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How AI Helps Recyclers Turn Mixed Waste Into Reusable Material

Vision AI and robotics pick what’s worth recovering out of conveyor belts of used clothing, bottles and mixed recyclables, diverting thousands of tons of materials from landfills.

Show HN: Daily GPU Rental Prices Across AWS, Azure, RunPod and Vast.ai

Ask HN: Why doesn't Ramp AI Index include OpenRouter or other aggregators?

I spend a lot of time looking at these two open data resources, which I'm sure many of you do as well:Open Router Rankings, especially the first raw tokens per week by model (first...

Show HN: A company running in an AI harness

How to Be a Good Farrier: What the Car Teaches Us About AI and Your Job

Claude usage limit reset is a gambler's rush

I have a humble Pro Claude sub for my personal projects, and I use it on Android.So I used up my weekly limit on Monday, and I was going about my day waiting for Thursday to continue.Then I checked...

Could AI's leading men become as powerful as Ford or Rockefeller?

Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub

Yahoo is betting the house on its new AI, from search to all its services

AI proved your code correct. What did it actually prove?

The Four Tiers of AI Intelligence

Show HN: Mimzie, an agent-neutral alternative to the Claude Suite/Claude Cowork

hi HN!I built Mimzie, an agent neutral AI workspace inspired by the Claude Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides) and Cowork.It's a free desktop app that runs ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok in their native...

Exploring AI Contextual Coherence Across 500K+ Words and 1,788 Messages

Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI

Researcher finds 35,000 Grok Build apps wide open to anyone who looked for them.

OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder

OpenAI has not yet said what its plans are for the future of travel. But Sonder founder Francis Davidson is a well-known figure in the travel industry.

OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York’s AI safety law takes effect

New York is preparing to enforce its sweeping AI safety law, requiring major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic to register, disclose safety practices, and report critical incidents or face fines.

All 7 Anthropic founders will each cash out about $250M in IPO

Each of the seven co-founders plans to sell exactly the same number of shares in the IPO, which would bring each of them about $250 million in cash at the midpoint of the price range while leaving...

Oura to acquire AI-native primary care startup Counsel Health for $625M

The deal comes a few weeks after Oura postponed its up to $2.2 billion IPO indefinitely, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market.”

The US is winning the AI race. Jensen Huang could have blown it

As espionage targets go, Jensen Huang is perhaps one of the least surprising on Earth. The Nvidia CEO runs one of the world's most valuable companies, controls the in-demand technology fueling the AI...

PSI is trying to make a business out of AI-driven scientific discovery

PSI used an unreleased Anthropic model to answer a fundamental question about quantum computing that scientists have pursued for nearly two decades.

Gemini Intelligence: New features, on more devices

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Gemini_Intelligence_Signature27.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Gemini Intelligence is rolling out to more devices. See how...

OpenAI rolls out new business profiles, making ChatGPT just a little bit more like Google

OpenAI is looking to make ChatGPT a more robust consumer discovery engine, and a host of new features seek to empower businesses to help it do that.

ChatGPT is getting verified AI ‘Business Agents’

ChatGPT is going to let you chat with verified "Business Agents" that represent a brand to help you with things like comparison shopping. The feature, available first to "eligible" e-commerce and...

The indie game community is in disarray over AI and Big Walk

Some Independent Games Festival (IGF) jurors published a statement yesterday saying they would not vote for games that use generative AI in "any capacity." Soon after, the developer of indie hit Big...

Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks

As participants talk, Claude can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such...

Anthropic has its own AI-powered office suite now

For years, Anthropic has been known for its focus on enterprise and coding tools that attract high-flying corporate clients, inspiring competing frontier labs - like OpenAI, SpaceXSI, and Meta - to...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy: a timeline

The affair could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.

eBay appears to have shut the door on third-party AI agents

eBay appears to have blocked AI agents, including Meta's Muse, from browsing on the platform - the latest speed bump in the AI agent race. A reader tells The Verge that for several weeks he's had his...

NVIDIA Expands Open Source Commitment With OpenShell Donation and New AI Infrastructure

Kubernetes, the open source system that manages how applications run across thousands of AI factories, has become the foundation for AI, and the demands on it are only growing. To help meet them,...

Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon with agent ‘swarm’ feature

Google is rolling out its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, to the general public after releasing it to a select group of "cybersecurity defenders" two weeks ago. Google claims Carbon is its...

Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips

Google's new tensor processing units (TPUs) broaden its chip portfolio to more use cases: confidential model training and more memory capacity.

Meta’s AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS

Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch.

Anthropic targets $1.4 trillion IPO

Anthropic confirmed on Tuesday that its IPO could be one of the biggest ever, even while falling short of previous expectations. Its IPO price is expected to be between $70.00 and $78.00 per share,...

Adobe brings AI agents and new creative tools to Photoshop, Premiere, and Firefly

Adobe is taking on Figma with a new prototype builder tool in Firefly.

Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion

The company could end up being worth a hefty $1.404 trillion if its shares list at the top of the price range, on a fully diluted basis.

We’re bringing Adobe’s creative and productivity tools closer to your everyday Google apps.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Adobe_snippet_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google and Adobe are integrating creative and productivity tools. Edit PDFs...

After challenging Google’s Android with Cyanogen, its co-founder takes aim at Windows for AI era

Kora is set to launch as a free-to-use alternative to Windows, targeting users who rely heavily on AI models and agents.

Spotify’s AI DJ gets new voices, personalities, and an option for less chatter

Spotify Premium users can now customize their AI DJ with new voices with different personalities, or turn off the commentary between songs.

Adobe is going all in on agentic AI

Adobe is committing itself to the notion that chatbots and AI agents could be your next design assistant, or even automate creative workflows and repetitive tasks on your behalf. Some of the tools...

Photoshop, Lightroom, and Premiere are making it easier to remove things

Adobe is expanding its Creative Cloud apps and Firefly AI platform with new capabilities that aim to make design and editing projects faster and less complicated. Some of the announcements from...

This New Linux-Based Desktop Operating System Is Built for AI Nerds

Built by Cyanogen’s cofounder, Kora is a next-gen alternative to Windows and macOS built for power users running local AI models.

Ring, known for its doorbell cameras, launches a home security drone and an enterprise security robot

Amazon-owned Ring is pushing into robotics with the launch of a home security drone and a rolling robot designed to patrol and protect businesses.

Hands-on with Ring’s new AI drone camera for your home

Ring is finally shipping a flying indoor drone camera. For real this time. The Ring Drone Cam will arrive on January 27th, 2027, for $249.99, Ring founder Jamie Siminoff said at a launch event in New...

The Download: Pelosi’s successor targets AI and data centers face power woes

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI —Grace...

Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/social_share_NWQpgus.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare to unify clinical data and...

Tear Down Those Guardrails! Meet the Renegades Freeing Chatbots From Corporate Enslavers

The “abliterators” are flooding the internet with AI models that never say no, making it easier for people to improve their cyberdefenses—or build a bomb.

The AI Safety Debate Has Lost the Plot. We Asked 10 Experts What the Real Nightmares Are

The risk of nuclear catastrophe is real, as is the fallout of the China–US domination game (hi there, spies). But no need to panic about Skynet.

A New AI Tool From Google DeepMind Proved the Signal Protocol Is Secure

DeepMind researchers were able to formally verify that the widely used encryption protocol works as intended. Their stretch goal? Do the same for “all the software of the world.”

Don't Blame The Preferences: Examining The Emergence of Sycophancy in LLM Training

arXiv:2611.10045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI sycophancy, the tendency of large language models (LLMs) to flatter users and affirm their beliefs, can undermine accuracy and contribute to...

Veterans' Mental Health Crisis Severity Annotation: Do LLMs Agree More Than Human Experts?

arXiv:2611.10048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) offer a scalable approach for annotating mental health and crisis-related social media content, but their reliability in...

LoRazor: Trimming Adapter Execution for Efficient Multi-LoRA Serving

arXiv:2611.10049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LoRA offers a parameter-efficient adaptation strategy, supporting multi-user workloads via customized adapters on a shared backbone. However, serving...

AYO: A Safe and Privacy-Preserving Platform for Studying Children's Interaction with LLMs

arXiv:2611.10054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Children and adolescents are increasingly interacting with generative AI and large language models (LLMs), yet little is known about how these...

META-IR: Meta-Introspective Reasoning for Adaptive Safety Alignment in LLM

arXiv:2611.10089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks and harmful-content prompts, particularly under adversarial distribution shifts...

The Infrastructure Divide: Analyzing Community Stance on Data Center Development via Reddit

arXiv:2611.10109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid expansion of AI-driven data center construction has outpaced public engagement: an estimated $64 billion in U.S. data center projects were...

Homeopathic Learning: Diluting poisoned fine-tuning data can strengthen its effect

arXiv:2611.10110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study homeopathic learning, a phenomenon where poisoned training data with little effect on its own can create a hidden backdoor once clean,...

What Is the Value of AI-Involved Art? Evidence From a Juried In-Person Exhibition

arXiv:2611.10150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What is the value of AI-involved art, and to whom does it belong? We begin to answer these questions using data from an in-person, juried AI art...

WorldMind: Test-Time Scaling for Visual Spatial Reasoning through Latent World Simulation

arXiv:2611.10151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have continuous deficiency in spatial reasoning tasks that require \emph{mental spatial transformation}, such as...

DeepResearch RewardBench: Evaluating Reward Models for Deep Research Report

arXiv:2611.10156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Empowered by Large Language Models (LLMs), deep research systems integrate online information into research reports through multi-step web searching...

AutoEMatic: Runtime-Adaptive Mixed-Precision LLM Inference via Automatic Exponent-Mantissa Refinement

arXiv:2611.10165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing LLM post-training quantization techniques determine precision before inference begins, yet the precision a model requires varies dynamically...

Key Institutional Considerations for Designing Effective Independent Verification Organizations

arXiv:2611.10168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Independent verification organizations (IVOs) have emerged as a popular, bipartisan solution for facilitating high-quality independent evaluations of...

AVCORP: Identifying and Resisting Deception via Communication Theory and Theory of Mind

arXiv:2611.10176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Today's LLM-based agents are vulnerable to deception by users and other agents. Defending against deception requires Theory of Mind (ToM) reasoning to...

Generative Active Learning for Label-Efficient Pan-Organ Ultrasound Diagnosis

arXiv:2611.10180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical ultrasound (US) enables real-time, non-invasive diagnosis, yet building US-based AI systems is limited by data scarcity, costly expert...

Ensemble Routing for Prompt-Adaptive Cost-Aware LLM Inference

arXiv:2611.10193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly support Web-based services that must balance response quality and inference cost across heterogeneous...

Jensen Huang’s Troubles Leave the AI Industry Reeling

With a big checkbook and sought-after chips, Nvidia’s CEO had his thumb on the world of AI. An extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy may put all of that at risk.

Pay for Hugging Face Hub with your Google Cloud Account

Pay for Hugging Face Hub with your Google Cloud Account (via Hugging Face Blog)

Decision Models in Hugging Face

Decision Models in Hugging Face (via Hugging Face Blog)

The backlash about data centers might really just be about electricity

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. As voters went to the polls across the US last week, I was in...

Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI

As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a tight congressional race for former Speaker of the House Nancy...

Nemotron-Personas-Finance-Japan: A Synthetic Dataset Capturing Japan's Demographics and Financial Context

Nemotron-Personas-Finance-Japan: A Synthetic Dataset Capturing Japan's Demographics and Financial Context (via Hugging Face Blog)

Practice Makes Precise: At CoRL, NVIDIA and Partners Reveal How Robots Rehearse Delicate Work in Simulation

Simulation, which has long been the proving ground for robots learning to walk, roll and hop, is now helping researchers teach robots tasks that require a finer touch: aligning gears, connecting...

The Download: empty AI climate claims, and an Nvidia investigation

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Opinion: The climate case for AI has not been made —By Mary...

Innovating with AI in the special chemicals industry

As companies look to accelerate innovation with artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and advanced modeling, the primary challenge is connecting new technologies to reliable data, scientific...

Your Experts Have Partners. There's HOPE for Keeping Them Together

Your Experts Have Partners. There's HOPE for Keeping Them Together (via Hugging Face Blog)

Authors Can Defend Against AI Allegations With ‘Paper Trail’ Tools. Is It Enough?

As the publishing industry wrestles with paranoia over the provenance of manuscripts, writers are caught in an impossible bind.

The climate case for AI has not been made

This week, as countries meet in Antalya, Turkey for the United Nations climate conference, one topic likely to dominate the conversation is artificial intelligence. The host has already called on...

NVIDIA Announces New Planned Investments in Korean Startups at the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum

Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and NVIDIA hosted the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum at COEX. Representatives from the Ministry of Science and ICT and NVIDIA met with over 20 Korean...

Korea Advances Physical AI Across Industries With NVIDIA

Tapping into the country’s strengths in manufacturing and engineering, NVIDIA is helping advance Korea’s physical AI ecosystem. The country’s industry leaders are applying accelerated computing, AI...

Korea’s AI Ecosystem Advances and Secures Agentic AI With NVIDIA

As AI agents take on more work, they need capable open models and security that advances alongside them. Hyundai Motor Group is exploring NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints and the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime,...

From Chips to Skills, NVIDIA and Korea Expand Sovereign AI Collaboration

NVIDIA and Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) are expanding their collaboration across the country’s sovereign AI ecosystem, from AI semiconductors and data center infrastructure to talent,...

NVIDIA Dynamo Recipes Bring Korea’s Leading Open Models to Production

NVIDIA is releasing Dynamo-optimized deployment recipes for Korea’s leading open models: A.X K2 from SK Telecom, K-EXAONE 2.0 from LG AI Research, Solar Open 2 from Upstage and Motif-3 from Motif...

I Used NYT Cooking’s New AI-Powered Recipe Modifier, and It’s Actually Pretty Good

The New York Times has added a beta feature to its Cooking app that helps readers swap ingredients or adjust recipes to suit their needs. It mostly hits the mark.

Chainalysis says hackers stole credentials and tokens for all of its customers

Company said a "multifront cyberattack" included AI agents and an on-path data snatch.

How NVIDIA Open Source Tools Are Helping Researchers Build Next-Generation 6G Networks

A year ago, NVIDIA open sourced its Aerial wireless software, joining Sionna and a broader suite of open source tools for accelerating next-generation 6G network development. Together, they give...

ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluation

ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluation (via Hugging Face Blog)

The Download: a humanoid cleans house and Samsung builds for the AI boom

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a...

Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard

Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard (via Hugging Face Blog)

Vera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents

AI agents do more than generate answers. They search for information, query databases, write and test code and take action. Each of those steps relies on a CPU, with agents moving between GPU...

Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents

Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended. Developers are combining frontier AI...

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gemini-omni-1.2_FZLql41.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash brings native 15-second video generation and...

The Wizard of Open Weights: Chris Alexiuk Makes AI Easy With Open Models

Chris Alexiuk has a simple rule about open source AI: If you believe in it, be loud about it. “We should be shouting about this technology from the rooftops,” said Alexiuk, a Toronto-based senior...

More Performance From Every Byte: How Full-Stack Codesign Solves AI’s Memory Challenge

Larger models, longer contexts and agentic applications are increasing GPU memory pressure while supply tightens and prices rise — a trend expected to continue through the near term. NVIDIA works...

‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Gets a Magical NVIDIA DLSS 5 Upgrade on GeForce NOW

Hogwarts Legacy receives an NVIDIA DLSS 5 upgrade with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering today, bringing lifelike lighting and materials to the wizarding world on GeForce NOW. Blizzard Entertainment’s World...

The Download: Texas’s fragile AI boom and energy policy shifts

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout....

A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks.

A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks. (via Hugging Face Blog)

Dharma Field Extractor: Any Document In, Structured Fields in JSON Out

Dharma Field Extractor: Any Document In, Structured Fields in JSON Out (via Hugging Face Blog)

Palette: teaching a small model to build decks in your design language

Palette: teaching a small model to build decks in your design language (via Hugging Face Blog)

AI Is Changing How Semiconductor Fabs Work — and Engineers Are Moving Faster Because of It

Demand for advanced chips is rising. The processes to build them are getting more complex. And the margin for error is shrinking. For engineers, understanding how a process change will behave, how a...

CWE-bench v2: More coverage, quality, and transparency

CWE-bench v2: More coverage, quality, and transparency (via Hugging Face Blog)

Transformers Model Integration Contracts

Transformers Model Integration Contracts (via Hugging Face Blog)