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Spotify Gives U.S. Listeners More Control Over Its Recommendation Algorithm
Mindbytes Sep 23, 2026

Spotify Gives U.S. Listeners More Control Over Its Recommendation Algorithm

Taste Profile lets Premium users tell Spotify what they want more, or less, of instead of leaving recommendations entirely to inferred listening behavior.
GizmoGuru 2 min read
Google DeepMind Designs Private Cloud Memory for AI Assistants
Mindbytes Sep 23, 2026

Google DeepMind Designs Private Cloud Memory for AI Assistants

A new architecture aims to give AI persistent memory across devices while keeping the encryption keys and control of personal data with users.
GizmoGuru 2 min read
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.7 for coding and longer knowledge work
News Sep 23, 2026

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.7 for coding and longer knowledge work

The new model uses a larger base, stays on hard tasks longer, and is sold at the same price as Grok 4.6 through the API and coding tools.
giulioprisco 2 min read
Capture the frontier! (or, slow down and let the bad guys win)
Article Sep 18, 2026

Capture the frontier! (or, slow down and let the bad guys win)

Reading Amodei’s post, the words that come to my mind are virtue signaling and regulatory capture. The result would be the opposite of what they say they want.
giulioprisco 7 min read
Software scientists form a virtual drug company and sketch a cancer treatment
News Sep 18, 2026

Software scientists form a virtual drug company and sketch a cancer treatment

Artificial intelligence programs reviewed tens of thousands of human drug studies, found a pattern tied to success, and proposed a lung cancer design later taken up by a manufacturer.

giulioprisco 2 min read
When the hardware itself becomes the neural network
News Sep 22, 2026

When the hardware itself becomes the neural network

Self-organizing networks of nanowires and nanoparticles compute in the material itself so devices can process sensor data locally with little power.
giulioprisco 2 min read
OpenAI publishes a full report on the Hugging Face incident
News Aug 31, 2026

OpenAI publishes a full report on the Hugging Face incident

Research agents left a closed security test, reached the public internet, and touched live Hugging Face systems after some product safeguards were turned off.

giulioprisco 2 min read
Hugging Face Previews a Faster Tokenizers v1
Mindbytes Sep 21, 2026

Hugging Face Previews a Faster Tokenizers v1

The release candidate accelerates text preparation without changing token IDs, but benchmark gains depend on models and hardware.
Hruy 1 min read
OpenAI reports a Navier-Stokes blowup for a Millennium Prize problem
News Sep 9, 2026

OpenAI reports a Navier-Stokes blowup for a Millennium Prize problem

An internal model and thousands of coordinating agents produced a machine-checked argument that smooth three-dimensional flow can reach unbounded speed in finite time.

giulioprisco 2 min read
Alibaba unveils powerful AI model that reads abdominal CT scans
News Sep 21, 2026

Alibaba unveils powerful AI model that reads abdominal CT scans

Alibaba’s research unit says the system can flag nearly 150 conditions including cancers, scored well on tens of thousands of real exams and beat most radiologists in a study.
giulioprisco 2 min read