The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.
AI news — 2026-10-05
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Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.
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Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS
Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being
An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why
U.S. may have overthrown Venezuela due to chat with Grok
"Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
What's the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?
I made my iPhone a second GPU for my MacBook-Qwen 3.8 27B prefills 29–44% faster
New arXiv papers
Automatic selection of new submissions, preferring papers cross-listed in cs.AI, cs.CL and cs.LG. Not a quality ranking.
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Sources checked for this edition
- OpenAI: OK (3)
- Hugging Face: no new items
- Mistral AI: no new items
- NVIDIA Blog: no new items
- Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI): no new items
- Together AI: no new items
- Qwen (Alibaba): no new items
- Engineering at Meta: no new items
- Berkeley AI Research (BAIR): no new items
- MIT News – Artificial intelligence: no new items
- Hacker News (via Algolia HN Search API): OK (8)
- arXiv cs.AI: no new items
- arXiv cs.CL: no new items
- arXiv cs.LG: no new items
- LiteLLM model_prices_and_context_window.json: OK (747)
Not included:
- Anthropic: No public RSS/Atom feed found (rss.xml, news/rss.xml, feed → 404); not scraped.
- Google DeepMind: Google property — excluded by project policy (only google.com/search allowed).
- Meta AI blog (ai.meta.com): No public RSS feed (404); Engineering at Meta feed used instead (AI-filtered).
- Microsoft Research: Feed returned HTTP 403 via proxy.
- Apple ML Research / AWS ML Blog: apple.com and Amazon properties excluded by project policy.
- Hacker News Firebase API: Hosted on Firebase (Google); Algolia HN Search API used instead.
Updated: 2026-10-04 17:28 UTC