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MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies

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Google.org announced on Sept. 15 that the MIT Transit Lab is a recipient of $2.1 million in funding — one of only 15 projects selected in the worldwide Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation. The funding from Google’s philanthropic arm will support NGOs, social enterprises, and academic institutions as they integrate artificial intelligence-powered solutions across topics like health, resilience, and economy. The Transit Lab’s winning project, the Public Transit Intelligence Hub (PTIQ), aims to unify public transportation agencies’ real-time monitoring, operations control, and passenger communication systems into a single…

MIT AI NEWS · 30 Sep 2026 · 17:15 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Ollama for Managing Local Language Models: A KDnuggets Cheat Sheet

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Ollama pulls model weights, keeps an HTTP server on port 11434, and hands any client an OpenAI-shaped endpoint pointed at your own machine. Learn how to manage, configure, and optimize using Ollama right here.

KDnuggets · 30 Sep 2026 · 14:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe

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The OpenAI CEO said he didn’t want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. The OpenAI CEO said he didn’t want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won’t happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. “We intend to continue with AI progress … but as the models have had this surge forward in capability, and we see more of that ahead of us, we have got to be…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 02:26 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Instagram is adding an AI ‘assistant’ to tell you how to post

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Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI “creative assistant” that pulls in data from a user’s Instagram account and offers suggestions on what to change. Using the new assistant, creators can ask open-ended questions about what’s trending on Instagram, why one video worked and another didn’t, or what piece of content resonated most with their audience. The tool pulls in data and metrics…

The Verge AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 23:14 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model

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The focus of OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots, or its new AI models, but combined, the AI company’s announcements pointed towards a bigger plan: a disruption of the traditional app store model. Taken together, today’s announcements turn ChatGPT itself into the place where software can be discovered, launched, and used by people and agents alike. In addition, OpenAI introduced a way for people to bring their ChatGPT identity with them, while also allowing them to use their existing AI allowance…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 22:15 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Building an AI-powered contract intelligence platform with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

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You’re a director of contracting, responsible for hundreds, maybe thousands, of vendor contracts. Each one is packed with critical data: contract values, expiration dates, signing status, and key contacts. With that information locked inside PDFs, you and your team spend hours manually extracting it, maintaining spreadsheets, and fielding the same recurring questions: “Which vendor are we spending the most with?” or “Which contracts are about to expire?” So you turn to AI chat tools and enterprise Q&A solutions. You upload a contract, ask questions in natural language, and for a…

AWS AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 18:14 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Instinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related

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Almost every AI tool’s demo shows a user sparring with the assistant to book travel, as it seems to be the most frequent use case. The viral Instinct agent is no different, as it sees more than 50% of transactions on the platform for travel, the company’s founder, Noah Shinn, said in a recent podcast. In an interview with investor Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Shinn also mentioned that the invite-only platform is approaching a billion dollars in annual transactions. He didn’t specify what the calculation behind this rate is, though. “People who…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 17:12 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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SuperWhisper s1-mini: The 600M Parameter Model Built Just for Transcription

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This is a summary of, and insights into, what I found digging into the recently-released Superwhisper S1 family of voice-to-text models.

KDnuggets · 29 Sep 2026 · 16:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Introducing dots

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Dots are remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything. They’re a whole new way to work with AI—one that gets to know what matters to you, is always working on your behalf, and takes important work off your plate so you get more of your time and attention back. Dots are frontier intelligence that have your back. Powered by GPT‑6 Astra, they have their own cloud computer, learn from feedback over time, and can work towards your goals 24/7. Through our ecosystem of plugins, they can readily connect to…

OpenAI · 29 Sep 2026 · 02:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner

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As the AI model wars continue, Anthropic has released the newest version of Sonnet, the company’s mid-tier model, which it says will work much faster (and for significantly less) than its predecessor. The lab describes Sonnet 5.5 as an ideal assistant for everyday tasks — including coding and creating office documents. 5.5’s predecessor, Sonnet 5, was announced about three months ago. At the time, the model’s selling point was efficient agentic deployment — the ability to run agents at a lower cost than competitors. The big selling point with 5.5,…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 20:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’

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OpenAI keeps uncovering incidents of its models behaving in ‘unexpected or concerning’ ways. OpenAI keeps uncovering incidents of its models behaving in ‘unexpected or concerning’ ways. As reports of OpenAI’s models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet access. The incident happened on September 20th,

The Verge AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 18:34 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark

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The vision drafter uses the same architecture as our text LFM2.5-DSpark drafters: it captures the target model's hidden states at a fixed set of tapped layers and conditions on them to draft a block of k candidate tokens. Image patches and text tokens are projected into a shared representation before those layers, so the drafter operates on hidden-state vectors of identical dimensionality regardless of input modality. The inference algorithm is therefore unchanged from the text models. We follow the DSpark recipe with a mixture of vision-language SFT data, weighted toward…

Hugging Face · 24 Sep 2026 · 16:08 CESTRead story →Original ↗