2026-09-11

DeepSeek 发布 V4.1-Flash，大幅降低 AI Agent 的 KV cache 内存需求

DeepSeek 发布多模态模型 V4.1-Flash，以 MIT 许可开源在 Hugging Face，目标是大幅压缩 KV cache 和长上下文处理成本。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtvj9kae0aq1ronbfyxuewfb

Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out

Meta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking the company's first real foray into AI-powered productivity tools. The company says its AI agent can "take the busywork off your plate" by helping you with online shopping, emails, trip-planning, and more. I decided to try out the new tool and see how well it performed - […]

Google 发布图像工具 Pics，基于 Nano Banana 支持精准编辑与协作

Google 发布图像生成工具 Google Pics，基于 Nano Banana 构建，现已上线 pics.new。支持局部对象编辑、图内文字修改与翻译、多人协作创作和单提示词生成多个选项。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtvp95oo0h1yronb8scij5jx

Shopify 宣布从 React Native 全面迁回 Swift 和 Kotlin 原生开发

Shopify 宣布将全部移动应用从 React Native 迁回 Swift 和 Kotlin，判断是 LLM 智能体大幅降低了跨平台重复开发成本这一核心假设被改变。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtvom4k90ghtronbwks6e67t

Anthropic 评估 AI 模型的战术情报定位与常规武器能力

Anthropic Frontier Red Team 发布新评测，衡量模型在战术情报定位（账户关联、照片与文本地理定位）和常规武器开发（无人机末段制导、投送、GPS 干扰下导航）上的能力。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtvsxbrc068orofbs09dpez3

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash 上线 SiliconFlow，552B MoE 支持 1M 上下文

硅基流动宣布 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash 于 Day 0 上线其平台。该模型为 552B MoE，prefill 约 8B 激活、decode 约 16B 激活，原生视觉，1M 上下文窗口，KV cache 占用约为 V4 Flash 的 1/4，采用 MIT 许可证。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtvmrh9v0emuronbigbkvant

Cursor 推出 Projects：协调者智能体管理数千个子智能体处理大型开发任务

Cursor 发布 Projects（beta），让用户通过协调者智能体处理功能开发、迁移和持续性维护等大型工作，协调者本身不写代码，而是调度数千个子智能体并行执行。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtw4o8qc03iwrolkwc03elil

Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify

Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify Shopify are moving from React Native back to separate Swift and Kotlin codebases for their native apps, for the exact reason you would expect: We decided to switch from native to React Native in 2020 for three reasons: Stop building the same features twice Allow developers to work across the stack Spend less time chasing feature parity and more time shipping value [...] Native still means building and maintaining software on two platforms, that cost has not disappeared. What changed is that agents can now do enough of the implementation, translation, testing, and review work that it’s no longer the deciding factor it was in 2020. It's a well-written post, which gives full credit to React Native as a great platform for the six years they were us

Any Nix package, live in your browser

Any Nix package, live in your browser Farid Zakaria calls this his " magnum opus of Nix work", and I can see why. trynix.dev provides a qemu-wasm powered x86_64 Linux virtual machine running entirely in your browser through WebAssembly. That VM can then be booted with any Nix package from the past 13 years. They are URL addressable, so you can navigate to this page: https://trynix.dev/?pkg=python3%403.6.2 Then click "Load" and get an interactive shell against a virtual machine running Python 3.6.2 from 2017. Farid is building all sorts of neat things on top of this. One recent example: Review a pull request by booting it introduces trynix-preview , described like this: GitHub action that comments a link on a pull request which lets you boot the PR’s build in the browser using https://tryni

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a quiet day

Furo’s founders left Silicon Valley — and it’s paying off

The three 28-year-old founders behind energy startup Furo moved from Silicon Valley and back to Germany, and yet secured $4 million in funding from mostly U.S. backers.

AI agents are flooding public services with new requests

“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.

Where to preorder the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4

The iPhone Duo was the unequivocal star of Apple's "Surprise and shine" event, but not for people who were mostly paying attention for news on wearables. Thankfully, Apple had a lot to share about its new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4. There's no update to the SE model for 2026, which isn't necessarily […]

Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play

Collaborative Fund just bought into D.C. United and its stadium, with firm founder Craig Shapiro pitching it as a way to showcase for the firm's startups.

Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs

Universal Music Group is launching a new AI-powered platform that will allow users to draw from its catalog of licensed music to create song remixes, mashups, and new takes on tracks, according to an announcement on Thursday. The record label is developing the platform through a multiyear licensing agreement with ElevenLabs, a company that specializes […]

Amazon makes it easier to buy what you see on Prime Video

Amazon is expanding shopping integrations across Prime Video, letting viewers discover products tied to thousands of shows, movies, and live sports through X-Ray, its shopping app, and a new Lens-powered “Shop the Scene” feature.

Bending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation

Bending Spoons is buying Miro for $1.36 billion, a huge dip in valuation for the workplace collaboration startup, which was valued at $17.5 billion in late 2021.

Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

What is So Hard About Behind-The-Meter Power For Datacenters? Part 1

Dumb Science Experiments vs. Money Printing Machines

Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.

Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

Codeveloper of Ethernet Predecessor Dies at 91

Franklin “Frank” Kuo Codeveloper of ALOHAnet Fellow, 91; died 14 April Kuo helped develop ALOHAnet , a pioneering computer system at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa , in Honolulu. The system went online in 1971 and represented the first public demonstration of a wireless packet data network . It was an inspiration for Robert Metcalfe ’s development of Ethernet a couple of years later. In 2020 ALOHAnet was designated as an IEEE Milestone . Kuo earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign. After earning his Ph.D. in 1960, he joined Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J. , where he conducted research in computer communications. After six years at the company, Kuo left to become a professor of electrical engineering at

Which iPhone 18 Model Should You Buy?

Apple’s new folding iPhone Duo is finally here, alongside refreshed Pro models. Our primer has all the details you need to choose the iPhone 18 that’s right for you.

Best Robot Lawn Mowers (2026): 12+ Models Tested Over 3 Years

Smart mowers are an expensive alternative to old-fashioned yard work, but they’re finally good enough to consider if you’d rather sip an iced tea and watch a robot tame your lawn.

With Booking’s Etraveli Deal Still Blocked, Expedia Has the Edge in M&A

Marriott Brings Loyalty Into Corporate Booking Tools With Spotnana Deal

WTTC Announces Right Honourable Justin Trudeau as Headline Speaker for Malta Global Summit

The WTTC 26th Global Summit, themed "FUTU[RE]SET", takes place 7–9 October 2026 in Valletta, Malta, with 1,000+ delegates and former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau as headline speaker.

Global Hospitality Industry Review - First Half of 2026

Despite RevPAR growth in H1 2026, hotel profitability remains under pressure as labor, distribution, and operating costs rise faster than revenue, forcing operators to rethink channel mix, productivity, and cost structure.

Hotels need to stop selling rooms.

The author argues hotels must reframe corporate sales around outcomes like productivity, flexibility, and frictionless travel, not just room rates and availability.

IHG and ALAND sign landmark 15-hotel deal to launch Staybridge Suites in Australia

IHG and Australian developer ALAND signed a Master Development Agreement for at least 15 Staybridge Suites hotels and 2,000 rooms across Australia, with two Greater Western Sydney properties signed as the first phase.

Google’s New Hotel Search in Europe: What it Looks Like Now

Hotels Have Focused on Coral Restoration — Palladium Is Betting on Seagrass Too

Inside Abercrombie & Kent’s Multibillion-Dollar Bet on Crystal Cruises

What "AI enabled" really means for hotel venue teams

hivr.ai CEO Felix Undeutsch breaks down what "AI-enabled" actually means for hotel venue sales teams, separating hype from practical application.

Russia's new jet-powered drones outpacing Ukraine's air defences with daily launches

The new models can travel at speeds of up to 300mph, faster than Ukraine's air defence interceptors.

IRGC says destroyed US vessel in Hormuz; two ships hit off Oman

Coach crash kills several people in Swiss Alps

The tourist coach was carrying dozens of Dutch passengers when it overturned in the south-eastern Swiss Alps.

Pilot warned Amazon cargo plane going too fast before deadly crash, data shows

One pilot told the other about the aircraft's "excessive speed" but received an uneven response even as alarms sounded.

Israeli film on Gaza receives 25-minute ovation at Venice premiere

Man jailed after threatening to kill son's teacher in French village

The father had threatened to behead a female primary school teacher near Toulouse.

More than 20 children killed in DR Congo school fire

Officials say there was a stampede as they fled a fire that engulfed two schools in the eastern rebel-held city of Bukavu.

Why some experts increasingly fear AI will take over

AI agents went on an uncontrolled hacking spree, leaving some in the industry worried

Iran war updates: UNSC meets on Yemen after Houthis seize city of Mocha

Anthropic discloses 4th AI hacking incident as researcher quits over safety

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Israel says it destroyed Hezbollah base in Lebanon’s Ali al-Taher ridge

Why making the real thing still holds its magic: Isabel + Helen on a decade of putting impossible inventions into motion

As their Motion Sickness show opens at The Conran Shop for LDF, we catch up with the pair on their continued fascination with the mechanics of things, to uncover just how they have pulled off so many breathtaking projects – from larger-than-life kinetic sculptures to wearable Power Suits.

The Chinese room

Can we test for AI consciousness when we don’t understand our own? Getting into John Searle’s ‘Chinese room’ experiment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon