Check out this tech news: Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year... https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users
Check out this tech news: Apple M5 chip... https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/
Check out this tech news: Seoul weighs approval for Google, Apple high-resolution map requests... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/seoul-weighs-approval-for-google-apple-high-resolution-map-requests/
Check out this tech news: Electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies seeks to raise $825M in IPO... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/electric-aircraft-startup-beta-technologies-seeks-to-raise-825m-in-ipo/
Check out this tech news: Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable co-workers... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/eightfold-co-founders-raise-35m-for-viven-an-ai-digital-twin-startup-for-querying-unavailable-coworkers/
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Backed by Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr.βs 1789 Capital, the Enhanced Games aims to disrupt the Olympics with a competition that allows athletes to dope. Launching in Las Vegas in May 2026, the game...
Check out this tech news: This Thiel-backed venture allows doping in its own sports... https://techcrunch.com/video/this-thiel-backed-venture-allows-doping-in-its-own-sports/
Check out this tech news: Apple adds 650 megawatts of renewables in Europe with more coming in China... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/apple-adds-650-megawatts-of-renewables-in-europe-with-more-coming-in-china/
Check out this tech news: Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5βs network... https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/breach-of-f5-requires-emergency-action-from-big-ip-users-feds-warn/
Check out this tech news: Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest... https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/meet-the-2025-nikon-photomicrography-winners/
π€ AI Summary:
Research paper by Kartik Narayan, Yang Xu, Tian Cao et al.. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in real-world applications require access to external knowledge sources and must remain responsive ...
Check out this tech news: Army general says heβs using AI to improve βdecision-makingβ... https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/army-general-says-hes-using-ai-to-improve-decision-making/
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-15T15:25:24-04:00 | ID: 3ceebc351674
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| Topics: π€ Ai Ml, π± Mobile
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Appleβs new M5-powered iPad Pro is the first iPad to officially support the Thread smart home protocol. It comes with Apple’s new N1 wireless networking chip, which adds Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, an...
Check out this tech news: The iPad just got the chip it needs to be aΒ smart homeΒ controllerΒ β again... https://www.theverge.com/news/799911/ipad-pro-thread-smart-home-apple-home-hub
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:33:48 +0000 | ID: 59341f4daf4c
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Spotify is developing a new βSongDNAβ feature that lets users explore music through the people behind it β from writers and producers to vocalists and engineers.
Check out this tech news: Spotify spotted working on a βSongDNAβ feature that showcases the people behind your favorite music... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/spotify-spotted-working-on-a-songdna-feature-that-showcases-the-people-behind-your-favorite-music/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:00:00 +0000 | ID: 128296668ec3
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Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance to Sonnet 4 "at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed."
Check out this tech news: Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down βHaikuβ model... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/anthropic-launches-new-version-of-scaled-down-haiku-model/
Check out this tech news: Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/liberate-bags-50m-at-300m-valuation-to-bring-ai-deeper-into-insurance-back-offices/
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-15T17:39:29-04:00 | ID: 484ccb905a9d
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| Topics: π€ Ai Ml, π’ Big Tech
π€ AI Summary:
While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day, many great iPad deals are available outside of those times. The day-to-day discounts come a...
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-15T16:40:00-04:00 | ID: 0df225f3b327
| Engagement: [44.5/100] π° Standard
| Topics: π€ Ai Ml, π§ Hardware
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Apple recently announced revised 14-inch MacBook Pro and iPad Pro models, each equipped with the new M5 processor. As expected, Apple's new M5 chip is supposedly faster than the M4, with better perfor...
Check out this tech news: Hereβs where you can preorder the new M5 MacBook Pro and iPad Pro... https://www.theverge.com/tech/800056/m5-macbook-pro-14-inch-ipad-pro-preorder-price-release-date-availability
Check out this tech news: Anthropicβs Claude Haiku 4.5 matches Mayβs frontier model at fraction of cost... https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/anthropics-claude-haiku-4-5-matches-mays-frontier-model-at-fraction-of-cost/
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-15T20:37:08-04:00 | ID: 0c6da2e74d74
| Engagement: [42.5/100] π° Standard
| Topics: π€ Ai Ml, π Security
π€ AI Summary:
If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Appleβs ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the newer AirPods Max and AirPods 4 (with and without ANC) now consistently receive discounts, a...
Check out this tech news: Once unthinkable, NASA and Lockheed now consider launching Orion on other rockets... https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/once-unthinkable-nasa-and-lockheed-now-consider-launching-orion-on-other-rockets/
Check out this tech news: CDC tormented: HR workers summoned from furlough to lay off themselves, others... https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/cdc-tormented-hr-workers-summoned-from-furlough-to-lay-off-themselves-others/
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-15T17:46:38-04:00 | ID: 21a5919fde2d
| Engagement: [40.5/100] π° Standard
| Topics: π€ Ai Ml, π’ Big Tech
π€ AI Summary:
Google is making videos created with the AI filmmaking tool Flow even more realistic β and harder to identify as AI-generated at first glance. The company announced Wednesday that users can add in and...
Check out this tech news: Googleβs AI video generator is getting better editing and more audio... https://www.theverge.com/news/800371/google-veo-3-1-flow-audio
Check out this tech news: US demand grows for Chinese cars despite privacy and security fears... https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/us-demand-grows-for-chinese-cars-despite-privacy-and-security-fears/
π€ AI Summary:
When my household quit cable four years ago and I lost access to Seattle Mariners games on TV, I started streaming the radio broadcast on the Google Home speaker in my kitchen. Honestly? Baseball on t...
Check out this tech news: The MLB appβs best feature is a 30-second delay... https://www.theverge.com/tech/800279/mlb-app-baseball-notifications-delay
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Research paper by Yingyan Li, Shuyao Shang, Weisong Liu et al.. Scaling Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on large-scale data offers a promising path to achieving a more generalized driving intellig...
Check out this tech news: I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code... https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2025/10/i-am-a-programmer.html
Check out this tech news: ISPs angry about California law that lets renters opt out of forced payments... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/california-says-landlords-cant-make-tenants-pay-for-an-isp-they-dont-want/
π€ AI Summary:
Research paper by Qing Jiang, Junan Huo, Xingyu Chen et al.. Object detection has long been dominated by traditional coordinate regression-based models, such as YOLO, DETR, and Grounding DINO. Althoug...
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Research paper by Caner Korkmaz, Brighton Nuwagira, BarΔ±Ε CoΕkunuzer et al.. We present CuMPerLay, a novel differentiable vectorization layer that enables the integration of Cubical Multiparameter Per...
π€ AI Summary:
Following the debut of Amazonβs $39.99 Fire TV Stick 4K Select, the company told The Verge that a name change was coming to the existing βFire TV Stick 4Kβ to clarify where it sat in the lineup. Now, ...
Check out this tech news: Amazonβs new name for the Fire TV Stick 4K only adds more confusion... https://www.theverge.com/news/800104/amazon-fire-tv-stick-4k-plus-new-name
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Hello and welcome to a post-October Federal Holiday edition of Regulator. Last week, I caught wind that House Speaker Mike Johnson, along with several top House Republican leaders, had held an exclusi...
Check out this tech news: ISPs angry about California law that lets renters opt out of forced payments | Gov. Newsom signs broadband billing law hated by the cable industry.... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/california-says-landlords-cant-make-tenants-pay-for-an-isp-they-dont-want/
Check out this tech news: YouTube Down for More Than a Hundred Thousand Users, Downdetector Shows... https://gvwire.com/2025/10/15/youtube-down-for-more-than-a-hundred-thousand-users-downdetector-shows/
π€ AI Summary:
The paper assignments for ICLR 2026 are in today and I was assigned 5 papers to review. The review deadline is 31st October. I am not sure if this is the normal time period but seems very little. Last...
Check out this tech news: [D] Only 17 days given to review 5 papers in ICLR 2026...... https://reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1o6hs2w/d_only_17_days_given_to_review_5_papers_in_iclr/