AI — Page 10
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Ceva says Mobilint's REGULUS is NeuPro's first production deployment
Shin's Seoul chip company put Ceva's SensPro DSP and NeuPro-Nano NPU into REGULUS, a 10 TOPS SoC at under 3W. Ceva calls it NeuPro's first production deployment; October reporting had the chip with customers for validation, and neither account discloses volume.
- OccupySaaS releases AI-built open-source replacements for Auth0 and Salesforce
Established in October 2026, OccupySaaS has released ZeroAuthy for Auth0 and SalesCompel for Salesforce under Apache-2.0.
- Grok Bot costs more to serve than it earns, Musk says
Musk gave no figures and announced no shutdown, but the admission follows an October earnings call touting 800,000 paid weekly users for the agent product.
- A maker wired Claude to a 3D-printed lockpicking robot
Dr. Kun Daniel says the ESP32-C3 machine uses load-cell feedback and Claude over Wi-Fi to guide picking, after more than 200 hours of work.
- DeepSeek open-sources Super-agent prototype for GitHub coding work
DeepSeek published MIT-licensed research code on October 31st, 2026, for a coding agent that acts on authorized requests. The public prototype differs from DeepSeek's private internal implementation, and some designs in its article remain unimplemented in the released code.
- Judge lets NAACP Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's Southaven turbines proceed
U.S. District Judge Debra M. Brown rejected xAI's permitting-exemption argument on October 30th, allowing the NAACP's case to proceed without deciding ultimate liability.
- a16z says token spending rose more than 120% despite a 67% price drop
a16z's Moses Sternstein examines rising token-spending estimates since May and higher GPU rents, while warning that the datasets capture only part of demand.
- Andrej Karpathy builds HackerTube from 6,454 videos recommended on Hacker News
Karpathy says Opus 5.5 mined Hacker News comments from 2007-2026 to build a 6,454-video YouTube alternative in about two hours on October 31st.
- Jepsen finds 96 issues in tested versions of Orkes's ParticleDB
Kyle Kingsbury found 96 issues in tested versions of Orkes's ParticleDB. Most appeared resolved during testing, but Jepsen recommended halting deployment and migrating to other databases. Orkes says newer builds address all identified issues.
- Higgsfield pitches a five-minute anime episode made from roughly 30 AI shots
Co-founded by former Snap generative AI chief Alex Mashrabov, Higgsfield maps a 30-shot workflow for a five-minute episode using Soul 2.0, Cinema Studio 4.0 and Genjutsu.
- SolarEdge co-founder Amir Fishelov says every AI agent runs on a power plant
The SolarEdge co-founder, now backing energy and AI infrastructure at Square One Labs, argues agent savings rest on compute capacity companies do not control.
- Crosby bids for Weil Gotshal's brand and data as the law firm winds down
Ryan Daniels and John Sarihan's two-year-old Crosby is seeking Weil Gotshal's trademark, brand and internal data while separately trying to hire some of its 1,200 lawyers.
- Judge urges Character.AI to hire privacy ombudsman for proposed Disney deal
Judge Brendan Shannon urged Character Technologies to hire an expert on child harm and user privacy as Disney's $20M license heads toward a proposed November 24th sale hearing.
- Sabi says EEG can tune AI-generated faces to personal taste
Sabi CEO Rahul Chhabra says EEG-derived arousal signals can personalize generated images without explicit ratings. Accessible research text offers limited detail for assessing the results.
- TBC's Mischief 1 video model runs on GPUs, not living neurons
Fioti says Mischief 1 is Wan on GPUs with a LoRA. TBC's own release says the neurons stay in the lab and the software adds under 0.1% of parameters.
- SpaceXSI will watermark Grok API text by default on November 7th
Seven Grok models get an invisible token-level mark on every endpoint, ahead of the EU December 2nd deadline, with a per-model opt-out for team admins.
- Reducto brings Office-file editing to ChatGPT and Codex
Co-founders Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri are extending Reducto from parsing complex files to letting AI agents edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents in a reviewable workspace.
- Ollie sets November 6th shutdown for its privacy-focused family assistant
Ollie CEO Bill Lennon announced the closure on October 30th and set November 6th as the final day, just over nine weeks after TechCrunch disclosed its $7.5M seed round on September 3rd.
- Roblox says daily MCP users grew nearly 5x as AI floods game creation
Roblox reported October 29th that time spent with AI tools tripled among top creators as it prepares a broader rollout of Build.
- OpenAI pitches Private Intelligence for sensitive enterprise data
OpenAI unveiled the package at DevDay on September 29th, pairing available zero-retention safety processing with a private inference preview.
- Cisco gives a 27-year-old EzDubs co-founder unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of its legacy code
Jeetu Patel pulled Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy from five levels down after the EzDubs acquisition and gave him four weeks to prove the 24-month plan.
- PsiQuantum samples an 8x8 optical switch for AI networks, reporting 1.2 dB loss
Co-founded by Jeremy O'Brien, PsiQuantum unveiled the demonstration switch on October 28th and reported typical insertion loss of 1.2 dB in its own lab tests.
- Anthropic reportedly accounts for a third of SpaceX's quarterly revenue
Bloomberg identified Anthropic as SpaceX's unnamed Customer B, which accounted for about a third of SpaceX's third-quarter sales.
- Tesla Robotaxi extends service to 2 a.m. and adds Grok to Model Y
Tesla disclosed an Austin midnight close on October 21st. Its October 30th update adds two hours, plus a rear camera feed, trip sharing and Model Y Grok.