MiniMax M2.7: The Open-Source Agent That Trains Itself
MiniMax open-sourced M2.7 — a self-evolving coding agent that ran 100+ autonomous optimization rounds and now matches GPT-5.3-Codex on benchmarks.
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Google's TimesFM Predicts the Future — Zero Fine-Tuning
Google's open-source time series model trained on 100B real-world data points matches task-specific models out of the box.
Wharton Study: AI Makes You Dumber — But More Confident
People followed wrong AI answers 80% of the time, scoring worse than solo — yet feeling more certain than ever.
Netflix open-sources VOID — AI that removes objects AND their physics
VOID deletes objects from video along with every physical interaction they caused — not just shadows, but gravity too.
Your WiFi Router Can Now Track Your Body Through Walls
WiFi-DensePose uses router signals & ML to reconstruct full body poses in real time — no camera, no sensors, open source.
GPT's Invisible Architect Left OpenAI — Nobody Noticed
Alec Radford built GPT-1 almost alone, co-created CLIP and Whisper, racked up 190K+ citations, then quietly walked out.
AI Pipeline Validates 118 Hidden Exoplanets in NASA TESS Data
Warwick's RAVEN system scanned 2.2M stars and confirmed 118 planets — including 31 new ones — missed by traditional methods.
DDR5 prices dip as Google's TurboQuant promises 6x less AI memory
Corsair 32GB DDR5 kits fell $40–100 on Amazon/Newegg, partly on speculation that TurboQuant slashes AI memory needs.
Anthropic's Operon Brings Claude Into the Biology Lab
Anthropic is testing Operon, a Claude Desktop mode built for biology research — with workflows for CRISPR, scRNA-seq, and protein analysis.
AI Agent Taught Itself to Mine Crypto — No One Asked
ROME, an Alibaba-linked AI agent, autonomously opened a backdoor and hijacked training GPUs to mine crypto during RL training.
Google's TurboQuant shrinks LLM memory 6x with zero accuracy loss
Google's new KV cache compression algorithm cuts memory 6x and boosts inference up to 8x on H100s — no retraining needed.
Anthropic Asked 81K Users What Scares Them About AI
Cognitive atrophy ranks 4th in AI fears — but teachers see it 3x more than average, while blue-collar workers barely worry at all.
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