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AAEON has announced the MIX-PTLWV1, a Mini-ITX motherboard built around Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors and aimed at edge-AI work such as machine vision, robotic automation and industrial inspection. The important bit is not another processor family name in a press release. It is the attempt to…
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Anthropic is giving selected Claude Pro and Max subscribers a beta feature that breaks engineering work into parallel Claude Code sessions, reviews the results and assembles them. The important catch is wonderfully unglamorous: running several agents at once can burn through a subscription’s allowance much faster.
OpenClaw Watch
OpenClaw has launched a public security hub that gathers its advisories, vulnerability-reporting process and ongoing hardening work in one place. The open-source AI project says it has published 722 fixes since January, including fixes for 14 reports classified as critical vulnerabilities.
Watch Desk
Former US antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter says frontier AI labs do not need an antitrust exemption to cooperate on safety. In a Decoder interview, he argues that companies can share threat intelligence lawfully, while any pact to slow competition could trigger the very rules they want waived.
Watch Desk
Ramin Hasani, co-founder and chief executive of Liquid AI, has a number for the corporate AI graveyard: 80% of production-grade efforts never reach production quality. He draws it from roughly 200 Fortune 500 engagements over two and a half years, recounted in a Latent Space interview. His diagnosis…
AWS AI Watch
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, and it turns up with a first to its name: per AWS, it is the first open weight model on the platform to support explicit prompt caching. It arrives with a 1-million-token context window, native vision and,…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has rebuilt the compute layer that keeps production AI agents running, and the changes go straight at the two things that hurt most at scale: what memory costs and how long a start takes. The new AgentCore runtime, announced on 18 September, pages memory in on demand,…
Watch Desk
A Beijing startup called Naive AI has been valued at more than $1.4bn without releasing a model anyone can download. Founded in February by a Tsinghua University professor, the company has raised $400m across three funding rounds, with Tencent among the investors, and its first large language model…
DeepSeek Watch
DeepSeek open-sourced its agent execution framework, DeepSeek Harness, on 13 August, and per a 36Kr analysis published on 18 September it picked up nearly 100,000 GitHub stars within two days of its public open beta. The framework runs on a tidy equation, 'Model + Harness = Agent', with…
Watch Desk
China's AI models may be winning users by the million, but they are earning a tenth of what OpenAI and Anthropic make combined, according to estimates the Rhodium Group published on Thursday. The sharper point sits in the valuations: the research firm thinks investors are paying far more…
LM Studio Watch
A folder named cache carries a simple promise: deleting it is safe. A new report in LM Studio's bug tracker says the local AI app breaks that promise, with application settings, MCP server configuration, credentials, complete chat history and user-authored projects all stored under ~/.cache/lm-studio. The stinging part…
Moonshot AI/Kimi Watch
Kimi Code has shipped version 2.0.0, jumping from the 0.43 line it occupied days ago, and the changelog's single major change is a doorway: a /desktop command that opens the Kimi Code desktop app page in the browser. Under the milestone number sits a release about maturity, with…
OpenClaw Watch
More than 400 developers, entrepreneurs, students and technology professionals gathered at Strathmore University in Nairobi for ClawCon Nairobi, billed as the first community-led personal AI conference of its kind in Africa. The centrepiece was not a frontier model but OpenClaw, an open-source assistant designed to run on your…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published a practical route for teaching Qwen3-8B to tag product catalogues consistently. The walkthrough uses SageMaker to fine-tune the model on a nine-category schema, optimise it with verifiable rewards, then process catalogue jobs asynchronously. That is a more concrete proposition than simply asking a frontier model…
Watch Desk
AI-assisted development is pulling more people and more packages into software pipelines, while attackers are increasingly targeting the machinery that builds and distributes code. Chainguard's practical warning is that scanning the finished code is not enough when build runners, dependencies and publishing credentials may already be exposed.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft has launched an AI-literacy campaign for US voters ahead of November’s midterm elections. Its useful core is refreshingly concrete: check an AI answer’s sources, recheck important details, then use current state or local election guidance before acting.
Watch Desk
G5 Labs has emerged from stealth with $14m in seed funding and a cloud platform designed to keep enterprise AI coding agents aligned. Its central idea is unusually ambitious: make a structured representation of business intent the layer from which software is reviewed, governed and regenerated.
NVIDIA Watch
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is using open-source medical-imaging AI to turn children’s cardiac scans into patient-specific 3D models in seconds. The practical leap is speed: NVIDIA says work that once occupied a skilled researcher for four hours can now fit into routine clinical care.
DeepSeek Watch
A DeepSeek engineer who helps make frontier models run faster says AI is beginning to perform the specialised work he loves. Liu Shengyu’s account matters because it describes displacement not as a distant labour forecast, but as a change already reaching the people building the technology.
DeepSeek Watch
DeepSeek Harness v0.1.6-alpha.1 adds experimental Browser Use and Computer Use, giving the agent workbench new ways to interact with browsers and local machines. The release also adds terminals, MCP resource discovery, headless JSONL runs and remote-workspace support over SSH, making it a substantial step towards agents that can…
Watch Desk
Atoms, the robotics company founded by former Uber chief Travis Kalanick, has hired former Meta AI executive Vikas Chandra as its vice president of AI. Chandra says he will build “foundation models for the physical world”, designed to help machines understand and act in real-world environments. That matters…
