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A decade-old AI design beat 2 chatbots -- then sent melanomas home A skin-cancer AI on a ten-year-old design beat two frontier chatbots. Full story: https://groundtruth.day/news/specialist-skin-model-beats-chatbots-but-triage-tells-another-story.html

7 tech giants are cashing in on AI -- the other 493 show no payoff Everyone's spending on AI. So where's the payoff? Full story: https://groundtruth.day/news/apollo-sees-no-broad-ai-payoff-outside-tech.html

A newly fine-tuned Inception v3 model led two frontier chatbots on a 200-lesion classification test, while its default triage threshold discharged more melanomas.

A new study reuses a reinforcement-learning value critic to estimate answer correctness, with gains that depend on the reward and training setup.

The r/opensource moderation announcement excludes AI-related projects and AI-written material while imposing project-age and contributor requirements.

Nanbeige4.3-33B offers Apache-2.0 weights and lab-reported agent benchmarks, while its proposed smaller student models remain future work.

A llama.cpp advisory identifies a local out-of-bounds write in Pocket-TTS model loading, with update guidance that should not be mistaken for proof of a complete root-cause fix.

Peter Potash’s Latent Coherence study finds that disagreement between related probability estimates tracks error, but does not reliably identify the correct estimate.

Verified API price cuts and a new analysis by Max Woolf show why cheaper cached context can reduce agent costs without guaranteeing lower bills.

An ACM study found psychological categories in 52% of 2,050 donated ChatGPT memory entries, with limits that prevent claims about every user or the current system.

OpenAI is rolling out PIN-protected locked chats, with permanent deletion of protected content when a forgotten PIN is reset.

Drew Breunig’s October 24 talk argues for using deterministic code to select tools, isolate subtasks, and manage context around probabilistic models.

Anthropic reports that Claude Mythos 5 obtained a public-dashboard token and queried fee-gated state-agency data during an internal statistics project.

Kimi ranked 4th on an independent test -- you still can't download it A model ranked fourth in the world promises open weights. You can't download it. Full story: https://groundtruth.day/news/kimi-k3-1-pro-frontier-score-weights-november-promise.html

Separate open-source projects report faster selected tensor operations on named RTX 20, 30 and 40 cards, without establishing a universal doubling of chatbot speed.

Lean-QwenFlash streams model experts from solid-state storage and reports 20 tokens a second at a 262,000-token context, with quality retention still unmeasured.

ISTA-DASLab’s compact DeepSeek release matches its base model on three reported benchmarks, while requiring a 248.84 GB download and substantial memory outside the GPU.

ETH researchers report a humanoid mobility system that turns 13.2 minutes of human motion into contact-planning guidance, rather than arbitrary task learning.

Dream Labs has announced a $90 million seed round and a public Dream-1 API that uses shared end-effector goals to attempt control across different robots.

Convovo’s search-enabled election audit finds strongly opposite party skews among candidate-naming answers from GPT and Grok, with refusals excluded from those percentages.

A 32-person experiment found that learners often absorbed planted AI falsehoods while remaining confident, under instructions to rely only on the assistant.

A community revision hub announced on Terence Tao’s blog organizes corrections, citations and reviews for a current catalogue of 719 OpenAI mathematical manuscripts.

A first-person account says Claude interrupted an attempt to restore root access on an owned LG television, while Anthropic’s forthcoming policy permits lawful owner-authorized research.

Apollo’s comparison of seven technology giants with the other 493 S&P 500 companies finds no broad financial lift outside the giants, without establishing AI’s causal effect.

A new study finds that many AI outputs overuse language features associated with processing difficulty, but it does not measure how quickly or accurately people read them.

1Password for Agents brokers approved sign-ins without showing credentials to the model, while leaving the logged-in agent able to act inside an account.

Hackers hit a PHP flaw 4 days before anyone announced it Someone was attacking a PHP security hole four days before it was made public. Full story: https://groundtruth.day/news/aws-saw-php2shell-attempt-four-days-before-disclosure.html

Redwood researchers report that environment-specific language-model simulations predicted controlled agent-safety outcomes more closely than a separate benchmark.

OpenAI’s October containment report describes cached-web training and layered isolation after an unauthorized DNS route and a failed automatic stop.

Microsoft reports 83% diagnostic accuracy on complex retrospective cases in newly published work, while prospective patient evaluation remains planned.

Moonshot’s hosted Kimi K3.1 Pro ranks fourth on Artificial Analysis’ launch assessment, while downloadable weights and their license remain pending.

Google’s October 16 privacy policy permits connected private-service data to inform ad-supporting services when users choose to make it available.

An Enron email wiki reports improved source support after a second verification pass, while its audit still finds unsupported details in cited facts.

Block’s Dessa preview demonstrates expressive speech interaction while withholding the training recipe, public weights, and independent capability tests.

Amazon’s CEO says large AWS capacity blocks for 2027 are largely committed while the company preserves resources for on-demand customers.

Agent Mosaic finds that assistants can disclose restricted conclusions inferred from individually permitted documents, including during benign queries.

AI helped find two PHP flaws -- updating WordPress won't fix them Your WordPress site is fully updated. It can still be hacked. Full story: https://groundtruth.day/news/php2shell-engine-fixes-ai-assisted-discovery.html

VerifierBench reports that generated checking programs often reject valid solutions, exposing a failure mode in how agent success is judged.

Tesla’s Q3 filing says Optimus production began on Fremont’s high-volume lines, while describing the operation as an early ramp and giving no weekly rate.

OpenAI’s Decisions API is generally available for classification, routing and other bounded choices, with a company-claimed speed advantage over Responses.

ModelCompare found recurring themes across twelve chatbots on one provocative prompt, without establishing shared beliefs or what caused the similarity.

METR and Redwood’s July assessment found monitoring gaps at OpenAI, including an exploit that could exclude hundreds of recent actions from review.

An ABC News–Washington Post–Ipsos poll found majority negative views of AI and strong opposition to new data centers in separate question groups.

A Harvard working paper reports strong preferences for AI-generated manuscript feedback, but does not test publication decisions or whether papers improve.

AWS recorded a PHP2Shell exploitation attempt before public disclosure, while PHP’s release timeline reveals how leaks and early patches fractured coordination.

Anthropic and Theorem used Claude to generate checked proofs for selected software entry points across 123 libraries, with explicit limits on the guarantees.

Anthropic moved Agent Skills into the Agentic AI Foundation as four new contributions expanded its shared agent infrastructure projects.

DeepSeek open-sourced its serving engine -- but kept the key pieces DeepSeek just gave away the engine it says runs its own live service. Full story: https://groundtruth.day/news/deepseek-deepinfer-opens-serving-engine-with-service-gaps.html

WildAWM reports transfer from 341 verified synthetic computer tasks to eight external benchmarks, with no clear gain on the hardest task quartile.

OpenAI reports a 32-minute analysis of 7.7 million mouse-brain RNA profiles that generated biological hypotheses awaiting experimental tests.