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Ford and the Birth of the Model T

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-10-17 18:52:48

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, The Origins of Efficiency, out September 23rd. Ford’s status as a large-volume car producer began with the predecessor to the Model T: the Model N, a four-cylinder, two-seater car initially priced at $500. At the time, the average car in the US cost more than $2,000, and it seemed nearly unimaginable that a car with the capabilities of the Model N could cost so little. In 1906, the year the Model N was introduced, Ford sold 8,500 of them, making the

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OpenAI is testing "Thinking effort" for ChatGPT

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-20 16:26:42

OpenAI is working on a new feature called the Thinking effort picker for ChatGPT. With the Thinking effort picker, you can choose how hard ChatGPT can think. When a model thinks harder, it doesn't necessarily mean a great response. You might not want the model to think harder when you're not sure what to do tomorrow. However, you may want the model to think harder when you're working on a complex topic, such as econometrics, bond valuation, healthcare and so on. As spotted on X, OpenAI is te

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

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-20 16:00:12

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 2025-10-20 14:22:09

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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Labor Day sales include Apple's MacBook Air M4 for an all-time-low price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-20 15:00:36

If you've put off getting a new MacBook then Labor Day sales might be just what you needed to take the plunge. Right now, the 2025 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air M4 are available on Amazon for record-low prices. The 13-inch model is our pick for best MacBook to buy this year, and it's one of the best laptops for college students going back to school soon as well. You can pick up the 13-inch MacBook Air M4 for $799, down from $999 — a 20 percent discount. This model comes with 16GB of RAM and a 256

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AI models need a virtual machine

news.ycombinator.com Shraddha Barke 2025-10-20 14:25:39

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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How Sakana AI’s new evolutionary algorithm builds powerful AI models without expensive retraining

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-10-20 16:14:14

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 A new evolutionary technique from Japan-based AI lab Sakana AI enables developers to augment the capabilities of AI models without costly training and fine-tuning processes. The technique, called Model Merging of Natural Niches (M2N2), overcomes the limitations of other model merging methods and can even evolve new models entirely from scra

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With new in-house models, Microsoft lays the groundwork for independence from OpenAI

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 12:49:54

Microsoft has introduced AI models that it trained internally and says it will begin using them in some products. This announcement may represent an effort to move away from dependence on OpenAI, despite Microsoft's substantial investment in that company. It comes more than a year after insider reports revealed that Microsoft was beginning work on its own foundational models. A post on the Microsoft AI blog describes two models. MAI-Voice-1 is a natural speech-generation model meant to deliver

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If these iPhone 17 Air rumors are real, my old phone is about to be retired

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-10-21 20:39:00

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 year's iPhone event. It could introduce an ultra-thin model for the 2025 iPhone lineup called the iPhone

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OpenAI and Anthropic evaluated each others' models - which ones came out on top

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-22 04:52:00

Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic and OpenAI ran their own tests on each other's models. The two labs published findings in separate reports. The goal was to identify gaps in order to build better and safer models. The AI race is in full swing, and companies are sprinting to release the most cutting-edge products. Naturally, this has raised concerns about speed compromising proper safety evaluations. A first-of-

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Tesla releases Model Y Performance in Europe — will it staunch the bleeding?

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-22 08:05:48

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Tesla is offering a new performance version of its Model Y crossover for the European market. The new variant is aimed at boosting the company’s sales on the continent, which have been in free fall for most of the year thanks to growing

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The New Tesla Model Y Performance Upgrades My Favorite Electric SUV to Supercar Speeds

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 14:55:00

It's hard to overstate how much I already liked the new Tesla Model Y. I drove it earlier this year, and it struck me as Tesla's most complete car yet. It's sharper to look at, smoother to drive, and smarter inside without trying too hard to be clever. In fact, I'd go as far as saying its the best electric car I've ever driven. But today Tesla unveiled the Model Y Performance. It's the power-packed specification of this already great electric SUV -- and it has the potential to be the best car T

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In crowded voice AI market, OpenAI bets on instruction-following and expressive speech to win enterprise adoption

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-10-22 23:26:47

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 OpenAI adds to an increasingly competitive AI voice market for enterprises with its new model, gpt-realtime, that follows complex instructions and with voices “that sound more natural and expressive.” As voice AI continues to grow, and customers find use cases such as customer service calls or real-time translation, the market for realisti

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Nous Research drops Hermes 4 AI models that outperform ChatGPT without content restrictions

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-10-23 07:46:07

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 Nous Research, a secretive artificial intelligence startup that has emerged as a leading voice in the open-source AI movement, quietly released Hermes 4 on Monday, a family of large language models that the company claims can match the performance of leading proprietary systems while offering unprecedented user control and minimal content r

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Forget data labeling: Tencent’s R-Zero shows how LLMs can train themselves

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-10-23 12:07:08

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 A new training framework developed by researchers at Tencent AI Lab and Washington University in St. Louis enables large language models (LLMs) to improve themselves without requiring any human-labeled data. The technique, called R-Zero, uses reinforcement learning to generate its own training data from scratch, addressing one of the main b

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Microsoft AI launches its first in-house models

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-23 12:13:04

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft’s AI division announced its first homegrown AI models on Thursday: MAI-Voice-1 AI and MAI-1-preview. The company says its new MAI-Voice-1 speech model can generate a minute’s worth of audio in under one second on just one GPU, while MAI-1-preview “offe

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Microsoft introduces a pair of in-house AI models

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-23 20:30:05

Microsoft is expanding its AI footprint with the release of two new models that its teams trained completely in-house. MAI-Voice-1 is the tech major's first natural speech generation model, while MAI-1-preview is text-based and is the company's first foundation model trained end-to-end. MAI-Voice-1 is currently being used in the Copilot Daily and Podcast features. Microsoft has made MAI-1-preview available for public tests on LMArena, and will begin previewing it in select Copilot situations in

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OpenAI gives its voice agent superpowers to developers - look for more apps soon

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-24 04:01:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI's Realtime API is now optimized and generally available. You can try its latest speech-to-speech model, gpt-realtime. The upgrades improve OpenAI's voice offerings for developers. This year, AI agents that can carry out tasks on behalf of users have been a major focus, with companies constantly developing offerings that reduce the user's workload. To make these interactions as

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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 02:59:11

Today, we're rolling out updates to our Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy that will help us deliver even more capable, useful AI models. We're now giving users the choice to allow their data to be used to improve Claude and strengthen our safeguards against harmful usage like scams and abuse. Adjusting your preferences is easy and can be done at any time. These updates apply to users on our Claude Free, Pro, and Max plans, including when they use Claude Code from accounts associated with those

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OpenAI–Anthropic cross-tests expose jailbreak and misuse risks — what enterprises must add to GPT-5 evaluations

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-10-24 07:50:54

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 OpenAI and Anthropic may often pit their foundation models against each other, but the two companies came together to evaluate each other’s public models to test alignment. The companies said they believed that cross-evaluating accountability and safety would provide more transparency into what these powerful models could do, enabling ente

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Elden Ring Nightreign is getting even harder in September

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-24 12:05:08

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If FromSoftware’s multiplayer take on Elden Ring was just a little too easy for you, the developer has just the thing coming up. The studio announced “Deep of Night,” a new mode for Nightreign that is focused specifically on difficulty. Namely, it s

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Apple's iPhone 17 'Awe dropping' event is on September 9 — Here's what we expect

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 16:45:08

We're now less than two weeks away from the Apple iPhone 17 event. Themed "Awe dropping" this year, the event — confirmed after Apple sent "save the date" invitations to the media on August 26 — will be livestreamed on YouTube September 9 at 1PM ET from Cupertino. And Engadget staff will be there, reporting and liveblogging from Apple Park to give their hands-on impressions. This year is shaking up to be a departure from recent September product rollouts, with the strong possibility of an all-ne

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9 iPhone 17 Air rumors I'm tracking - and why Apple's ultra-thin model is set to kill the Plus

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-10-24 20:22:00

MacRumors / Elyse Betters Picaro / 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 year's iPhone event. It could introduce an ultra-thin model for the 2025 iPhone lineup called the iPhone 17 Air. It's thought to be much slimmer than any iPhone so

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LLMs solving problems OCR+NLP couldn't

news.ycombinator.com Filip Rejmus 2025-10-24 20:15:28

The first idea resembling something like the idea of OCR got developed in 1870 as a reading machine for the blind - the Optophone. This was the first step to solve a problem that sounds pretty simple: How do we get writing on paper inside a computer? 150 years of research, engineering breakthroughs and hundreds of IDP products later we were finally able to scan a receipt and have the fields be filled out - if it looked nice and friendly enough to the OCR model. Heureka. Unfortunately for Tesse

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Rendering a Game in Real-Time with AI

news.ycombinator.com Jeff Schomay 2025-10-24 19:10:14

I made a game. It’s all in ASCII. I wondered if it would be possible to turn it into full motion graphics. In real time. With AI. Let me share how I did it. Let’s start with the game. Lately, I’ve been exploring just how far I can push old-school ASCII RPG style game frameworks. My latest one is called “Thunder Lizard,” which procedurally generates a prehistoric island populated with dinosaurs fighting for dominance as an active volcano threatens the whole island. You can go play it if you’d li

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Rendering an ASCII game in real-time with AI (100ms latency)

news.ycombinator.com Jeff Schomay 2025-10-25 00:10:14

I made a game. It’s all in ASCII. I wondered if it would be possible to turn it into full motion graphics. In real time. With AI. Let me share how I did it. Let’s start with the game. Lately, I’ve been exploring just how far I can push old-school ASCII RPG style game frameworks. My latest one is called “Thunder Lizard,” which procedurally generates a prehistoric island populated with dinosaurs fighting for dominance as an active volcano threatens the whole island. You can go play it if you’d li

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Nvidia CEO Says More Advanced AI Models Will Keep Chip, Data Center Growth Going

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 12:13:26

AI bubble? What AI bubble? If you ask Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, we're in a "new industrial revolution." Huang's company, of course, makes chips and computer hardware, the "picks and shovels" of the AI gold rush, and it's become the world's largest business by capitalizing on AI's growth, bubble or not. Speaking on Wednesday during an earnings call as his company reported revenue of $46.7 billion in the past quarter, he indicated no sign that the incredible growth of the generative artificial int

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OpenAI and Anthropic conducted safety evaluations of each other's AI systems

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 16:36:37

Most of the time, AI companies are locked in a race to the top, treating each other as rivals and competitors. Today, OpenAI and Anthropic revealed that they agreed to evaluate the alignment of each other's publicly available systems and shared the results of their analyses. The full reports get pretty technical, but are worth a read for anyone who's following the nuts and bolts of AI development. A broad summary showed some flaws with each company's offerings, as well as revealing pointers for

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Google's AI Mode is getting more links for you not to click on

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-25 19:38:56

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google said AI Mode search results will show more website links. The links will be "useful" but no definition for that was given. Google also said AI Overviews isn't reducing overall web traffic. Google is experimenting with more ways to encourage users to follow links with relevant information. Also: You should use Gemini's new 'incognito' chat mode - here's why and what it does Acco

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Yapping With ChatGPT: Voice Mode With GPT-5 Sounds More Human Than Ever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 15:03:02

It was 8 a.m. and I was sitting in the lobby of the auto body shop when I realized I'd forgotten my earbuds. Normally, that's not a major issue, but I was talking to my phone. And I wasn't talking to another person. I was talking to ChatGPT. It felt as embarrassing as asking Siri a question from across the room or joining a Zoom meeting sans headphones in an open office. I was testing the advanced voice mode that comes with GPT-5, OpenAI's latest version of the generative AI model behind ChatGP

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Ford and the Birth of the Model T

OpenAI is testing "Thinking effort" for ChatGPT

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

Labor Day sales include Apple's MacBook Air M4 for an all-time-low price

AI models need a virtual machine

How Sakana AI’s new evolutionary algorithm builds powerful AI models without expensive retraining

With new in-house models, Microsoft lays the groundwork for independence from OpenAI

If these iPhone 17 Air rumors are real, my old phone is about to be retired

OpenAI and Anthropic evaluated each others' models - which ones came out on top

Tesla releases Model Y Performance in Europe — will it staunch the bleeding?

The New Tesla Model Y Performance Upgrades My Favorite Electric SUV to Supercar Speeds

In crowded voice AI market, OpenAI bets on instruction-following and expressive speech to win enterprise adoption

Nous Research drops Hermes 4 AI models that outperform ChatGPT without content restrictions

Forget data labeling: Tencent’s R-Zero shows how LLMs can train themselves

Microsoft AI launches its first in-house models

Microsoft introduces a pair of in-house AI models

OpenAI gives its voice agent superpowers to developers - look for more apps soon

Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

OpenAI–Anthropic cross-tests expose jailbreak and misuse risks — what enterprises must add to GPT-5 evaluations

Elden Ring Nightreign is getting even harder in September

Apple's iPhone 17 'Awe dropping' event is on September 9 — Here's what we expect

9 iPhone 17 Air rumors I'm tracking - and why Apple's ultra-thin model is set to kill the Plus

LLMs solving problems OCR+NLP couldn't

Rendering a Game in Real-Time with AI

Rendering an ASCII game in real-time with AI (100ms latency)

Nvidia CEO Says More Advanced AI Models Will Keep Chip, Data Center Growth Going

OpenAI and Anthropic conducted safety evaluations of each other's AI systems

Google's AI Mode is getting more links for you not to click on

Yapping With ChatGPT: Voice Mode With GPT-5 Sounds More Human Than Ever

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