DeepReinforce has released Ornith-1.0, an open-source model family built for agentic coding. The lineup spans four sizes, from a 9B dense model to a 397B mixture-of-experts flagship. Every checkpoint ships under the MIT license on Hugging Face. The models are post-trained on top of pretrained Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5….
As soon as I entered General Intuition’s R&D floor at its New York office, the company’s 31-year-old co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte directed my attention to a monitor perched on a standing desk. Someone appeared to be playing something like Fortnite. It wasn’t a person. “Our agent has been playing for 100 hours straight,”…
Swedish electric vehicle manufacturer Polestar, owned by Chinese automotive giant Geely, will no longer be able to sell its new cars in the U.S. market, the company said on Thursday, as the Trump administration’s Department of Commerce refused to authorize the company to do so. The decision was made as part of the administration’s so-called…
The AI boom has encouraged everyone and their uncle to launch a data center business. But spinning up a data center isn’t easy. Even if you solve the problem of securing the GPUs, network switches, and storage, you still have to get everything configured, running and be able to cater to customers’ various needs. Getting…
“I don’t think an AI model should have that kind of power over people’s lives,” Pegram says. Photograph: Alice Zoo In response to WIRED’s public records requests, Avon and Somerset Police provided a huge trove of performance data for 13 risk models used between 2017 and 2024—including those used to predict missing people, antisocial behavior,…
The sheer scale of data being recorded at this summer’s World Cup is unprecedented. FIFA, the tournament organiser, will track around 150 million data points per match. Inside the ball alone, sensors monitoring IMUs (Inertial Measurement Units) will log 500 movements per second to trace the ball’s motion. If that sounds excessive, Patrick Lucey can…
The AI growth has fueled dozens of latest startups and minted a brand new class of billionaires. It has additionally produced a severe scarcity of reminiscence chips — a vital element for compute-hungry AI fashions — which some predict may persist through 2027. This period of RAMageddon isn’t only a company downside. As demand spikes…
Russian authorities hacked into the phone of a prominent political opponent while he was in custody, using technology made by forensics firm Cellebrite — even after the company had said it cut ties with Putin’s government agencies, according to a new report that raises fresh questions about whether Western tech companies can truly control how…
Prime AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, in response to Bloomberg. Per the report, Adler and Pritzel performed key roles within the improvement of Google’s Gemini mannequin. TechCrunch reached out to Google for remark. These departures are a part of a regarding pattern for Google. Final week, legendary AI…
Whether or not AI is already changing jobs is the topic of fierce debate. Tech layoffs hit their highest single month whole in years in Might, and AI was the most-cited purpose, in keeping with outplacement agency Challenger, Grey & Christmas. Software program engineering, in concept, is the skilled discipline most susceptible to automation, given the speedy…
