Perplexity's US Google searches fell 55% while its app users rose 94%, highlighting divergent popularity metrics for AI tools.
The release includes three model sizes ranging from 7.2M to 82M parameters, all supporting 24 kHz audio output and CPU-only execution via int8 ONNX weights.
The November 2026 update introduces elastic gateway scaling, HTTP-based worker task pulling, and a shared Slime-based training pipeline for mathematical reasoning.
The reusable reading control layer preserves task quality in 97% of settings across six models, including Claude Opus 5.
The feature allows multiple tool calls in a single pass, reducing context resends and increasing effective output within existing limits.
The 26.6B parameter model supports seven languages and offers natural-language control over transcription style and context biasing.
llama.cpp has released v1.0.0, adopting a semantic versioning policy based on C API compatibility standards.
The release removes deprecated APIs and adds FP8 support, YaRN truncation controls, and performance improvements across CUDA, Metal, Vulkan, and other backends.
The free, MIT-licensed tool saves work to disk to survive context compaction and allows handoff between different AI coding agents.
Ace is an open-source tool that enables teams to work with AI agents in shared channels on their own machines, requiring Tailscale and Anthropic or OpenAI keys.
Unsloth updated Qwen3.8-27B GGUFs with Dynamic V3.1 for 5-10% accuracy gains and introduced new 1-bit quantization types for the 2.4T parameter model.
The FAA halted all departing flights at US airports, citing a telecommunications outage, shortly after expanding the $1 billion SMART AI system from Washington, DC to the entire country.
The update introduces proactive status updates, read-only thread sharing, and branching commands to reduce manual monitoring of parallel cloud sessions.
The system saved an average of 10 minutes and 80 gallons of fuel per flight during its initial deployment in the National Capital Region.
The release expands hardware support to include two-GPU setups and achieves 75.5 tok/s on a single RTX PRO 6000 card.
Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can now claim monthly Google Cloud credits and set up billing directly within AI Studio without leaving the workspace.
The stateless browser runs on Cloudflare Workers and supports Chrome DevTools Protocol for agent interaction.
The update reduces system prompts from ~8k to ~1k characters and uses plain text markers instead of JSON to ensure reliable performance on smaller local models like Gemma 12B.
Cloudflare identifies six pillars for the Modern Security Model to counter autonomous AI agents that chain stolen credentials for lateral movement.
The release uses an LLM to natively edit weights, outperforming Unsloth and EXL3 in KL divergence and top-1 accuracy at 128K context.
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