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Top 10 — News
- US considers tying Nvidia and AMD AI chip exports to foreign investment pledges Draft rule would require countries to invest in America in exchange for advanced semiconductors
- TfL hack in 2024 affected around 10 million people, BBC can reveal TfL insists it has "kept customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action".
- OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge-work capability Updates come amid user blowback over the company's Pentagon deal.
- Anthropic to challenge DOD’s supply chain label in court Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he plans to challenge the Department of Defense's designation of the AI firm as a supply chain risk.
- The Pentagon formally labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk After weeks of failed negotiations, public ultimatums, and lawsuit threats, the Defense Department has formally labeled Anthropic a "supply…
- OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohib…
- Where things stand with the Department of War Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269263 Points:…
- The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now Article URL: https://charm.land/blog/v2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268662 Points: 80 # Comments: 20
- A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests Article URL: https://406.fail/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267947 Points: 81 # Comments: 21
- US states sue Trump administration over new tariffs
Democratic attorneys-general say president exceeded authority after Supreme Court struck down original levies
AI tools & model updates
- Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Excel and new financial app integrations, powered by GPT-5.4 to accelerate modeling, research, and analysis i…
- OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro combining coding, reasoning, and computer use in one model GPT-5.4 is OpenAI's most capable model yet, combining coding, computer operation, and reasoning in a single package for the first time.
- openai/openai-node: v6.27.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.16.3 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.26.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Introducing GPT‑5.4 Introducing GPT‑5.4 Two new API models: gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-pro , also available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI.
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.14-stable.gpt-5.4_patch Release update (see link for changelog).
- NVIDIA Blackwell Sets STAC-AI Record for LLM Inference in Finance Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the financial trading landscape by enabling sophisticated analysis of vast amounts of unst…
- microsoft/onnxruntime: ONNX Runtime v1.24.3 Release update (see link for changelog).
- huggingface/diffusers: Diffusers 0.37.0: Modular Diffusers, New image and video pipelines, multiple core library improvements, and more 🔥
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Draft rule would require countries to invest in America in exchange for advanced semiconductors
Democratic attorneys-general say president exceeded authority after Supreme Court struck down original levies
Also in this newsletter: Nepal votes for a new leader
Trump says Tehran wants to ‘make a deal’, but Iran’s foreign minister says the country not asking for a ceasefire
Also in today’s newsletter: China cuts growth target, and Europe-to-Asia air travel squeezed
Drone attack on Azerbaijan puts further pressure on western airlines
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says the country is not asking for a ceasefire
Israel orders area of hundreds of thousands of people cleared as war rages with militant group Hizbollah
Donald Trump has not fulfilled a vow to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that was drained by Joe Biden
President says the US would not accept Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba as supreme leader
Labour suspends Joani Reid, the MP whose husband David Taylor has been arrested in the counterterrorism probe
Three leading Middle East economies consider options as US-Israeli campaign against Tehran continues
US lacks firepower to provide $350bn in coverage needed to revive Strait of Hormuz transits, JPMorgan says
Is there anything really new about them?
Delay in deploying HMS Dragon to Cyprus has triggered criticism of UK’s defence capability
TfL insists it has "kept customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action".
Updates come amid user blowback over the company's Pentagon deal.
The supply chain risk designation of the artificial intelligence firm is a first for a US company.
Some 14% of small High Street traders have gone card-only in the last year, a survey suggests.
With fuel and gas prices having risen in recent days, here are some ways the conflict could affect households.
Chocolates, bars, gummies and drinks promise to help you sleep, but is the science behind them sound?
Meta accused of "concealing the facts" about smart glass users' privacy.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he plans to challenge the Department of Defense's designation of the AI firm as a supply chain risk.
Hackers allegedly broke into the FBI’s networks, according to a report by CNN.
Italian authorities are making progress in their investigation into a wide-ranging spyware scandal in Italy involving Paragon spyware.
The Department of Defense has officially labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, making the AI firm the first American company with the labe…
In an alleged drafted proposal, the U.S.
After weeks of failed negotiations, public ultimatums, and lawsuit threats, the Defense Department has formally labeled Anthropic a "supply…
Project Helix is set to open the closed-console ecosystem, but the details will matter.
The startling claim came amid a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Instead of relying on expensive management consultants, the startup uses AI voice agents to conduct interviews with customers of the compan…
The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely CEO Roy Lee shared last summer was a lie, its founder and CEO Roy Lee admitted on Th…
AWS is launching Amazon Connect Health, an AI agent platform that will help with patient scheduling, documentation, and patient verificatio…
With the updated Fire TV app, users can browse and discover content directly from their phone, manage their watchlist on the go, and play t…
The Chinese automaker's new Blade Battery 2.0 is capable of charging at up to 1.5 megawatts, dramatically slashing the time it takes to fil…
If you were having issues shopping on Amazon or loading your playlists on Amazon Music on Thursday, you weren't alone.
While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday, many great iPad deals are available outside of those tim…
In 1979 - nearly 50 years ago - Lego jazzed up its very first spaceships with an iconic sloped computer brick that was just painted plastic.
A package of child safety bills is headed to the House floor following an hours-long session that left Democrats and Republicans divided.
Roku users who struggle to figure out what they want to watch might have an answer in the form of "Roklue," a new game coming to the stream…
Pokémon Pokopia features, of all things, a 3D printer.
Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohib…
In this episode, our hosts unpack the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, particularly as the AI industry has been entrenching itself with…
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269263 Points:…
Article URL: https://charm.land/blog/v2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268662 Points: 80 # Comments: 20
Article URL: https://406.fail/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267947 Points: 81 # Comments: 21
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OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Excel and new financial app integrations, powered by GPT-5.4 to accelerate modeling, research, and analysis i…
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GPT-5.4 is OpenAI's most capable model yet, combining coding, computer operation, and reasoning in a single package for the first time.
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).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Introducing GPT‑5.4 Two new API models: gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-pro , also available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the financial trading landscape by enabling sophisticated analysis of vast amounts of unst…
In this post, we dive into one of the most critical workloads in modern AI: Flash Attention, where you’ll learn: How to implement Flash Att…
A computation is considered deterministic if multiple runs with the same input data produce the same bitwise result.
Release update (see link for changelog).
ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright com…
Release update (see link for changelog).
TL;DR: On Hopper and Blackwell GPUs, FlexAttention now has a FlashAttention-4 backend.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis to help you quickly identify root causes and get recommended solutions for…
Over the past few months it's become clear that coding agents are extraordinarily good at building a weird version of a "clean room" implem…
Release update (see link for changelog).
OpenAI introduces CoT-Control and finds reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, reinforcing monitorability as an AI s…
Today, AWS announces the Lambda durable functions Kiro power, bringing Lambda durable function development expertise to agentic AI developm…
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Release update (see link for changelog).