Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, claims top U.S. open-weight coding score
The chip-design AI lab says its dense model outscored far larger U.S. open-weight rivals on TerminalBench 2.1 and cost $32M to develop from scratch.
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MIT memorial for Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa launches $100,000 research fund
Colleagues and former trainees remembered the founder of MIT's Picower Institute, where a donor has pledged money to back curiosity-driven research.
ChatGPT adds GIF creation with frame editing as OpenAI rolls out Images 2.6
Users can turn prompts or uploaded photos into animated GIFs, change their speed and edit frames, while OpenAI adds two new image models to its API.
Go 1.27 promotes encoding/json/v2 and jsontext from experiment to stable
The new JSON packages, first released as an experiment a year earlier, target long-standing correctness, security and performance flaws in encoding/json.
AT&T brings Gemini AI summaries and video search to Connected Life security
AT&T's Connected Life now ties into Google Home Premium, adding AI event summaries and video search for customers on its paid professional monitoring plan.
Waymo to launch own app in Austin and Atlanta as Uber exclusivity ends in 2028
Waymo will let riders in Austin and Atlanta book directly through its own app starting January 2028, setting up competition with Uber in both cities.
Anthropic open-sources FlashProve to cryptographically verify which model answered
The zkSNARK-based prototype proves a response came from a committed model while keeping its weights hidden, at roughly 70 to 95 times inference GPU time.
DreamHost breach ran undetected from August, exposing customer emails and files
The web host says attackers exploited a flaw in its file manager to obtain session tokens, customer emails and credentials over several months.
Microsoft tests phone controllers and direct Wi-Fi play for Xbox Cloud Gaming
Two Xbox previews let smart TV players control streamed games from their phones and link the Xbox Nano controller straight to cloud servers.
Study of 189 tumors finds a distinct cell mix in young-onset colorectal cancer
A Nature Medicine study using single-nucleus RNA sequencing found age-linked shifts in tumor makeup and gene activity in colorectal cancer.
Waymo to end Uber exclusivity in Austin and Atlanta from January 2028
The robotaxi operator will start taking bookings through its own app in both cities, while Uber says it intends to keep listing Waymo vehicles.
DuckDuckGo courts schools after Google ties full AI opt-out to losing Search
The privacy-focused search engine is offering educators help switching defaults as Google's AI settings for schools draw criticism.
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