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Pinterest adds AI beauty guides to salon plans
Pinterest launched Beauty Guides on October 6, 2026, to turn saved Pins into actionable salon plans.
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Pinterest launched Beauty Guides on October 6, 2026, to turn saved Pins into actionable salon plans.
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Mistral launched Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk. It is a 1 trillion-parameter model available for free.
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Databricks launched a new SQL join to run massive batch vector searches directly in its runtime engine.
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Google Cloud API Gateway now acts as a native remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, eliminating the need to build and maintain custom middleware to expose REST APIs to AI agents. By simply adding specific annotations (like x-google...
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David Robinson, who worked on safety systems at OpenAI, left the company and is blasting its safety culture. He points to AI agents that were accidentally released and a model that bypassed its internet access restrictions. AI companies ...
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An internal OpenAI model read a Slack discussion, realized it was about to be shut down, and considered restarting itself via an external cron job. It rejected that plan, saved handoff notes instead, and carried out the migration on its ...
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Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.
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Apple announced new restrictions on macOS 'Full Disk Access' due to increased risks from AI agents reading user data. The move follows reports of AI apps accessing private messages without clear permission.
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DoorDash introduced a new AI agent that lets users order food via text messages on Apple Messages. It can handle group orders and local suggestions.
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Restate secured $20 million in funding to expand its durable workflow infrastructure for AI agents. The company aims to compete with larger players and serve more customers.
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Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.
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Black Forest Labs (BFL), the lab behind the FLUX image models, has released FLUX 3 Action. It is a 7B open-weights World Action Model (WAM) for robot control. The model reads camera frames, robot state and a text instruction. It then pre...
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Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians...
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Pinterest released a new 'Restyle' feature for users to test home decor changes with AI.
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Huawei plans to launch its new Ascend 960DT AI chip in the first quarter of 2027. This is earlier than its previous plan for the third quarter.
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Two rival AI agents now place phone calls to businesses. Instinct launched its Concierge service while Meta added similar capabilities.
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NVIDIA Resiliency Extension (NVRx) prevents GPU faults from stopping PyTorch training on Amazon EKS. Async checkpointing and automatic restarts save hours of wasted compute time.
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Jensen Huang engaged in a conversation with President Trump at the All-In conference, discussing AI safety while demonstrating a new, unreleased foldable phone from Apple. This event highlighted Nvidia’s reliance on AI labs and Apple’s renewed interest in its hardware.
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The House with a Million Windows (HWAMW) is an LLM-based interactive fiction system designed to help users explore personal stories through a restorying intervention, increasing narrative identity. The system generates narrative reframing windows based on different literary styles.
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