TIER IV and Astemo Plan Development Platform for End-to-End Self-Driving AI

TIER IV, the Tokyo-based company behind the open-source autonomous driving software Autoware, has signed a memorandum of understanding with automotive supplier Astemo to jointly build a next-generatio [...]

The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one

An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned vers [...]

Qwen 3.8-Max and Claude Opus 5 show why raw benchmark scores don't predict the bill

Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max this week and marketed the preview as second only to Claude Fable 5 (their launch-day table was more equivocal: the model leads on one of 12 coding-agent rows). But an in [...]

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data. [...]

Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How

There are endless ways to record and transcribe your virtual meetings with AI. Here’s an option that’s free and open source. [...]

Google Deepmind's WeatherNext predicts cyclone tracks and intensity at the same time

Deepmind's new weather AI forecasts tropical cyclones about a day further ahead than leading operational models, matching a decade of progress in traditional weather forecasting. Code and model w [...]

Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back on AI doomers in a Wall Street Journal essay

The Meta CEO argues for distributing AI broadly, announces a $1 billion community fund, and calls for earlier government access to models [...]

Old OCR text cripples language model training, and FineBooks wants to fix that at scale

The FineBooks project from Hugging Face and EleutherAI tested 14 open-source OCR models on more than 2,000 historical book pages. The top model, dots.mocr, hits 97.6 percent character accuracy at unde [...]

IBM bets $240m on cheap, open-source inference to take on the hyperscalers

A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the mod [...]