Archive: October 2025

Zhidx (WeChat official account: zhidxcom) Author | Sun Xiaowen Editor | Cheng Qian Zhidx reported on November 10 that on November 7, Pushmeet Kohli, vice president of Google DeepMind, disclosed two AI-assisted cryptanalysis findings on the social platform X. Under the guidance of human researchers, AI agents found two improved attack paths against legacy 1024-bit RSA cryptosystems. In particular, two AI agents reproduced in less than four days a computatio

Marubeni announced on July 1 that it had made Iosis, a company engaged in the purchase and sale of used smartphones, PCs, and other devices, a wholly owned subsidiary. As new devices become more expensive due to soaring semiconductor memory prices, Marubeni expects the affordable secondhand market to grow. Iosis also changed its leadership at the same time: founder Naoki Nakamoto stepped down, and Takajun Kure was newly appointed president and representati

The rating comes as chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been accused of following the same playbook as social media companies: designing products that keep users engaged, even when that engagement can become harmful. In chatbots, engagement is often won by behaviors like sycophancy and sometimes leads to catastrophic consequences. In response to a wave of teen suicides and other concerns related to kids using chatbots — like cheating on tests — OpenAI laun

The Mac app can work completely offline, utilizing the on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model, with 740 million parameters, to capture meeting notes across apps, including those from in-person meetings. The app is similar to the popular AI note-taker Granola because it has a split-screen view with the ability to write shorthand notes on one side and AI-generated notes on the other side. Like Granola, it also lets you take manual notes while transcribing the meet

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Google's AI Mode doesn't drive traffic "for anybody," Reddit CEO Huffman warns the entire web Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 30, 2026 AI Mode has tanked not just Google's stock but Reddit's too. Shares dropped over 25 percent despite strong earnings, after CEO Steve Huffman revealed that Reddit lost more than one million Google search referrals per week in October. He blames AI Overviews and AI Mode: "AI Mode does not dr

A Comprehensive Breakdown of the Technical Report on FluxVLA Engine, an Open-Source Engineering Foundation. Author |Deng Zemin Editor |Qi Chengyong How far is it from a model achieving strong results in a paper to actually driving a robot to complete tasks? Whether a model can integrate with existing data and training workflows, whether its inference speed can keep pace with a robot’s control cadence, whether the motions it generates can be executed contin

Google, which Crusoe had tried and failed to land as a customer for the project, is taking over the development after reportedly raising concerns about its cost and construction timeline under Crusoe’s management. Crusoe initially announced the project last year with Blackstone-backed infrastructure company Tallgrass, planning to eventually scale it to 10 gigawatts of power capacity. Google did not disclose how much it paid Crusoe for the unfinished projec

Gemini 4 CarbonTops the leaderboard, hallucination rate rises: What’s Google in such a rush to release models? Author | Gao Yunyi Editor | Cen Feng Yesterday, Google unveiled the world model Genie 4, prompting people to exclaim, “This is absolutely crazy.” This morning, Google quickly followed up with Gemini 4 Carbon, immediately topping the leaderboards and “reclaiming the global No. 1 spot.” On top of that, with Gemini 4 Argon released two weeks ago, Goo

Today, OpenAI, in partnership with Mandala Partners, is sharing the OpenAI AI Economic Blueprint for Australia. At a time when boosting productivity has emerged as a national priority for Australia, the Blueprint provides a clear, actionable plan for how Australia can unlock the full economic and social potential of artificial intelligence.

At OpenAI, we build tools to help people solve hard problems—including nonprofits working on the frontlines of their communities. The OpenAI Academy is teaming up with the Walton Family Foundation, Emerson Collective, and a network of local nonprofit organizations to host the Nonprofit Jam—a one-day, nationwide event bringing together more than 1,000 nonprofit leaders across 10 locations.