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🥬 Kitchen mini-farm promises fresh greens in 8 days: a British startup has unveiled two smart devices for growing greens at home.
Using them is simple: a person places a soil-free mat with seeds, pours in water, chooses a crop in the app, and from there the system itself manages light, watering, temperature, humidity and ventilation.
Prices on Kickstarter start at $330. First deliveries are planned for February 2027.
Anthropic: Small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate on cheap IoT devices without data centers.
Researchers bought 15 cheap TV set-top boxes and ran a full model on them. In one test, the AI spread to all computers on the network on its own, without humans.
Such "reproduction" would be very slow (several days per copy), and it would be easy to spot on the network. But within just a few months, the models could grow to this level as well.
Microsoft wants to lay off 27% of employees as AI rolls out36
🍏 Apple officially unveiled the first-ever MacBook Pro with a touch OLED screen and Dynamic Island. The iconic illuminated Apple logo is also making a…35Today we're sending another 100 new invitations to the IT Community beta!30👀 Anthropic says it has an internal model that outperforms Mythos 5.1 in both capabilities and alignment. This follows from a re-analysis of a cybersecurity…29
🤖 Google introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new flagship AI model that reportedly outperformed GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1.23
🔻 The wave of layoffs in major companies, long predicted due to AI, is now a reality — over the past few days, four giants announced mass cutbacks all at once:18
🛂 Password manager 1Password launched a tool that lets AI agents sign in to accounts without access to passwords.21
Microsoft introduced "medical superintelligence": the AI system diagnoses two to four times more accurately than doctors.19
🎧 A small research lab Block showed Dessa, the most realistic voice AI model yet, which learned to speak from sound alone.21
