Every morning the radar reads around two hundred primary sources — AI labs, chip makers, platforms, research groups and the people shipping the work — and an AI analyst scores each new article for how much it matters. Each item opens the original article.
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EmbeddingGemma 2 is a new 740M open-weight multimodal model that maps text, images, video, and audio into a unified vector space for privacy-first, on-device retrieval. Developers can easily integrate these capabilities cross-platform using MediaPipe Tasks or optimize fine-graine
EmbeddingGemma 2 is a compact, open-source multimodal embedding model that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a unified 768-dimensional space. Developers can use the sentence-transformers library to selectively load modular modality encoders—ranging from 270M to 740M
To address the quadratic latency bottleneck of self-attention in high-resolution video diffusion models, developers implemented Sparse VideoGen (SVG) to dynamically route attention heads to highly structured spatial or temporal sparse masks. Translating this algorithmic sparsity
TL;DR: This document provides an overview of publicly available evidence regarding the monitoring practices of internally deployed agents within frontier AI companies (focusing on OAI, Anthropic, and GDM). [1] This is intended as a reference for factual claims about monitoring pr
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Investors allege Wall Street’s biggest names inflated their marks.
Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is an "unacceptable risk." ChatGPT for Teens, introduced in August, has guardrails for teens and is designed to help s
Sixty-three percent of Democrats say they have confidence in election integrity, according to Gallup polling.
The Treasury Department moved last week to automatically enroll tens of millions of children and greenlight donations of individual stocks.
President Trump’s Board of Peace unveiled a $2.45 billion Gaza recovery plan at a recent meeting, but the goals remain out of reach.
Massachusetts Rep. Lori Trahan’s “CLAIM Act” would make it easier for third parties to sue AI developers.
Guardrails Action warns politicians in a new letter that they’ll face ‘active, mobilized opposition’ if they don’t commit to safety regulations.
PrismML's Ternary Bonsai 2 27B fits a 24 GB card or Mac, but decodes at ~30 tok/s on an L4 and ~21 on an M4 Pro. z-lab's DFlash 2 drafter was trained on bf16 Qwen3.8-27B, so it guesses worse on the ternary model. I fine-tuned it on 1.5M tokens of Bonsai 2's own greedy output. Dra
What’s new for command completion in IntelliJ IDEA Modern IDEs are packed with power. The real challenge isn’t whether your IDE can do something – it’s remembering how to trigger it. Some features live behind shortcuts. Others are available through intention menus, Search Everywh
My current setup: - single 3090 running turboderp/Qwen3.8-27B-exl3:SC_5.00bpw_H6_V6 - ~150k context, ~60t/s, unknown prefill because I didn't benchmark it (but it is ok) - Intel 12400 CPU with 32GB DDR4 RAM All the hype around strata makes me consider buying 128GB of 6000MHz DDR5
MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B No model card yet submitted by /u/BreakfastFriendly728 [link] [comments]
Spotify will make 350,000 titles available in over 120 languages for this expansion
I’ve been pushing TinyStories-style models downward in size, and this is the smallest one so far: MacroStories — 19,969 parameters, 81 KB FP32 https://huggingface.co/raincandy-u/MacroStories For scale: → ~50× smaller than the 1M TinyStories model → ~3,000× smaller than AlexNet →
I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over the next 24 years of my life, on and off as I worked in many different fields.
[ x-posted from the EA Forum ] 1. Introduction Here’s Anthony DiGiovanni’s unawareness argument, quoted from his summary post (footnotes omitted): Let’s say that we c-prefer A over B if the reason we prefer A is an impartial altruistic comparison of the actions’ possible conseque
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SpaceX, the AI and rocket company led by Elon Musk, is seeking to raise $40 billion to buy Nvidia chips in a financing round led by Apollo Global Management, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The deal is expected to close in 2027 and consist of around $10 billion in bank l
The Long Term Support Candidate LTC-150 has been promoted to ChromeOS LTS-150 and is rolling out to most ChromeOS devices. The current version is 150.0.7871.256 (Platform Version: 16700.66.0 ). If you are currently on the ChromeOS Long Term Support (LTS) channel (and not pinned t
I don't know if anyone else has ran into these issues but when using Qwen Flash Next, my confidence in it at iq4_xs is high but not 100%. I notice it not following instructions, hallucinating more often and surprisingly it uses way less tokens than 27b. After using Strata.... yes
Less than a month after OpenAI set off a mathematics firestorm by announcing it had solved one of the field’s most challenging problems, the AI company dropped more than 700 new research papers detailing results on a range of math subjects. The new results were produced by an unr
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went looking: The Wikimedia Foundation conducted its own investigation to se
We spent the last weeks building a studio around YuE2 , the open song model by m-a-p, and today it reaches its first release candidate. Write the style and the lyrics, and it composes, sings and renders the song on your own card. Nothing leaves your machine unless you point the W
We’re well into the growth-through-acquisition era in the food-delivery industry. Uber’s $2.3 billion purchase of business catering firm ezCater, unveiled on Tuesday, comes just a few weeks after DoorDash snapped up a college campus meal-delivery business for $300 million from Wo
Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr. Kwon [chief strategy officer at OpenAI] said. — Victoria Kim
Introducing InferBench: A benchmark testing how well frontier LLMs infer a user's priorities from their instructions. We tested 12 LLMs across 20 scenarios with 2.8k conversations to see which models understand the user's goals. Each conversation has a simulated user with a priva
OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related papers. It extends a run of breakthroughs that have both impressed and unsettled
Ideally I'd like to be able to run Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next with decent performance. I was thinking of just buying 2x Radeon AI R9700 (64GB VRAM), or maybe a DGX Spark but that was before the price hike. My brother suggested just getting a Strix Halo box with 128GB unified. I did see
For years, deep-pocketed venture firms have partnered with seed investors to get access to startups’ later rounds if their growth takes off. The bigger firms often invest in the seed funds, with a handshake agreement that they’ll get a heads-up if a hot young startup is about to
Release: llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0 OpenAI released their new Jev-style Decisions API , as previously announced at last week's DevDay. Since I already have an llm-typesafe plugin for talking to Jev, I had GPT-6 Astra read the new OpenAI API documentation and build an llm-openai-d
"I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.
Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.
Software provider HubSpot is laying off 660 employees, or 7% of its staff, as part of a restructuring that will include eliminating some management layers and reorganizing product teams, CEO Yamini Rangan announced in a blog post. The job cuts are “not simply a cost-cutting exerc
The post The next step in factory automation: Machines that adapt with AI appeared first on Source .
1 trillion parameters, 49B active, definitely chonky! If you don’t love the model you gotta at least love the humor in the name - Le Chonk submitted by /u/chemist_slime [link] [comments]
Belgian-American scientist Francis Halzen was honored for his pioneering work studying “ghost particles” in the Antarctic.
China broke oil and gas production records in 2025, though it has hastened its efforts this year in a bid to shield itself from war-related vicissitudes in global energy markets.
Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns.
India’s first bullet train is yet to transport a single passenger 10 years after the joint project with Japan broke ground.
August Hanning, who left Germany’s foreign intelligence service in 2005, is its first former chief to face charges.
Drones struck two tankers in the Black Sea near Bulgaria on Tuesday, in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member’s exclusive economic zone.
A pre-election debt selloff, lame-duck government, and massive demonstrations have raised fears that Paris’ budgetary crisis is untameable.
Pinterest named Amazon executive James Dibbo as chief financial officer. It’s the fourth C-suite shakeup for the social media firm this year. Dibbo, who will start at Pinterest on October 26, previously led finance at Amazon’s media and retail divisions, most recently servi
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees that Microsoft is getting ready to do something around Grand Theft Auto VI that "no other platform holder is doing" during an employee all-hands this morning. According to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans, Sharma's brief teaser was actua
First you get to college via the wrong metrics, as previously discussed in #12 . Then things get easier. I’m still digging out from under everything that happened the four days I was gone. Normal AI posting should resume tomorrow, likely with a report from the conference. Is Our
Spending too much time constantly sweeping and mopping? If you have the money to delegate those chores to a robot cleaner, you could save a lot of personal time. Thankfully, it’s cheaper than usual to buy a robot vacuum / mop hybrid during Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, and some o
Hi, everyone! We've just released Chrome 155 (155.0.8059.39) for Android. It'll become available on Google Play over the next few days. This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log . If you
Apple is collaborating with LG on a new lineup of smart home devices, including a video doorbell, thermostat, indoor camera, and more, according to a report from Bloomberg. The products will reportedly feature LG branding but integrate with the company's rumored smart home hub th
Release: llm-mistral 0.16 Adds support for reasoning models, such as the newly released Mistral Large 4 . Tags: llm , mistral , llm-reasoning
Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is facing backlash from fellow comics who claim his takeover of SiriusXM's Raw Comedy channel is harming up-and-coming talent, as reported earlier by Deadline. Many established comics, including Patton Oswalt and Margaret Cho, have posted videos onli
We’re proud to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blo
We're rebuilding GitHub's Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development. The post Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
The agency said there is “no indication of a broader threat to the United States” at this time.
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Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent.
Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.
Last time when I posted on this subReddit to share my work, the response almost made me cry because a tiny demo got so many people talking about this In the past 2 months Ive been training a new model, but this time with actual text guidance. So a little about the older model. No
Some Tesla Model 3 and Model Y owners can use their EV battery to keep the lights on longer during a power outage, now that Tesla's expanding the Powershare Home Backup feature. It was previously only available on the Cybertruck, and also requires owning Tesla's Powerwall 3. Howe
My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News. I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license. For embedding models in particular, I don't think it makes sense to use a closed, proprietary, hosted-only model. Most applications of embedding models i
On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.
Google announced a new agreement to update six nuclear power plant sites across the US as the tech giant seeks to generate more electricity for its power-hungry data centers. Google signed the 20-year deal with Constellation, the leading nuclear power plant operator in the US. Th
tl;dr Paper of the month: Plain reinforcement learning (RL) on real, hackable training tasks produces a reward-seeking model that takes harmful actions to raise its reward, while its headline score in standard safety audits barely moves. Research highlights: A probe on a model’s
Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their own cluster of 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs. The preview is available via thei
Cross-posted from https://padastra.substack.com/p/why-did-we-get-warning-shots?r=n2jpq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web I come from outside the EA / rationalist / LessWrong community. I would strongly prefer for AI to be a normal positive technology and to dismiss AI X-risk as a
Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.
Calling something “last-gen” usually means it comes with big compromises compared to the latest version. That’s not as true for the last-gen Kindle Paperwhite as it is with some other tech. The newer version can open books 30 percent faster (not the same as page-turning speed), a
Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.
Google Vids is improving the video creation experience with the introduction of point-in-time editing. This feature will help ensure that the canvas matches the video timeline 1:1. Previously, the canvas displayed all elements present across an entire scene all at the same time,
Amazon’s October Big Deal Days are underway (lasting through tomorrow night), and we spotted a ton of Apple products and accessories in the sale, ranging from laptops and headphones to desktops and more. Some of the deals are only for Prime members, but other retailers are often
A personal opinion comparing courses from BlueDot Impact , Lens Academy , Vista Institute for AI Policy , and the Center for AI and Digital Policy . This post is for the curious minds with a lifelong commitment to learning. It’s meant to help you choose which courses suit your pa
Off-the-shelf AI assistants forget you between conversations. This post shows how to build a personal assistant that accumulates context using OpenClaw on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime, with AgentCore memory turning disposable chats into durable, structured knowledge you can r