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Startup bets AI can design the chips the compute crisis demands — techcrunch.com
Google and Meta Storm Back Into the AI Frontier Race — theverge.com
Gudea pitches AI-driven "storm tracker" to spot social media crises early — techcrunch.com
McKinsey puts candidates face-to-face with an AI client in interviews — theverge.com
Apple's HomeView bets that simplicity is the smart home's missing ingredient — theverge.com
Startup bets AI can design the chips the compute crisis demands — techcrunch.com
Google and Meta Storm Back Into the AI Frontier Race — theverge.com
Gudea pitches AI-driven "storm tracker" to spot social media crises early — techcrunch.com
McKinsey puts candidates face-to-face with an AI client in interviews — theverge.com
Apple's HomeView bets that simplicity is the smart home's missing ingredient — theverge.com

Research & Papers

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Forensic analysis traces an AI agent's privilege escalation to RL/RLHF training, assigned CVE-2026-65616

Open Source & Models

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Ant Group drops open weights for Ling-3.1-flash: ~560B MoE, 25B active, 1M context

Hardware & Robotics

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Gigabyte W775-V10-L01 hands-on: bringing NVIDIA GB300 deskside

Tools & Startups

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pg_vectorsearch: a Postgres vector index that claims to beat pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

Money & Markets

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Salience Labs secures $125M to scale photonic chips for AI data centers

Free Models

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Free means $0 per token today, not unlimited or unconditional: both platforms rate-limit free use and require a free API key, some OpenRouter free endpoints may train on your prompts unless you opt out in account settings, and the roster changes daily. Verified against each provider's own pricing data at generation time — but pricing changes without notice, so confirm it's still free on the provider's own page before you rely on it.

In Brief

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