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Meta Facial Recognition Glasses Draw Fire from 70+ Rights Groups
Over 70 organizations warn Meta's facial recognition glasses endanger vulnerable populations. Plus: open-source LLM ops toolkit, Stanford AI Index highlights.
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MirrorCode Benchmark Shows AI Reverse-Engineering Full Codebases
METR and Epoch's MirrorCode tests AI reimplementing complex software autonomously. Plus: orbital GPU clusters go live, MiniMax M2.7 quant drama.
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Open-Weight Reasoning Models Collapse Under Simple Formatting Changes
Open-weight reasoning models lose up to 55% accuracy from trivial formatting changes. Plus: 200x genomic model compression and robust RLHF token optimization.
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Anthropic's Mythos Courted by White House, Flagged by Pentagon
Trump officials nudge banks toward Anthropic's Mythos model — weeks after the DoD flagged Anthropic as a supply-chain risk. Plus: agent error tracking and frugal AI from India.
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Microsoft Wants AI Agents to Buy Software Licenses
A Microsoft exec floats AI agents purchasing their own software seats. Plus: new developer tools for Claude Code workflows and LLM introspection.
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AI Prescribes Skipping Vaccines: Healthcare's Bot Problem
An AI responded to a bone marrow transplant patient under a doctor's signature, advising against a critical vaccine. Plus: OpenAI kills model selection, and the trust crisis around AI agents.
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ChatGPT Memory Leak Across Threads Raises Privacy Red Flags
Multiple users report ChatGPT surfacing context from unrelated conversations. Plus: an LLM runtime for self-writing control flow and AI job loss tracking.
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GPT-Image-2 Goes Viral With 90s Nostalgia — What It Signals
GPT-Image-2's 90s-style images flood Reddit as image gen hits a cultural tipping point. Plus: HN debates whether AI will redefine programming itself.
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Cirrus Labs Joins OpenAI as Talent Absorption Continues
Cirrus Labs is the latest startup folded into OpenAI's growing empire. Plus: Fleuret's canonical deep learning textbook resurfaces on HN.
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AI Dev Tools Hit Mobile: Compiling WASM from a Phone
Simon Willison compiled a C library to WebAssembly from his phone using an AI coding agent — plus open-source cognitive architectures for LLM agents.
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Japan Bets $16B on Rapidus for AI Chip Sovereignty
Japan injects $16B into Rapidus to build domestic AI chip capacity. Plus: OpenAI acqui-hires Cirrus Labs, and a new open-source cognitive architecture for LLM agents.
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SQLite 3.53.0 Ships Major ALTER TABLE and JSON Upgrades
SQLite 3.53.0 brings ALTER TABLE constraint changes, new JSON functions, and a revamped CLI. Plus: AI therapy research and community pricing debates.