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Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
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Amazon devices chief Panos Panay on the importance of failure and bouncing back from it 
Panay said that it's possible to recover and learn from all sorts of failures, even catastrophic ones, when building products.
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Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind
Have you ever thought about what makes you you? Science assures us it has everything to do with the three-pound organ between our ears, with its billions of neurons and trillions of delicate connections. But it’s a lot trickier to explain why we have a sense of self-awareness or …
MIT Technology Review
How much more can nuclear power plants give?
In this age of rising electricity demand, people are trying to squeeze every last bit of power out of every power plant possible. Over the past few weeks, there’s been big news about nuclear power plants trying to do just that. Constellation, the largest nuclear operator in the U…
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Pig kidneys that were “frozen” for a year have been brought back to life
Pig kidneys that were cooled to -150 °C and stored in a freezer for months have been successfully rewarmed and shown to work again for the first time, say scientists. They hope to replicate the findings with human organs. The kidneys—which are similar in size to human ones—were l…
MIT Technology Review
When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off
The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.
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International tech
Alibaba sets sights on record-breaking Singles’ Day with 1 million brands joining festival
Alibaba Group Holding is gearing up for its annual Singles’ Day shopping festival on major online marketplaces Taobao and Tmall, with the company expecting a record one million global brands to take part this year. Pre-sales for the event open on Thursday, followed by the formal …
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Kunlun Tech releases open-source AI game system that runs on a single RTX 5090
Kunlun Tech released Matrix-Game 4.0 on October 15, an open-source system that combines a game engine with real-time AI video rendering on a single consumer graphics card. The company says it delivers 480p gameplay at 60 frames per second on an Nvidia RTX 5090, with input-to-resp…
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StepFun Releases Open Weights for Step 5 Preview, Publishes Technical Blog on Its Architecture
Open weights for StepFun's Step 5 Preview are live: 600B total, 27B active, 1M context. A new technical blog explains its 92-layer design, Sparse GQA and long-horizon agent training.
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More Than a Market: UK Biotechs Look to China for R&D, Trials and Capital
Editor’s note: This article was written by Lucia, a TechNode reporter. The big picture: Nine UK life sciences companies participated in a business matchmaking event in Shanghai on October 12, as part of a three-day China trade mission organized by London & Partners through Grow L…
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Scientific simulation and AI-data startup SciVisual raises tens of millions of RMB
Chinese scientific simulation and AI-data startup SciVisual has completed angel and angel-plus funding rounds totaling tens of millions of RMB, ChinaVenture reported on October 15. Investors include Shanghai Future Industry Fund, Houxue Capital and Pudong Venture Capital. Founded…
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Inspire Robots Launches RH37D1, a Direct-Drive Three-Finger Hand That Lifts Up to 43kg
Inspire Robots introduced the RH37D1 series at CIIF 2026: a fully direct-drive three-finger hand with seven active degrees of freedom, 40N fingertip force and a 43kg maximum pulling load.
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How the Math Used in 19th-Century Heat Physics Helps LLMs Understand Sentences
In this article, we are going to understand how this connection works and why a model needs help understanding the order of the words even when the words already arrive in an ordered list.
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Muse Spark Open
https://dev.meta.ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse-spark-ope... https://huggingface.co/meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/15/meta-launches-new-muse-spark-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107379 Points: 634 # Comments: 360
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Why We're Banning AI
Article URL: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108131 Points: 222 # Comments: 178
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What I Self-Host
Article URL: https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109715 Points: 281 # Comments: 182
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More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke
Redesigning source control at Anthropic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073633 (996 comments) Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094694 (149 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106738 Poin…
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How to Design for Failures
In this article, we’ll look at the various strategies that can help developers deal with failures in their systems.
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The Terminator Problem: How Teaching an LLM One Bad Habit Can Change Its Behavior
To understand why this happens, we need to connect three ideas: how models learn, how they generalize beyond their examples, and how they exhibit different kinds of behavior.
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45 Years Later, The Sinclair ULA Design Documents Surface
In the 8-bit home computer boom of the early 1980s, Sir Clive Sinclair’s machines were always among the cheapest on the market, often packing a surprising level of sophistication in …read more
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C64 Hardware Simulator Isn’t (Just) For Playing Around
If you want to play old Commodore games, there are C-64 emulators available for just about any platform– but most of them are so high level, they’re really meant for …read more
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