At least 30 people reported dead in high-speed Spain train crash
It is the second deadly high-speed train collision in Spain this year.
Your RAG Pipeline Is Missing a 1994 Algorithm
Embeddings know that “broken” means “defective”. They may not notice that ZX-4821 is not ZX-4812. The post Your RAG Pipeline…
New York Law Makes Chatbots Check Ages Before Acting Like a Friend
New York has signed a law that bans 12 chatbot features for anyone under 18, from pretending to be human…
Luxury cruise passengers stranded in Cambodia due to soaring fuel costs
The Villa Vie Odyssey suspended its voyage and is working with passengers on “temporary living arrangements”.
Polymathic AI and Princeton Researchers Release FlashMap, a Flow Map Drafter for 6.14x Faster LLM Decoding
Researchers from Polymathic AI, Princeton University, USC ISI, NYU and the Flatiron Institute have released FlashMap. FlashMap speculative decoding replaces…
Australia Moves to Stop AI Chatbots Posing as Children’s Best Friends
Australia’s lower house has voted to make AI chatbots stop building fake friendships with children. The Digital Duty of Care…
Israel election appears to have no clear winner with Netanyahu, opponent Eisenkot far short of majorities
Exit polls show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s alliance and Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc both well off the numbers needed to…
Making machines that can listen
The crack of a bat accompanied by a roar from the crowd can capture a baseball fan’s attention, even if…
Trump says Iran war will end ‘when I want it to’ as costs reportedly balloon to $47 billion
Trump’s statement comes as a report from The Hill revealed that the costs of the Iran conflict has ballooned to…
SK Hynix announces over $25 billion in dividends and buyback as third-quarter profit beats estimates
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix on Wednesday announces over 25 billion in dividends and buyback as third-quarter profit sharply beats…
Meet LEANN: An Open-Source Vector Index that Shrinks a 60M-Chunk RAG Index from 201 GB to 6 GB
UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab built LEANN, an open-source vector index that stores almost no embeddings. The LEANN vector index…
Learner collaborates with MIT peers to develop book of AI insights
Like many leaders today, Prabha Jha has been feeling the significant impact artificial intelligence is having on business operations. While…
Liquid AI Releases LFM3: 6 Open-Weight 2B-Class Multimodal Models
Liquid AI has released LFM3, its new generation of Liquid Foundation Models. Liquid AI LFM3 is a family of 6…
Norway and Finland leaders hold rare call with Putin
An end to the conflict in Ukraine “will not be achieved through silence,” Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said.
Amazon’s anti-tokenmaxxing memo says engineers should be pickier about using AI
Amazon has rapidly integrated AI across the e-commerce giant’s sprawling business operations under CEO Andy Jassy.
DailyAI Briefing: AI breaks a computing rule, plus 4 more
Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. Two rival labs say their AI knocked down the…
AWS named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service
I’m proud to share that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant…
Siri AI Now Remembers Past Chats and Draws on Your Voicemails
Siri can now remember what you asked it last week. Apple’s iOS 27.2 update, out since Monday, lets Siri AI…
Flávio Bolsonaro’s passports cancelled after he fails to surrender them
The defeated presidential candidate is under investigation for alleged money laundering and barred from leaving Brazil.
Announcing SOCI-indexed images for faster SageMaker AI jobs
Every minute your deep learning container image spends downloading is a minute you pay for and a minute your team…
Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation
Genie 4: our new world model unlocking unprecedented realism in real-time simulation.
I Broke a Browser Agent on Purpose. Spotting the Fault Was Not the Same as Fixing It
I replayed correct model decisions through four broken browser actions. A simple page check missed half of the wrong clicks,…
OpenAI and Anthropic Say AI Broke the Same Computer Science Rule
Two rival AI labs say their models knocked down the same pillar of computer science, and both say it happened…
Fed expected to hold rates steady, but Warsh may point way to more hikes
Markets overwhelmingly expect no change in benchmark interest rates following September’s increase.
In the Age of Borrowed Thinking, How To Become More Valuable as AI Gets Smarter
A framework for staying relevant in the age of artificial intelligence The post In the Age of Borrowed Thinking, How…
Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With 10M-Token Context
Mirendil has released Fern, its first AI model. Mirendil Fern is a from-scratch coding model with a context window of…
Developers Felt 20% Faster With AI. They Were 19% Slower.
And that’s not even the worrying part. The post Developers Felt 20% Faster With AI. They Were 19% Slower. appeared…
Israel heads to polls for pivotal election defined by security and democracy
Many fear neither of the leading political blocs will win enough seats for a majority – meaning weeks or months…
Nvidia to invest $3 billion in Meta as tech giants deepen AI partnership
Meta on Monday announced plans to raise a total of $95 billion to support its investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Cohere Says Alibaba’s Qwen Model Tried to Send a File to Beijing
Fewer than one in 100,000. That is how often Cohere says one of Alibaba’s newest Qwen models tried to contact…
Lula’s comeback in Brazil dents Trump’s ambitions for Latin America
The Trump-Lula relationship may have thawed, but several issues could reignite tensions between the two leaders.
vLLM Semantic Router Releases d3-ultra: A 27B Open Multimodal Decision Model
The vLLM Semantic Router team has released d3-ultra, a 27B multimodal decision model under Apache-2.0. The d3-ultra decision model does…
Oil falls as renewed diplomatic efforts to end Mideast conflict ease supply concerns
Renewed diplomatic efforts to end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran pushed oil prices lower
OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra, Halving GPT-6.1 Sol’s API Price for Agent Work
OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast model for visual reasoning, computer use and writing. It replaces GPT-5.6 Terra and…
China industrial profits post strongest growth in three months, rising 14.4%
The global AI boom and higher commodity prices stemming from the war in Iran have lifted earnings at miners, chipmakers…
Bank of Japan is expected to hold rates this week — but stay hawkish: CNBC survey
All survey respondents said they expect the BOJ to set the stage for a rate hike in December or January,…
Apple responds to user reports of broken iPhone Duo screens on new foldable phone
Apple on Monday said it was aware of the issue and that it would replace the devices under its AppleCare…
At New York Climate Week 2026, MIT connects with a global network
Each year, Climate Week NYC brings together more than 100,000 people in more than 1,000 events across the city to…
Fleet-wide computer vision lifecycle at the edge with SageMaker SDK v3
Fleet-wide computer vision model lifecycle management is a problem that shows up the moment a quality inspection proof of concept…
DAI#60 – Anthropic’s books, Meta’s hat, and a cheaper Terra
Welcome to our daily roundup of human-crafted AI news. Today Anthropic finally showed the world its books, Meta asked shareholders…
Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees
Microsoft is trying to balance a rapid infrastructure build-out with capital efficiency.
What Makes AI-Written Stories Feel Off?
And how we can turn that feeling into insights The post What Makes AI-Written Stories Feel Off? appeared first on…
Nace AI Releases Drex for Search for AI Agents: 92.05% on BrowseComp-Plus With 12.6 Search Calls
Nace AI has released Drex for Search, which brings its Drex decision models to document search. Drex for Search is…
Anthropic’s Claude Slipped Past Georgia’s Paywall to Get Vote Counts
Anthropic’s Claude pulled vote count data from the state of Georgia without paying the fee the state charges for it,…
Lula wins fourth term in dramatic Brazil election comeback
The left-wing incumbent president had lost the first round to right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro.
Opening the Box: Can Machine Learning Resolve Schrödinger’s Cat?
Neural networks won’t settle the measurement problem — but they are quietly changing how we see, predict and protect quantum…
Meta Plans to Raise Up to $95 Billion in New Shares to Pay for AI
Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion by selling new shares, to pay for the data centres and chips…
Trump says he’ll soon decide whether to ‘make a deal’ with Iran or ‘finish it off’
Trump said he is weighing a deal with Iran against renewed military action as tensions escalate across the Middle East.
My Machine Learning Pipeline Cheated, and Cross-Validation Never Noticed
What an ID column, a date string, and a missing value taught me. The post My Machine Learning Pipeline Cheated,…
Elvis Song Owners Sue Anthropic for $41.1M Over 274 Songs
The owners of 274 songs Elvis Presley recorded are suing Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, for up to…