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Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
AI & LLMs
ATV Big Air Tour turned 3 days of work into 3 hours with ChatGPT
ATV Big Air Tour uses ChatGPT Work to speed up marketing, merchandising, and more. It even turned merchandise photos into an inventory website in 15 minutes.
Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
llm-gemini 0.34
Release: llm-gemini 0.34 New model gemini-3.8-flash for Gemini 3.8 Flash, with low, medium and high thinking levels. #146 Fixed async responses failing to record the resolved model version. Thanks, Charlie Tonneslan. #137 Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash (and 3.8 Flash Cyber, but that's available to "trusted defenders" only) today. Here are the pelicans for high, medium, and low. This
Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications (Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they share not just the current prompts but historic changes to their prompts as well. They used to keep all of the prompts on a single page, but when I checked today I noticed they had re-arranged those
Real-Time Intelligence with IBM Time Series Models on Confluent
[AINews] Muse Spark 1.3 matches GPT-5.6-Sol, confirming Meta Superintelligence as the newest Frontier Lab, >90% discount for training
an epic comeback story for Meta
[AINews] Claude Fable/Mythos 5.1: new SOTA model, 75% cache price cut but 70% more output tokens
Queue the usual rush of model launches...
Web & Frontend
Free domain with Pro offer now includes .app and .dev
We recently announced that all Pro teams can claim a free domain for one year. That offer now includes .app and .dev, bringing the eligible TLDs to eight:.app.dev.online.site.space.store.tech.websiteThe offer still covers one domain per team, and premium domains are not eligible. After the first year, your domain will renew automatically at the regular price shown at checkout when you claim it.Cla
Muse Spark 1.3 now available on AI Gateway
Muse Spark 1.3 from Meta is now available on AI Gateway, in both the standard and contributor pricing tiers.This model improves on prior Muse Spark models at agent work and coding, with a 1M token context window and text, image, and PDF input. On coding it takes fewer turns and writes less filler than the previous release.To use Muse Spark 1.3, set model to meta/muse-spark-1.3:Contributor tierMuse
GLM-5.3 is 50% off through DigitalOcean on AI Gateway
GLM-5.3 is 50% off on AI Gateway through Tuesday, September 8, in partnership with DigitalOcean.How to use the model during the offer periodUsing the promo name (zai/glm-5.3-promo-50) gets the discounted rate. It routes only to DigitalOcean, with no fallback to another provider, and it stops serving when the offer ends.Using the standard name (i.e., zai/glm-5.3) with provider options to sort Digit
Gemini 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
Gemini 3.8 Flash from Google is now available on AI Gateway.The model is 50% off through December 31st. It has a 1M token context window, accepts text, image, PDF, and video input, returns text, and supports tool calling and web search. Maximum output is 65,536 tokens.Gemini 3.8 Flash improves on prior Flash models at software engineering, agent work, and multi-step reasoning, at the same speed an
Devtools & Platform
Enterprise-managed settings support any default model
You can now set your preferred GitHub Copilot model as the default for new conversations through enterprise-managed settings. This lets you choose the default model that best fits your workflows.… The post Enterprise-managed settings support any default model appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Content exclusions generally available in Copilot app and CLI
The GitHub Copilot app and Copilot CLI now respect content exclusion policies configured by enterprise, organization, and repository administrators. Copilot won’t use excluded files as context, helping you protect sensitive… The post Content exclusions generally available in Copilot app and CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!
From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations. The post Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my! appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality
Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task. The post How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Deep Dives
An Organizational Second Brain: Building an AI That Learns From Experts
We’ve built an AI agent that acts as a secondary expert for a given domain, making deep specialist knowledge readily available and preserved for anyone in an organization to access, share, and build upon. This is not a typical domain-specific agent. Its novelty comes from integrating two layers: A structured, auditable knowledge architecture separates what [...] Read More... The post An Organizat
Quick Hits
Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them
Exit the Cave
Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
Fable 5.1 World Modeling
Wendell Berry has died
Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.Linus Torvalds