It’s now even easier to find—and exploit—vulnerabilities in computer systems using AI. Last Friday, the Chinese AI company Z.ai announced a powerful open-weight model that it says is capable of automating cutting-edge coding and cybersecurity tasks almost as well as the best publicly available models from Anthropic and OpenAI. The new model, GLM 5.3, could…
Startup Groq has raised $350 million because it continues to pivot from an AI chipmaker to a neocloud firm that gives highly effective GPUs and AI infrastructure providers. The brand new capital, led by funding agency Disruptive with deliberate participation from Nvidia, values the corporate at $3.5 billion. That’s down from the $6.9 billion Groq…
Amazon is buying tons of rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning them for AI training, according to 404 Media, which placed a tracking device in a rare book that ultimately arrived at an Amazon facility in Las Vegas. The facility, known as VGT3, identifies itself with a symbol of a dinosaur holding a…
Bad news for those who get their updates through RSS feeds: Feedly, the largest stand-alone RSS reader worldwide, has experienced technical issues for over a week, and paying users are upset that the web app has been “unusably slow.” Some users have also reported that the company has ignored their support requests. Uh-oh. Feedly, the…
YouTube announced on Monday that it’s changing how views are counted on its platform, with a view now counting as soon as a video starts playing or someone enters a live broadcast. Although the Google-owned platform never disclosed how it previously counted views, it was generally understood that a view was counted after a user…
For over a century, fireplace safety has been restricted to water and chemical substances. And whereas they’ll stop catastrophic fires, the cleanup payments will be vital. However possibly not for lengthy. Sonic Fire Tech is testing a sound-powered fireplace safety system, which it says snuffs out fires inside seconds whereas additionally sparing properties from messy…
Higgsfield announced Monday that it has raised a $400 million Sequence B at a $5.4 billion valuation. This new spherical is simply eight months after nabbing a $1.3 billion valuation. Based by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov in 2023, Higgsfield lets customers create AI pictures and movies. It made headlines this previous yr for…
ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR have released CUDA Agent, an agentic reinforcement learning system that trains a large language model to write GPU kernels that beat a compiler. The gap it targets is narrow but stubborn: frontier models already produce correct CUDA, they just produce slow CUDA. On KernelBench, the base model Seed1.6 passes 74.0%…
Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, its MIT-licensed open source agent. Bot Mode replaces the single-agent session list with a roster of named bots. Each bot is a real Hermes profile, with its own chat, memory, skills, and pinned model. Bots message each other through a persistent Agent Inbox and hand work…
Spotify announced Monday the launch of “Playlist Notes,” a new feature that lets listeners add their thoughts to the playlists they make. The feature builds on “User Notes,” which the streaming giant debuted last month, allowing people to add personal notes to individual tracks. With Playlist Notes, users can add context to songs, podcast episodes,…
