AI — Page 10
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Feyn Labs launches MultiMatte to keep the object you name and erase the rest
Shreyash Nigam and Hafedh Hichri fine-tuned 2.27% of Meta's SAM 3, preserving text prompts while replacing binary masks with alpha mattes.
- Summation opens its AI analyst to self-serve teams at $60 per user
Opendoor co-founder Ian Wong is betting recurring, traceable analysis can move from enterprise deployments to everyday teams.
- Anthropic says Moonshot routed Kimi user requests through Claude
Anthropic alleges Moonshot sent nearly 300,000 Kimi customer requests primarily to Claude Opus through 5,380 fraudulent accounts.
- Skild AI hits a $100M run rate 10 months into selling robot brains
Deepak Pathak's robotics software maker reached the figure after raising $1.4B at a valuation above $14B in January.
- Embedder plugs its firmware agent into SEGGER's hardware debugging stack
Embedder's YC-backed agent can flash, inspect and debug firmware through SEGGER probes, moving AI coding onto the physical bench.
- Energy Vault secures 275 MW of engines for AI campuses facing grid delays
Rolls-Royce MTU equipment is due from late 2027 through early 2028 as Robert Piconi expands Energy Vault into financed power infrastructure.
- Tamar AI launches Glanze to turn AI previews into serialized worlds
Founders Jessie Qin and Klaus He are extending TapNow from creation software into distribution, starting with 40 titles available for preview.
- DOJ probes whether Nvidia's $20B Groq license avoided antitrust review
The December 2025 pact moved founder Jonathan Ross and key staff to Nvidia while leaving Groq independent, a structure regulators are now examining.
- Edge0 open-sources a 35B model runtime that streams weights from storage
Samuel Zeng says Edge0 runs on an iPhone in 1-2.5 GB, though the released MLX code currently supports Apple Silicon Macs.
- Court pushes Reddit's fight to inspect Anthropic's AI records into October
The tentative ruling moves the protective-order hearing to October 1st, after two late-September motions to compel and a case conference.
- Mistral's 40,000-line Fortran migration kept humans firmly in the loop
Reservoir engineers approved the target architecture; a human operator unblocked stuck agents and reviewed pull requests until they merged.
- Kai Schiller publishes Hugging Face community guide to limiting AI agents
The German-language explainer treats agents as bounded workflows built from models, tools, memory and human approval, with smolagents illustrating the multi-step architecture.
- Hugo Vergnes trained a 3.8B model for a reported $998
The independent little-lm project processed 65.3B tokens and scored 0.384 on CORE after an earlier six-day failure.
- A tennis vision model tracks shot speed and body position from iPhone video
Montreal builder AA used Roboflow's agent tooling to label and fine-tune the model, while the coaching layer remains unfinished.
- Anthropic builds threat intelligence operation that treats activism as a security risk
A vendor tracked a protest around an executive, while new roles call for OSINT investigations and ties to police.
- Qwen opens a 2.4T model to self-hosting, with 95B active parameters
The Alibaba Cloud model activates 95B parameters per token, supports adjustable reasoning depth and offers a self-hosted alternative to OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Pro.
- Anthropic researcher quits, says AI race is 'gambling with our lives'
Coxon says Anthropic is more responsible than OpenAI but cannot safely police itself while competing to build self-improving systems.
- Astra turns a MacBook into a sonar controller after a few prompts
Emanuel Perez's app uses a 20 kHz tone, the laptop microphone and Doppler shifts to translate hand movements into scrolling.
- DeepSeek plans V4.1 Flash for September 10th and will route Pro traffic to it
The temporary backend swap will give Pro API users the new model at Flash rates while DeepSeek prepares V4.1 Pro.
- X’s new terms put you on the hook for its AI agents
The October 9th update assigns users responsibility for autonomous actions and extends dispute protections to SpaceXAI, Cursor and other SpaceX affiliates.
- Perplexity launches a 190M-document retrieval test and keeps the answers private
Q2D-Web uses 69,721 agent-written queries from production traffic and accepts open-weight models for a public leaderboard.
- OpenAI brings GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 reasoning to ChatGPT Voice
Users can choose a model and reasoning effort, while OpenAI retires Voice's separate Instant, Medium, and High intelligence settings.
- WorldSculpt splits crowded 3D scenes into hundreds of editable meshes
WorldSculpt reconstructs grounded, posed multi-view imagery, requiring camera poses, instance masks and coarse 3D boxes rather than raw phone video.
- Radical Numerics post-trains Omnii for personalized mRNA cancer-vaccine design
The Evo founders say one genome model can rank neoantigens and write an mRNA cassette; Omnii's evidence remains computational.