The US Cleared a Chip Buyer Whose Office Was Empty
A Commerce Department rule let licensed Chinese firms buy Nvidia's H200 chips after a vetting check, but the New York Times found one licensee's Beijing office standing vacant.
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StateBench Tests Whether Language Models Can Track State, Not Just Retrieve It
Ai2's new benchmark finds frontier models drop to 13 percent on the hardest state-tracking tasks, and it quietly checks a 2024 theory paper's prediction about which architectures should do better.
MIT Researchers Get One AI to Rewrite Another AI's Weights Directly
MIT CSAIL had GPT-6 Astra edit just 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights by hand and saw math scores jump sixfold, with no gradient-descent training involved.
Anthropic's IPO filing shows $895 billion in compute commitments as revenue growth cools
Anthropic's revised S-1 filing puts total compute commitments near $895 billion, pushing past $1 trillion with additional needed capacity, while Q3 revenue growth slowed to 46 percent. The filing warns the 1,206 percent year-over-year growth rate it posted through September won't repeat.
Amazon's AI memo tells engineers non-use is fine. Its performance process says otherwise.
An internal Amazon memo on AI use, written by Distinguished Engineer Terk Terkowitz and sent to staff in September, says skipping AI tools can be "a finding, not a failing." Nothing in the document changes how promotion or performance reviews score output, so the stated policy and the actual incentive point in different directions.
Behind Apple's new CEO disavowing "AI for AI's sake": a Google licensing deal, not a slogan
Apple CEO John Ternus told Wired he won't "ship AI for AI's sake," a line issued days before his first earnings call, backed by a January deal licensing Google's Gemini to run the new Siri.
Google's orbital AI satellite writes a haiku, and a very expensive one
Google's orbital TPU prototype, Suncatcher, beamed down a Gemma 4-generated haiku, a near-free bit of inference riding on a satellite that costs millions to launch and faces real radiation limits.
Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out
Runware is building a factory to crank out shipping-container AI data centers it says can power on in 48 hours, but grid interconnection delays, not assembly speed, are what keep most projects waiting years.
Granola Ships Dictation for Mac, Leaves iOS and Windows as Promises
Granola shipped a free, unlimited Mac dictation feature that turns speech into text in any app, answering Wispr Flow's meeting-notes pivot and Fireflies' dictation launch.
Almost All of Amazon's New Echo Lineup Is Already Shipping. One Piece Isn't.
Amazon's October 28 launch put four of five new Alexa devices on sale immediately, with the 16-inch Echo Show 16 held to preorder and a ship date that outlets can't agree on.
OpenAI Says It's Changing How It Shares Breakthroughs. Researchers Still Want to See the Proof.
OpenAI says new math, computer science and physics results came from "shepherds" vetting its claims, but researchers tell The Verge the company still hasn't opened those results to independent reproduction.
iOS 27.2 Brings Apple Pencil Support to the iPhone Duo, Plus a Video Call Light Trick
iOS 27.2 brings Apple Pencil support to the iPhone Duo across both its 7.6 inch inner and 5.4 inch outer screens, plus a face-lighting Edge Light feature for video calls.
Want to build a UK datacenter? Please hold while Whitehall transfers you
A minister told MPs datacenter rules are clear, but builders still need sign-off from four departments, and Microsoft already walked from a UK supercomputer over power access.
