The DaB - Daily Briefing

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Hacker News discussion with 2233 points and 2043 comments. Posted 2025-10-20 07:22.

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Hacker News discussion with 1754 points and 511 comments. Posted 2025-10-16 20:22.

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Hacker News discussion with 1136 points and 625 comments. Posted 2025-10-17 10:00.

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Hacker News discussion with 1767 points and 400 comments. Posted 2025-10-20 04:42.

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Hacker News discussion with 1205 points and 1107 comments. Posted 2025-10-17 17:24.

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Hacker News discussion with 1079 points and 12 comments. Posted 2025-10-20 07:11.

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The new information comes as the Raines family updated its lawsuit against OpenAI. The family first filed a wrongful death suit against OpenAI in August after alleging their son had taken his own life...

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Cohere's former VP of AI research, Sara Hooker, is launching a new startup to build AI models that can adapt to their environment.

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Snapchat is expanding access to its AI-powered “Imagine Lens,” allowing all users to generate and edit images with custom prompts for free.

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OpenAI's new browser is a surface for the company to distribute ChatGPT and develop new AI features rather than improving core web experience.

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Tesla's profit actually fell 37% compared to the same period last year, despite buyers rushing to take advantage of the expiring EV tax credit.

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Do we want LLMs in our cars? GM thinks we do.

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Research paper by Howard Chen, Noam Razin, Karthik Narasimhan et al.. Adapting language models (LMs) to new tasks via post-training carries the risk of degrading existing capabilities -- a phenomenon ...

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Amazon likely hopes that the new glasses will shave valuable time off of each delivery by providing delivery drivers with detailed directions and information about hazards directly in their line of si...

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Ever wonder if you’re talking to a real person online or just another bot? As bots increasingly outnumber humans online, leading to an explosion of deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, one company has a sol...

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At least one CVE could weaken defenses put in place following 2008 disclosure.

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Don't even apply if you're not a Tier 1 "A-player."

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Research paper by Ziang Zhang, Zehan Wang, Guanghao Zhang et al.. Reasoning about dynamic spatial relationships is essential, as both observers and objects often move simultaneously. Although vision-l...

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A loss of regulatory credits and increased expenses didn't help.

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Some marketplace premiums could more than double. Employer-based plans are soaring.

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Biased, eager-to-please models threaten health research replicability and trust.

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Lomography announced a new Lomo MC-A film camera, a 35mm format point-and-shoot with a fixed 32mm f/2.8 lens and metal body. It’s a charmer of a new film shooter, complete with a built-in flash, autof...

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Research paper by Haochen Wang, Yuhao Wang, Tao Zhang et al.. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at holistic understanding, they struggle in capturing the dense world with complex sc...

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Research paper by Akshat Gupta, Jay Yeung, Gopala Anumanchipalli et al.. Growing evidence suggests that large language models do not use their depth uniformly, yet we still lack a fine-grained underst...

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The pedal-assist cargo quad vehicles are narrow delivery vans that can operate in a bike lane.

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It may not be as spendy as the Vision Pro, but $1,800 is still a lot.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the company would be able to remove the safety monitors from its robotaxis "by the end of the year." He also said Tesla would launch a robotaxi service in 8-10 new market...

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The web wasn't built for AI agents. It was built for humans with eyes, mice, and 25 years of muscle memory navigating dropdown menus. Most AI companies are solving this with browser automation, playwr...

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A New York Times report on Tuesday cited internal Amazon documents touting how its shift into automation could help it sell more products without hiring more people, but today the company has issued a...

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Amazon and Rivian are back together again. The e-commerce giant is collaborating with Rivian’s Also spinoff on a custom-designed, pedal-assisted, four-wheel cargo bike. The bike would likely be based ...

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Starlink not allowed in Myanmar, but scammers reportedly use it "on a huge scale."

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 16563 upvotes and 1181 comments.

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Remember when word got out that Amazon was building smart glasses for its delivery drivers before possibly launching a version for consumers as well? Amazon has just revealed those “Amelia” glasses to...

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HBO Max is rolling out a new rating system that allows you to share feedback about the shows and movies you watch. The streaming service will tweak your recommendations based on whether you select the...

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 924 upvotes and 205 comments.

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After six years as Fandom’s CEO, Perkins Miller is parting ways with the popular wiki hosting platform. While there has yet to be an official announcement, The Verge has learned that Miller is n...

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Criterion recently kicked off its semi-annual sale that slashes the cost of all of its in-stock Blu-rays, DVDs, and box sets. The sale will last through 12PM ET, October 23rd. This a great opportunity...

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 2707 upvotes and 262 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 860 upvotes and 75 comments.