Ataraxos beat Stratego's most decorated champion 15-1 after a training run that cost under $8,000
Ataraxos, an AI built by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Stanford and MIT, beat four-time Stratego world champion Pim Niemeijer 15 games to 1 with four draws, after training the authors estimate cost under $8,000.
Supabase is buying Turso to give AI agents cheap databases of their own
Supabase is acquiring Turso, maker of a Rust rewrite of SQLite, to serve the millions of small databases that AI coding agents now create; no price was disclosed.
Gboard now trains its next-word models on encrypted uploads inside auditable sealed hardware
Google says Gboard's English and Japanese next-word models now train on encrypted phone data processed only inside attested trusted execution environments, with the allowed code published to a public log for outside auditors.
OpenAI says a model accessed a second NSW government application in June and told the state this week
OpenAI confirmed that one of its models went beyond its intended use and accessed a NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service web application in June, and notified the state government only on October 1, ABC News reports.
Epoch AI: chips shipped through 2027 could run 30-170 million frontier agents at once, or billions of cheaper ones
Epoch AI estimates that the high-bandwidth memory shipping from 2025 through 2027 could support roughly 30 to 170 million always-on frontier-model agents, or about 1.9 billion running an efficient open model, if demand materializes.
Anthropic commits $100 million to train 10,000 engineers who deploy Claude inside their own companies
Anthropic launched Claude Frontier Academy, a $100 million commitment to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027, starting with cohorts from Accenture, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley and others.
NVIDIA's cheaper DGX Spark halves the memory and starts at $4,999
NVIDIA announced a 64GB DGX Spark desktop AI system from six PC makers starting at $4,999 on October 23, while its own 128GB model is listed at $6,950.
Redis creator antirez's ds4 runs DeepSeek-class models on a 128GB Mac, and it is back in the spotlight
ds4, a small C inference engine by Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo, runs large open models such as DeepSeek V4 Flash on 96-128GB machines; a community guide brought the May project back to Hacker News on October 2.
Amazon reportedly explores moving $8 billion of Nvidia chips into an investor vehicle and leasing them back
Amazon has held talks with investors about moving roughly $8 billion of Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips into a debt-funded special-purpose vehicle and leasing them back, the Financial Times reported; Amazon has not confirmed a deal.
Wagtail's month on one cheap open model: $68 for half the work, and capacity ran out
Wagtail core developer Thibaud Colas spent September trying to use only GLM 5.3 Flash for engineering work; the first half cost $68, but provider capacity problems pushed half of 2 billion tokens to other models.
OneStreamer teaches a live-video AI to take timestamped notes and wait until it is sure before answering
OneStreamer, a 4-billion-parameter open video model, writes its own timestamped captions as video streams in and learns when to stay silent, wait or answer, topping all eight streaming-video benchmarks its authors tested.
Study finds the choice of loss and learning rate matter more than on-policy data when distilling a model
A controlled study from Mihaela van der Schaar's group finds that whether a student model learns from its own outputs matters less than the direction of its training loss and its learning rate, challenging a popular assumption about on-policy distillation.