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Today: Trump plans to roll back tariffs on metal and aluminium goods · Taylor Swift asks US government to block 'Swift Home' trademark · AI: OpenAI has yet another new coding model and this time it'….
Top 10 — News
- Trump plans to roll back tariffs on metal and aluminium goods Latest softening of levies comes amid persistent voter anxiety about affordability in the US
- Bankers push to avoid US regulator taking charge of British supervisor Michael Hsu is among the frontrunners to succeed Sam Woods at BoE Prudential Regulation Authority
- Taylor Swift asks US government to block ‘Swift Home’ trademark Her team argued that a bedding firm's designs showed similarities to her trademarked signature.
- AI coding platform’s flaws allow BBC reporter to be hacked Vibe-coding tools - which let people without coding skills create apps using AI - are exploding in popularity.
- When Amazon badly needed a ride, Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket delivered This was the first launch of the Ariane 64, the most powerful rocket in European space history.
- Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars If a passenger accidentally leaves a Waymo door open, the vehicle can get stuck in place.
- Dissecting Subjectivity and the “Ground Truth” Illusion in Data Annotation arXiv:2602.11318v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In machine learning, "ground truth" refers to the assumed correct labels used to train an…
- How to check in continually over 4,000 days on an online learning platform? An empirical experience and a practical solution arXiv:2602.11249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The check-in service is often provided as an incentive system by online learning platforms…
- New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf] Article URL: https://nickbostrom.com/optimal.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999117 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
- The Wonder of Modern Drywall
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-wonder-of-modern-drywall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998606 Poi…
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI has yet another new coding model and this time it’s really fast OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is a smaller coding model that runs on Cerebras chips and pushes over 1,000 tokens per second.
- Skills in OpenAI API Skills in OpenAI API OpenAI's adoption of Skills continues to gain ground.
- Amazon Bedrock increases default quotas for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 model in AWS GovCloud (US) Amazon Bedrock has increased the default quotas for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) to 5…
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.0-patch4 Release update (see link for changelog).
- vllm-project/vllm: v0.16.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- open-webui/open-webui: v0.8.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- ollama/ollama: v0.16.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- BerriAI/litellm: litellm_dev-test-v0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark OpenAI announced a partnership with Cerebras on January 14th .
Full list — News (50)
Latest softening of levies comes amid persistent voter anxiety about affordability in the US
Michael Hsu is among the frontrunners to succeed Sam Woods at BoE Prudential Regulation Authority
City-state says tougher times loom after a turbulent year of geopolitical strife and US tariff threats
Also in today’s newsletter: Schroders’ UK Treasury call and US metals tariff rollback
UK prime minister expected to push the idea of enhanced co-operation at the Munich Security Conference
The asset manager was among the last holdouts in the City of London to remain under UK ownership
Asset manager is ending its listed life with a whimper rather than a bang
Majority want election this year and would vote for María Corina Machado
A perfect storm of policy and regulatory headwinds has slowed new construction to a trickle
Brussels’ sustainable fuel rules would leave European carriers at a ‘significant competitive disadvantage’ warns CEO
YouGov figures point to challenges ahead for populist party’s leader as he seeks to win backing from more voters
A fight over stablecoin rules is really about whether deposits at major financial institutions will disappear
The communist regime is more isolated than ever and fuel supplies are dwindling.
Reza Pahlavi, son of the former monarch, has spent years seeking to build support
And how the rest of the world should react
Angus Taylor pledges more conservative agenda after Liberals ditch first female leader
Country holds first poll after 2024 youth-led revolution that ousted longtime leader Sheikh Hasina
Stocks from insurance to property and wealth management punished after new tech launches
Big Four accounting firm says it has decided not to automate some junior work so staff can develop judgment
Europe risks undermining its own competitiveness drive through curbs on US groups, tech company says
Her team argued that a bedding firm's designs showed similarities to her trademarked signature.
Vibe-coding tools - which let people without coding skills create apps using AI - are exploding in popularity.
The Advantage Travel Partnerships says rain plus the political environment is creating a "powerful psychological need for escape".
It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.
This was the first launch of the Ariane 64, the most powerful rocket in European space history.
If a passenger accidentally leaves a Waymo door open, the vehicle can get stuck in place.
arXiv:2602.11318v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In machine learning, "ground truth" refers to the assumed correct labels used to train an…
arXiv:2602.11249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The check-in service is often provided as an incentive system by online learning platforms…
arXiv:2602.11353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has engrossed the mainstream culture, expanded A…
arXiv:2602.11368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper formalizes religious epistemology through the mathematics of Variational Autoenc…
arXiv:2602.11412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems-autonomous entities capable of independent planning and execution-reshap…
arXiv:2602.11707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As geopolitical, organizational, and technological fragmentation deepens, resilient digital…
arXiv:2602.12018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform healthcare, education, governan…
arXiv:2602.11158v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we compare methodological approaches for comparing student and staff perce…
arXiv:2602.11286v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: xAI's large language model, Grok, is called by millions of people each week on the social…
arXiv:2602.11944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When building AI systems for decision support, one often encounters the phenomenon of pre…
arXiv:2602.11962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The spread of election misinformation and harmful political content conveys misleading na…
arXiv:2602.12133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study quantifies gender and skin-tone bias in two widely deployed commercial image g…
arXiv:2602.12249v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite speech recognition systems achieving low word error rates on standard benchmarks,…
arXiv:2602.12260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decentralized protocols claim immutable, rule-based execution, yet many embed emergency m…
arXiv:2506.00058v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rise of large language models (LLMs) has created a new job role: the Prompt Enginee…
arXiv:2508.03771v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), becomes inc…
arXiv:2601.22871v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As foundation models (FMs) approach human-level fluency, distinguishing synthetic from…
arXiv:2511.11696v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This position paper envisions a next-generation elderly monitoring system that mo…
arXiv:2512.15926v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative models are often deployed to make decisions on behalf of users, such a…
arXiv:2602.02613v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid emergence of autonomous large language model agents has given rise to p…
Article URL: https://nickbostrom.com/optimal.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999117 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-wonder-of-modern-drywall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998606 Poi…
Article URL: https://skipthe.tips/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997519 Points: 178 # Comments: 97
Article URL: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/commit/3dca5e45d5ad05460b93410087833cbaa624754e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is a smaller coding model that runs on Cerebras chips and pushes over 1,000 tokens per second.
Skills in OpenAI API OpenAI's adoption of Skills continues to gain ground.
Claude Code was made available to the general public in May 2025.
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Amazon Bedrock has increased the default quotas for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) to 5…
AWS Data Transfer Terminal is now available in six additional locations in Seattle and Phoenix (US), London (UK), Paris (France), Sydney (A…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark OpenAI announced a partnership with Cerebras on January 14th .
Release update (see link for changelog).
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI released GLM-5, a 744-billion-parameter open-source model that rivals Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 on coding and…
Gemini 3 Deep Think New from Google.
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, incl…
The Pentagon is pressing leading AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI to make their AI tools available on classified m…
Our most specialized reasoning mode is now updated to solve modern science, research and engineering challenges.
AWS is announcing the general availability of new Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, general purpose high-frequency high-network instances powered…
Rather than offering a revolutionary new approach to gig work, RentAHuman is filled with bots that just want me to be another cog in the AI…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Today, AWS Payment Cryptography has become one of the first cloud-based payment cryptography services to obtain approval from Groupement de…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Alibaba's Qwen team has introduced Qwen-Image-2.0, a compact image model that can create and edit images.
GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering This is a huge new MIT-licensed model: 754B parameters and 1.51TB on Hugging Face twice the…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Mi…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the Europe (Paris), Canada (Central),…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports customer-provided proxy configuration, enabling customers to route browser sessions through t…
Release update (see link for changelog).