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🧠 Samsung AI model beats models 10,000x larger
⚠️ 70,000 government IDs exposed in Discord breach
🔒 China tightens export controls on rare earths
⏸️ Tesla halts Optimus production over design challenges
👓 Meta and Ray-Ban target 10 million AI glasses by 2026
📦 Google wants to bundle Gemini with Maps and YouTube
🎁 + 18 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
🧠 Samsung AI model beats models 10,000x larger LINK
Samsung's Tiny Recursion Model, with just 7 million parameters, rivals AI systems 10,000 times larger like Gemini 2.5 Pro on tough, grid-based reasoning benchmarks like Sudoku.
This performance comes from recursive reasoning, where the small network repeatedly refines its own output through up to sixteen supervision steps, simulating a much deeper model without the cost.
TRM is a specialized solver for puzzles like mazes, not a general chatbot, and its code is openly available on GitHub for commercial use under an MIT license.
⚠️ 70,000 government IDs exposed in Discord breach LINK
A third-party vendor used by Discord for customer service was breached, exposing the government-ID photos of approximately 70,000 users who had submitted them for age-related appeals.
The unauthorized party also accessed user information including names, emails, payment types, purchase history, and the last four digits of credit cards that were provided to customer support.
Discord confirmed the data did not include passwords, full credit card numbers, or private messages on its platform, aside from communications that were sent directly to its support teams.
🔒 China tightens export controls on rare earths LINK
Foreign companies must now get special approval to export products with even small traces of rare earths elements sourced from China, according to the country's Ministry of Commerce.
The government is also imposing permitting requirements on the export of technologies related to rare earths mining, smelting, and recycling, extending the new controls to magnet-making as well.
The Commerce Ministry said the restrictions are meant to safeguard national security by stopping the transfer of elements or technologies from China to overseas groups for military or sensitive uses.
⏸️ Tesla halts Optimus production over design challenges LINK
Tesla has reportedly halted production of its Optimus robots because engineers are struggling to create human-like, dexterous hands, leading to a significant delay in the original manufacturing timeline.
The company now has a stockpile of Optimus bodies that are missing their hands and forearms, with no clear indication of when these partially built units will be completed and shipped.
After protests from engineers about unrealistic targets, the goal for producing 5,000 Optimus units by year-end was revised to just 2,000 robots for the remainder of 2025.
👓 Meta and Ray-Ban target 10 million AI glasses by 2026 LINK
Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica is partnering with Meta to increase manufacturing, with a plan to produce 10 million units of their AI-powered smart glasses annually by the end of next year.
The company already has the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display for texts and video calls, viewing glasses as central devices that could one day replace smartphones for many daily tasks.
Meta faces increased competition from Alibaba’s new Quark AI glasses in China, as well as from multiple head-mounted projects that Apple is expected to roll out by 2027.
📦 Google wants to bundle Gemini with Maps and YouTube LINK
Google is asking a federal judge to let it bundle the Gemini AI service with popular apps like Maps and YouTube, pushing back on a Justice Department proposal to forbid it.
The government wants the same prohibitions that apply to Search and Chrome to also cover Gemini, which would prevent Google from forcing phone makers to preload the company's new AI.
The judge expressed concern this would let Google use its leverage from popular products like Maps and YouTube to give its new AI service an edge over competitors.
Other news you might like
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- Google ramps up its ‘AI in the workplace’ ambitions with Gemini EnterpriseLINK
- Google’s AI try-on imagines your feet in new shoesLINK
- Intel gives us a glimpse of its Panther Lake Core Ultra chipsLINK
- Even after Stargate, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD, OpenAI has more big deals coming soon, Sam Altman saysLINK
- Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peakLINK
- New York City sues social media companies for allegedly addicting childrenLINK
- Here’s how Apple is locking down iPhones to comply with Texas’ age verification lawLINK
- Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ software under investigation for traffic safety violationsLINK
- OpenAI’s Nick Turley on transforming ChatGPT into an operating systemLINK
- Salesforce says it won’t pay extortion demand in 1 billion records breachLINK
- Google adds limits to 'Work from Anywhere' policy that began during CovidLINK
- California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharingLINK
- AMD's deal with OpenAI gives Nvidia much-needed challenger in market it dominatesLINK
- Stoke Space gives us another reason to take it very seriouslyLINK
- Deloitte’s AI slip-up reveals bigger threat to consulting firmsLINK
- Valve's next-gen 'Deckard' VR headset reportedly enters mass production, company allegedly plans to ship up to 600K units annuallyLINK
Latest research and tools
Lavandula: a lightweight and fast web framework written in C for building modern web applications.LINK
FleetCode: an open-source desktop application for running multiple coding agents at the same time, with each agent operating in its own isolated environment to avoid conflicts.LINK
HyprMCP: an open-source platform that provides analytics, logs, and user authentication for MCP servers, helping developers understand usage and simplify setup for users.LINK
Redstart: a Lisp interpreter for shell scripting that allows you to write command-line scripts using Lisp syntax instead of Bash.LINK
A Mathematical Framework for Scalable, Parallel, High-Dynamic-Range Computation: this paper presents a new mathematical system for high-dynamic-range computing that can be scaled up and run on multiple computer processors at the same time.LINK
Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving LMs: this paper presents a method where an AI agent automatically refines its own prompts over time to improve its performance on tasks.LINK
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