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Sakana's Fugu-Ultra: orchestrating frontier models beats any single one at agentic tasks

Sakana AI's Fugu project makes a single argument across six wildly different benchmarks: an agent that coordinates several strong models can outdo any individua

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tech-culturedevops

Sandi Metz: When an Abstraction Goes Wrong, the Fastest Way Forward Is Back

Sandi Metz argues that a bad abstraction costs more than the duplication it was meant to eliminate. The failure mode is predictable: a developer spots repeated

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aiopen-source

Swiss AI Initiative ships Apertus, a fully open multilingual foundation model

EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the national supercomputing center CSCS have released Apertus, a foundation model built under the Swiss AI Initiative that opens far more

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Valve's Steam Machine returns — but the store page reveals nothing yet

The link points to Valve's Steam hardware store page for a product called "Steam Machine," reviving a brand Valve first used for its line of Linux-based living-

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aitech-culture

When does buy still beat build? Pricing software's LLM survival threshold

Brandur Leach, leaving Stainless to run his open-source job queue River as a business, tackles the obvious objection to selling software in the LLM era: why pay

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tech-culturepolicy

Why Your Brain Breaks Under the Modern News Firehose

Human attention evolved around a survival rule: weigh threats more heavily than rewards, because missing a real danger was fatal while overreacting cost only a

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aitech-culture

AI Is Quietly Eroding Expert Skills, Early Studies Warn

Professionals across medicine and software are starting to show measurable skill loss as they lean on AI tools, and the people most affected are worried about i

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aitech-culture

Amazon shelves Altman biopic months after deepening OpenAI cloud pact

Amazon MGM has quietly removed Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished Sam Altman biopic, 'Artificial,' from its release slate, leaving the Andrew Garfield-led film w

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Bipartisan JAWBONE Act would let users sue officials who coerce platforms into censorship

Senators Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden have introduced the JAWBONE Act, a bipartisan bill that creates a federal cause of action against government officials who coerc

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Cloudflare lets AI agents deploy first, sign up later with temporary accounts

Cloudflare has launched temporary accounts that let AI coding agents deploy code without first navigating the human-oriented signup gauntlet of OAuth flows, das

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Finland Reinvents the Library as Civic Infrastructure — Sewing Machines Included

While public libraries shutter across the US and UK, Finland is doing the opposite: expanding a network of more than 700 branches for 5.6 million people and ref

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cybersecurityvulnerability

Hackers Hijack Brazil's Emergency Alert System, Push 'Misanthropy' Warning

On Saturday morning, mobile phones across several Brazilian states—starting in Paraná and spreading to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro—received a bogus "Extreme Al

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