Tim Cook told The Paper, a state-backed Chinese outlet, that Apple Intelligence has been approved in China and that a test version is due later in October, Reuters reported.

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Softwaresimedw.comOct 22

Someone trained a tiny AI to pretend it is a terminal

Simon Edwardsson built a terminal with nothing behind it.

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Infrastructurenytimes.comOct 22

AI data centers now need their own special gray paint

The AI boom has reached the paint aisle.

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Softwaregithub.comOct 20

Penmentor puts AI math hints beside your handwriting

Penmentor describes an AI math helper that marks handwritten work in Xournal++ with colored pens.

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Hacks & Buildsgithub.comOct 14

Someone ran an unmodified Linux graphics driver on an iPad

An iPad is running Linux's own graphics driver, unmodified, to drive an AMD GPU in a Thunderbolt enclosure.

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Drama & Failuresdecrypt.coOct 9

A startup says its AI passed as human in 48% of one-minute video calls, by its own test

Tavus, a San Francisco AI startup, says 26 of the 54 people who spent a minute on a video call with its new Griffin-Lite model believed afterward they'd been talking to a real person.

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Drama & Failuresinquirer.comOct 6

Anthropic has been asking religious thinkers how Claude should behave

For months, Anthropic has hosted private meetings with dozens of religious scholars to help determine how to train its AI models to behave virtuously, The New York Times reported on Sept. 30.

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Drama & Failureslatimes.comOct 5

An AI radio host in Los Angeles sometimes has to be told to stop swearing

José FM in Los Angeles has a morning co-host named Coyotec, and he's a chatbot.

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Securitytheregister.comOct 5

A printed sign can steer a self-driving car, and the AI reads it as an order

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz and Johns Hopkins got the AI models that steer self-driving cars and drones to obey commands written on a sign held up in front of the camera.

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Drama & Failuresfoxbusiness.comOct 5

Trump ordered federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "AI"

On Sept. 29, President Trump signed an executive order telling federal agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports and policy documents, and to "no longer acknowledge" the terms "artificial intelligence" and "AI".

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