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18 stories · 5 min read

★ Must ReadAn Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.

TechCrunch AI· Russell Brandom· 2 min· 25d agoSource →
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Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

Trending on Hacker News with 464 points and 141 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min
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Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
Hacker News · 1 min
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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min
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OpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack

OpenAI finally gave us a technical report on What Happened, as did METR together with Redwood Research.

Zvi Mowshowitz · 2 min
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AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?

A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Guess who isn't thrilled.

WIRED AI · 2 min
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PERSPECTIVE A
“5 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident”
— Gary Marcus

Did OpenAI really do the best they could?

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PERSPECTIVE B
“U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective”
— Hacker News

Earlier:US Government designates host of noblogs.

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[AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro

Latent Space — [AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publish...

Latent Space· 3 min· 27d agoSource →

[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6

The conference with hot chips and even hotter companies

Latent Space· 3 min· 27d agoSource →

Lovable CTO: The Future of SaaS Is Apps That Agents Can Use

Lovable is branching out from AI-powered web app creation and into MCP-powered ‘capabilities’. We talk to CTO Fabian Hedin.

Latent Space· Richard MacManus· 3 min· 27d agoSource →
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★ Must ReadQwen3.8 Needs Preserved Thinking, Q1 GGUFs Fall Apart, and the new GLM-5.3-Flash

Kaitchup — Qwen3. 8 Needs Preserved Thinking, Q1 GGUFs Fall Apart, and t...

Kaitchup· Benjamin Marie· 2 min· 25d agoSource →

★ Must ReadWhat to Build to Land an AI Engineer Job

AI Engineer Skills You Need to Get Hired

Louis Bouchard· Louis-François Bouchard· 2 min· 25d agoSource →

Qwen3.8 Flash Next Review: Benchmarks, Architecture, Memory Requirements, and Local Inference

Qwen’s 125B-A6B model, its 51B n-gram memory, and what it takes to run it locally

Kaitchup· Benjamin Marie· 2 min· 27d agoSource →
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[AINews] OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026

Latent Space — [AINews] OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026

Latent Space· 3 min· 25d agolong readSource →
07VOICES3▸
“An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI”
— Russell Brandom, TechCrunch AI
Read more →
“Qwen3.8 Needs Preserved Thinking, Q1 GGUFs Fall Apart, and the new GLM-5.3-Flash”
— Benjamin Marie, Kaitchup
Read more →
“5 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident”
— Gary Marcus
Read more →