☕️ Samsung AI model beats models 10,000x larger

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🧠 Samsung AI model beats models 10,000x larger

⚠️ 70,000 government IDs exposed in Discord breach

🔒 China tightens export controls on rare earths

⏸️ Tesla halts Optimus production over design challenges

👓 Meta and Ray-Ban target 10 million AI glasses by 2026

📦 Google wants to bundle Gemini with Maps and YouTube

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• Samsung's Tiny Recursion Model, with just 7 million parameters, rivals AI systems 10,000 times larger like Gemini 2.5 Pro on tough, grid-based reasoning benchmarks like Sudoku.
• This performance comes from recursive reasoning, where the small network repeatedly refines its own output through up to sixteen supervision steps, simulating a much deeper model without the cost.
• TRM is a specialized solver for puzzles like mazes, not a general chatbot, and its code is openly available on GitHub for commercial use under an MIT license.

• A third-party vendor used by Discord for customer service was breached, exposing the government-ID photos of approximately 70,000 users who had submitted them for age-related appeals.
• The unauthorized party also accessed user information including names, emails, payment types, purchase history, and the last four digits of credit cards that were provided to customer support.
• Discord confirmed the data did not include passwords, full credit card numbers, or private messages on its platform, aside from communications that were sent directly to its support teams.

• Foreign companies must now get special approval to export products with even small traces of rare earths elements sourced from China, according to the country's Ministry of Commerce.
• The government is also imposing permitting requirements on the export of technologies related to rare earths mining, smelting, and recycling, extending the new controls to magnet-making as well.
• The Commerce Ministry said the restrictions are meant to safeguard national security by stopping the transfer of elements or technologies from China to overseas groups for military or sensitive uses.

• Tesla has reportedly halted production of its Optimus robots because engineers are struggling to create human-like, dexterous hands, leading to a significant delay in the original manufacturing timeline.
• The company now has a stockpile of Optimus bodies that are missing their hands and forearms, with no clear indication of when these partially built units will be completed and shipped.
• After protests from engineers about unrealistic targets, the goal for producing 5,000 Optimus units by year-end was revised to just 2,000 robots for the remainder of 2025.

• Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica is partnering with Meta to increase manufacturing, with a plan to produce 10 million units of their AI-powered smart glasses annually by the end of next year.
• The company already has the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display for texts and video calls, viewing glasses as central devices that could one day replace smartphones for many daily tasks.
• Meta faces increased competition from Alibaba’s new Quark AI glasses in China, as well as from multiple head-mounted projects that Apple is expected to roll out by 2027.

• Google is asking a federal judge to let it bundle the Gemini AI service with popular apps like Maps and YouTube, pushing back on a Justice Department proposal to forbid it.
• The government wants the same prohibitions that apply to Search and Chrome to also cover Gemini, which would prevent Google from forcing phone makers to preload the company's new AI.
• The judge expressed concern this would let Google use its leverage from popular products like Maps and YouTube to give its new AI service an edge over competitors.

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