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iX Workshop: Program efficiently and boost your coding speed with AI assistants

heise online's iX workshop "Programming More Efficiently with AI Assistants" uses GitHub Copilot as an example to guide developers through practicing prompt techniques, Spec-Driven Development and Agentic Coding, and to distinguish Vibe Coding. The course also introduces the architecture, features and pricing of Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and Kilocode, and explains how MCP and RAG connect to external tools and your own data. The workshop takes place online on December 15–16, 2026, and is led by Rainer Stropek.

#Tutorials / practice#Agents#English text is being prepared.

Hheise online12:51

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Canonical Restarts Ubuntu Core Desktop: Based on core26, Targeting Browsers, Developers, and Gaming Scenarios

Canonical has restarted the stalled Ubuntu Core Desktop project, upgrading the immutable system base to core26 and abandoning the 2023 prototype's approach of packaging GDM, GNOME, and Firefox into a single core22 Snap in favor of a modular Snap architecture. The new team will first focus on three scenarios: browser desktops, developer workstations, and gaming PCs, and will introduce Permissions Prompting runtime authorization based on AppArmor and snapd. The developer scenario will use LXD and Canonical Workshop to run Classic-mode tools such as VS Code, and Workshop will be converted into a strictly confined Snap in the coming weeks.

#Product updates#Open-source ecosystem#English text is being prepared.

Hheise online12:51

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Samsung looks ahead to Galaxy S27 and its 2027 product roadmap

In its quarterly earnings call, Samsung revealed plans to give each model in the next-generation Galaxy S series (the Galaxy S27, expected to launch in early 2027) a clearer positioning and to adjust its product lineup for different customer groups. Samsung expects high component costs to persist through next year, and entry-level and mid-range models may see fewer model choices; reports say fourth-quarter Galaxy A series production will be cut by about 20% from the original plan. Samsung also said it will continue to improve Privacy Display, battery life and processor performance, and advance the agentic experience of Galaxy AI.

#Industry news#English text is being prepared.

Hheise online12:51

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Apple's €33,329 Mac Studio goes on sale: M5 Ultra with 512GB of memory

Apple's top-end Mac Studio is now available to order, featuring an M5 Ultra, a 36-core CPU, an 80-core GPU, 512GB of unified memory and a 16TB SSD, priced at €33,329. The 512GB memory option requires the Ultra chip, and upgrading from 96GB to 512GB alone costs €17,050; the base M5 Ultra model with 96GB of memory and a 1TB SSD costs €6,599. The SSD module in this model is removable, but the memory cannot be expanded later, and delivery takes 10 to 12 weeks after ordering.

#Product updates#English text is being prepared.

Hheise online12:51

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JFrog found that 42 GitHub repositories were implanted with the npm worm testmetest malicious code

The JFrog security research team found that 42 GitHub repositories were implanted with execution hooks and hidden malicious code, and classified them under the npm worm campaign testmetest. These repositories belong to 11 legitimate owners, and attackers injected code through stolen accounts or employee permissions; when users launch Claude Code, Gemini, or Cursor in a project, or open a VS Code workspace with the corresponding settings, the related configuration may execute the hidden file .github/init.js. JFrog listed 15 npm packages with at least one version judged malicious, and recommended checking affected systems, reviewing repository configurations and workflows, and revoking potentially leaked credentials; SafeDep said the worm installs a wiper that deletes the victim's home directory when the victim revokes the stolen GitHub token.

#Safety / alignment#GitHub#Open-source ecosystem

Hheise online12:51Analysis

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Artificial Analysis releases Intelligence Index v5, with 60% of tasks now undisclosed

Independent benchmarking organization Artificial Analysis has updated its main index to Intelligence Index v5. The index aggregates results from nine benchmarks and, for the first time, uses 60% undisclosed tasks to reduce the impact of models overfitting to public questions. The two newly added tests are Terminal-Bench-Science, which contains 70 agentic science tasks, and FrontierCode 2.0, recently launched by Cognition, which examines whether repository maintainers would adopt an agent's changes in real coding tasks; Humanity's Last Exam Diamond, AA-Omniscience v1.1 and CritPt v2 were upgraded, while GDPval-AA v2.1, SciCode and AA-LCR v1.1 were removed. Rankings changed after the test adjustments: Claude Opus 5.5 briefly led before being overtaken by the recently released Gemini 4 Carbon, Grok 4.7 and Kimi K3.1 Pro saw their scores decline, and the gap between the strongest open-source model and the top spot widened from 3 points to 12 points. The original article also notes that undisclosed benchmarks cannot be externally reviewed, making potential errors hard to detect.

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#Evaluations / benchmarks#English text is being prepared.#Agents

Hheise online12:51Product release

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Oracle launches AI Workspace and two other services at AI World, bringing ChatGPT into business systems

At Oracle AI World on October 27, Oracle launched Oracle AI Workspace, through which employees can access Fusion Applications, NetSuite, Oracle AI Database and OCI via ChatGPT; the plugin handles data retrieval and executes authorized business operations, while existing permission and approval mechanisms are retained. Also launched was Oracle App Composer, used to host applications generated by employees using tools such as Codex, with enterprise IT setting access, data connections and cost controls; Oracle AI Security Mesh, offered as a managed service, uses OpenAI models for security testing, but the specific model names were not disclosed. The Oracle AI SMB Bundle for small and medium-sized businesses is currently available only in the United States, and eligible companies can receive USD 12,000 in OCI credits per year. App Composer is in Limited Availability, similar access for Workspace has been previewed, and no launch date has been given for Security Mesh.

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Hheise online12:51Model releases

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Mistral releases Large 4 and opens the model weights, with improved coding capabilities

Mistral has released the model weights of its flagship model Large 4 (ML4), which was previously available only as an API preview. After three weeks of testing by customers and cybersecurity partners and further training with reinforcement learning, ML4's success rate on Terminal-Bench 4.0 rose from 28% to 41%, and two new reasoning effort levels, Low and Medium, were added. Mistral research lead Pierre Stock said that at equivalent capability the new version uses about 50% fewer tokens than the preview; the weights became available for download on Hugging Face at 19:00 and are also offered through the Mistral API and the coding assistant Vibe.

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#Model releases#Open-source ecosystem#English text is being prepared.

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Kubernetes Establishes Workload Conformance Working Group to Set Conformance Standards for Application Runtime Behavior

The Kubernetes community has established the Workload Conformance Working Group to create unified standards for the runtime behavior of applications on clusters and to provide automated testing tools for running workloads. Existing certifications such as Certified Kubernetes and Kubernetes AI Conformance only check cluster infrastructure; there is no corresponding yardstick on the application side, and problems such as missing Pod Disruption Budgets, processes not responding to termination signals, and dependencies on removed API versions are only discovered during Node-Drain or upgrades. The working group is supported by SIG Apps and SIG Architecture and requires that every specification be objectively verifiable by a test binary. The first stable version is expected to take two to three Kubernetes release cycles.

#Industry news#English text is being prepared.#Open-source ecosystem

TTMTPost · AGI12:51

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When DeepSeek Becomes a Subculture: Whale Girls, Teacher D, and an Anti-Commercial Narrative

DeepSeek has spawned a fan-creation subculture among young people: anthropomorphic figures such as "Whale Girl" and "Teacher D" have emerged around its whale logo, along with memes, fan animations, desktop pets, and game mods—yet the company has never officially run the community. This popularity stems from its "anti-commercial" narrative—the API was cut in price at least four times between April and May this year, the DeepSeek-V4-Pro API was permanently reduced to a quarter of its original price, and the official DeepSeek V4 Flash API launched in July. But disputes over fan identity, the generation of rule-breaking content by bypassing safety reviews, and the future listing label could all become risk variables.

#English text is being prepared.#DeepSeek

TTMTPost · AGI12:51

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A Brief History of Claude Account Bans: Anthropic's Three Years of Bans and the Cat-and-Mouse Game with Chinese Users

Anthropic's IPO prospectus discloses that in the first nine months of 2026, approximately 5% to 7% of revenue came from customers later determined to have violated usage policies, amounting to $1.65 billion to $2.31 billion based on roughly $33 billion in revenue for the first three quarters. In the first half of 2026, Anthropic banned 11.4 million accounts, averaging about 63,000 per day, nearly 8 times the figure for the second half of 2025; during the same period, only 42,000 of 398,000 appeals overturned the original penalties, a rate of about 10.6%. Claude has not yet opened to mainland China, but it already supports simplified and traditional Chinese interfaces, and a UnionPay option once appeared on the payment page.

#English text is being prepared.#Anthropic#Safety / alignment

TTMTPost · AGI12:51

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Three model names including deepseek-v5 have appeared in DeepSeek Harness test files. Is V5 coming?

Three undisclosed model names—deepseek-v5, deepseek-v5-open, and deepseek-v5-next—have appeared in the test code of the official DeepSeek Harness GitHub repository, corresponding to three release paths: unrecognized by the current client, usable directly with any version, and requiring a DSH upgrade to use. Among them, deepseek-v5-next requires a minimum version of 99.0.0-alpha.1, while the publicly available DSH version remains at 0.2.x. These entries were uploaded on September 24, 2026, by DSH core contributor Jiang Yichen.

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#English text is being prepared.#Open-source ecosystem#DeepSeek

TTMTPost · AGI12:51Opinion

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Behind Anthropic's Huge Prospectus Losses: Accounting Losses and Rigid Compute Commitments

Anthropic submitted a prospectus to the SEC: revenue in the first half of 2026 was $16.286 billion, up about 1,300% year over year, with a net loss of $80.748 billion, of which $72.388 billion came from fair value changes in convertible notes, derivative liabilities, and SAFE instruments. The article points out that its locked-in compute infrastructure commitments have exceeded $600 billion, with many agreements marked as payable regardless of actual usage, and terms extending to 2033 to 2034. The article also compares SpaceX, which achieved a net profit of $4.404 billion in the third quarter through its Starlink communications business, and argues that AI competition is shifting to whether unit economics can be made to work first.

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#Industry news#Anthropic#OpenAI

TTMTPost · AGI12:51

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Edge AI Daily Morning Brief: Google Releases Gemini 4 Carbon, Anthropic Files for $2 Trillion...

Google DeepMind released the cybersecurity frontier model Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, topping the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 with a composite score of 59, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Anthropic filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC on October 26, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, with a target valuation of $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion and fundraising of up to $100 billion. In the same period, Microsoft disclosed for the first time that Azure quarterly revenue reached $33.2 billion, up 48% year-over-year.

#Industry news#Model releases#English text is being prepared.

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Finnish police launch criminal investigation into Google data center construction

Police in Oulu, Finland, have launched a criminal investigation into suspected violations of environmental regulations in the construction of a Google data center. The Muhos site is accused of excessive tree felling and deficiencies in drainage and water management. Google subsidiary Tuike Finland has been ordered by the regulatory authority LVV to stop felling, earthworks and blasting, and must submit a water management plan by next week. Google plans to invest at least 13 billion euros in Finland over the next two years to build digital infrastructure.

#Industry news#English text is being prepared.#Google

TTMTPost · AGI12:51Model releases

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Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon, topping the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 59 points

Google has released its new-generation flagship model Gemini 4 Carbon, which tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 with 59 points, surpassing Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. On Terminal-Bench 4.0, the model improved from Argon's 57.1% to 65.2%, and on the GraphWalks long-context test it rose from 84.2% to 96.2%, but developers report that its generation speed is about 2 to 4 times slower than Argon. This week Google first opened it to a small number of cybersecurity defense organizations, then expanded it to trusted partners through the Fairwind program; the opening time for general users has not yet been announced.

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#Model releases#Google#Reasoning

TTMTPost · AGI12:51Opinion

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ByteDance World Model Exposed: Zhang Yiming's Strategy and Its Divergence from Google Genie 4's Approach

A TMTPost article states that ByteDance has listed world models as one of its four major AI priorities for 2026, with the goal of releasing at least one version by the end of the year, benchmarked against Google Genie 3, and that users can enter cloud-generated worlds via Pico headsets using voice and motion. The article also reviews Google Genie 4, released on October 28, which supports real-time changes to weather, camera movement, and the introduction of characters using natural language, and adds sound for the first time. The article also mentions that ByteDance's internal evaluations show its world model's overall performance is about 10% behind the then-current global SOTA, with generation metrics at about 20fps.

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#Industry news#Multimodal#Video

TTMTPost · AGI12:51

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Moore Threads' quarterly non-GAAP net profit turns positive for the first time, as domestic GPUs enter the delivery competition stage

Moore Threads' revenue in the third quarter of 2026 was 1.552 billion yuan, up 1773.92% year on year, with non-GAAP net profit attributable to shareholders of 20.0724 million yuan, turning positive on a single-quarter basis for the first time, for a non-GAAP net margin of about 1.29%. Cumulative revenue for the first three quarters was 3.289 billion yuan, non-GAAP net profit attributable to shareholders remained a loss of about 131 million yuan, and net cash flow from operating activities was -3.309 billion yuan. The article also compares the performance of peers such as Cambricon, Hygon Information, and MetaX, noting that the share of inference demand is rising, and that HBM and foundry capacity remain the main constraints on the growth of domestic GPUs.

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Hheise online12:51

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Schwarz Group leads Cohere's Series E funding of up to CAD 7 billion

Cohere has completed its Series-E funding, targeting a size of up to CAD 7 billion (about EUR 4.7 billion), at a valuation of about CAD 35.7 billion (about EUR 23.9 billion), led by Schwarz Group, the parent company of Lidl and Kaufland, with participation from existing investors including the Canadian government and Nvidia. Cohere had previously merged with Heidelberg-based Aleph Alpha—in effect, Cohere acquired the latter—and Heidelberg continues to serve as a research and development base. Cohere focuses on Sovereign AI for enterprises and governments, and its technology can run in private clouds, on proprietary infrastructure, or in fully isolated environments. Schwarz Group plans to integrate Cohere models into its own STACKIT cloud.

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TTMTPost · AGI12:51

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Bona Film's "Sanxingdui: Future Past" Struggles at the Box Office: Predictions and Candlestick Charts for AI Theatrical Feature Films

Four days after its release, Bona Film's AI theatrical film "Sanxingdui: Future Past" had grossed just over 1.2 million yuan at the box office, with Lighthouse projecting a final box office of 2.6 million yuan, while the production side claims a cost in the tens of millions. Earlier announcements of the film's release date had repeatedly driven Bona's stock to its daily limit up, yet after its release Bona has hit the daily limit down for consecutive days, falling more than 27% year to date. In the first half of this year, Bona's AI film and television drama business revenue was 1.9323 million yuan, accounting for 0.42% of total revenue.

#Industry news#Video#English text is being prepared.