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Nearly 20-year-old AMD Linux graphics driver updated with help from AI
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (282+ words) Linux developers have started using artificial intelligence tools to support legacy hardware. While working on the R600 driver for AMD Radeon HD 2000-6000 series graphics cards, they used Git Hub Copilot to support large-scale code refactoring. Tom's Hardware has reported that Mesa…...
Next-level AI: Anthropic rolls out the Mythos-based Fable 5 model
2+ week, 12+ hour ago (378+ words) Anthropic has unveiled Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available version of its Mythos-based model. The company claims the new model outperforms previous versions in programming, document processing, and image analysis, but has additional limitations in cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry. Anthropic…...
Apple confirms collaboration with Google and Nvidia on Apple Intelligence development
2+ week, 1+ day ago (250+ words) Apple has brought Google and Nvidia on board to help develop Apple Intelligence. CNBC has reported, citing the company's briefing following WWDC 2026, that the new Apple Foundation Models were developed using Gemini technologies and run on cloud infrastructure powered by…...
New open-source tool reveals how i Phone apps track users
2+ week, 1+ day ago (288+ words) Privacy researchers at Mysk have released Loupe, a free, open-source i Phone app that, according to Cyber Insider, shows users what information other apps on the device can access via public i OS APIs. The tool demonstrates how language settings,…...
Microsoft Git Hub open-source tools breached in hack targeting AI developers' passwords
2+ week, 1+ day ago (222+ words) Microsoft has temporarily restricted access to dozens of its open-source projects on Git Hub after hackers likely compromised the repositories and injected password-stealing malware into the code, Tech Crunch reports. Many of the compromised projects are related to Microsoft's Azure…...
Google has released an open-source AI model that runs locally on laptops with 16 GB of RAM
2+ week, 6+ day ago (299+ words) Google has introduced an open AI model, Gemma 4 12 B, with 11. 95 billion parameters, which can run locally on laptops with 16 GB of video or unified memory. The model is distributed under the Apache 2. 0 license and is already available for download via…...
Google is 'secretly' buying code from Android developers to train AI in programming
3+ week, 5+ hour ago (226+ words) Google is 'secretly' buying code from Android developers who have published their apps on Google Play, in order to create new AI-powered coding tools. This is reported by 404 Media. Several developers received a letter from the company with a 'confidential…...
Microsoft now has its own AI agent too " Scout
3+ week, 9+ hour ago (288+ words) Microsoft is launching its own AI-powered agent " Scout. It is designed to provide functionality similar to tools such as Open Claw within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, reports Tech Crunch. Scout was developed on the Open Claw framework to remain constantly active,…...
Microsoft has unveiled its first AI model with reasoning capabilities
3+ week, 11+ hour ago (267+ words) Microsoft announced seven new proprietary artificial intelligence models at the Build 2026 conference, including the flagship model MAI-Thinking-1. This is the company's first reasoning model developed in-house at Microsoft. MAI-Thinking-1 is described as a medium-sized model. According to Microsoft, it performs…...
Pew Die Pie has launched Odysseus " an open-source, locally hosted alternative to Chat GPT " "
3+ week, 2+ day ago (249+ words) You Tube blogger Pew Die Pie has unveiled Odysseus, an open platform for running AI models locally. According to the author, the project is intended to be an alternative to Chat GPT and other cloud services for users who want…...