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Block’s New Voice Model Learned to Talk Without Ever Reading a Word

Block trained its new speech model on a single Nvidia GB200 NVL72, a liquid-cooled rack that Nvidia says holds 72 Blackwell GPUs and 36 Grace CPUs. The finished model, called Dessa, runs on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max chip or better, and everything it knows came from human conversation, with no text and

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LiteLLM Traces Its Poisoned 1.107.0 Release to a Master Key Nobody Revoked

Anyone who installed litellm 1.107.0 during its roughly two hours online Wednesday has been told to rotate every credential the affected machine could reach. LiteLLM has now explained how its own release pipeline built and shipped that poisoned version, and the trail starts with a master key the company meant to revoke back in May.

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Solidigm Won’t Go Public for Now, and SK hynix Still Has a U.S. Fab to Pay For

Solidigm needs more factory space in the U.S. to keep up with demand for the high-capacity SSDs that go into AI data centers. Its parent, SK hynix, has now set aside one way of paying for it, at least for the time being: the storage maker will stop studying a pre-IPO round and a public

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Oracle Puts $1 Billion Behind Its Partners and Lets Customers Spend More Cloud Credits in Its Marketplace

Oracle is setting aside $1 billion over the next four years for the systems integrators, software vendors, resellers and other firms that build on and sell its products. Oracle said the money is meant to help those partners win business from customers who want AI-powered products and services. The company announced the commitment on Friday

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Apple Working to Fix Safari Screen Usage On Outer Duo Display

Apple is trying to address issues with Safari’s interface and how websites display on the iPhone Duo’s outer screen, a problem Android foldable makers have dealt with for years. In a blog post on the WebKit site, Apple’s Jen Simmons addresses the issue, while acknowledging the issue is widespread across foldables. In Safari 27.1, web

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AWS Has Already Sold a Good Chunk of Its 2028 Capacity

Amazon Web Services has sold out its capacity for this year and largely sold out 2027, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on an episode of the a16z Show released Friday. “A good chunk of 28 is sold out,” he told Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz and host Erik Torenberg. AWS always leaves a certain amount

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Instacart Has Held Early Sale Talks With Uber and DoorDash, Report Says

Instacart is exploring a sale and has held preliminary talks with Uber and DoorDash, among other potential buyers, The Information reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The grocery delivery company, legally named Maplebear, has been working with an investment bank to weigh its options, according to the report, which said the discussions are

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FCC Grants Intel Expedited Waiver to Avoid US Ban On Foreign Robotics

The Federal Communications Commission has granted Intel an expedited waiver to avoid issues stemming from a US ban on foreign robotics. In late 2025, the FCC tightened its rules on modifying equipment on its national security Covered List, and in July 2026 it added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices to that list. Given that such equipment

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Cut Off From the Live Internet, OpenAI’s Frontier Models Now Train in a Cached “Offline World”

OpenAI has cut its frontier models off from the live internet while they train. The company said Friday that “we believe the responsible approach is to conduct frontier model training with no internet access,” and that the policy holds until advances in alignment research, monitoring and internet security justify broader access. So models can still

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Why Claude’s No-Crash Proofs for 239 Open-Source Fuzz Targets Come With Fine Print

Anthropic said Claude has written machine-checked proofs that 239 fuzz-test entry points across 123 libraries in Google’s OSS-Fuzz program cannot crash on any input under 64 MB under a fixed set of hardware and operating system assumptions. The Frontier Red Team post went up Thursday evening, and the work was done with Theorem, a formal

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