AI — Page 25
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Scaleway plans an AMD-powered AI supercomputer in Sweden, Reuters reports
The report points to a new step in Scaleway's Swedish expansion, where the Paris cloud provider already has a separate partnership with Tele2.
- hillclimb gives AI agents 48 hours to improve real machine-learning tasks
The new benchmark scores agents on 15 research-derived problems, using private verifiers to judge whether their changes hold up on data they cannot see.
- Anthropic tests how AI models could spread across cheap home devices
Anthropic's October 12th study ran a model across 15 Android TV boxes and separately tested a simplified replication chain on emulated nodes. Its end-of-year estimate for smaller models is explicitly rough.
- UpCodes says its AI reviewed 1,300 plan sets and flagged 180,000 potential issues
CEO Scott Reynolds is pushing UpCodes from building-code research into drawing review, with Dallas-Fort Worth Airport among the reported adopters.
- SimpleClosure says 47% of its deals now include code or data sales
An October 13th report found the shutdown-service company had handled more than 150 Asset Hub deals. One founder received about $25,000 for code, while a separate workspace-data sale was still pending.
- Nature Will announces 50B-parameter model for robot-hand control
Tsinghua assistant professor Ning Ding is betting that a model trained on human hand-use video can transfer skills to robot hands without controlling a whole humanoid.
- Plume launches Console to put AI agents inside ISP operations
Plume's workspace connects network data to support, retention and revenue workflows, with staff able to review agent guidance before acting.
- DXC puts LangChain's agent runtime inside mission-critical IT operations
The partnership adds LangSmith for agent testing and monitoring as DXC says its OASIS platform is scaling toward 125 customer environments.
- GPT-6 Astra helped jailbreak a Kindle and build an offline photo frame
Software engineer Niraj Rajgor adapted an existing Kindle exploit, then used an AI agent to build and debug a ten-photo slideshow over Wi-Fi.
- Anthropic details new defenses against AI model distillation attacks
The measures include account detection, reasoning safeguards and tighter access controls, after Anthropic said rival labs used millions of Claude exchanges to train models.
- HCLTech plans dedicated Anthropic unit to deploy Claude in enterprise systems
HCLTech's plan combines Claude consulting, HCLSoftware integrations and its AI Force platform; HCLTech and Anthropic disclosed no deal value or customer commitments.
- d-Matrix turns its inference chips into 1,024-XPU data-center clusters
d-Matrix founder Sid Sheth says Squadron is shipping to priority customers; a company-reported demo paired Corsair accelerators with GPUs.
- Meta ships Muse Wonder as its rebuilt AI lab faces a frontier test
Mark Zuckerberg's team says the model can match leading systems on coding and professional tasks; Meta's own benchmarks still need outside validation.
- Immorta Bio completes preclinical studies for AI-designed senolytic peptide
Immorta Bio anticipates initial human evaluation before year-end 2026, but SenoMune-0257 has no established human safety or efficacy record and no trial start is confirmed.
- HackerRank apologizes for the LeetCode grind as it sells AI-era interviews
CEO Vivek Ravisankar's billboard campaign puts HackerRank's role in puzzle-heavy hiring beside Chakra, its AI-assisted work-sample interviewer.
- Ted Haley releases Pensieve, a local search tool for coding agents
The free Mac app indexes code, documents and agent sessions. Its product-page benchmark reports 43% fewer tool calls on file-finding tasks than grep, Glob and Read, though the test is small and company-run.
- Rubber Duck pitches conversation as a way to turn thoughts into notes
Its website describes a conversation-to-note workflow and offers an account sign-up, but does not show a finished session or establish when the product became available.
- Sakana AI trains a model on its agents' collective research work
Sakana AI's MASS method uses one model to organize research agents, judge their results and learn from selected team runs, with gains on research benchmarks and weaker transfer elsewhere.
- Amazon talks to buy Decart for $7B as chip software draws a premium
The reported price would top Decart's $4 billion valuation in May, when it raised $300 million led by Radical Ventures.
- HyperBrowseComp leaves 58% of multilingual search questions unsolved
Alham Fikri Aji's 423-question benchmark spans 13 languages and tests whether agents can connect evidence across web pages, video, maps and documents.
- USC researchers publish an Alzheimer's model built for missing scans
MEMOIR-VLM combines MRI, diffusion imaging and clinical scores, but its strongest diagnostic signal came from cognitive tests.
- AI agents reconstruct 99% of MW2 functions, 83% byte-for-byte
Reverse engineer Maurice Heumann says the private project took an estimated 600 billion to 700 billion tokens and used a machine-checkable test to catch plausible but incorrect code.
- HeyGen ships Avatar V to keep AI clones recognizable across longer videos
The model uses a 15-second recording to recreate a person's appearance and movement; HeyGen's claims of leading realism rely partly on its own testing.
- Microsoft makes its agent containment layer generally available on Windows
Microsoft Execution Containers applies developer-defined file and network rules at runtime, with Windows 365 support also listed as generally available.