TechCrunch
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationArcee
Focus AreaOpen source LLM development

I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee

Published on: 20 hours ago

Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it's gaining popularity with OpenClaw users.

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Community
Threadr/singularity
Focus AreaCommunity

An actress Milla Jovovich just released a free open-source AI memory system that scored 100% on LongMemEval, beating every paid solution

Published on: 1 day ago

TechCrunch
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationOpenAI
Focus AreaAI economic policy and redistribution

OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day workweek

Published on: 2 days ago

OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.

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Funding
Institution / OrganisationMillTech
Focus AreaAI tools for FX hedging

FX Hedging Platform MillTech Raises Funds to Develop AI Tools

Published on: 10 hours ago

Currency hedging and cash management platform MillTech raised $60 million in a deal with Apax Digital Funds — the latest signal of robust appetite for tools that streamline trading in the $9.5 trillion per day foreign-exchange markets.

Wired
Product Updates
Institution / OrganisationDyson
Focus AreaAI-powered robot vacuum and mop

Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai Robot Vacuum Review (2026)

Published on: 7 hours ago

The Spot+Scrub Ai is Dyson's first robot mop, and it does the job. But the built-in AI didn’t blow me away, and its height works against it.

The Algorithmic Bridge
Thought Leadership
AuthorThe Algorithmic Bridge
Focus AreaThought Leadership

How to Think About AI Like a Long-Term Investor

Published on: 1 day ago

Compound interest rules your life—and everything else

Reddit
Community
Threadr/singularity
Focus AreaCommunity

Anthropic's new model, Claude Mythos, is so powerful that it is not releasing it to the public.

Published on: 23 hours ago

[https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing](https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing)

The Guardian
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationUniversity of Oxford
Focus AreaPredictive healthcare, heart failure risk

Scientists develop AI tool to spot heart failure risk five years before it strikes

Published on: 4 hours ago

Oxford team’s technology picked up danger signs with 86% accuracy in study of 72,000 patients in EnglandOxford scientists have developed a simple AI tool that can predict the risk of heart failure five years before it develops.More than 60 million people worldwide have the condition in which the heart cannot pump blood around the body as well as it should. Spotting cases before they develop into h

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The Guardian
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationThe Conversation
Focus AreaAI-generated misinformation and geopolitical propaganda

AI-generated Lego videos and Trump’s poo-bombing: welcome to the Iran-US slopaganda wars | Mark Alfano and Michał Klincewicz for the Conversation

Published on: 14 hours ago

When it’s hard or impossible to identify trustworthy sources, you can choose to believe whatever you find comforting, invigorating or infuriatingIn early March, a week after the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the White House posted a video of real American attacks mixed with clips from popular movies, television series, video games and anime.Iran and its sympathisers responded to the strikes by

Crunchbase
Funding
Institution / OrganisationVarious Startups
Focus AreaDiverse startup funding rounds

5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Credit Card Backed By Mineral Rights, Flying Ferries, And A Foundation AI Model For Plants

Published on: 1 day ago

In a quarter when nearly two-thirds of global venture capital went to just four companies, it’s easy to lose track of the many other companies getting funding to tackle interesting problems. We spotted five companies in just the past month working on issues from cleaner ferries and trains to foundational AI for the crop industry.

Reddit
Community
Threadr/LocalLLaMA
Focus AreaCommunity

You can now fine-tune Gemma 4 locally 8GB VRAM + Bug Fixes

Published on: 1 day ago

Hey guys, you can now fine-tune Gemma 4 E2B and E4B in our free Unsloth notebooks! You need **8GB VRAM to train Gemma-4-E2B** locally. Unsloth trains Gemma 4 **\~1.5x faster with \~60% less VRAM** than FA2 setups: [https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth) We also

TechCrunch
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationDatabricks
Focus AreaAGI research and development

Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’

Published on: 3 hours ago

Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.

The Guardian
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationOpenAI
Focus AreaAI liability and chatbot responsibility

Family of man killed in shooting at Florida State University to sue ChatGPT and OpenAI

Published on: 6 hours ago

Lawyers for Robert Morales’s family said chatbot ‘may have advised the shooter’ on how to carry out shootingThe family of a man who was killed at Florida State University last year plans to sue ChatGPT and its parent organization, OpenAI, for allegedly telling the accused gunman how to carry out the mass shooting.Lawyers for the family of Robert Morales wrote in a statement they had learned the sh

Bloomberg
Product Updates
Institution / OrganisationAnthropic
Focus AreaAdvanced AI model access program

Anthropic Lets Apple, Amazon Test More Powerful Mythos Model

Published on: 1 day ago

Anthropic PBC is letting tech firms access a more powerful, unreleased artificial intelligence model to help prepare for possible cyberattacks that might result from the company making the advanced AI system more widely available.

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Financial Times
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationUK Government
Focus AreaAI model testing and standards

UK considers testing AI models used by banks

Published on: 1 day ago

Starling Bank executive proposed independent assessment to ensure minimum standards

Dwarkesh Patel
Thought Leadership
AuthorDwarkesh Patel
Focus AreaThought Leadership

Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses

Published on: 1 day ago

The true story of Einstein, Newton, and Darwin

arXiv
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationApple
Focus AreaEpistemic reasoning in LLMs

Pramana: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Epistemic Reasoning through Navya-Nyaya

Published on: 14 hours ago

arXiv:2604.04937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models produce fluent text but struggle with systematic reasoning, often hallucinating confident but unfounded claims. When Apple researchers added irrelevant context to mathematical problems, LLM performance degraded by 65% Apple Machine Learning Research, exposing brittle pattern-matching beneath apparent reasoning. This epistemic g

OpenAI
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationOpenAI
Focus AreaChild safety and responsible AI design

Introducing the Child Safety Blueprint

Published on: 13 hours ago

Discover OpenAI’s Child Safety Blueprint—a roadmap for building AI responsibly with safeguards, age-appropriate design, and collaboration to protect and empower young people online.

Reddit
Community
Threadr/LocalLLaMA
Focus AreaCommunity

kepler-452b. GGUF when?

Published on: 4 hours ago

arXiv
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationarXiv
Focus AreaMetacognitive judgment sequencing

Operational Noncommutativity in Sequential Metacognitive Judgments

Published on: 14 hours ago

arXiv:2604.04938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metacognition, understood as the monitoring and regulation of one's own cognitive processes, is inherently sequential: an agent evaluates an internal state, updates it, and may then re-evaluate under modified criteria. Order effects in cognition are well documented, yet it remains unclear whether such effects reflect classical state changes or revea

Reddit
Community
Threadr/OpenAI
Focus AreaCommunity

Joanne Jang , has left OpenAI

Published on: 13 hours ago

arXiv
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationarXiv
Focus AreaInformation object feature identification

Proximity Measure of Information Object Features for Solving the Problem of Their Identification in Information Systems

Published on: 14 hours ago

arXiv:2604.04939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The paper considers a new quantitative-qualitative proximity measure for the features of information objects, where data enters a common information resource from several sources independently. The goal is to determine the possibility of their relation to the same physical object (observation object). The proposed measure accounts for the possibilit

Reddit
Community
Threadr/OpenAI
Focus AreaCommunity

Sam Altman Tries, Fails to Distract From Damning 'New Yorker' Exposé

Published on: 19 hours ago

Hugging Face
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationALTK
Focus AreaOn-the-job learning for AI agents

ALTK‑Evolve: On‑the‑Job Learning for AI Agents

Published on: 3 hours ago

Reddit
Community
Threadr/StableDiffusion
Focus AreaCommunity

Last week in Generative Image & Video

Published on: 13 hours ago

I curate a weekly multimodal AI roundup, here are the open-source image & video highlights from the last week: * **GEMS** \- Closed-loop system for spatial logic and text rendering in image generation. Outperforms Nano Banana 2 on GenEval2. [GitHub](https://github.com/lcqysl/GEMS) | [Paper](htt

Axios
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationAxios
Focus AreaAI Breakthroughs

Oil prices plunge following U.S.-Iran ceasefire

Published on: 16 hours ago

Crude oil prices dropped sharply Tuesday evening, falling well under $100 per barrel after President Trump said the U.S. agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran that Pakistan had proposed.Why it matters: It's the biggest one-day free fall in oil prices since the 1991 Gulf War.Driving the news: The global benchmark Brent crude futures price fell about 13% to about $95 a barrel. But it's still far

Reddit
Community
Threadr/StableDiffusion
Focus AreaCommunity

Anima preview3 was released

Published on: 22 hours ago

For those who has been following Anima, a new preview version was released around 2 hours ago. Huggingface: [https://huggingface.co/circlestone-labs/Anima](https://huggingface.co/circlestone-labs/Anima) Civitai: [https://civitai.com/models/2458426/anima-official?modelVersionId=2836417](https://ci

MIT Tech Review
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationMustafa Suleyman
Focus AreaAI scaling and continued development

Mustafa Suleyman: AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why

Published on: 4 hours ago

We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catastrophically fails when confronting AI and the core exponential trends at its heart. From the time I began…

Financial Times
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationN/A
Focus AreaAI impact on human meaning and purpose

The dystopian fantasy of uselessness

Published on: 14 hours ago

Fears that AI will strip our lives of meaning are based on three fallacies

Financial Times
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationN/A
Focus AreaAI ethics and philosophy

Lessons for the AI revolutionaries from Francis Bacon

Published on: 1 day ago

His project of mastering nature contains a warning for the excesses of our technological age

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