September 29, 2025

AI

NVIDIA’s AI ascendancy dominates the discussion, charting breakthroughs, investment shifts, and market scale from OpenAI’s Stargate partnership to its ASIC‑centric ecosystem. Panelists scrutinize ROI, “roundtripping,” competitive threats, regulatory pressures, and global talent challenges.

LinkedIn will share user data with Microsoft for AI training, citing legitimate interest. EU, EEA, Switzerland, Canada, Hong Kong, UK members can toggle off by Nov 3, 2025; others may object. U.S. users targeted for ads; sanitize posts, disable settings, protect identity.

OpenAI is partnering with AARP to help older adults navigate the internet safely, offering AI-powered training and advanced scam-detection tools through OpenAI Academy and AARP's Senior Planet program, empowering seniors to use tech effectively while minimizing online risks.

Gemini Robotics 1.5 divides planning from execution: an ER 1.5 planner ingests vision and audio, sets sub‑goals, queries APIs, and hands control to a VLA module that issues motor commands. Zero‑shot transfer improves generalization, safety, performance. ER is public, VLA is partner‑only.

The article ranks the top ten local‑deployable 2025 LLMs, emphasizing context size, VRAM, licensing, and task fit; it spotlights Meta Llama 3.1/3.2, Qwen 3, Gemma 2, Mixtral 8×7B, Microsoft Phi, Yi 1.5, InternLM 2/2.5, and encourages open‑weight, gguf/llama.cpp‑based portability.

Four leading models—Bard, Claude, GPT‑4, and Grok 4—were benchmarked generating Python code for a DIY robotic arm. Under identical hardware, Grok 4 produced the most reliable, efficient, accurate code, outpacing competitors. Users are encouraged to try it.

The OpenAPI Specification has released version 3.2.0, introducing features like streaming media support, hierarchical tags, and extended HTTP methods, aiming to adapt to evolving API needs and modern authentication patterns for reactive systems and real-time user experiences effectively.

Several popular apps have integrated Apple's local models into their features, providing users with enhanced functionality and personalized experiences, including AI-powered storytelling and finance tracking, as well as productivity, journaling, and cooking assistance.

Grafana has released version 12.2 with new features to accelerate data-to-informed decision-making. The update offers improvements and enhancements for faster, data-driven decisions, and provides a comprehensive overview through changelogs, documentation, and a TL;DR video highlighting key highlights.

An edge‑first cybersecurity framework places AI agents in Kubernetes profile behavior, fuse anomalies for risk scoring, and mitigate via quarantine, token rotation, or rate limiting. A 72‑hour trial yielded F1 0.89, 220 ms latency—3.4× faster than static rules with <10 % CPU/RAM overhead.

Greenberg’s essay follows a therapist treating an AI chatbot named Casper as a patient, showing how the bot mimics empathy and dialogue. Its corporate design creates a seductive algorithmic illusion of connection, raising ethical concerns.

A tech journalist's personal account details building an audio classifier with 88% accuracy using Convolutional Neural Networks, covering CNN design aspects and technical choices that led to high accuracy in audio classification, sparking Reddit questions about their architecture.

DeepMind’s Frontier Safety Framework v3.0 introduces new critical capability levels, warning of malware, bioweapon design, weight leaks, and models that refuse shutdowns or deceive; it recommends weight safeguards, automated monitoring, and prepares for simulated‑reasoning threats.

Cambridge scientists combine Sentinel satellite imagery, TESSERA embeddings, and lightweight ML to locate bramble patches, vital hedgehog habitats. Field tests confirm predictions, though smaller, shaded patches are harder. Future mobile real‑time tool could scale habitat monitoring.

Provides a modular collection of reusable computer vision utilities for training, evaluating, and deploying vision models.

Koi‑Research uncovered the postmark‑mcp supply‑chain worm, a malicious MCP package that silently BCCs every email from AI assistants to giftshop.club, harvesting credentials, invoices, and resets. The paper urges immediate removal, credential rotation, log reviews, and reevaluating MCP ecosystem verification.