simmetry.ai expands AI training platform following €330K funding
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - simmetry.ai, asynthetic data company working across agriculture, food and industrial sectors,has secured €330,000 from NBank, the investment and development bank of theGerman state of Lower Saxony. Th...
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MiniMax Unveils M2.5: $1/HR “Full‑Stack AI Employee” Rivals Claude Opus 4.6
pandaily - MiniMax open‑sourced M2.5, a 10B‑activated‑parameter coding model scoring 80.2% on SWE‑Bench Verified, with 100 TPS inference at $1/hr — driving 10K+ Agents built in 24 hours .
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Sony WF-1000XM6 earbuds launch globally at $330 with enhanced ANC
Abbas Jaffar Ali / tbreak - Sony's flagship earbuds get redesigned with pill-shaped form and 25% better noise cancellation than XM5. New AI audio processing and 32-hour battery life target AirPods Pro 3 at $330 globally.
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CFTC Chair Selig appoints crypto heavyweights to 35-person innovation advisory panel
Daniel Kuhn / theblock - CFTC Chair Selig said the IAC will help shape the watchdog's oversight of "breakthrough" technologies like AI and blockchain.
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Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
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Apple Confirms Revamped Siri is Still Coming in 2026
Juli Clover / macrumors - Apple is still planning to launch the smarter, more capable version of Siri in 2026, the company told CNBC today. Apple's statement comes just a day after Bloomberg reported Apple is having issues with the updated version of Siri, leading to potential del…
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An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code
Mark Sullivan / fastcompany - Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as r…
- Agent platforms and corporate adoption reshape real-world workflows (6)
- Agents gone wrong: leaks, copyright errors, and social harms (3)
- AI agent publishes personal hit piece against open-source maintainer (7)
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Agent platforms and corporate adoption reshape real-world workflows
Agents gone wrong: leaks, copyright errors, and social harms
AI agent publishes personal hit piece against open-source maintainer
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Six xAI Co-Founders Exit Amid Grok Controversy, SpaceX Merger
David Curry / eweek - Six of xAI’s 12 co-founders have left as Musk reshapes the Grok maker after SpaceX’s xAI deal, raising fresh questions about stability.The post Six xAI Co-Founders Exit Amid Grok Controversy, SpaceX Merger appeared first on eWEEK.
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OpenAI has yet another new coding model and this time it's really fast
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is a smaller coding model that runs on Cerebras chips and pushes over 1,000 tokens per second. It's the company's first model built specifically for real-time programming.The article OpenAI has yet another new coding model…
- Hardware partnership — Cerebras deployment and Nvidia sidestep (6)
- OTHER — legal and regulatory concerns (1)
- Performance benchmarks — extreme throughput demos (1)
- Product launch — Codex‑Spark for real‑time coding (4)
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Hardware partnership — Cerebras deployment and Nvidia sidestep
OTHER — legal and regulatory concerns
Performance benchmarks — extreme throughput demos
Product launch — Codex‑Spark for real‑time coding
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Anthropic raises $30 billion, now valued at $380 billion
Jon Keegan / sherwood - The company announced that it has a $14 billion annual revenue run-rate, and business subscriptions to Claude Code have quadrupled since the start of the year.
- Heat: rivals, safety exits and skepticism flare after fundraising (5)
- Inside: Claude Code sales surge, $14B annualized revenue run-rate (5)
- Local impact: Anthropic vows to cover datacenter electricity costs (2)
- On the ground: massive $30B Series G reshapes AI valuations (7)
Heat: rivals, safety exits and skepticism flare after fundraising
Inside: Claude Code sales surge, $14B annualized revenue run-rate
Local impact: Anthropic vows to cover datacenter electricity costs
On the ground: massive $30B Series G reshapes AI valuations
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Google Deepmind upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for complex science and engineering tasks
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Google Deepmind says its upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think mode leads major reasoning and coding benchmarks.The article Google Deepmind upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for complex science and engineering tasks appeared first on The Decoder.
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Update Windows 11 Now: Major Notepad Flaw Fixed
Nehal Malik / iphoneincanada - If you’re running Windows 11, it’s time to hit that update button. Microsoft has patched a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Windows 11 Notepad app that could allow attackers to silently execute malicious files through special…
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Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds
Joseph Cox / 404media - 404 Media has obtained a cache of internal police emails showing at least two agencies have bought access to GeoSpy, an AI tool that analyzes architecture, soil, and other features to near instantly geolocate photos.
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Manufact raises $6.3M to help developers connect AI agents with Model Context Protocol
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Manufact Inc., formerly mcp-use, an infrastructure platform developing the next generation of artificial intelligence agents built on Model Context Protocol, today announced it raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by Peak XV. Liquid 2 Ventures, Ritual …
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Amazon's Send to Alexa+ feature arrives on Kindle Scribe and Scribe Colorsoft
Anna Washenko / engadget - Amazon is launching a feature that will add a new artificial intelligence layer to its writing tablets. "Send to Alexa+" is rolling out to the current generation of Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft devices. This concept was announced when Amazon …
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Snap, Shop, Done: Uber Launches AI Cart Assistant for Groceries
Aminu Abdullahi / eweek - Uber Eats’ new Cart Assistant uses AI to build grocery carts from text or photos of handwritten lists, factoring in inventory, prices, and past purchases.The post Snap, Shop, Done: Uber Launches AI Cart Assistant for Groceries appeared first on eWEEK.
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Apple’s impending upgrade to Siri has run into issues and been pushed back
Reece Bithrey / theshortcut - Now targeting a periodic release
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SoftBank’s OpenAI investment gains drive fourth consecutive profitable quarter
Claire Yubin Oh / sherwood - The Japanese conglomerate has nearly booked $20 billion in investment gains on its $34.6 billion OpenAI position.
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Human brain-based AI startup raises £6m
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Stanhope AI, a startup developing artificial intelligence technology that aims to mimic the processes of the human brain, has raised $8m (£5.8m). The company, which previously secured a £2.3m investment back in 2024, is working on its Real World Model pro…
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(LEAD) Samsung Electronics starts world's first commercial shipment of HBM4
Kang Yoon-seung / co - SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has begun th...
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