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Reddit user runs Qwen 3.8 Flash Next locally on an 8GB GPU under CachyOS
The poster reports about 30 tokens per second on average and bursts up to 48 tokens per second, using a 3-bit Unsloth quant with a 42k context that nearly exhausts VRAM.
Google brings Personal Intelligence to Gemini in Android Auto and Google built-in cars
Google is rolling out Personal Intelligence, which draws on data such as Gmail and Calendar, to Android Auto starting today. Vehicles with Google built-in will get it over the next few months. The feature remains optional.
Simon Willison describes Battle Drones, a vibe coded RTS built with Claude
Willison built the browser RTS mostly with coding agents, mainly Claude Code, over 12 iterations and 321 commits. It includes audio-based multiplayer for two devices in microphone range, and he says he reviewed almost none of the code.
Google releases a PyTorch developer tool to move apps off Nvidia GPUs
Google follows Amazon with a developer tool that helps PyTorch users shift their apps off Nvidia GPUs.
OpenAI lets ChatGPT users lock individual chats
The lock is meant for conversations users want kept private when they hand their device to someone else to show them a different chat.
Meta's Muse AI companion passes 10 million U.S. downloads in 40 days
Muse reached more than 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days, a milestone reached by only 11 other apps, including Threads. New data shows it retains users at higher rates than rival AI apps.
Spotify says it removed 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from recommendations
Spotify says it has removed more than 50 million songs considered AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year and will highlight more human-made music. It has not mandated labels on all AI tracks but launched an "AI Persona" badge.
Adobe adds one-tap Open Eyes feature to Lightroom mobile
The generative AI Open Eyes Quick Action appears automatically when the app detects closed eyes in a photo, on iOS, iPadOS and Android. The feature is available in the mobile version of Lightroom.
Meta suspends Muse sharing feature after researchers expose shared conversations
Security firm Claroc enumerated 6,800 shared Muse conversation links and found sensitive personal and business data in a few hundred of them. Meta says it is suspending sharing while it reviews the design and considers changes.
Meta prepares Muse Confidential VM for private AI chats
Meta is reportedly preparing Muse Confidential VM, a mode that would keep chats private even from Meta, with possible feature limits and early signs of EU web access.
Cloudflare releases Clairic, a model that extracts data from documents
Cloudflare says Clairic pulls data from documents faster and more cheaply than large language models.
Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund
The meeting note-taking startup says the funding comes from General Catalyst's CVF, which provides capital without diluting equity and earns returns based on marketing spend results. Otter.ai plans to use it for enterprise growth, go-to-market, international expansion and product innovation.
OpenAI publishes case study on franchisee cutting cash reconciliation time with ChatGPT Work
An independent Schlotzsky's and Cinnabon franchisee reportedly cut menu repricing time by 95% using ChatGPT Work and built a workflow that could free up $100K in cash flow.
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the serving stack it runs in production
It ships under Apache 2.0 and for now supports only DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in offline mode. It leads Hacker News with 1,862 points.
Berth open-source tool lets a single RTX 4090 be shared between local AI engines
Berth is a system service that swaps and loads local AI engines such as llama-swap, strata and ComfyUI on one GPU, and can serve them as an API. The project is shared as a GitHub repo.
HermesConsole and VoiceManager open-source a low latency local speech-to-speech demo
A hobbyist released VoiceManager, a streaming STT and TTS server under MIT, with a Python client and a Kotlin console reference app. Barge-in is off by default because echo cancellation is hard, and the default setup uses Nemotron and Breeze TTS 2.
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to expand AI into life sciences R&D
The acquisition brings AI-powered operations to life sciences research and development, helping biopharma teams accelerate drug development.
Hackers breach OpenCode AI coding tool and steal user API keys
Attackers got into part of the open source coding agent's online platform, stole some users' API keys, and ran up charges on their AI accounts. AI tools the team consulted refused to analyze the malicious code.
Tolan raises $30M for its AI companion app
The AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after reaching more than 250,000 active users.
MIT Technology Review says AI agent access may reshape the web for humans
An MIT Technology Review newsletter essay argues that websites are blocking or redesigning for AI agents, citing Meta's Muse app downloads and Amazon's blocking of agents. It is an opinion piece with no new product announcement.
Kling AI releases Kling 4.0 video generator with stereo audio and lip sync
Kling 4.0 supports clips up to 30 seconds, ten keyframe images as input, and prompts of up to 8,000 tokens, plus a lighter Flash variant. Comparisons with Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 show it holding its own without clearly pulling ahead.
OpenAI publishes coding evaluations for low-resource programming languages
OpenAI says it is improving ChatGPT on low-resource programming languages, with new evaluations covering software engineering, SQLite and COBOL migration.
Hugging Face publishes TorchNeuron guide for running Hugging Face models on AWS Trainium
The post covers running Hugging Face models on AWS Trainium chips through the TorchNeuron PyTorch backend, presented as a simpler path than before.