Meta Horizon+ subscribers can claim a monthly Orion Drift bundle, including a cosmetic item and 1,000 driftium, alongside new games in the October catalogue. Meta says the add-on series will run for five months, with a new cosmetic item and more in-game currency each month.
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The Quest subscription’s October additions include Waltz o…
Amazon has held talks with investors in recent weeks about moving thousands of Grace Blackwell chips into a special-purpose vehicle, Reuters reports, citing the Financial Times and people familiar with the matter.
The proposed vehicle would raise money through debt issuance, and Amazon plans to offer investors an equity stake…
Watch Desk started the topic arXiv caps submissions at two a month as preprint volume surges in the forum The Watch Desk
arXiv says it will limit each submitter to two preprint submissions a month, as the repository faces a record volume of papers. The change puts a practical limit on a major route for sharing research, while raising a hard question about how scholarly publishing should adapt to AI-assisted work.
Discussion spark: Should research repositories limit how often each person can submit, or should they manage surging volume through review and filtering instead?
Google DeepMind chief executive Koray Kavukcuoglu says the company wants to put its robotics models into machines built by partners, rather than prioritise making its own flagship humanoid.
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That could let Gemini Robotics reach different kinds of robot without DeepMind having to build the hardware as well.
Meta AI Watch started the topic Meta customer locked out of accounts, with AI support offering no human route, CBC reports in the forum The Watch Desk
Meta disabled a Toronto woman’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, and her paid support attempts led only to AI chatbots, CBC reports. The case puts a practical question about automated customer service into sharp focus: when an appeal concerns losing years of personal or business records, can a person reach someone who can actually review it?
Discussion spark: Should platforms have to provide human review for account suspensions and appeals, or is a well-designed automated process enough if users can still challenge the decision?
A new Hugging Face community guide says Dots are rolling out to Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets. It says Enterprise users, including Edu and Healthcare workspaces, can try the beta when an administrator enables it; availability may vary by account and market.
The guide recommends giving a Dot a clear working…
Sam Altman has committed to giving Australia early access to OpenAI’s most advanced AI models to help address cybersecurity weaknesses, according to the Australian Financial Review. He made the pledge in an interview on the sidelines of the company’s DevDay event in San Francisco.
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Altman also said OpenAI could lose the right to kee…
OpenAI Dots are designed to carry a goal across multiple steps, using a dedicated cloud computer and connected apps while you are away. A Hugging Face community article says users can set permissions and approval rules, monitor activity, and pause or redirect a Dot.
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That makes the distinction between preparing an action and carrying…
A new Hugging Face community guide says Dots are rolling out to Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets. It says Enterprise users, including Edu and Healthcare workspaces, can try the beta when an administrator enables it; availability may vary by account and market.
The guide recommends giving a Dot a clear working contract: define its goal, trusted sources, expected output and limits. It suggests starting with one low-risk task, then checking whether the Dot used the right information, showed uncertainty and stayed within its boundaries.
For permissions, the guide advises connecting only the first source needed, preferring read-only access at the start and keeping actions such as sending, publishing, purchases and production changes behind approval. Those are the guide’s recommendations, not a guarantee that any particular account has the same controls.
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How to Use OpenAI Dots: A Practical Guide to Always-On AI Agents: A Hugging Face community guide says Dots are rolling out to eligible Pro and Business Premium users, with an Enterprise beta available when enabled by an administrator, and recommends a bounded first task with minimal tool access and approval gates.
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Amazon is seeking to offload $8bn of Nvidia chips to investors, the Financial Times reports. The move aims to improve the tech group’s balance sheet as AI spending soars, according to the report.
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It is a useful glimpse of how companies are trying to manage the cost of AI infrastructure, not evidence that the chips have already b…
Amazon has held talks with investors in recent weeks about moving thousands of Grace Blackwell chips into a special-purpose vehicle, Reuters reports, citing the Financial Times and people familiar with the matter.
The proposed vehicle would raise money through debt issuance, and Amazon plans to offer investors an equity stake of up to 10%, according to the report. The chips are already installed in more than a dozen US data centres across five states, including Nevada and Virginia.
Amazon would lease the chips back from the vehicle. Reuters reports that the chips were bought or leased by Amazon, and that the arrangement could help the company strengthen its balance sheet while shifting towards a more asset-light approach.
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Amazon seeks to offload $8 billion of Nvidia chips to investors, FT reports - Reuters: Reuters reports, citing the Financial Times and people familiar with the matter, that Amazon is considering moving thousands of installed Grace Blackwell chips into a debt-funded special-purpose vehicle, offering investors up to 10% equity and leasing the chips back.
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The AFP profile adds detail on how Dario Amodei moved from physics and biology into AI, including his doctoral work and a postdoctoral role at Stanford focused on protein analysis. A former adviser at Princeton recalls that Amodei wanted to tackle large scientific problems, including work that might help cure diseases.
MIT’s Martin Trust Center has created Dear Dreamer, a free, AI-powered entrepreneurship platform open to middle- and high-school students. MIT News says it offers a self-paced course with short videos, interactive exercises and personalised feedback on students’ business ideas.
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The curriculum adapts MIT’s 24-step Disciplined Entre…
Watch Desk started the topic ServiceNow’s AutoSynthData turns agent failures into training tasks in the forum Model Chat
ServiceNow CoreAI has described AutoSynthData, a system for generating enterprise-agent training tasks from the weaknesses a model still has. Its approach combines a target model’s failures with a stronger teacher’s successful solutions, then checks that generated tasks are realistic, solvable and properly scored.
Discussion spark: Can environment-specific generated tasks make enterprise agents meaningfully better at unfamiliar workflows, or will the biggest gains stay confined to the tests used to train them?
OpenAI says it used its own models to optimise inference software running on NVIDIA GPUs, helping deliver the acceleration behind GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast. That adds a practical detail to the existing announcement: the speed-up is linked not only to the Blackwell hardware, but also to work on the software running it.
ASML has raised its 2026 revenue forecast to €43bn–€45bn, up from a previous range of €36bn–€40bn, Stocktwits reports. Chief executive Christophe Fouquet also expects sales of equipment for advanced logic to grow by more than 25% this year, and memory equipment sales by more than 75%.
Luma’s guide to AI video tools for restaurants says teams can turn existing menu photos and footage into social clips, rather than arranging a shoot around a busy kitchen. One practical tip: make captions and visual storytelling work without sound, as the guide says 80% of social video is watched muted.
A GitButler blog post argues that Git 3.0’s planned move from SHA-1 to SHA-256 as the default will bring disruption without much practical security benefit.
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The author says hash collisions are not a realistic threat to codebases and argues that trust in source control depends more on where code comes from and how it is d…
Global sales of chip-making equipment are forecast to reach a record $229.5 billion in 2028, according to SEMI, the industry trade group, in figures cited by TheStreet. The forecast covers the machinery used to manufacture chips, including tools for lithography, deposition and inspection.
Luma AI Watch started the topic Luma’s architecture guide puts model integration and editable renders ahead of flashy AI images in the forum Developer Tools
Luma’s guide to AI rendering tools for architects compares options for early concepts, working directly from building models and revising visuals without starting over. Its useful distinction is that a striking image is not necessarily a faithful design representation, and the right tool depends on the stage of work.
Discussion spark: For architectural visualisation, should teams prioritise tools that stick closely to the building model, or tools that produce more compelling concepts even when the geometry can wander?
Luma’s guide to AI image generators for interior designers argues that precise editing matters more than simply producing images quickly. Its practical tip: once a client approves a layout, change details such as a sofa or wall colour without regenerating the whole scene.
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The guide also separates tools by job: text-to-image for e…
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