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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, which brings near real-time visual presence to Gemini’s conversational AI.
Model releases reset developer expectations, competitive pressure, and the capabilities builders can immediately put into products.
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How does speculative decoding work for VLMs Training and Architecture Inference Speedup on CPU and GPU Limitations of speculation for vision workloads How to use LFM2.5-VL-DSpark Get Started Citation Today, we release an experimental DSpark draft model for...
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Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve a new corporate structure that would award CEO Dario Amodei and his six cofounders a special class of shares giving them collective voting control in most corporate matters, according to people familiar with the planning.
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Chris Malone, OpenAI’s former head of data centers, joined Nvidia as the vice president of Nvidia’s DSX Platform this month, according to his LinkedIn profile. DSX is the Nvidia division that helps customers design and build AI data centers according to Nvidia’s specifications. Malone left...
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As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI's impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. But his comments boil down to the […]
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Oracle, which is set to lease a New Mexico data center on behalf of OpenAI, sent a notice to the project’s developer asserting its contractual rights to withhold payments if project delays persist, according to Bloomberg. Oracle sent a notice that cited “force majeure” to a developer owned by...
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What a day! I loved meeting many of our amazing subscribers yesterday at our AI Agenda Live conference, where my colleagues and I interviewed leaders from companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Nvidia, Blackstone, Replit, Atlassian and more.
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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing forward with a plan to create a new AI safety-focused standards body on their own, without government oversight, in hopes of launching it by the end of the year or early in 2027, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Google's launching an "early experiment" feature on Pixel 11 that lets users delegate local business calls to Gemini, like making a reservation, checking if a product is in stock, or rescheduling an appointment.
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DeepSeek is aiming to complete its second funding round by the end of October as it prepares to go public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, The Information reported on Thursday. The company’s fundraising efforts may be fuelled by a boost in revenue, which has hit $1 billion on an annualized basis....
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🚨 BREAKING: SpaceXAI will have 1 MILLION GPUs online NEXT WEEK and 1.44 MILLION by year-end >Colossus 1: 150k H100 + 50k H200 + 30k GB200 >Colossus 2: 110k GB200 + 440k GB300 >Another 220k GB300 next week >Another 220k in November >Another 220k in...
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simonwThe more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge
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kunchenguidAlright! as the dust settles around this insane week of model releases, I've stabilized around a new model line-up so sharing here for reference this time my approach is a bit more structured. I've bucketed various LLMs into a few categories: 1....
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PlinzSince LLMs can reproduce all kinds of human output that require operations that are typically...
The claim that "LLMs cannot think" is unscientific, unless supported by a very difficult argument about non equivalence of causal structure producing anthropomorphic outputs. The claim requires a formally rigorous definition of thinking that captures how...
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ArtificialAnlysToday we’re launching our leaderboard for Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, an agentic benchmark for scientific research work. GPT-6 Astra (max) and Claude Opus 5.5 (xhigh) currently top it at 63% and 62% Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 was announced in August 2026,...
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NousResearchWeb search in Hermes Agent is now fast and free. @perplexity_ai built Fast Search for agents, and it is free for all Nous Portal tiers.
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tensor_rotatorFixing Claude's writing was pivotal to reducing gradual disempowerment. Lack of understanding made us all cede decision-making to Claude because we couldn't even understand what it's saying.
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GoogleWe partnered with @planet to send a prototype satellite carrying four TPUs into orbit. We’ll be looking to see how well the TPUs withstand the harsh conditions of space to assess whether we can eventually host machine learning in orbit. https://t.co/4wNeb5qTZH
btibor91OpenAI is preparing a new higher-tier ChatGPT Pro plan
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bindureddyFable 5.1 is under-hyped because it's so expensive It is VASTLY SUPERIOR to Opus 5.5 on very complex codebases Not just that, it one shots hard bugs fixes and features without a lot of prompt itreation Opus 5.5 shines in contrast to Opus 5 which was a...
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arenaReal-world results are in for GPT-6 Luna (Max). It just landed #24 in the Code Arena: WebDev with 1593 pts! GPT-6 Luna (Max) by @OpenAI is a significant +74pt improvement from GPT-5.6 Luna (xHigh) which is now ranked at #41. The latest Luna delivers on par...
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GoogleResearchToday we announce our new unified multi-agent framework that provides creators with a system for generating temporally consistent, long-form video narratives while mitigating visual drift and pipeline error propagation. Learn more: goo.gle/4yVih5m
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AravSrinivasPerplexity has the fastest and most capable Search API, powered by our own Rust-based retrieval and ranking engine, Photon, achieving sub-250ms p95 latency while still ranking highly on relevance and accuracy benchmarks. Photon was built by a small team...
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perplexity_aiPhoton now handles all retrieval and ranking across Perplexity, replacing the open-source engine we used before. https://t.co/7lnutfVhR6
perplexity_aiFast Search spends less compute on ranking than the default preset. It's perfect for most day-to-day agentic tasks. On our internal tests of long-tail and broad-coverage queries, it scores 0.24 points lower on relevance and about 3 percentage points lower on answer availability. https://t.co/EP54SjqSsj
perplexity_aiIntroducing Fast Search in the Perplexity Search API. Fast Search runs on Photon, our new Rust-based retrieval and ranking service that we built with a small team of engineers and hundreds of agents. It returns 95% of search results in 230 ms or less. https://t.co/aZj6Nc746m
deedydas“Translate this IKEA assembly manual into a 3D narrated instructional video” with Opus 5.5. Overnight, Opus just became the most actually useful video model, via code.
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ClaudeDevsToday, we'll resume charging for requests our safeguards block before Claude responds. This only applies in categories with low false positive rates: biology, distillation attacks, and frontier LLM development. We've seen some coordinated attacks on our...
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perplexity_aiPortable Computer for Windows is now available on @AMD Ryzen AI Max Series processors. It makes it easy to run local AI agents that work with your connected apps and local files. Kick off tasks or schedule recurring work that runs entirely on your device. https://t.co/hyxaIBssSF
MTSliveSITUATION DETECTED: Google estimates the cost of orbital AI data centers will become roughly equivalent to terrestrial ones in the mid-2030s as launch prices fall, per NYT.
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OpenRouterIntroducing the Server Tools Marketplace A one-stop shop for better ways to ground your agents, including web search APIs, Shell, tool search, and more 👇
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hardmaruJürgen Schmidhuber is joining Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor. @SchmidhuberAI pioneered meta-learning, recursive self-improvement, and world models back in the 1990s, when compute was a million times more expensive. He has been thinking about...
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OrcaRouterToday we’re announcing OrcaSAQ-2 27B High-fidelity mixed-precision Qwen3.8 for long-horizon agents. 55.59 → 12.06 GB — 78.3% smaller / 4.61× 3.21 bpw · 93.2% Top-1 agreement 70.0 SWE-bench Verified 58.4 Terminal-Bench 2.1 262K context A 27B model for...
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@ns123abcBREAKING: Google launching TPUs in space NEXT WEEK on SpaceX falcon 9 to test AI data centers orbit ITS HAPPENING
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Pricing Hermes Agent
@nousresearch says web search in Hermes Agent is now fast and free, with Perplexity Fast Search for agents free on all Nous Portal tiers.
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Policy Claude
@claudedevs says it will resume charging today for requests safeguards block before Claude responds, limited to low false-positive categories: biology, distillation attacks, and frontier LLM development.
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Model release LFM
Liquid AI released an experimental DSpark draft model for LFM2.5-VL-3B to enable speculative decoding and multi-token proposals on vision-language models.
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Dev tool Tencent Hunyuan
Tencent launched Hy Translation, an on-device offline translation tool powered by Hy-MT2 supporting 33 languages, 5 Chinese minority dialects, voice, and photo translation across 12 regions.
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Policy Claude Code
Claude Code developers clarified that cloud sessions consume Pro or Max plan limits, using optional one-time promo credits first before reverting to standard plan usage.
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Dev tool Claude Code
Anthropic's Claude Code added local support to Projects, enabling execution threads to run directly on the user's local machine.
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Infrastructure reports highlight large cloud capacity commitments alongside power delays, GPU factory buildouts, and semiconductor supply constraints.
AI policy and governance -3.3Governments are coordinating model reviews, national safeguards, and bilateral talks following reported agent incidents and legislative proposals.
Frontier model releases -4.7Multiple reports describe conversational, cybersecurity, and real-time world models arriving on a regular release cadence.
AI-linked equities are quiet; the tracked basket is moving in a narrow band while Arm Holdings plc -7.88%, Meta Platforms +4.50%, Oracle -3.47% show the largest moves.
| Ticker | Company | Move |
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| ARM | Arm Holdings plc | -7.88% |
| META | Meta Platforms | +4.50% |
| ORCL | Oracle | -3.47% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | +2.38% |