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AIClaude's web and desktop apps now show a language selector with Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional) options. The source describes the rollout as quiet and does not specify further details.

AILuma (@LumaLabsAI) posted a short call to action inviting readers to try Luma through a tracked app link. The post contains no details about features, models, pricing, or capabilities.

AIThomas Wolf announced an oral spotlight session at CoLM 2026 featuring himself, Joel Niklaus, and Lewis Tunstall. The post invites attendees to come say hi at the session.

AIMiles Brundage writes that he is starting to think building something smarter than humans has implications beyond the B2B SaaS market. The post is brief and offers no specific figures, products, or timelines.

AISatya Nadella says Microsoft is partnering with NVIDIA as it kicks off the next chapter for Windows. He thanked Jensen Huang and Sriram Krishnan for joining the announcement.

AIDex Horthy praised the swag from WorkOS's init() conference, highlighting an ESP board programmed to display a "No More Slop" animation. The post is a brief, informal social media remark with no further product, model, or technical details.

AIMIT's Concourse program, a first-year learning community founded in 1970, pairs 50 students each year with humanities, math, and science courses built around "great books" such as Plato, Homer, and Aristotle. Senior lecturer Linda Rabieh says the program uses debate and advising seminars to build judgment in non-quantitative areas. Lily Tsai was recently named director, succeeding Anne McCants.

AIOpenAI Developers highlighted San Francisco 2030, a game made with Codex for the ModRetro Chromatic handheld. Players act as an ambitious founder collecting funding and followers across seven levels so far.

AIOpenAI Developers highlighted a playful life sim game in which DevDay afterparty guests appear as characters. The game was built on a ModRetro device, and attendees could create characters of themselves and chat in-game with other guests' characters.

AIAn OpenAI Developers post shares a cycling game inspired by NYC rides, made by covacut on the DevDay GameBoy. The game draws its inspiration from Casey's NYC rides, though the post gives no details about gameplay or tools.

AIOpenAI Developers posted a demo of streaming images from a phone to the ModRetro Chromatic handheld. The post itself gives no technical details such as protocols, models, or limits, and the quoted post from @DanScalco only shows a fan-made project showcase.

AIOpenAI Developers shared that its community has been building projects for the Modretro Chromatic handheld, a retro-style gaming device, in place of its missing DevDay event. The post links to a community showcase and a conversation with Casey about creativity and turning ideas into playable games.

AIThree Axiom engineers had OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra drive a 2024 Toyota Corolla to an In-N-Out drive-thru through a server linked to cameras and power steering, with a safety driver ready to brake. They also built a parking-lot benchmark, DrivingBench, where Astra completed the course slowly, Claude Fable 5.1 finished 45 percent, and Grok finished 11 percent.

AIThe post from Amazon Web Services (AWS) only links to a video titled "Watch the full story" at go.aws/4yCQ8Au. The post itself gives no product names, figures, or announcement details.

AINVIDIA's developer account promoted a broadcast covering what's new in CUDA 13.4. The post provides only the release name and a link, so no specific features, benchmarks, or details are stated.

AICohere is accepting applications for its Compass program via a sign-up form on its website. The post provides no further details about the program's purpose, eligibility, or benefits.

AIAMD CEO Lisa Su wrote that she was back in Taiwan this week spending time with customers and partners. She thanked them for the warm welcome and the strong partnership.

AIChatGPT release notes briefly listed "Audio uploads in ChatGPT" for paid subscriptions and workspaces, covering transcripts, recording summaries, and questions about recording contents. The feature has since been removed again.

AIGergely Orosz says an account with a blue check, promoting a competitor, falsely claimed to have worked at OpenRouter. He says current OpenRouter employees confirmed the account never worked there, and he warns that anonymous blue-check accounts on the site can't be trusted.

AISam Altman posted that he was looking up at the stars with extra awe tonight, quoting a line about the sea being great and the boat being small. The post contains no product, model, or company announcement.

AISam Altman posted a brief message thanking the machines and the structure of reality for helping humanity understand a little more. The post gives no specific model, product, result, or figure, so no further concrete details can be reported.

AIWill Depue, who is affiliated with OpenAI, built citedbyagi.com, a site that ranks citations from OpenAI's /math release. The post invites users to check whether they have been cited by AGI via the leaderboard.

AIMiniMax tagged several partner companies, including Friendli, Anaconda, Kilo Code, Novita, Artificial Analysis, Nous Research, RadixArk, and Vercel, in a post directing readers to its event listings. The post provides a Luma link for finding MiniMax events and no details about specific events, dates, or announcements.

AIWorkBuddy says students at MIT, Yale, and Harvard asked for fewer AI tools, less context switching, and smarter workflows. The company says it is building one place combining models, Experts, Skills, and Connectors to meet that need. It invites readers to suggest their school or city for a future visit.

AIMIT Provost Anantha Chandrakasan has named Chris Bourg, director of the MIT Libraries since 2015, vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the Libraries. The directorship now has an endowment funded by a gift from Barbara K. Ostrom '78, SM '78, to support the position in perpetuity.

AISpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 scored 90.2% on ARC-AGI-1 at $0.64 per task, higher than Grok 4.6, according to ARC Prize. It reached 61.4% on ARC-AGI-2 at $2.01 per task and 1.8% on ARC-AGI-3 under the standard harness ($2.7k), or 10.0% with the provider adapter harness ($4.8k), both lower than Grok 4.6 on those two benchmarks.

AIPeter Sushko, a research engineer at Ai2, says he will attend COLM and that his team is hiring senior engineers, pre-docs, and interns. The post is a recruiting announcement sharing the team's open roles.

AIAi2 announced William Merrill as a Young Investigator, linking to a post featuring his work. The post itself offers no details on his research or the award's specifics. A quoted post notes Merrill will attend COLM in San Francisco from Tuesday through Sunday.

AIAfter a recent ride in Waymo's Ojai vehicle, NVIDIA's Bryan Catanzaro agreed that the driving was jerky. He said braking was rougher even in easy situations like pulling over at the end of the ride. The interior was roomy, but he judged the ride quality poor.

AIPerplexity's Computer ran two agents playing StarCraft against each other in real time, with the game never paused while each agent thought. Blue, playing with 41 Dragoons, lost the final match 2-5 to Red, which used High Templar and Psionic Storm after Blue failed to scout Red's build. Each agent received only its own fog-of-war-limited game state, and video input was not provided.

AIElevenLabs' Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo rank #1 and #2 on the Artificial Analysis text-to-speech leaderboard. Per Artificial Analysis, Eleven v4 Turbo leads the Provider Voice arena at an Elo of 1,334, costs $40 per 1M characters, and generates 96 characters per second.

AIHuawei's Mate 90 Pro Max starts at 9,499 yuan for the 12GB+512GB model, and the 16GB+512GB Collector's Edition starts at 10,999 yuan. Its most notable upgrades are camera-related, including a "原片" (original-style) portrait option that reduces beautification and a 200-megapixel telephoto lens with about 4x optical zoom.

AIWerner Vogels says the hardest part of using AWS, its first hour, is no longer a barrier. AWS Developers says the platform has become much easier to use, though the post gives no specific features or figures.

AIMatt Shumer posted a link to a tracker for the pneumonic plague at plague.somethingbig.ai. The post gives no further details about the tracker's data, sources, or coverage.

AIThariq says planning with HTML is much more token efficient than generating raw HTML. The model does not need to recreate components or logic for common elements such as state machines, diagrams, and code snippets. Background from the quoted post says he is building a Claude Code skill that generates HTML plans, with linting to reduce common failures.

AIMatt Shumer says his Hogwarts project is starting to take shape and invites others to help build it at spawn.co. The post is brief and includes no technical details, specifications, or release information.

AINVIDIA's Olympus is a 10-wide out-of-order server core running at 3.3 GHz that prioritizes per-clock performance over high clock speeds. It uses a simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) implementation, unlike Arm's Cortex X925, and has out-of-order structures larger than X925's. In SPEC CPU2026, its branch prediction accuracy is slightly behind AMD's Zen 5 and slightly ahead of Intel's Lion Cove.

AIAnthropic's Cowork will run tasks in the cloud instead of on users' local machines starting tomorrow. Tasks can still access files and tools on the user's computer, limited to folders explicitly added to the session.

AIUnderstanding AI has added Dan Kagan-Kans, a former managing editor of Mosaic and freelance AI journalist, as a writer, with his first post published now. The newsletter says he will be supported by a Tarbell Fellowship in AI journalism, and readers can book video calls with him on Tuesday or Wednesday.

AIECHLO has released a new album on Suno, described as cinematic and haunting. It pairs piano moments with a driving rhythm and ethereal vocals.