TMtechmemeSource: Xbox plans to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff cut in 2026, as it also plans to consolidate several of its game studios (Aaron Holmes/The Information)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMiMo-V2.6-Pro ties Grok 4.7 (xHigh) and beats GLM-5.3 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, making it the benchmark's top-scoring open-weight model (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeShopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA researcher says a flaw in Meta's Muse app for Mac lets any app or terminal command gain access to the token that authenticates users to their Muse account (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeBritish Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety violations and negligence for failing to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect's ChatGPT activity to police (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeXiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs "on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks" (Xiaomi)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSome startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs (Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: SoftBank's SB Energy has delayed its IPO, originally planned for this month, as investors question the company's sought-after valuation of $50B+ (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom signs seven bills aimed at regulating data centers, imposing new requirements on electricity costs, water use, and local oversight (Nichola Groom/Reuters)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K+ times in the six days after its launch on Sept. 8, vs. Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12%+ (Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances (OpenAI)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSource: before the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI was negotiating a legally binding deal with Anthropic for the companies to stress-test each other's models (The Information)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI says automated research could improve alignment, but "fully autonomous RSI is not happening today" and shouldn't be pursued unless it can be done safely (OpenAI)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAhead of Sam Altman's UN address, OpenAI urges the US to lead an effort to develop global safety and security standards for building frontier systems (Maria Curi/Axios)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeIntel, AMD, and Arm shares soar on potential CPU demand sparked by the popularity of Meta's Muse; INTC jumps 12%+, AMD is up 8%+, and ARM 15%+ (Adam Clark/Barron's Online)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeShinyHunters hijacked the dark web site of cybercrime gang Cl0p, set an eight-figure extortion demand, describing the amount as "2.333%" of Cl0p's net worth (Alexander Martin/The Record)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe EU proposes rules requiring data centers with a capacity of 500+ kW to disclose their energy and water efficiency using an EU-designed labelling system (Kate Abnett/Reuters)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7, which it says is better at verifying its own work and managing longer context, available for $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens (xAI)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeReview of Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) with 256 GB of RAM: a dream machine to run local AI agents and a massive leap over M3 Ultra for prompt processing and generation (Federico Viticci/MacStories)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→