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OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
Capital and consolidation are reshaping which teams control important pieces of the AI stack.
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Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
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AT&T's smart home security system now integrates with Gemini for Home. The company says its Connected Life system is the "first" home security product to integrate with Google Home Premium, enabling a bunch of Gemini-powered features that can summarize home events, search your video history, and more.
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Data center developers are poised to face a more restrictive building environment after voters across the country voted in candidates who favor moratoriums and ballot measures that put more obstacles on their expansion, delivering a stinging blow to a central pillar of the AI industry.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spent election night defending his position on PC RAM purchases. He changed his name on X to "Ram Altman" in response to another user's comment, saying, "i actually do want the world to have tons of memory and people to put as much as they want in their computers, and it […]
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Sequoia Capital, the venture capital firm that was an early investor in Google and YouTube and wrote the first check to Nvidia, is shutting down its London office, the company said on Wednesday. In a social media post, Sequoia announced a number of other changes it would be making in order to “...
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Microsoft said last week that it spent about $5 billion less on capital expenditures in the third quarter than it had previously projected because data center capacity it was planning to rent wasn’t ready on time. Microsoft didn’t name the “third party” behind those delays, but one of them is...
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Lumentum, the optical networking component maker that Marvell Technology said on Monday it would buy, was swept up by Wednesday’s election-driven sell-off of stocks that have benefited most from the AI data center boom.
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OpenAI on Wednesday said it was buying Pierre Computer Company, a three-year-old startup that builds software tools to help developers manage and review code. OpenAI’s coding agent Codex is already using Pierre’s open-source developer tools, including Code Storage, a service that allows...
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Election Day’s blue wave is set to crash into the data center industry. In 12 states, the winning or leading candidate for governor has called for a pause on data center development, including Alaska, Georgia, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Wisconsin.
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Stocks of neoclouds CoreWeave and Nebius both dropped on Wednesday morning, even as most tech stocks rose, a sign that investors interpreted Tuesday’s votes in favor of anti-data center candidates as particularly bad for newer cloud firms. In contrast, established cloud firms, Amazon, Microsoft...
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Releasing Delta League: edit LLM weights for benchmarking and glory! Join at deltaleague(.)ai Earlier this week, the idea of editing weights directly with an LLM got a lot of attention — but it was shunted by limitations in the demonstrated approach. Delta...
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@arenaWith this release, @OpenAI remains the #1 lab in both arenas and holds all top 5 Text-to-Image spots!
GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst and Flare by @OpenAI are here, running almost 2x faster than GPT Image 2.5. In the Text-to-Image Arena, Sunburst (Medium) is #2 with 1409 pts, and Flare (Medium) #4 with 1384 pts! By category, Sunburst landed #1 in Cartoon, Anime &...
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OpenAITwo new image models for developers: GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and Sunburst. Flare generates images in as little as six seconds. Sunburst brings higher-quality generation and greater consistency across edits. Image markup and SVG exports give you more ways to refine and use what you create.
OpenAIGIFS! With ChatGPT Images 2.6, turn a prompt or image into an animated GIF. Adjust the speed, edit individual frames, and share it on repeat. https://t.co/i4hsLoapx3
OpenAIImages, upgraded—introducing ChatGPT Images 2.6. Now with GIFs and reference images. Plus, two new models are coming to the API with 50% faster image generation. https://t.co/kcuOhTipYR
@lyraxanaGPT 6.2 Astra & 6.2 Sol have been deployed on Google Cloud
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OpenAIThe full run cost $1,213,430 in API credits—about $1,279 per distinct local privilege escalation vulnerability. For context, applying historical Pwn2Own and TyphoonPWN bounty rates gives a hypothetical value of $18.9M–$66.3M. This demonstrates the relative efficacy of using AI models for securing software—defenders should proactively analyze software to make cyber attacks cost-prohibitive.
@kunchenguidMy open source projects collectively crossed 30k+ stars on GitHub, going from almost zero just a few months ago! 🎉 reflecting on the journey, here are some learnings about growing and maintaining open source projects: 1. make videos sharing your OSS...
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@anthropicaiWe’re sharing how our biology research team worked with Claude to map the first 3D structure of a vault particle from bacterial life. Vault particles are a longstanding mystery. They are barrel-shaped objects, among the largest protein structures found in...
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@cognitionIntroducing SWE-2 Flash, our new fast & efficient coding model. On leading evals, it outperforms all American open-weight models, even ones 3x larger. To balance transparency and cyber risks, we are building a program to securely share the weights with...
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@claudedevsBackground subagents in Claude Code now use less of your usage limit. A running subagent updates its status line every 30 seconds, and each update used to re-read its whole conversation. Now Haiku 5.5 writes it from short notes instead, so each update...
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@nousresearchPlugins, connectors, and skills for Hermes Agent are now unified in a single marketplace so you can easily browse and extend your Hermes experience in a few clicks. The new Hermes Marketplace has everything your agent needs:
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@lydiahallieWe recently added /storage to the desktop app! You can see how much disk space Claude is using on your computer and clear out inactive tasks and unused worktrees.
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@botGrok Bot can now make phone calls.
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@unslothaiWe’re releasing new Qwen3.8-Flash-Next GGUFs with 15% higher accuracy. Unsloth Dynamic V3.1 outperforms others by >15% on Terminal Bench, DeepSWE & more benchmarks (256K context). Run on 32GB+ RAM setups. GGUF: Blog:
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GoogleVoice Remixing for Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS is now live in @GoogleAIStudio and the Gemini API. Start with a preset from our library of 2,000+ voices or a custom-designed voice, and use prompts to fine-tune timbre, pitch, pace, and accent, like "add a subtle Southern U.S. accent" or "make it sound like a fire-breathing dragon." 🐉
@googleaistudioThe computer use tool in the Gemini API is now generally available no breaking changes from preview, just production-ready stability for your browser, mobile, and desktop agents docs here:
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@kimi_moonshotReleasing the model weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro: … We'll keep advancing open intelligence.
Releasing the model weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro: Hugging Face.co/moonshotai/Kim … We'll keep advancing open intelligence.
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@liquidaiAdding vision to a language model is more than one extra modality. With large images or long video, the vision encoder can use more compute than the language model itself, so efficient models need a different design. Our VLM team, including @rshubert98,...
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@ivanfioravantiThis is a dream I had since I bought M5 Mac 128GB! Prefill Accelerator (64K prompt, M3 Ultra 512GB + M5 Max 128GB) - DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 1,060 -> 3,123 tok/s (+195%) - Qwen3.8 Flash-Next: 1,309 -> 3,666 tok/s (+180%) - GLM-5.3 Flash: 540 -> 1,388 tok/s...
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@mistralaiCan Mistral Large 4 find a critical vulnerability, prove it and fix it? We tested it on a recent Django CVE. 133 agents map the code, hunt for flaws, test attack scenarios and confirm the bug. Then Le Chonk patches it. Triage, repro, patch. Shown at 90x speed.
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Model release SWE-2 Flash
Cognition introduced SWE-2 Flash, described as a fast and efficient coding model, noting eval performance and plans for a secure sharing program.
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Quota reset Claude Code
@claudedevs: Background subagents in Claude Code now use less of your usage limit. A running subagent updates its status line every 30 seconds, and each update used to re-read its whole conversation. Now Haiku 5.5 writes it from short notes instead, so
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Dev tool Hermes Agent
Plugins, connectors, and skills for Hermes Agent are now unified in the Hermes Marketplace to browse and extend agent capabilities.
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Model release Kimi K3.1 Pro
Model weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro have been released on Hugging Face.
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Dev tool Antigravity
Updates to the Antigravity CLI (agy) add tool calling and file reading to /btw for mid-turn questions, a --settings flag to pass configuration overrides on launch, and built-in agy acp support.
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Model release Hunyuan
@tencenthunyuan: 👋Hy4 is here, new with vision. Firmly among the leading open models. More productive everywhere: finance, frontend, game, officework, research… Built responsibly, with cyber/biosecurity in mind. Try it out and let us know! 🔗：https://t.co/Zz
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Software platforms and tech firms are expanding developer environments and workspace agents, reflected in Meta acquiring Conductor, Microsoft integrating Dataverse with coding agents, and OpenAI acquiring Pierre Computer Company.
AI infrastructure and compute -7.7Data center expansion and chip manufacturing face infrastructure constraints, including extended equipment lead times, grid power demands, optical connectivity requirements, and regional restrictions on computing resources.
AI-linked equities are quiet; the tracked basket is moving in a narrow band while Microsoft +6.68%, Amazon.com +6.12%, Super Micro Computer -5.70% show the largest moves.
| Ticker | Company | Move |
|---|---|---|
| MSFT | Microsoft | +6.68% |
| AMZN | Amazon.com | +6.12% |
| SMCI | Super Micro Computer | -5.70% |
| ARM | Arm Holdings plc | -5.28% |