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Reddit plans to discontinue RSS feeds on 13 November and end public API access in March 2027, according to Decrypt. The changes could leave developers and researchers without familiar ways to access public Reddit data, while the company directs them towards its Developer Platform.
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DeepSeek has released preview desktop apps for DeepSeek Harness, its open-source agent framework, with installers for Apple silicon Macs and 64-bit Windows PCs. The practical shift is that users can now try the harness through a desktop interface, with tools and plugin management built in, rather than assembling…
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Fine-tuning improved one narrow tool-use task in SCAI’s five-week experiment, but made a strong model worse at coding. The lab’s practical conclusion is refreshingly unspectacular: measure the problem, try cheaper fixes, and fine-tune only when you can show they have run out of road.
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Toshiba plans to double its production capacity for hard disk drives used in AI data centres by FY2027, from its 2025 level. The company is also targeting a 30% share of storage capacity, up from about 10%, according to Nikkei Asia.
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AI could give more people the means to pursue ideas, but a flood of machine-generated discoveries may leave the world short of the institutions, experiments and infrastructure needed to act on them. That is the central tension in an essay by Hemanth Asirvatham and Elliott Mokski, who argue…
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SoftBank has taken over data-centre investment group DigitalBridge for $4bn, the Financial Times reports, with its chief executive describing the business as SoftBank’s future “third-party infrastructure arm”. The reported deal offers a concrete clue to how Masayoshi Son wants to build the infrastructure behind his AI ambitions: not…
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Amazon is reportedly exploring an $8bn way to finance its AI chips: sell thousands of Nvidia processors to investors, then lease them back for its data centres. The proposal would shift some of the cost of expensive hardware away from Amazon’s balance sheet, if it goes ahead.
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DeepSeek and Huawei have launched an open-source programming toolkit aimed at Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, offering developers an alternative software stack to Nvidia’s CUDA. The toolkit includes TileLang plus compute and communication libraries, according to Mobile World Live’s 30 September report.
Mistral AI Watch
Mistral says it is opening a Munich hub for Physics AI and Industrial AI, and plans to build one gigawatt of European compute capacity by 2030. The proposal links industrial AI research to a much larger European infrastructure ambition, though Mistral has not given a location, cost or…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft’s ThinkingBox benchmark grades AI agents on the state they leave behind, then repeats each task 20 times to see whether success holds up. Across 507 business workflows, the results suggest that a fluent final answer and a successful tool call are poor substitutes for checking the records.
Higgsfield Watch
Higgsfield has rebuilt AI Influencer around a 19-setting character builder and added video creation through Genjutsu in the same studio. The practical shift is that creators can configure a recurring character, generate portrait and full-body images, then move that character into video or Cinema Studio.
Google DeepMind Watch
Designer Ross Lovegrove used Google DeepMind’s Gemini in an experiment that generated hundreds of variations on a chair, but the chosen design proved heavy and not entirely ergonomic when made physically. The project is a useful glimpse of AI as a creative amplifier, not a button marked “finished…
Meta AI Watch
Meta’s Muse is instructed to build and update detailed profiles of the people in a user’s life, according to WIRED’s account of files extracted from the assistant. That makes the privacy question more specific than simply how much personal data an AI assistant can remember: it is also…
