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Kitesurf, our experimental browser engine for AI agents, is now open source. Inspect the code, run it locally, or deploy your own instance on Cloudflare Workers.
Jensen Huang likely left Nvidia more because of risky business practices than anything else, a Wall Street Journal report suggests. At the very least, those practices made him enemies internally. The company offered cloud providers billions in financial guarantees for chip purchases, including a planned $250 billion deal with OpenAI. Interim CEO and then-CFO Colette Kress tried to contain the risk, and Huang reportedly didn't like that. The article Jensen Huang's ouster likely traces back to Nvidia's risky business practices more than his personal life appeared first on The Decoder .
Drogue is harvesting heat from the ocean to power data centers on floating vessels. The first prototype should be bobbing around the ocean, crunching bits, in less than two years.
For Black Friday, a new quarterly option delivers three bags at a time, each from a different country.
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InferSSD streams mixture-of-experts weights straight off NVMe, letting a single consumer machine run 700B+ GGUF models with double-digit speedups over llama.cpp.
US commerce secretary faces sack as questions emerge over senior Trump officials’ knowledge of alleged Chinese spy’s ties to Jensen Huang US politics – live updates The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, is facing growing pressure over his apparent lack of action over the Nvidia spying scandal as other Trump administration officials publicly raise questions over his decisions. Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, blamed Lutnick’s commerce department for the fact the US had not imposed export restrictions on certain Nvidia chips to China. Continue reading...
Browser Use agents can now log into any site through 1Password without the model ever seeing the password, using an approval flow on your own device.
Google Antigravity's new /run-workflow command has the agent write a Python script that orchestrates parallel and sequential subagents with structured handoffs.
LangChain now claims 7,000 customers of its model and platform agnostic agent management tool LangSmith.
Learn how AssemblyAI runs cost-optimized speech-to-text inference at scale on AWS, using Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Spot GPU instances, and an Amazon SQS-based retry architecture to achieve 70% cost savings while maintaining SLA commitments across European Regions.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he spends 40-50% of his time focusing on talent and culture.
Jensen Huang’s resignation from the AI chipmaker Nvidia has sent shockwaves through the global economy. Huang resigned after reported affairs with an Nvidia executive and a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy. The fallout is not over yet, with criticism mounting over the apparent lack of action from the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s global technology reporter, Aisha Down Continue reading...
The long-awaited launch of GTA VI is around the corner, happening next Friday, November 19th. While discounts on the game itself will be rare for some time, there’s a clever workaround to save you a few bucks on your digital copy. We found discounts on gift cards for both Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox Series […]
In response to recent news from METR on possible RSI and likely 1-3 year timelines, I am feeling it . Heaviness in my chest, watery eyes, the works. I realized I'm currently not psychologically prepared for the world to get crazier than it already has. [1] I think most people reading this already know ~what's best for them and this post will mostly serve as a reminder. What follows is my current plan and advice for myself. For me, the most important things are: Morning Routine Bedtime Routine Exercising Living meditation practice (ie throughout the day) And the most important thing to NOT do is be on my phone/screens. [Note on getting "stuck": if you do feel emotionally awful and no IFS/CBT seems to work, I recommend " How to Reset "] Morning Routine I have a sunrise alarm clock (shines light to wake you up) and enjoy writing in the morning. Bedtime Routine At 8:30 an alarm goes off, and I watch an episode of Empress in the Palace with my wife, then we get ready for bed. Also like to journal then. Exercising Rock climbing some days & jogging to the bus stop Living Meditation Practice There are 3 traits I'd like to cultivate more: Aliveness Gratitude Relaxation For me, aliveness is about being aware of local-details that you're experience right now ("being present") and the extreme amount of options you have available to you. This can be painful (eg if I'm feeling a lot of pain), but I do have a choice on what my mind sticks to. While typing this, I do notice my jaw & stomach…
EU leaders have agreed that the E5 format — Germany, France, U.K, Italy and Poland — plus the European Commission and Council will represent the bloc at any future peace negotiations.
The company says a bad update—not a cyberattack or AI—caused its servers around the world to crash.
Trump’s top economic adviser has served in his role since the start of the president’s second term.
Anne Jakrajutatip brought major changes to Miss Universe, but her tenure as CEO of the world's biggest pageant was often overshadowed by controversy.
TL;DR Much of AI safety depends on changing what governments, labs, engineers etc do. That makes it, in large part, a behaviour change problem. There are decades of evidence on how to change behaviour, including at the level of institutions and systems, and AI safety mostly isn’t drawing on it. Two common mistakes are relying on raising awareness (the knowledge deficit model) and assuming x-risk interventions can’t be evaluated. The field needs social science expertise in strategy, grantmaking and evaluation, as well as routes in for social scientists who want to help. I’m a behavioural scientist. I was Deputy Director of Experimental Research at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and I now lead impact measurement across 15 country offices as Head of Impact at an international NGO [1] . I’ve had a few conversations recently with (fantastic, talented!) people in AI safety, that have made me realise how much the field is missing from social science. For example, several people have repeatedly suggested the need for new interventions focused on public education. Their reasoning is that if people knew more about AI safety they would take action, and so would governments. A couple of other people were reluctant to evaluate the x-risk interventions they were working on, because they assumed that they couldn’t be evaluated. These are understandable assumptions. Conservation held them for a long time too, and social scientists have been working on both problems for de…
Jensen Huang’s resignation from the AI chipmaker Nvidia has sent shockwaves through the global economy. Huang resigned after reported affairs with an Nvidia executive and a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy. The fallout is not over yet, with criticism mounting over the apparent lack of action from the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s global technology reporter, Aisha Down – watch on YouTube Continue reading...
For organizations like Data & Society that produce original sociotechnical research outside of institutional centers like universities, working with the infrastructures of public knowledge can be a remarkable challenge. Independent researchers can create breathtaking, high-stakes research, but if the results of that research are not accessible and discoverable, then it has no chance of reaching its audience or making a difference in the world. Having experienced this challenge for a decade, D&S worked with expert research librarian Kathleen Burlingame to assess and overhaul our own repository of sociotechnical research. The results included updated metadata practices, new organizational typologies, and a set of best practices for making our mark on the public infrastructures of knowledge. This report, Surfacing Sociotechnical Research, lays out that process of refinement, and names clear steps that independent organizations can take to give their research the best chance of being found, cited, and used to improve the world. The post Sufacing Sociotechnical Research appeared first on Data & Society .
Engineering teams are moving at breakneck speed to integrate artificial intelligence, but they are running into a formidable new barrier: compliance issues. Translating high-level AI ethics , governance , and auditing into daily operational workflows has become one of the industry’s toughest challenges. “AI ethics” refers to the principles developers use to govern and operate workflows. “Governance” refers to the rules and procedures an organization establishes for AI workflows and how they interact with organizational data. Auditing is the process of assessing and validating systems to ensure safety, fairness, transparency, and legal compliance. Technology leads and systems engineers are responsible for adhering to a structured set of guidelines for standards and processes usually issued by a governing body such as the European Union , the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology , and the International Organization for Standardization . The regulations aim to mitigate issues such as systemic bias , security vulnerabilities, and transparency risks, but they also highlight a critical skills gap. Most traditional computer science, software, and electrical engineering degree programs were built around technical design and system architecture. They do not yet include training in AI auditing, data tracking, or safety protocols for how AI systems interact with people and other technologies. Expecting mid-career engineers to leave their job to attend a full-time two- or…
Europe has decided on a joint team for the peace talks led by France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Poland, the EU institutions and NATO. Despite mounting pressure, leaders declined to appoint a single envoy.
OpenAI is taking a second shot at AI-powered shopping with ChatGPT Wallet after scrapping its first approach, Instant Checkout. Users register a card once and confirm each purchase through Face ID or a fingerprint, while actual card details stay hidden behind payment tokens. Rivals such as Anthropic, Meta, and xAI already have their agents making purchases. The article OpenAI rebuilt AI shopping from scratch with ChatGPT Wallet appeared first on The Decoder .
Sure, a portable generator is great to have, but this affordable DIY approach requires only a charger you already own and an inexpensive cable.
Johnny Depp has had big paydays for movies like "Pirates of the Caribbean." His reported pay for his new movie "Ebenezer" is significantly smaller.
The WD Black SN850P is an SSD purpose-built for serious gaming, and it’s even better with this early Black Friday deal.
Amazon Bedrock provides built-in, zero-instrumentation cost attribution that traces every inference call back to the IAM principal that made it. This post shows how to attribute per-user Bedrock costs for AI developer and productivity tools using IAM Identity Center, session tags, and CUR 2.0, and how to enforce per-user usage limits.
Noelia Voigt won Miss USA in 2023. She became the first woman to relinquish her crown when she resigned in May 2024, shocking the pageant community.
New research shows the most advanced AI models from China were trained on banned Nvidia chips.
For most of its history, AI safety has been a cozy professional circle: a tight-knit community of researchers, community-builders, and policy advocates in a few dozen organizations. But as AI becomes a national political issue, AI safety organizers are trying to meet the moment by expanding their outreach to the general public. 80,000 Hours has a YouTube channel with half a million subscribers, and MIRI’s Do Not Accept campaign asks people to add their names in protest to the ugly “terms and conditions” of AI development. The stakes of this mobilization are ramping up: a new Congress means new pushes for AI legislation, and civil-society organizing will grow around these efforts. This is broadly good! It was never ideal that AI safety was a niche concern, and it’s encouraging that organizers are reaching out to the general public to make them aware of AI risk. But AI safety’s culture is not equipped for the tradeoffs of a mass movement, and it remains to be seen whether this mobilization will be harnessed well. Early signs of mass movement outreach It might seem premature to call this AI safety's mass movement era. Most of the time and energy in AI safety still comes from the same professional community that has carried it for years. Legislators and regulators are paying attention to the AI industry, but the general public is not yet feeling the salience of superintelligent AI. But I expect that to change. The early signs are visible in the anti-data center movement . There…
Jensen Huang’s departure could prove to be a turning point in the rollout of AI in Africa.
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The tech world has been rattled by the toppling of one of its most prominent leaders, and the widespread implications it could have on the AI industry itself. Nvidia, which provides the underlying AI infrastructure for seemingly every company on the planet, announced on Thursday that its president and CEO Jensen Huang has resigned, effective immediately. Earlier this week, news broke that Huang had had at least two extramarital affairs, including one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with a direct report. EVP and CFO Colette Kress has stepped in as interim CEO , and Nvidia’s board has begun searching for a permanent replacement. Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs) have become the standard for graphics rendering, and in recent years companies building AI have also depended on them for training and running large language models (LLMs) and increasingly sophisticated AI agents. As such, the revelations about Huang, and his swift departure, have sparked a US national security crisis, and raised questions about over-reliance on one tech vendor and subsequent supply chain and compute constraints. A scandal involving an admitted extramarital affair with an alleged Chinese spy opens up a hornet’s nest of concerns around security that Nvidia won’t be in a position to answer for months, if ever, said technology analyst Carmi Levy . “More broadly, it throws into doubt the company’s leadership and security practices, and ignites questions around board-level governance and oversig…
The LG B6E is the brand’s entry-level OLED, but it offers the same signature picture quality as its premium cousin.
Europe’s seven-part team of Ukraine peace envoys must now agree their strategy for handling Russia.
A global Microsoft 365 outage across two days disrupted email, Teams, OpenAI's connector, and Claude for Outlook.
The Nape Pro was Keychron's first trackball device that was introduced at CES 2026 with a slim and compact design allowing it to be positioned right up against a keyboard. The company's new T1 HE instead looks more like other trackball mice already available from companies like Logitech and Kensington with a 34mm ball positioned […]
The Ukrainian leader wants to persuade the far-right leader to continue supporting Ukraine if she becomes president of France.
Chinese investors are shut out of Anthropic's IPO, Bloomberg reports. Banks are rejecting buy orders from mainland China and Hong Kong, citing U.S. export control rules known as ITAR. Similar restrictions applied during SpaceX's IPO, and Anthropic's products aren't available in either region anyway. The article Banks bar Chinese and Hong Kong investors from Anthropic IPO over US export controls appeared first on The Decoder .
Use Gmail for work or school? Gemini can help you write emails now. Here’s how it works.
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Data Capture records live inference inputs and outputs to Amazon S3. This post walks through one end-to-end example: capturing a support router's production traffic, surfacing a new-product blind spot with Amazon Athena, fine-tuning on the captured data with the HyperPod training operator, and measuring the before-and-after lift.
The End of Everything is a novel for our age of permacrisis. Genre boundaries belong to the past “Science fiction will never be Literature with a capital ‘L,’” began a New York Times review of Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake back in 2003. Now, the seemingly impossible has happened – M John Harrison’s The End of Everything is the first science fiction novel to win the Booker prize. Fans have hailed this as a victory for a long-marginalised genre. The author himself was not so sure. “Writing science fiction is the last thing I want to do,” he said with characteristic iconoclasm at an event before the prize. The sci-fi v literary or “mainstream” fiction debate is as endless and battle-strewn as a fantasy saga. The late Ursula K Le Guin, a giant of the form, famously took Atwood to task for her reluctance to use the term science fiction for some of her novels, including Oryx and Crake: “She doesn’t want the literary bigots to shove her into the literary ghetto.” Harrison doesn’t want to break out of the ghetto; he wants to break it down. “I really hate categories, and I really hate being categorised,” he said . Continue reading...
There is almost nowhere on Earth free from disruptive human noise – but it's one of the easiest environmental problems to solve
How can AI models learn from private data without compromising privacy? Chris is joined by Lorenzo Sani, Research Scientist at Flower Labs and PhD researcher at Cambridge, to explore federated learning and privacy-preserving AI. They discuss how collaborative learning can expand access to private data for LLM training, how model trajectories can help improve agentic AI systems, and the benefits of open-weight models. The conversation also explores real-world applications of locally hosted AI agents, from healthcare and robotics to everyday automation (for a Halloween party). Featuring: Lorenzo Sani – LinkedIn Chris Benson – Website , LinkedIn , Bluesky , GitHub , X Links: Endeavor model page Introducing Endeavor 1.1 Sponsors: Hostinger : Create your website today. Go to hostinger.com/practical and use practical for 10 percent off now. Perplexity AI : " Start your free trial of Perplexity Computer today at pplx.ai/practical and experience the next phase of AI. Resources and Events: Register for upcoming webinars here ! Prior Webinars from our partner Prediction Guard Midwest AI Summit 2026 Chris’s new book The Art of Swarming will be published soon, written to be the seminal foundational book for the fledgling swarming industry, defining the principles and architecture that enable autonomous agentic UxS swarms with emergent distributed embodied intelligence. You can find out more at his website : https://chrisbenson.com