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Nvidia has unveiled a prototype of its next-generation co-packaged optics (CPO) technology, Optics-on-Interposer (OOI), at SEMICON West 2026.
AI infrastructure capacity and cost are becoming core constraints for labs and enterprises scaling real workloads.
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A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
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It looks like the long-rumored touchscreen MacBook might actually get announced next week, and after using the Lenovo Yoga 9n for our testing of Nvidia's RTX Spark platform, it got me thinking: this is a lot of what I want from a touchscreen MacBook. Like the Apple silicon in modern MacBook Pros, RTX Spark is […]
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OpenAI’s efforts to undercut Anthropic on price are producing some results. For instance, in May, Anthropic models powered 57% of the coding work of hundreds of engineers at Rippling, an HR software firm, while OpenAI models handled 16% of that work.
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After GPT-6 Astra launched in early September 2026, researchers quickly put it through Physical AI and robotics benchmarks. In some tests, it outperformed specialized models trained on large amounts of robot data.
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A Moroccan company walked up to one of the most watched executives in tech this week and showed him a box. On October 22, 2026, ABA Technology presented Fusion AI In-a-Box to Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of NVIDIA, during GTC Berlin 2026. The pitch is simple on paper: run your AI models, agents and […]
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Schneider Electric said it is launching next-generation prefabricated power modules and power skids. The new products are based on a reference design jointly developed for Nvidia’s GB300 NVL72 AI server system.
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Intel’s new GPU D-series puts 160 GB of LPDDR5X on a single PCIe card, while AMD’s Instinct MI355X carries 288 GB of HBM3E running at 8 TB/s. That contrast defines the AI inference GPU debate this month. Intel dropped the Crescent Island code name on October 12 and began pitching a card that partners can […]
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A May 2026 Morse code prompt injection drained $200,000 in DRB tokens from xAI's Bankrbot, exposing the gap between Musk's promise to "make you whole" and a liability cap reportedly set at $100.
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Xbox began testing a free, ad-supported route into cloud gaming on October 21, 2026, and the same Insider test also sells Cloud Playtime packs that start at $3.99 for 10 hours. NVIDIA still lists Free among its GeForce NOW plan names, and Amazon still gives Prime members a rotating Luna catalog at no extra cost. […]
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One answer to what's driving GPU rental prices: Token demand on OpenRouter is up ~27x since last November, from ~6T/week to ~165T/week Open-weight models now handle ~72% of those tokens, up from ~28% last November Charts of the Week:
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@valsaiThe long-awaited Kimi K3.1 is here, and it is #1 on our Vals Index amongst open-weight models (#8 overall)
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@yuchenj_uwHeard from a neolab friend: “Even if we fail to train the best model, we locked in GPU capacity early. H100/B200/B300 rental prices have since gone up 2–3x. We can just resell the compute and print money.” OK, so that’s the business model.
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@simpsokaGot a cheap embroidery machine off amazon for $300 where the biggest complaint is the mandatory $12/mo app that you’re forced to use. Had ChatGPT create its own app that communicates with the machine. Generative art patches incoming!
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@jarredsumnerBeen working on Bun AOT in a Claude Code build compiled with Bun AOT for the last 4 hrs or so Activity Monitor says 267 MB of RAM, with 67 active subagents, 66 shells, remote control + a big session transcript
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@reach_vbQoL update for Codex devs: You can now switch reasoning levels mid-conversation without losing your cache! Use lower reasoning for the quick stuff and dial it up when you need it, without having to rebuild the context. and some nice CLI updates: - Reusable...
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Model release Kimi K3.1 Pro
Moonshot describes Kimi K3.1 Pro as an open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, 2.8T total and 104B active parameters, and multimodal capabilities.
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Quota reset Codex
@thsottiaux stated that a reset took place alongside Day 18 updates covering Decisions API and Codex.
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Dev tool Artificial Analysis
@artificialanlys launched Coding Agent Index v2.0, replacing DeepSWE with FrontierCode v1.1 and revising SWE-Atlas-QnA grading with Claude Opus 5.5 leading.
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Model release Perplexity Decision Model
@aravsrinivas states that the Perplexity Decision Model can now run fully locally on Mac as an open-weight, compact model.
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Dev tool Claude
Access to the full Claude API is now available from Google Cloud accounts, including Claude Managed Agents, code execution, Opus 5.5 fast mode, and new features as they launch.
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Dev tool Claude Code
Anthropic donated Agent Skills, originally developed as an experiment in Claude Code, to the Agentic AI Foundation alongside MCP.
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AI-linked equities are quiet; the tracked basket is moving in a narrow band while Super Micro Computer -2.31%, Advanced Micro Devices +1.74%, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing +1.49% show the largest moves.
| Ticker | Company | Move |
|---|---|---|
| SMCI | Super Micro Computer | -2.31% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | +1.74% |
| TSM | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing | +1.49% |
| GOOGL | Alphabet. | -1.24% |