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🇺🇸 US Blocks Big Tech Green Cards The US Labor Department will stop reviewing all current and new applications. H-1B employees at affected companies will no longer receive work-based US residence. The measure covers Microsoft, Adobe, and other big tech firms . The White House wants to target foreign students at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford next. 📊 @tech

💠 Tesla Expands Car-to-Home Backup Owners of Model 3 and Model Y in Premium and Performance versions can now use the car to power their home during an outage. Tesla says the backup can last more than 2 days . Cybertruck can run a home for more than 3 days. The feature requires Powerwall 3 . Tesla guarantees support only for cars ordered from October 1 , since older vehicles may lack the required PCS2 Lite inverter .…

🖤 Ben Affleck Writes Python The actor writes Python scripts , understands convolutional neural networks , and works extensively with GPUs . He learned machine learning through visual effects, then founded InterPositive , an AI startup later acquired by Netflix . He says he can call Google or OpenAI as Ben Affleck and sometimes get a look at their latest models. 📊 @tech

🤖 Anthropic releases cheaper Haiku 5.5 Anthropic’s first Haiku update in a year costs up to 20 times less than Sonnet 5.5 . It is already available to all users . The model handles routine work , including summaries and document tasks, plus search support for Opus and Sonnet. Benchmarks put it ahead of GPT-6 Luna . 📊 @tech

🇩🇪 Germany Tests a 365-Metre Turbine With its blades, the pilot in Schipkau reaches about 365 metres , making it Germany’s second-tallest structure after Berlin’s TV Tower. Led by GICON , the project used a lifting mechanism to push the inner section through the outer lattice frame. This avoided the need for a crane tall enough. At greater heights, wind is generally stronger and more even . GICON expects roughly…

🤖 OpenAI Math Claim Draws Scrutiny The reported result involved an internal model more capable than GPT-6 Astra , solving the Navier-Stokes problem with 10,000 parallel agents . In September , OpenAI said it would not claim the result. The problem is one of 7 Millennium Prize Problems , carrying a $1M prize . 1 day later , NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpoge published work on a…

🧠 Mistral Releases 1T-Parameter Le Chonk Le chonk is an open model with 1 trillion parameters , matching China’s GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 . It writes code and text while handling agent tasks. Among Western AI systems, it is described as the strongest open-source model, and it outperformed GPT Astra in finance and law . API testing is already available. For the first 2 weeks, pricing is $0.68 per 1M input tokens and $2.09…

🍏 Alyx Reaches Apple Vision Pro The game runs natively, without a PC or streaming . The headset does all the rendering. Valve ported Alyx to ARM64 for its Steam Frame headset, using a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip. An open project by ShinyQuagsire runs Android VR apps on Vision Pro. AI filled the compatibility gaps , followed by optimization. On Vision Pro with the M5 chip, Alyx reaches about 3K per eye at 60 fps , with…

🤖 GPT-6 Astra Played WoW Blind With the monitor off, GPT-6 Astra completed the orc starting zone in about 40 minutes without processing rendered frames. It read the game through its network protocol via agent-wow. A Python script converted message types into a live world view. Server SQL files exposed quest and NPC data, while Astra handled selling junk and upgrading gear. The author says it never died. For…

Ⓜ️ Meta Opens Muse to DIY Devices Meta’s open-source platform connects the Muse AI agent to real hardware. Install the SDK on an ESP32 , Raspberry Pi , or another Linux computer, then add compatible components. The SDK and firmware use the Apache 2.0 license. That can produce a desktop AI assistant with a screen, a voice assistant, or a reminder display. Meta also showed Muse Home Link , a small USB device based on…