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Internal memos: Meta said Avocado is its "most capable pre-trained base model" and achieves 10x compute efficiency "wins" on text tasks vs. Llama 4 Maverick (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-memo-new…

Meta Memo: New Avocado Model ‘Most Capable’ to Date
Meta Platforms is sounding an increasingly bullish note about the first major AI model expected to emerge from its new AI group. The company recently told some staffers in the group, known as Meta Superintelligence Labs, that its next generation large language model, codenamed Avocado, is “now ...

Within tumors in the human body, there are #immune #cells ( #macrophages ) capable of fighting cancer,
but they have been unable to perform their roles properly due to suppression by the tumor.
KAIST researchers have over…

New therapeutic approach converts immune cells inside tumors into anticancer cell therapies
Within tumors in the human body, there are immune cells (macrophages) capable of fighting cancer, but they have been unable to perform their roles properly due to suppression by the tumor.

(And no, I don’t want to solder cables myself, despite or maybe because having the ability and capability to do so.)

Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the agency's long-term cyber capabilities (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/11/lea

A leadership vacuum and staff cuts threaten NSA morale, operational strength
The signals intelligence giant has halted recruitment for its Legal Honors Program, two people familiar say, slowing inflow of top legal talent. Other long-term capabilities are at risk.

“The most immediate danger is the proliferation of high-quality, automated attack infrastructure. A novice actor can now purchase a ‘Lateral Movement Skill’ developed by OpenClaw's contributors and instantly gain the sophisticated capabilities of a well-funded group. “
This is the best articulation I’ve seen about what OpenClaw is and the mind-blowing dangers it poses., as well as best defense strategies. I’m not sure most organizations are prepared. We are all in for a very wild r…

The Rise of OpenClaw
The growing threat of automated attack infrastructure

AWS announces new features for its AI agent platform Bedrock AgentCore, including new tools for managing AI agent boundaries and memory capabilities (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/aws-announces-new-capabilities-for-it…

AWS announces new capabilities for its AI agent builder | TechCrunch
AWS is introducing new capabilities for its AI agent-building platform, including memory and evaluation tools.

I listened to CNN talking heads praise the spectacular tactical success of the kidnapping
-- as if the U.S.' military capability was the relevant issue.
They spoke of a restoration of democracy, by which they meant capitalism, if they knew what they meant at all.
Then Trump said the U.S. would run the country directly. 
Once again, journalists attempt to clothe an emperor who's fine with letting it flop around for everyone to see. 
But to put it mildly,…

A Criminal Empire
The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream

Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/a…

Kuaishou debuts multimodal AI video model with ‘Nano Banana’ editing capability
Kuaishou expects the new model’s abilities to drive its adoption by filmmakers, production studios, advertisers and influencers.

Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates support for MCP (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/agentic-codi…

Agentic coding comes to Apple's Xcode with agents from Anthropic and OpenAI | TechCrunch
Xcode 26.3 offers agentic coding capabilities with Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex.

A look at Axiom, which is building AxiomProver, an "AI mathematician" it claims has solved at least four previously unsolved math problems (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-ai-math-ai-startup-just-cracked-4-previ…

A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.