OpenAI has reportedly acquired Glass Imaging, a Los Altos-based smartphone camera company, for more than $300 million according to the Wall Street Journal. Founded in 2019 by former Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, who helped build Portrait Mode, the startup had raised roughly $30 million before the deal and uses neural networks trained on specific camera hardware to improve image quality directly at capture rather than through post-processing edits.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-14
A software developer published a personal essay cataloguing mixed emotions about AI: awe at how neural networks produce reasoning without explicit algorithms, fear over unresolved existential-risk arguments, disgust at crawlers overwhelming open web communities, sadness for artists undercut by AI-generated content, and anger at political systems failing to check corporate AI power and resource consumption. The author concludes AI feels promising as technology but troubling for society.
beza1e1.tuxen.de
· 2026-09-06
Julia began in 2009 as an MIT research effort by frustrated researchers who wanted a scientific programming language that was both easy to use and fast, unlike existing tools that forced rewrites for performance. The project evolved from an MIT lab into the company JuliaHub, and Julia is now a free, open-source language used by more than a million people across companies and universities worldwide, applied to everything from modeling jet engines and drugs to imaging black holes.
news.mit.edu
· 2026-08-31
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