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WIRED's author used Codex to build a multi-agent system to manage a Premier League fantasy football squad, with agents assigned to read news, analyze match results, run models, and critique one another—but the team's scores in recent weeks still haven't exceeded the average level. Tests by Haifeng Xu of the University of Chicago showed that GPT-5 had the best forecasting performance, followed by Grok 4, Claude Sonnet, Gemini, and Llama, but AI still often lags behind superforecasters. Increasing

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WIRED reports that generative AI is pushing formal verification toward commercialization. &Truth has raised $70 million and launched publicly, while Harmonic has raised a cumulative $295 million, and its math AI agent Aristotle supports verification of C code and Verilog hardware designs. Stanford researcher Chuyue Sun used AI tools to complete an engineering project in less than half a day at a cost of under $500, whereas three experts working by hand took five months to complete the same work.

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AnySpeechRecognizer supports engine switching on top of the Apple SpeechAnalyzer API, with options including NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 (supporting 25 European languages), Moondream post-trained Parakeet Ultra, the English version Parakeet Unified, and Alibaba Qwen3-ASR (0.6B/1.7B, covering 30 languages and 22 Chinese dialects). These models have been converted to Core ML and published on the Hugging Face Hub; Parakeet takes about 20–40 seconds to transcribe 1 hour of audio, while Qwen3-ASR is

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In an article, Richard Abbey and John Authers pointed out that Alphabet's revenue fell short of analyst expectations, and its after-hours stock price at one point plunged 10%, reflecting heightened market concerns over its continued investment of hundreds of billions of dollars in building AI infrastructure. Microsoft received positive feedback because its cloud business revenue beat expectations and Azure sales grew 48%; its capital expenditure was $45.2 billion, below the market expectation of

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In his long-form article, Ed Zitron analyzes Anthropic's S-1, arguing that the document only discloses Q2 2026 data, and that the quarter's $974 million in profit came from two months of SpaceX compute discounts, while Q3 revenue, cash balance, and payment schedule were not disclosed. He tallies Anthropic's non-cancelable compute commitments with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, SpaceX, Broadcom, and others at approximately $269.4 billion, with an additional $125 billion to $150 billion in TPU purchas

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Madhulika Srikumar and Claire Leibowicz of Partnership on AI write that current agent frameworks cannot reliably generate the key observability records needed for safe deployment. Together with colleagues from academia, civil society, and industry, the authors studied the four most widely used agent frameworks and found that signals such as persistent Agent IDs and human approval records are missing, making it difficult to determine which agent did what and whether it exceeded its authority. The

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After a three-week preview, Mistral AI has released the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face. This multimodal model was trained on 3,800 Nvidia accelerators and has a parameter count of one trillion, and it is currently still difficult to run on a gaming PC or a single GPU. Mistral says it leads GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 on the cybersecurity benchmark CyberGym-E2E, and is on par with GLM-5.3 on the agentic coding benchmark Terminal Bench 4.0, but there is no independent evaluation yet; preview p

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WeRide's subsidiary JingShuo Technology has completed a pre-A financing round of tens of millions of USD, with investors including Jiayu Capital, HKSTP (Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks), and Sirius Capital. JingShuo Technology centers on its data-model integrated platform WorldEngine and its self-developed world model GENESIS-Robotics, and already has 100+ customers and ecosystem partners, with orders in hand amounting to several billion yuan and annual revenue growth exceeding 100%. This

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AWS has released the Ray Train DLC image ray:train-ml-cuda-v1.1, which comes pre-integrated with Ray 2.58.0, PyTorch 2.13.0, CUDA 13.0.2, NCCL 2.29.7, and EFA along with the AWS OFI NCCL plugin, enabling distributed training on EKS without the need to build images yourself. The example uses PyTorch FSDP to fine-tune Qwen2.5-1.5B on 8 NVIDIA L4 GPUs across two g6.12xlarge instances, with cross-node communication going directly over EFA. The image is publicly hosted on Amazon ECR Public, so nodes

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Check Point launches Firewall-as-a-Subscription, turning network firewalls into a cloud subscription service. Customers no longer need to purchase hardware devices upfront, but must commit to at least 36 months. The service is based on its latest firewall platform R82.20 and includes an agentic console for managing firewall devices and services, Force hardware firewalls, SandBlast's AI threat protection, and instant security updates. Check Point says the move is intended to address emerging thre

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Anthropic launches the Claude intelligent reporting tool, available to users of the paid Claude Enterprise plan and can be enabled on the organization settings page. Administrators can select teams, a time range of up to 28 days, and the Claude products to include; the report generates charts showing usage, output content, and corresponding costs, and conversation details can be filtered by cost, product, date, and output type. Enterprises can generate up to 10 reports per month for free, with a

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Ant inclusionAI has released the ZwZ model family (4/7/8B) accompanying its ICML 2026 paper, achieving SOTA on multimodal perception benchmarks among open-source models, while requiring only a single forward inference pass and no tool calls at inference time. The method is Region-to-Image Distillation (R2I), which distills high-quality VQA supervision generated from enlarged local regions back into the full image, with 37K training samples. It also introduces ZoomBench, containing 845 VQA items

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Amazon's net sales in Q3 2026 grew 12% year-over-year to $201.94 billion, slightly below expectations, while AWS net sales grew 39.3% year-over-year to $45.98 billion, the highest single-quarter growth rate in nearly five years. Purchases of property and equipment for the quarter reached $77.26 billion, about 1.2 times the year-ago period, and free cash flow swung from an inflow of $14.79 billion in the year-ago period to an outflow of $42.36 billion. The company maintained its full-year 2026 ca

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Microsoft completed a $25 billion bond offering, with peak orders exceeding $115 billion and a subscription ratio of 4.6 times, across 10 tranches maturing in 2 to 40 years. However, its 30-year bond spread reached 95 basis points above the benchmark Treasury, higher than the 30-year bond issued the same week by lower-rated P&G (60 basis points). Hyperscalers and data center developers have raised more than $313 billion in global investment-grade bond financing this year, nearly three times high

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After Alphabet released its earnings, its stock plunged more than 11% in a single day, wiping out about $500 billion in market value, because AI spending continues to devour cash flow, share buybacks fell to zero in the first nine months of 2026, and revenue growth in the core search business slowed from 16.8% in the second quarter to 12%. Google Cloud revenue doubled year over year to $30.7 billion, with its profit margin rising to 36.2%, but the shared AI research and development loss widened

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent on Wednesday downplayed concerns about AI infrastructure financing, saying that the yields on some AI-related debt surging to double digits is "not a problem at all," because new cloud providers account for only a very small portion of the entire ecosystem. CoreWeave, which is at the center of the concerns, saw its bond yields spike to around 15% at one point, and its stock price has fallen about 25% over the past month. Bessent also said he would not regard any f

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According to Bloomberg, the advertising, consumer and retail businesses that underpin US tech giants' combined $750 billion in AI investment this year have shown signs of slowing growth. Alphabet's search advertising revenue posted its lowest growth rate in five quarters, Amazon's advertising business grew 11% year over year, the slowest since it began disclosing the figure separately in 2022, and its online stores grew only 2%. Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler acknowledged that s

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Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a new-generation world model that can turn prompts into explorable, realistic scenes in real time, and for the first time the Genie model itself generates background sounds and music, while characters in the scene can also hold real-time conversations. Users move via the keyboard and use text prompts to modify content in the scene instantly, with the scene remaining coherent across multiple inputs. In the demo, a simulated Apptronik Apollo robot plays checke

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According to Bloomberg, U.S. robotics AI company Physical Intelligence is in talks for a new funding round of at least $1 billion, with existing investors Avenir and Lux Capital considering leading the round, and a post-money valuation expected at about $20 billion. The company was founded in 2024 and was valued at $5.6 billion in its November funding round last year; it currently has no commercial revenue and has not mass-produced robot products. Its technical approach is to build on VLM by int

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Data presented by Gartner at the HR Symposium in Orlando shows that only 3% of organizations have met their cost-reduction goals through productivity gains, and 97% of organizations cannot achieve cost savings through productivity alone, yet 77% of board members still expect AI to deliver productivity and cost benefits. Nearly 40% of companies have already exceeded their AI budgets, and 85% of companies still plan to continue increasing investment next year; Gartner recommends that enterprises f

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