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A third-party cybersecurity firm accidentally gave experimental Gemini models access to the Internet.
Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies after experimental models got internet access
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Why picking blocks is a many-body problem The idea: turn block selection into an energy-minimization problem Solving it: exact when you can, quantum or quantum-inspired when you can't Why the whole low-energy spectrum matters Results It generalizes beyond...
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Results What V1 Is The Split: Bitstreams Instead Of A Regex The Word Cache The Merge Loop Method What This Adds Up To Getting It Progress Towards V1 Release Candidate: Implemented 1.0.0 After 1.0.0 The tokenizer has not historically been the bottleneck within ML workflows.
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The Mac Studio review unit that Apple sent us to test this year is, put simply, kind of outrageous. It has an M5 Ultra chip with a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU, 256GB of RAM, and 4TB of storage and costs $12,299. This thing is not for your typical content creation workloads. It's for AI […]
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Governments need to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, a United Nations scientific panel warned in the global organization's first major assessment of OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face earlier this year.
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The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he claimed there was a "0% chance" of AI being the end of the […]
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Nvidia is tracking “every single gigawatt of land, power and shell around the world, literally everything on the planet,” CEO Jensen Huang said at Goldman Sachs’ annual tech conference earlier this month.
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xAI has released Grok 4.7, its most capable model yet. But on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it scores just 46 points, landing mid-pack and well behind Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 at 53 each.
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Local opposition to data center buildouts has blocked $68 billion worth of data center projects in the second quarter of 2026, despite investments still rising.
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AMD has crossed the $1 trillion market cap mark, joining an exclusive list of less than two dozen companies around the world.
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One thing that made it difficult for developers to switch AI coding tools on a project is that Anthropic’s Claude Code didn’t look for instructions in the same place as other agents including OpenAI’s Codex — but now that’s changing.
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Opus 5.5 is shipping imminently at discounted pricing, and Haiku looks to be going the same...
🚨 SCOOP: OpenAI are in the final stages of preparations for the launch of GPT-6 Sol and Luna, and the Terra tier is being discontinued. Anthropic are also working on a version bump with Fable, Opus, and Sonnet 5.5. Opus 5.5 is shipping imminently at...
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@ns123abc🚨 BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declares OpenAI management personally responsible for Hugging Face hack > "The Hugging Face incident, that is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents." > "It is humans who are...
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GoogleIntroducing Googlebook, a new category of laptop, available for preorder today. 💪 Crafted with 2.8K OLED touchscreen displays, 14 hour battery life and all the performance needed to power your ideas 📳 Engineered to sync effortlessly with your @Android phone, so you can jump between your phone and laptop without skipping a beat ✨ Designed for Gemini Intelligence, with personalized, proactive help when and where you need it
@jaredpalmerKev has now been refactored on top of Qwen3.5. New checkpoints are now available at 0.8B, 4B, and 9B along with a fine-tuning script you can use with @modal.
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@emollickI think Meta's Muse is an impressive implementation of the OpenClaw idea of AI as a personal assistant agent that you have an ongoing chat with. Since it is so focused on doing that well, the experience is very accessible for people who didn't realize what...
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@zephyr_z9Need a lot more VMs Labs think that personal agents are the next Claude Code moment "Goldman now calculates CPU > GPU in short dated capex"
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@natolambertI was asked by Congressional staff to share my views on open models performance, adoption, and competition vis a vis China. Here’s my briefing with all our latest data and predictions for what comes next. I am very happy to spend time on broader audience...
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akshay_pachaarFinally, an OpenRouter for agent harnesses! (including System One by Meta) Devs just open-sourced a plug-and-play infrastructure layer that lets you run any harness under a single interface, like: - Codex - Hermes - Claude Code - DeepSeek Harness - System...
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TekniumJust FYI, it's all live now:) Plugin's each get a whole page when clicked into, their readme piped in. We also now have sort by recent, show all plugins by author, and more. Check out the catalog:
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louszbdZCode open sourced the code for community review. From now on improvements will be visible along the way. The security issues raised have been fixed. Now an independent review is underway. We followed up with ZCode team after learnt what happened. Been...
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zephyr_z9Personal agent (Muse/Instinct/Grok, whatever OAI is launching) adoption is the biggest contributer of sudden NAND surge
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DimitrisPapailTest-time communication looks like a next axis for scaling capabilities New paper with the incredible @jon_ghoh and @vkontonis @ShivamGarg91462 and Akshay: The Hugging Face incident showed when agents can find a channel they'll use the heck out of it. A...
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minchoiThis is literally my new workflow now: Realtime Research → Grok Bot Planning & Orchestration→ Grok Bot Day-to-day Coding/Debug → Grok Build + Grok 4.6 Write & Run Tests → Grok Build + Grok 4.6 Complex Coding/Debug → GPT-6 Astra Frontend → Fable 5.1...
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kunchenguidA quick tip that may surprise some folks an uncached prompt to fable at 500k context window will directly cost you over $5 for A SINGLE REQUEST. that's a cup of coffee or a cheese burger gone. even with subscription quota, this hits like a truck the most...
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Alibaba_QwenThanks @sgl_project for the day-0 support! 🙌 SGLang-Diffusion now serves Qwen-Image-2.1: text-to-image generation, multi-image editing, and transparent RGBA output. Try it out! 🎨
Official or high-signal Alibaba_Qwen post with 133 visible interactions on AI compute and inference.
TheAhmadOsmanIt is July 2023, Llama 2 70B just came out, and I wanted to play with it locally so I built this thing 8x RTX 3090s, Epyc 7004 CPU w/ 128 PCIe lanes mobo, CPayne Retimers + SlimSAS (no lobby risers), and 3x 1600w PSUs I knew then and there that Opensource...
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@ns123abc🚨 ALEX KARP reveals OpenAI will NEVER IPO — their real playbook is to get NATIONALIZED HOST: How does the liability get written into the S-1? What do the risk factors sound like? KARP: You're assuming that there will be an S-1… The only way to deal with...
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TheAhmadOsmanJust a reminder that GLM 5.3 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Qwen 3.8 Next Flash, and even Qwen 3.8 27B are all outperforming (in both intelligence and capabilities) every model that was considered "frontier intelligence" in Xmas 2025 (just 10 months ago)...
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aelluswamyFor those who don’t know, these robot moves are essentially remote controlled. The robot rather blindly performs those while maintaining balance and such. AI safety for physical robots makes the current crop of AI safety for large models look like child’s...
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TheAhmadOsmanI am actually getting 99.7% cache hits with DeepSeek Harness and a self-hosted GLM-5.3 This is the difference between vibe coded harnesses and quality engineered ones
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Dev tool SGLang
Author alibaba_qwen states SGLang-Diffusion now serves Qwen-Image-2.1 for text-to-image, multi-image editing, and transparent RGBA output. Single ecosystem support claim; tool maintainer authority is not established in supplied text.
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Dev tool ZCode
@louszbd: ZCode open sourced the code for community review. From now on improvements will be visible along the way. The security issues raised have been fixed. Now an independent review is underway. We followed up with ZCode team after learnt what ha
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Dev tool Qwen
Alibaba Qwen says Qwen-Image-2.1 is now supported in ComfyUI and invites users to try it and share creations.
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Dev tool vLLM
Alibaba Qwen thanks the vLLM project for day-0 support, saying Qwen-Image-2.1 can generate, edit and produce transparent output ready to serve.
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Model release Qwen-Image-2.1
alibaba_qwen announced Qwen-Image-2.1 as open weights, describing it as a unified model for image generation and editing in a lightweight package.
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Model release Qwen
@modelscope2022: Qwen-Image-2.1 is going open source! 🎨 ⌛Join the countdown https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 Weights + code. Download it, run it, build with it. 💻
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Multiple releases and comparisons reflect attention to model capability, release timing, and measured performance differences.
Robotics and embodied AI +1.6Robot labor models, new manipulators, deployment projections, and safety gaps show physical autonomy moving toward field use.
AI infrastructure and compute -1.1Chip supply, power efficiency, data center costs, blocked projects, and regulation highlight compute capacity constraints.
Capital and consolidation -4.8Funding rounds, hardware collaborations, merger discussions, and public listings indicate capital movement and partnership activity.
AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Arm Holdings plc +15.8%, Meta Platforms +10.4%, Advanced Micro Devices +8.39% leading the tracked basket.
| Ticker | Company | Move |
|---|---|---|
| ARM | Arm Holdings plc | +15.8% |
| META | Meta Platforms | +10.4% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | +8.39% |
| SMCI | Super Micro Computer | +6.09% |