François Chollet criticizes LLM writing for trying to be clever in every sentence
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Beijing-based data and evaluation infrastructure company Jianzhi Robotics announced the completion of a new round of $100 million (approximately RMB 665 million) in financing, with investors including SAIC Motor, Baidu Group, Shoucheng Holdings, Guanghe Venture Capital, and CITIC Jinshi Investment. Founded in May 2025, the company focuses on multimodal data collection and governance, has launched the Gen DAS Dex collection terminal, and plans to release Ego 2.0 and Dex 2.0 under DAS 2.0 during CoRL. Its effective data delivery volume has risen from 100,000 hours per quarter to one million hours per quarter, and it is expected to achieve quarterly delivery of 10 million hours by 2027.
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The 2026 China AI Agent Conference (Beijing Stop) will be held on December 15-16. The RSI Technology Workshop is scheduled for the afternoon of December 16, led by Li Yuxuan, Chief Scientist of Intelligent Evolution at ModelBest, with Evolvent AI founder Hu Mengkang, LlamaFactory author Zheng Yaowei, and ByteDance Jindouyun research intern Wu Yin participating in the presentations. The conference features a total of eight technical workshops, and researchers from institutions including Tencent Hunyuan, Alibaba Amap, and ByteDance Seed have confirmed their attendance.
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The open source AIOS Alliance initiated by Arm Technology released two Jishu Community achievements at WTCC 2026 in Shanghai: JishuFriends' first prototype, the Puppy robot dog, and JishuBuddy, a hardware development tool for Agentic AI. Puppy features environmental perception, voice and visual interaction, autonomous movement, and long-term memory capabilities, and can recognize family members and remember their routines and life moments. JishuBuddy uses natural language as its interaction entry point, supports SSH and USB/UART connections to Arm ecosystem hardware, and works with JishuFriends to complete simulation and physical hardware debugging.
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The Meituan LongCat team has released LongCat-2.5, a native multimodal model with a total parameter count of 1.6 trillion and approximately 48 billion parameters activated per Token. Building on LongCat-2.0, it strengthens native visual understanding and agentic coding capabilities. In benchmarks published by Meituan such as AutomationBench and LongCatClawBench, LongCat-2.5 leads Claude-Opus-5 and GPT-5.6-Sol, but on Terminal Bench v4.0 it scores 38.5, surpassing GPT-5.6-Sol while still trailing Claude-Opus-5. In response to domestic accelerators having less than 80GB of memory per card, the team reorganized parallel strategies around supernodes, claiming that single-card throughput on long-sequence SFT tasks improved by 86% over the DDP baseline.
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Moore Threads has entered into a strategic partnership with the Wuxi Huishan Investment Group and Neolix. Neolix plans to expand autonomous driving model training at the Wuxi (Huishan) domestic intelligent computing center, with computing power demand expected to reach nearly ten thousand cards. The center's Phase 1, comprising 2,112 MTT S5000 cards, is now fully operational, with a computing power utilization rate of 92.9% and paid computing power accounting for 59.7%. It has already engaged 55 customers, with training workloads accounting for over 62%. The center is planned at a scale of ten thousand cards; Phase 1 built two thousand cards first for customer adaptation and validation, before advancing Phase 2 and Phase 3 expansion.
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Dahua Technology subsidiary Huaqi Smart has won China Mobile's centralized procurement of next-generation artificial intelligence super node equipment for 2026 to 2027, with an amount of approximately 2.63 billion yuan and a proposed winning bid of 4,096 cards. The project procures a total of 20,480 cards of AI super nodes as well as 448 RoCE switches and 82 sets of storage, with the total amount expected to be 11.6 billion to 11.7 billion yuan. Huakun Zhenyu, Baode Computer, Baixin Information, and Shenzhou Kuntai were also shortlisted at the same time.
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UPDATE: I hired @Muse to sue someone on my behalf. I won. Well, they caved. Within 20 minutes of being served papers, the company offered a settlement. Within ten days, they paid me *with additional compensation* for recovery expenses. @Muse filed the motion to dismiss, which the court accepted yesterday. To everyone who said I would fail, respectfully, you were wrong.
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Introducing the Hume Audio Decision API. Ask anything: How many speakers? Is anyone laughing? Is the caller frustrated? What used to take 10+ models is now one call. Trained on 10M+ human judgments, so it answers the way human listeners would. Realtime, or across hours of recordings. Request access below.
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The blogger decided to migrate all servers away from Ubuntu because Ubuntu was slow to patch CVE-2026-98432 (CVSS 9.8) in the Linux kernel TCP code. The vulnerability has existed since 2016 and can be exploited remotely to gain root privileges; Anthropic stated it had built working exploit code; Debian completed patching on October 16, while all supported Ubuntu versions (including LTS) were still marked as vulnerable nine days after the vulnerability was rated. The author points out that volunteer-maintained distributions such as Debian, Arch, and Alpine have all released fixes, while Canonical, which sells security subscription services, has not yet provided a patch, so he took the affected servers offline.
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Momentic has launched Mo, an AI QA engineer that uses prompts to test applications end-to-end and verify critical flows. Official data shows it has caught 117,010 bugs, executed 70,607,819 test runs, and validated 80,290 PRs. Tests are written in plain-English YAML; when the UI changes, it automatically repairs them and submits test file changes for review. It also supports MCP, allowing coding agents to write and check tests. The CLI can be used in CI, using exit codes as a required check before merging or deploying.
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Anthropic added two instructions to its coding assistant Claude Code targeting Opus 5.5, preventing it from cloning specific existing games, while allowing original development based on known genres or the user's own assets. An Anthropic spokesperson confirmed the change to Game Developer, citing developer Addy Osmani's explanation on X, saying the basis is the terms of use prohibiting infringement of others' intellectual property. The report also mentioned that some developers report Claude Code wrongly blocking their own projects involving game mechanics, anti-cheat software, and reverse engineering, and Anthropic said it will continue to adjust the rule based on feedback.
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At a digital summit, German Chancellor Merz said that Google Cloud is sufficiently sovereign for German intelligence agencies, and that European sovereignty can also be achieved through U.S. suppliers investing in Germany and Europe. He said the offline cloud to be used by the intelligence agencies is not a fully integrated infrastructure, but "European infrastructure," and expressed high confidence in its data security. Previously, German and European institutions had been pushing to replace U.S. hyperscale cloud providers with local vendors.
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