Mildly Discouraging Update on That ‘Train to Busan’ Remake

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-02-18 06:00:12

Released in 2016, Yeon Sang-ho‘s Train to Busan proved there were still plenty of fresh thrills to be mined from the zombie genre. It spawned an animated prequel and a sequel, and nobody was surprised when an American remake, to be titled The Last Train to New York, was announced. A 2023 release date made things official… almost. Obviously, The Last Train to New York—which at one point had Timo Tjahjanto (May the Devil Take You, this year’s Nobody 2) attached to direct and Gary Dauberman (It an

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Fault Tolerant Llama training – PyTorch blog

news.ycombinator.com Tristan Rice 2026-02-15 18:30:02

Collaborators: Less Wright, Howard Huang, Chien-Chin Huang, Crusoe: Martin Cala, Ethan Petersen tl;dr: we used torchft and torchtitan to train a model in a real-world environment with extreme synthetic failure rates to prove reliability and correctness of fault tolerant training Training loss across 1200 failures with no checkpoints. NOTE: Each small spike is a non-participating worker recovering which affects the metrics but not the model Introduction We want to demonstrate torchft in wo

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Reddit is being spammed by AI bots, and it’s all Reddit’s fault

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-02-22 06:31:43

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has said that the platform is being spammed by AI bots, and is now in “an arms race” to detect and block these fake posts. The irony here is that the very reason Reddit is being targeted by bots is because the company sells access to user posts for AI training … Reddit lets AI bots harvest user posts Things kicked off early last year when Reddit signed a $60M deal to allow user posts to be harvested for AI training. The company involved was subsequently revealed to be

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Federal court says AI training on books is fair use, but sends Anthropic to trial over pirated copies

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-02-24 09:58:00

What just happened? A federal court has delivered a split decision in a high-stakes copyright case that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence development. US District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its Claude AI system qualifies as lawful "fair use" under copyright law, marking a significant victory for the AI industry. However, the judge simultaneously ordered the company to face trial this December for allegedly building a "central l

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7 Simple Tips for Burning Body Fat at Home Without a Gym Membership

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-24 10:00:00

If you're looking to lose weight or build muscle, a gym membership can be a helpful tool. But with membership costs on the rise, it can also be a pricey investment. A recent CNET survey found that 25% of adults surveyed have had to cancel a subscription or membership due to rising costs and budgetary constraints. If you're not looking to add on another monthly membership fee, you may want to skip the gym and work on your fitness goals right at home. If your primary fitness goal is to reduce bod

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Court says AI training on books is fair use but Anthropic must face trial over pirated copies

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-02-24 21:58:00

What just happened? A federal court has delivered a split decision in a high-stakes copyright case that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence development. US District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its Claude AI system qualifies as lawful "fair use" under copyright law, marking a significant victory for the AI industry. However, the judge simultaneously ordered the company to face trial this December for allegedly building a "central l

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Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-02 09:04:56

Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD) Vertex Block Descent is a fast physics-based simulation method that is unconditionally stable, highly parallelizable, and capable of converging to the implicit Euler solution. We extend it using an augmented Lagrangian formulation to address some of its fundamental limitations. First, we introduce a mechanism to handle hard constraints with infinite stiffness without introducing numerical instabilities. Second, we substantially improve the convergence in th

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Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-03-12 07:16:18

Social networks are bolstering their terms of service against scrapers and bots that crawl the website to train AI models. Days after Elon Musk-owned X updated its terms to explicitly prohibit AI model training, decentralized social network Mastodon today updated its own rules to bar any kind of model training, as well. “We explicitly prohibit the scraping of user data for unauthorized purposes, e.g. archival or large language model (LLM) training. We want to make it clear that training LLMs on

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Did Samsung's fitness coach just outpace Apple's Workout Buddy?

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-03-12 22:00:15

Health wearables are leaning into AI-powered health coaches and advisors, which can use all the health and fitness data they aggregate to deliver actionable insights or help the user achieve a fitness goal. Last week, Apple debuted a new AI-powered WatchOS 26 feature that will be available on Apple Watches in the coming months. Workout Buddy is the smartwatch's health coach, guiding wearers through a workout and providing historical stats, encouragement, and more. Also: Your Galaxy Watch is ge

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This Is the Best-Rated Garmin Forerunner, And It’s Just Hit a New All-Time Low on Amazon

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-03-14 19:25:41

Among the best-rated running watches available today, the Garmin Forerunner series consistently earns top marks from runners and fitness enthusiasts. The Garmin Forerunner 265 and Forerunner 265S are no exception, boasting an impressive 4.7 out of 5 stars across hundreds of Amazon reviews. These two models—the 265S in 42mm and the standard 265 in 46mm—have both dropped to an all-time low price of $349 since Monday morning, down from their original list price of $449. With a discount of $100, th

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Caltrain official lived in secret apartment built illegally inside train station

news.ycombinator.com George Kelly 2026-03-14 17:14:12

Joseph Navarro’s apartment was a typical Bay Area bachelor pad: on the small side, somewhat lacking in homey touches or creature comforts. But the location was hard to beat: stashed away inside the Burlingame Caltrain station. Images released Thursday by the San Mateo County district attorney’s office show the interior of the secret dwelling that Navarro, a former Caltrain deputy director, built illegally using public funds. Navarro lived in the snug chambers for years, but he will now reside

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Court filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training

techcrunch.com Kyle Wiggers 2025-11-13 09:15:38

For years, Meta employees have internally discussed using copyrighted works obtained through legally questionable means to train the company’s AI models, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday. The documents were submitted by plaintiffs in the case Kadrey v. Meta, one of many AI copyright disputes slowly winding through the U.S. court system. The defendant, Meta, claims that training models on IP-protected works, particularly books, is “fair use.” The plaintiffs, who include authors

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I built a large language model "from scratch"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 06:14:41

A developer's journey through building an LLM from scratch, sharing key insights about tokenization, training, and the learning process of mastering AI fundamentals. Building a large language model from scratch# I’m a machine learning / A.I. hobbyist. The technologies fascinate me, and I can’t seem to learn enough about them. Sebastian Raschka’s book, Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) caught my eye. I don’t recall how I stumbled on it, but I found it when it was still in early access

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New Video-Generating AI Trained 100 Percent on Public Domain Films

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Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM

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Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house

I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn't Terrible

Did AI companies win a fight with authors? Technically

Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

James Wan Offers a Mildly Discouraging Update on That ‘Train to Busan’ Remake

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Caltrain official lived in secret apartment built illegally inside train station

Court filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training

I built a large language model "from scratch"

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