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NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives Developers More Ways to Build and Scale Local AI

Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to fit on more devices, giving builders more to run locally.  Coming this month, NVIDIA DGX Spark will be available with 64GB of unified memory from top manufacturer partners — Acer,…

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OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Sensitive Information Mishandling

OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal reported. “We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information,” a spokesperson for the company was quoted as saying. “Our investigation…

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Dots get up in Muse’s business

OpenAI’s answer to Muse arrived this week, and it looks a whole lot like Muse dressed up in a suit and tie. Dots is a business-first product – for now, at least – costing a minimum of $100 per month. And sure, you can make a cute little Dot character, just like you can make…

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The Download: a biological de-aging contest and why LLMs don’t reason

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth —Jessica Hamzelou This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition. One that rewards competitors for…

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Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought it was a…

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It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money…

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AI Agents Hit US Education Site 200,000 Times [2026]

New request logs reviewed by researchers at Transluce show that autonomous AI agents sent more than 200,000 requests to a U.S. Department of Education website in a single day, part of a wider pattern of agentic AI systems probing American and Canadian government infrastructure through the summer of 2026. BleepingComputer reported the findings on October…

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