The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to block foreign national access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 on June 12, prompting the company to disable both models for all customers. The order, received at 5:21 p.m. ET…
A developer tested five small LLMs (under 2B parameters) on a budget PC with an Intel i5 CPU, no GPU, and single-channel RAM. The LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct model emerged as the best all-around performer for CPU-only systems, …
A production Agentic RAG system encountered five failure modes—latency cliffs, memory drift, reflection loops, injection attempts, and evaluation overhead—that architecture diagrams failed to predict. Engineers mitigated…
A developer describes how growing system complexity forces spec file boundary decisions, using a new notification service that the order service calls fire-and-forget. The developer deliberately added notification scenar…
A developer has released Synapse AI Gateway, an open-source governance-first AI gateway designed for regulated teams that need audit trails and policy enforcement without waiting for enterprise procurement. The gateway e…
Google Research and UC San Diego have repurposed 2,000 retired Pixel phones into a data center that matches the performance of 50 traditional servers, achieving higher per-thread CPU scores than AMD EPYC server cores in …
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick imposed export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over military intelligence concerns, forcing the company to disable access globally. The directive bars foreign n…
Datasette-apps 0.1a2 introduces a new 'apps-set-csp' permission to guard custom network/CSP origins, with an optional plugin allow-list for non-privileged users. The update also improves the stored query picker with keyb…
ChatGPT successfully generated a SWI Prolog program to solve a chess puzzle placing five pieces on a 4x4 board without attacks, finding all 16 solutions. The experiment suggests LLMs can effectively handle Prolog's synta…
A developer demonstrates how to implement JWT authentication in FastAPI for AI applications, covering password hashing with bcrypt and token generation using python-jose. The tutorial includes registration and login endp…
Group fitness provides psychological benefits beyond physical exercise, including connection, co-regulation, and belonging, according to a podcast discussion with Dr. Tess Kilwein on Getting Better With Jonathan Van Ness…
Dozens of Stanford University graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony as Google CEO Sundar Pichai began his keynote address, protesting the company's work with the US government on AI. The walkout reflects br…
Woodland resident John Lipsey IV pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter on Friday for the 2020 disappearance and presumed death of his roommate, Luther Harris, in Vacaville. The plea agreement came weeks after a ju…
Social media helped locate the family of Pedro Sousa Garcia, a 53-year-old unhoused man who died in Salinas on May 7, after the Monterey County Coroner's Office failed to find relatives through traditional databases. The…
Datasette released version 0.3a0 of datasette-agent, introducing an execute_write_sql tool that requests user approval before writing to a database. The update also enhances the datasette agent chat terminal mode with ap…
The U.S. Army commissioned three technology executives—Dane Knecht of Cloudflare, Sam Pullara of Sutter Hill Ventures, and Serkan Piantino of Facebook AI Research—into its Executive Innovation Corps (Detachment 201) to b…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from accessing its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models due to a jailbreak vulnerability, prompting Anthropic to shut down both models globally. The move …
The United Kingdom announced a ban on social media for under-16s, more restrictive than Australia's, including restrictions on live-streaming and AI chatbots. The ban, supported by 90% of parents in a national consultati…
Artificial intelligence and GPS tracking are revealing the secret lives of animals, from hummingbirds to pumas, showing their sophisticated behaviors and sense of place. These technologies are aiding wildlife conservatio…
Salesforce agreed to acquire Fin, the customer agent business formerly known as Intercom founded by Eoghan McCabe, for approximately $3.6 billion. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce's fisca…