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★ Must Read[AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing

Latent Space — [AINews] Kimi K3 2. 8T-A50B: the largest open model ever rele...

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NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

Trending on Hacker News with 256 points and 129 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min
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Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis

On today’s Uncanny Valley, we unpack OpenAI’s ongoing drama, both legal and reputational, and whether these developments could further hurt the company—particularly in its fight against Anthropic.

WIRED AI · 2 min
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China has a new top model

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is very good — but the hype may be getting ahead of reality. (For now.

Platformer · 2 min
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Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min
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Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you

1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security credentials like usernames and passwords. The 1Password for Claude feature means that users can authorize Claude to complete multi-step tasks like booking travel and managing online accounts on their behalf without having to manually input their login credentials, but without actually exposing security information to Anthropic's AI models, according to 1Password. That's made possible by a new "zero-exposure security framework" developed by 1Password, which works by injecting the required credentials for each task through a … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Verge AI · 2 min
New York governor says shes using AI to analyze every single rule in the state
The Verge AI

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using "AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, [and] policy" to check for outdated legislation. Some of the antiquated laws mentioned by Hochul in the interview include a $25 fee required to take a dog hunting, or a stipulation that pregnant people need a permit to work after midnight.

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Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
WIRED AI

Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Machines establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI.

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★ Must ReadLM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

Trending on Hacker News with 174 points and 65 comments.

🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences

Lila is betting that science, not the internet, is the last untapped source of training data. We went to find out what that actually looks like in a room full of robots.

[AINews] not much happened today

a continuation: Codex adding 1M users a day now.

Qwen3.6-27B KV Cache Quantization in vLLM: Accuracy, Memory, and Speed

A smaller KV cache enables longer sequences and higher concurrency with virtually no loss in accuracy.

The Biggest Bet of My Career

After six years of teaching AI, we’re building something new

Australia Just Set the Terms for AI

Earlier this week, the Prime Minister delivered a one-two punch on copyright and data centres: two of the most contentious national conversations on AI.

★ Must Read[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)

Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!

Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis
Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, Emily Mullin, WIRED AI
Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?
Amanda Silberling, TechCrunch AI
zero-exposure security framework
Jess Weatherbed, The Verge AI
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