Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-24: Google privacy line
Google updates its privacy policy on using Gmail for ads; a write-up lists an Artificial Analysis score of 55; OpenSSL 4.1.0 adds DTLS 1.3 support.
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Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-25: Elvis songs
Elvis's rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 songs; a PHP server hides a Bitcoin key worth about $502; the MMQ path fuses gate/up matmuls with GLU.
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Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-23: Character.AI
The chatbot platform Character.AI declares bankruptcy this week; dlmrt runs 1.2 to 1.6× faster than SGLang/vLLM by capturing the denoising loop.
Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-22: DeepSeek Flash
DeepSeek puts v4.1 Flash 1017 on OpenRouter; OpenAI confirms its GPT 6 lineup on Google Cloud; a Mac Studio peaks near 200 W, below a toaster.
Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-21: Muse links, Meta terms
Meta removes "train" from its business terms; Meta's Muse agent can expose shared conversations; DeepSeek open-sources its DeepInfer inference engine.
Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-20: Siemens 80%
Siemens and Nvidia target up to 80% factory automation; Claude's 1,000 matches cut AI stalemates to 0.9%; Google open-sources TorchTPU for PyTorch on TPUs.
Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-19: 18,765 commits
Linux 7.3 ships with 18,765 non-merge commits from 3,021 developers; lab-published scores look optimistic: 6.4% high on average across 611 pairs.