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Top 10 — News
- Measles is surging in the US. Wastewater tracking could help. This week marked a rather unpleasant anniversary: It’s a year since Texas reported a case of measles—the start of a significant outbreak th…
- Poland’s energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware Destructive payload unleashed on 10-year anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine's grid.
- ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk’s xAI is beginning to appear in answers from Ch…
- Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data The FBI went to Microsoft last year with a warrant, asking them to hand over keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops as part…
- OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 Pro solves math problems that stumped every AI model before it OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro solves almost a third of the most difficult math problems in the FrontierMath benchmark, a significant jump over the p…
- ‘Uncanny Valley’: Donald Trump’s Davos Drama, AI Midterms, and ChatGPT’s Last Resort On this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts unpack the news from Davos, where Trump and major AI companies shared the stage at the World E…
- The Project G Stereo Was the Definition of Groovy Dizzy Gillespie was a fan.
- Competing Visions of Ethical AI: A Case Study of OpenAI arXiv:2601.16513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Introduction.
- Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town’s water Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/mount-hood-water-google-21307223.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/…
- ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato…
AI tools & model updates
- ChatGPT fails to spot 92% of fake videos made by OpenAI’s own Sora tool A Newsguard investigation reveals that top chatbots rarely identify fake videos as such.
- Scaling NVFP4 Inference for FLUX.2 on NVIDIA Blackwell Data Center GPUs In 2025, NVIDIA partnered with Black Forest Labs (BFL) to optimize the FLUX.1 text-to-image model series, unlocking FP4 image generation pe…
- modelcontextprotocol/servers: Release 2026.1.14 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.10.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent New from Anthropic today is Claude Cowork , a "research preview" that they describe as "Claude Code for the rest of your work".
- Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-tech…
- Amazon Quick Suite launches expanded size, faster ingestion, and richer data type support for SPICE datasets Amazon Quick Suite SPICE engine is now supporting higher scale, faster ingestion, and broader data types to power advanced analytics and AI…
- ollama/ollama: v0.15.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- vllm-project/vllm: v0.14.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.0-stable
Release update (see link for changelog).
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This week marked a rather unpleasant anniversary: It’s a year since Texas reported a case of measles—the start of a significant outbreak th…
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“I am so happy”: Trump closes deal that hands TikTok US to his allies.
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TikTok users are freaking out over a mention of "immigration status" data collection, but lawyers explain the disclosure is related to stat…
Learn more about Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros., considered the most historic megadeal in Hollywood, as it continues to develop.
How two podcasters turned a Star Trek side project into a full-time career.
Rice University chemists replicated Thomas Edison's seminal experiment and found a surprising byproduct.
While the rash has a clear link to ketones, the underlying mechanism remains elusive.
Dense narrative deduction game tells a compellingly academia-tinged sci-fi tale.
Intel is allocating more of its own production to its money-making server chips.
Community watch groups have a playbook to keep ICE away from subscriber information.
Lawyer calls it "outrageous that the White House would make up stories."
The LA startup said it would ship "millions" of TVs by 2024.
With falling sales and shrinking profits, the recurring revenue will be most welcome.
Another partially reusable Chinese rocket, the Long March 12B, is nearing its first test flight.
Their presence appears to lower the risk of food-borne illnesses from pathogens.
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The world's oldest art has an unintentional story to tell about human exploration.
The FBI went to Microsoft last year with a warrant, asking them to hand over keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops as part…
The nozzle is just the beginning – what company founder Sunny Sethi calls "the muscle on the ground.”
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Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, is building the next generation of foundatio…
Some of the major players in science fiction and pop culture are taking firmer stances against generative AI.
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
We’re about to get our first real look at the results of the recently announced AI partnership between Apple and Google.
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
If your Gmail account doesn’t seem to be working properly today, you’re not alone.
There were times at this week’s meeting of the World Economic Forum when Davos seemed transformed into a high-powered tech conference.
Sparkli said that education systems often fall behind in teaching modern concepts.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its lawsuit against Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by Trump backers Cameron and Tyl…
It’s getting hard to tell which AI labs.
PopWheels realized its battery swapping network could be used for more than food delivery workers who need to charge their e-bikes.
Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Fr…
Apple shipped a record 14 million iPhones in India in 2025 and gained market share.
Yann LeCun's new venture, AMI Labs, has drawn intense attention since the AI scientist left Meta to found it.
The NTSB joins the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in investigating Waymo vehicles illegally passing stopped school buses.
The Department of Justice may be conducting a criminal investigation.
It's not surprising when the guy who's been yelling about the horrors of late-stage capitalism on Instagram for the last five years turns h…
Shortly after federal agents killed Alex Pretti Saturday morning, the Department of Homeland Security began to run with the story that the…
As a retro gaming fan, I was thrilled when Apple opened its App Store to emulators in 2024, but I've yet to find a controller that makes me…
Americans do not like masked secret police.
The Sony LinkBuds Clip are the company's first clip earbuds.
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Steven Garcia, as told to Gaby Del Valle: I was in the middle of a frozen lake when I got the notification from The Minnesota Star Tribune…
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Some Gmail users may have noticed that promotional emails that normally go to their own siloed tab have started flooding their inbox.
OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro solves almost a third of the most difficult math problems in the FrontierMath benchmark, a significant jump over the p…
The story sounds simple: ChatGPT launched, jobs in AI-exposed fields disappeared.
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts unpack the news from Davos, where Trump and major AI companies shared the stage at the World E…
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Anthropic has released a revised version of the foundational document that defines Claude's values and behavior.
WIRED spoke with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, about how the viral coding tool is changing the way Anthropic works.
Meta is stopping access to AI characters for young people worldwide.
Dizzy Gillespie was a fan.
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.
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Google Photos now lets US users create personalized memes from their own photos using generative AI.
About one in ten Japanese manga artists and illustrators have already lost income to generative AI.
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A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail.
Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scal…
Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.
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The web’s best resource for spotting AI writing has ironically become a manual for AI models to hide it.
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WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI’s Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work togeth…
Activists are demanding a way to hold the memory-chip maker accountable to its promises to protect the environment and embrace communities…
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Full list — AI tools & model updates (74)
A Newsguard investigation reveals that top chatbots rarely identify fake videos as such.
In 2025, NVIDIA partnered with Black Forest Labs (BFL) to optimize the FLUX.1 text-to-image model series, unlocking FP4 image generation pe…
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT OpenAI's long-rumored introduction of ads to ChatGPT just became a whole lot mo…
This blog post is part of a series designed to help developers learn NVIDIA CUDA Tile programming for building high-performance GPU kernels…
NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation has become the fastest-adopted NVIDIA gaming technology ever.
Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security This is outstanding news, especially given our de…
NVIDIA cuOpt is a GPU-accelerated optimization engine designed to deliver fast, high-quality solutions for large, complex decision-making p…
New from Anthropic today is Claude Cowork , a "research preview" that they describe as "Claude Code for the rest of your work".
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-tech…
Amazon Quick Suite SPICE engine is now supporting higher scale, faster ingestion, and broader data types to power advanced analytics and AI…
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands the availability of its on-demand analysis experience to four additional Regions - Asia Pacific…
Amazon Connect now provides agent scheduling metrics in data lake, making it easier for you to generate reports and insights from this data.
What if your computer-use agent could learn a new Command Line Interface (CLI)—and operate it safely without ever writing files or free-typ…
AWS Data Exports now enables customers to distinguish between Amazon Bedrock operation types in their cost reports for enhanced cost analys…
After years of stagnation, AI programming tools are causing the number of new iOS apps to explode.
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A new theoretical framework shows that controlling language models and image generators is surprisingly fragile and depends heavily on the…
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Google Deepmind's new AI model D4RT reconstructs dynamic scenes from video in four dimensions, running up to 300 times faster than previous…
Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding , an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large nu…
We've been quiet — announcing our 2026 plans!
Release update (see link for changelog).
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i instances are available in the Europe (London) region.
Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in US West (N.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports custom Chrome browser extensions, enabling automation for complex workflows that standard bro…
Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, anno…
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Claude's new constitution Late last year Richard Weiss found something interesting while poking around with the just-released Claude Opus 4…
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The C++ template library CUB is a go-to for high-performance GPU primitive algorithms, but its traditional "two-phase" API, which separates…
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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides enhanced troubleshooting capabilities for lifecycle scripts, making it easier to identify and resolv…
Today, Amazon Bedrock introduces the expansion of the Reserved service tier designed for workloads requiring predictable performance and gu…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Electricity use of AI coding agents Previous work estimating the energy and water cost of LLMs has generally focused on the cost per prompt…
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports cross-Region subscriptions for comprehensive and flexible data access and governance.
AWS IoT Device Management now offers the managed integrations feature in the Middle East (UAE) region.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Today, Amazon announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7e instances, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO…
Building on our recent launch of customizable tables and pivot tables , Amazon Quick Sight now enables readers to add or remove fields, cha…
Release update (see link for changelog).
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.
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Inside Brex’s $500M+ (ARR) AI-Fueled Comeback
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Today, Amazon Bedrock announces the expansion of the Reserved service tier designed for workloads requiring predictable performance and gua…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options.
D4RT: Unified, efficient 4D reconstruction and tracking up to 300x faster than prior methods.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Today, AWS Deadline Cloud announces integration with Foundry Nuke CopyCat, allowing you to run machine learning training jobs for visual ef…
Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files Claude Cowork defaults to allowing outbound HTTP traffic to only a specific list of domains, to help protec…
Release update (see link for changelog).
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API keys for Amazon Bedrock are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, expanding a feature that simplifies authentication and accelera…
Our latest Veo update generates lively, dynamic clips that feel natural and engaging — and supports vertical video generation.
Amazon Connect Cases now supports AWS CloudFormation, enabling you to model, provision, and manage case resources as infrastructure as code.
Amazon Lex now offers a neural automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for English that delivers improved recognition accuracy for your vo…
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple n…
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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod console now validates service quotas for your AWS account before initiating cluster creation, enabling you to con…