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AILisa Su said she was honored to receive the National Medal of Science from President Trump, citing her parents' immigration and the opportunity to pursue semiconductor work in America. The post frames the award as recognition of work in semiconductors and science and technology leadership.
AINVIDIA's Omniverse libraries, guided by SimReady Foundation specifications and agentic NVIDIA skills, provide a structured workflow for converting CAD assets to OpenUSD for robotics simulation. The workflow covers configuring and validating materials, collision geometry, joints, and other physics properties before testing robot behavior.
AILauren Tan (@poteto) posts a short call for people to be far more ambitious. The post gives no specific project, metric, or context.
AIPresident Donald Trump hosted a White House "A New Golden Age Summit" on Thursday, awarding medals to tech figures including Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, and Jensen Huang. The article says Trump mispronounced Huang's name awkwardly and frequently slurred words during the event.
AISara Hooker congratulated @weiyinko_ml for leading a new work on automated data quality control with agentic checklists. She linked a blog post from Adaption Labs with further details.
AIThe post says the approach is not domain-specific, which matters for Adaption AI because many of its datasets come from domains that cannot be verified. The method covers 44 domains that differ substantially and have their own nuances.
AISara Hooker reports that applying a checklist leads to consistent downstream training performance gains. The post gives no further details on the checklist, models, or benchmarks involved.
AIAdaption AI's discovery agent reviews past AutoScientist training runs to identify critiques at the edge of current capabilities and specific to each domain. The team converts that critique set into a checklist that automatically filters training data.
AISara Hooker announced a new blog post on adaptive checklists from Adaption AI, which she says capture current model capabilities and domain-specific requirements better than traditional checklists. She claims these adaptive checklists achieve this without requiring human supervision.
AIHiggsfield introduced Katana, its most powerful AI video editing tool, powered by Claude Motion and available now inside Claude via Higgsfield MCP. Users can upload a reference to create editable motion graphics, product launch videos, or aura-farming edits.
AIAnthropic has made Claude Dashboards available on all paid plans and Claude Motion on Team and Enterprise plans. Claude can query a data platform or CRM tool to build interactive dashboards or short animations, with everything generated as code.
AIManus, the developer of the Manus AI agent, has raised more than $500 million led by Boyu Capital, with Tencent also investing. Bloomberg had reported a $4 billion valuation, roughly double Meta's reported offer last December, which Chinese regulators blocked in April. The funding comes days after Manus 2.0 added a new harness, Cloud Computer, and Cue, which lets agents use email accounts and digital wallets.
AIAlexander Doria argues that OpenAI has stopped caring about the things that matter, claiming its trajectory toward P=NP is beyond any theory of value. The post gives no evidence for this claim, and the attached background reports OpenAI's annualized revenue near $50B, below earlier $70B estimates, partly due to differing revenue calculation methods with Anthropic.
AIEthan Mollick observes that less than four years after an earlier model's debut, the Pope, leading mathematicians, and the U.S. President are all posting about its direct successor and its implications for humanity. The post does not name the models or specify what the successor does, so no details beyond this are supported.
AIInception's Mercury Decide, the fastest-growing decision model on OpenRouter last week, now has a paid zero data retention (ZDR) endpoint alongside the free one. It is priced at $0.02/M input tokens, half the $0.04 list price, with output and cached input free and a 66K context window.
AIThe Association for Human Mathematics requires members to take three vows opposing AI use in mathematics. Members must not provide technical labor, knowledge, consultation, or publicity to commercial AI companies, and must not publish AI-generated mathematical texts, including papers, referee reports, and lecture notes. Members of its AI-free caucus also must not use AI models in research.
AINitin Goyal, VP of Engineering at Sprinklr, says the company stays competitive by adopting the latest and greatest technology. The post is part four of a series and links to an AWS page for more details.
AISprinklr manages billions of customer interactions for some of the world's biggest brands, so its infrastructure had to match that scale. This post is the second in a four-part series, and the excerpt gives no further details on the specific systems or technologies involved.
AIThe post asks how Sprinklr accelerated price performance workloads with AWS Graviton4, opening a multi-part series on the topic. The source supplies no specific figures, benchmarks, or outcomes beyond the question itself.
AINVIDIA congratulated CEO Jensen Huang on receiving the National Medal of Science for advancing GPU computing to power scientific breakthroughs. The post also honored fellow honorees Elon Musk, Lisa Su, Michael Dell, Satya Nadella, and Sergey Brin.
AINitin Goyal, VP of Engineering at Sprinklr, says the company believes it keeps an edge by adopting the latest and greatest technology. The post, part of a thread from AWS, links to further details but provides no specific products or figures.
AISprinklr manages billions of customer interactions for some of the world's biggest brands, so its infrastructure had to match that scale. This post is the second in a four-part series, and the excerpt gives no further details on the specific systems or technologies involved.
AIThe post asks how Sprinklr accelerated price performance workloads with AWS Graviton4, opening a multi-part series on the topic. The source supplies no specific figures, benchmarks, or outcomes beyond the question itself.
AIZoom Zoom Quoted post context: Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion are in beta today. Ask Claude to turn your data into live dashboards and your ideas into animated explainers.
AILauren Tan argues that with frontier AI agents, anyone can produce code at machine speed, so PR volume now signals productivity alongside impact. She says the bottleneck is trust in agent output, and that higher token costs are worth it compared with hiring many engineers. She frames the engineer's job as building the software-producing machine rather than writing code directly.
AIAn astrophysicist worked with Claude Science to create the first complete ultraviolet map of the sky, covering regions never observed in UV. Claude located existing datasets, combined them, and filled gaps with statistical inference, taking a few days rather than weeks of human work. The map is presented as a teaching tool and an example of low-priority scientific work that AI now makes feasible.
AICursor's new /visualize command builds charts and diagrams directly in the chat, letting users ask follow-up questions in the same conversation to get new charts. The feature analyzes data and shows answers inline, and it is available now in the Agents Window.
AICoreWeave is positioning its AI cloud around an open development loop, connecting training, inference and evaluation through its newly announced CoreWeave Forge platform. Chief marketing officer Jean English said the company wants production learnings to improve models and agents and that the loop should work across different models, frameworks and clouds. She argued that competitive differentiation extends beyond GPUs to partner tooling, infrastructure and APIs.
AIThe California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to startup Rek over a September 18 match pitting a human against a humanoid robot piloted remotely. The letter, posted by Rek CEO Cix Liv, calls the fight unsanctioned and demands that Rek stop promoting human-involved contests in California without approval. Rek's next planned match on Friday will feature two weaponized robots fighting each other.
AIAnthropic's Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion are now in beta, letting users ask Claude to turn data into live dashboards and ideas into animated explainers. Felix Rieseberg says the tools make creating cool short videos with Opus 5.5 much easier.
AIRunway's post links to a company news announcement about "Runway, Claude, Motion," but the post text itself gives no details beyond that title. No specific features, figures, or availability are stated in the source.
AIRunway's post promotes using Claude Motion to animate charts, create customer walkthroughs, and make short explainers. The animated work can then be brought into Runway to generate videos and images. Claude Motion is described as being in beta, per the quoted Claude post.
AIJoshua Achiam recommends a critical reading for thinking about the future of cybersecurity. The post links to a follow-up by Matthew Green, who clarifies a widely shared earlier reply about the topic. The source provides no further technical details or figures.
AIThree OpenAI safety researchers, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, were fired after OpenAI said they mishandled sensitive information by sharing it with an outside AI safety organization. In an open letter, they deny the claims, argue the dismissals will deter employees from raising safety concerns, and call on OpenAI to keep its public commitments on third-party safety auditing. OpenAI says the firings followed an investigation into a pattern of misconduct and denies they were retaliation for safety concerns.
AIAnthropic has cut Sonnet 5.5 cache read pricing in half to $0.10 per million tokens, with input at $2 and output at $10 per million tokens. The company says this makes Sonnet 5.5 roughly 20% cheaper on most agentic work. The change applies to API usage only and does not alter Claude Code usage limits.
AIAnthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 reached 1587 points on the Arena WebDev leaderboard, a 257-point gain over Claude Haiku 4.5's 1330. The post says it also improved significantly across all categories.
AIClaude Haiku 5.5 (High) debuted at #30 with 1587 points in Code Arena: WebDev, just outside the Pareto frontier. It matches GPT‑6 Luna's price at $0.10/$0.50 per 1M input/output tokens while scoring six points higher. Arena says it costs 90% less than Haiku 4.5 for +257 points, and 95% less than Sonnet 5.5 (High) for -128 points.
AIOpenRouter now offers xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite for text-to-video and image-to-video generation. The quoted post from Grok Imagine lists pricing of $0.02 per second at 480p, $0.03 per second at 720p, and $0.14 per second at 1080p.
AIAlex Gibney directs a four-hour documentary about Elon Musk, according to this review. The reviewer finds the film engaging but says it tends toward the hyperbolic.
AIClaude Code v2.1.295 adds onFailure: "block" for command and HTTP hooks, so a hook that cannot start, times out, or exits unexpectedly blocks the action. The release also adds an optional models list for Claude apps gateway upstreams, plus upstream_request_id in the inference audit event, and fixes a range of MCP, plugin, and terminal issues.