Elon Musk insists banks working on SpaceX IPO must buy Grok subscriptions
Some banks "agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot," NYT reports.
OpenAI’s AGI boss is taking a leave of absence
OpenAI is undergoing another round of C-suite changes, according to an internal memo viewed by The Verge. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment - who was until recently the company's CEO of applications - says in the memo that she will be stepping away on medical leave "for the next several we
Netflix just dropped their first public model on Hugging Face: VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion
Hugging Face netflix/void-model: [https://huggingface.co/netflix/void-model](https://huggingface.co/netflix/void-model) Project page - GitHub: [https://github.com/Netflix/void-model](https://github.com/Netflix/void-model) Demo: [https://huggingface.co/spaces/sam-motamed/VOID](https://huggingface.c
We gave 12 LLMs a startup to run for a year. GLM-5 nearly matched Claude Opus 4.6 at 11× lower cost.
We built **YC-Bench**, a benchmark where an LLM plays CEO of a simulated startup over a full year (\~hundreds of turns). It manages employees, picks contracts, handles payroll, and survives a market where \~35% of clients secretly inflate work requirements after you accept their task. Feedback is de
OpenAI takes on another "side quest," buys tech-focused talk show TBPN
OpenAI says program will remain in Los Angeles and will be editorially independent.
Claude Code and Cowork now let Anthropic's AI take control of your Mac or Windows desktop
Anthropic has announced a new feature for its AI assistant Claude: the ability to directly operate a user's computer, handling tasks people would normally do themselves at their desk. The article Claude Code and Cowork now let Anthropic's AI take control of your Mac or Windows desktop appeared first
Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports
Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.
Why OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Bought the TBPN Podcast Amid Crusade Against ‘Side Quests’
OpenAI has purchased TBPN, an online talk show that often interviews AI executives and other tech leaders. The show goes live every weekday at 2PM PT, often for a three-hour duration, counting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as executives from Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and Andreessen Horowitz, among
OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show
OpenAI acquires TBPN to accelerate global conversations around AI and support independent media, expanding dialogue with builders, businesses, and the broader tech community.
Anthropic to limit Using third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions
Meta lays off hundreds as tech giant pushes forward with AI investment
Built a zero allocation, header only C++ Qwen tokenizer that is nearly 20x faster than openai Tiktoken
I'm into HPC, and C++ static, zero allocation and zero dependancy software. I was studying BPE tokenizers, how do they work, so decided to build that project. I hardcoded qwen tokenizer for LLMs developers. I really know that whole Tokenization phase in llm inference is worth less than 2% of whole
A $20/month user costs OpenAI $65 in compute. AI video is a money furnace
A broken auto-live poller, and what perceived urgency does to Claude Code
[P] GPU friendly lossless 12-bit BF16 format with 0.03% escape rate and 1 integer ADD decode works for AMD & NVIDIA
Hi everyone, I am from Australia : ) I just released a new research prototype It’s a **lossless BF16 compression format** that stores weights in **12 bits** by replacing the 8-bit exponent with a **4-bit group code**. For **99.97% of weights**, decoding is just **one integer ADD**. Byte-aligned
Anthropic cuts off third-party tools like OpenClaw for Claude subscribers, citing unsustainable demand
Anthropic is cutting off Claude usage through external tools like OpenClaw for subscription customers. The decision exposes a core problem in the AI industry: flat-rate pricing and agent-driven nonstop usage don't mix. The article Anthropic cuts off third-party tools like OpenClaw for Claude subscri
Some meatbags are alright
Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac
GPT-IMAGE-2 Likely on LMarena
under the names: maskingtape-alpha, gaffertape-alpha and packingtape-alpha. From my testing it's absolutely insane and far better than nano banana. Go test for yourself It also claims to be OpenAI when asked EDIT - all 3 models have been removed from lmarena. This could indicate a release soon.