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Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (opens simonwillison.net)
Simon Willison follows up the paper "Sparks of Weight-Space Programming" and finds a local Qwen model can also read neural network weights.
Launch
Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (opens neufangled.com)
Neufangled Robotics' Stringman is an open-source gripper robot that works across a whole room, priced at $800.
News
Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI (opens nytimes.com)
Schools that restrict Google's AI tools would also lose Search, since AI is now built into it. After a backlash, Google said schools can switch on Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Search individually.
News
US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months (opens asia.nikkei.com)
Off-balance-sheet debt from AI-related obligations at US tech giants almost doubled in six months, to $3.2 trillion.
Launch
Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform (opens github.com)
Finic's Kairos is an open-source alternative to real-time fraud decisioning platforms such as Sift and Sardine.
Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (opens github.com)
Gitbook Breached (opens news.ycombinator.com)
OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats (opens news.ycombinator.com)
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