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The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) held its 75th anniversary symposium on September 24-25. President Sally Kornbluth said that AI has already had a huge impact on research and education, and that MIT needs the school's insights and guidance more than ever. Provost Anantha Chandrakasan emphasized that the arts, humanities, and social sciences are as important as ever amid the rapid changes driven by AI, and that technical capability alone is insufficient to solve glob

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Harvard legal scholar Martha Minow noted in the Compton Lecture at MIT that AI is weakening the four key elements of democracy—education, reliable information, security, and fairness—and warned of a possible "loss of the Enlightenment." She cited a Gallup poll stating that 77% of Americans believe the founding fathers would be disappointed with the current state of the country, while arguing that existing LLMs can deepen thinking through prompts, questions, and cues rather than replacing student

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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in the K3.1 series and its strongest 3T-class open-weight model to date, with a 1 million token context window, alongside Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, which is 2-3 times faster. The model is now available on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and the Kimi API, with full model weights to be released on November 4. On Terminal-Bench 4.0, K3.1 Pro scores 65.7%, higher than GPT-6 Astra's 58.2% and slightly below Claude Opus 5.5's 66.4%; on the internal ben

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Figma announced that code layers have entered public beta, allowing teams to explore and build code-backed prototypes on the canvas. The article lists how six teams—Superside, Dell, Cox Automotive, Rocket Money, Merkle, and Checkout.com—use it, including using the Figma agent to turn static designs into code layers, comparing multiple versions side by side, and iterating in stages with precise values and reference screenshots. Merkle says iteration and feature development speed increased by 30%,

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A senior detective with Derbyshire Constabulary is under investigation for gross misconduct by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over allegations of using Microsoft Copilot to assist in criminal case decisions. The detective is accused of using AI to make policy decisions, assess and manage risk, and inform investigative decisions, as well as inputting case-related sensitive operational and personal information into the tool. Derbyshire Police approved officers' use of Copilot in

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Warhound, co-founded by Colossal Biosciences' Ben Lamm and Anduril's Palmer Luckey, has emerged from stealth with $200 million in funding from investors including Sequoia, 8VC, Corner Ventures and CIA-backed In-Q-Tel, at a $1.2 billion valuation. The company plans to use Colossal's gene-editing technology to improve Belgian Malinois and German Shepherds, with Anduril providing protective vests, goggles and other hardware and software; the first dogs will soon be cloned and bred, expected to be b

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Anthropic releases proactive AI agent Claude Duet, based on Claude Opus 5.5, running in a virtual machine with an independent browser, able to monitor email, calendars, and business software on its own and handle tasks in the background. The service is first available in preview to Pro and Max subscribers in the United States, requires joining a waitlist, and can be used via the iOS and Android apps and claude.ai. Duet connects to more than 6000 connectors and plugins, including Gmail, Slack, Qu

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Investors in DeepSeek's approximately RMB 100 billion second round of financing include GigaDevice, Meituan, Geely, Midea and existing shareholder NetEase, with more than 15 investors in total; CATL and Tencent are the largest investors. This round sets the record for the largest financing in China's AI industry, with DeepSeek valued at approximately USD 74 billion before the financing. DeepSeek has engaged CITIC Securities as its listing advisor, targeting a listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchan

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Hugging Face releases the torch-neuronx model support Space, which lets users view, by download count or trend, whether models on the Hub can run on AWS Trainium, and reports the number of sharded cores, compile-inclusive latency, and peak memory. Currently it only tests Transformers text-generation and image-text models, and only models that fit on 4 Trainium2 devices (up to 16 cores); each model generates 32 tokens for validation, comparing against CPU results in single-core mode, and in shard

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Italy's largest real estate platform Immobiliare.it, based on ElevenAgents, scaled from a single conversational agent to an interconnected agent network, increasing lead qualification conversion rate by 3.3x, raising the likelihood of users leaving a phone number for follow-up by 74%, and about 80% of users rated the feature positively. The first agent was deployed on listing pages, responding 24/7 in the local language and summarizing each interaction; subsequently it expanded to agents for pri

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Automakers building humanoid robots aim to incubate new businesses using the funding, real factory tasks, and supply chain capabilities of their automotive operations—first validating them in manufacturing and store scenarios, then pursuing external customers. Tesla's Optimus has already begun production at the Fremont factory, with external delivery targets still around the end of 2027, and plans to build 10,000 to 20,000 units for training; Figure 02 has accumulated more than 1,250 hours of op

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Warp Sciences, an AI scientific research startup founded by former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil, has emerged from stealth, completing a $215 million Series A funding round at a post-money valuation of $865 million, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company, founded in San Francisco with a team of about 20 people, plans to use AI, robotics, and automated laboratories to help pharmaceutical companies screen molecular variants in drug development, without developing drugs itself. T

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The W3C Strategy team published a discussion draft, "W3C and the State of the Web in the AI Era," proposing the use of Web standards to make AI agents safer, focusing on Prompt Injection protection, controllable permissions, and accessibility. The article was published on October 21 to build momentum for the TPAC meeting; it is a proposal rather than an approved standard, with the official presentation scheduled for October 29. Using travel booking as an example, the article points out that lett

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1Password has released 1Password for Agents, allowing AI agents to log into user accounts, but the password is filled in by 1Password itself and immediately withdrawn after a successful login, so the agent cannot read or reuse it. The first batch of integrations is Meta's Muse and SpaceXSI's Grok Bot; integrations such as Claude Duet, ChatGPT Work, dots, and Perplexity have not yet been given a timeline. The feature is included in personal and family subscriptions and currently only supports acc

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Googlebook hides 7 hard-to-notice practical features, including "Look up" instant definitions in the right-click menu, Circle to Search that must be enabled in system settings, customizable shortcut actions at the four corners of the screen, keyboard shortcuts that can be customized and created for any app, and automatic summaries of local files. Automatic summaries only cover locally stored files and do not apply to Drive or a connected Android phone. These features come from the author's short

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AI has permeated every earnings call and boardroom deck, with enterprise generative AI spending reaching $30 billion to $40 billion in 2025, yet productivity statistics show almost no change. The only exception is data center construction: in 2025, hyperscalers invested more than $300 billion in data centers, chips, and power grids, which is already counted in GDP as private nonresidential fixed investment. The author believes AI will not take 15 years to show up in productivity data the way com

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