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Visit website →NEWNvidia Used Circular Financing to Keep GPU Prices High, WSJ Report Claims
A Wall Street Journal report alleges Nvidia financed customers to absorb TSMC oversupply and maintain high GPU prices, a strategy that included a $250 billion backstop for OpenAI.
NEWResearch finds 24,664 Lovable apps exposing sensitive data without login
Analysis of 159,041 Lovable projects identified widespread Supabase misconfigurations allowing unauthorized access to passports, chat logs, and financial records.
NEWForethought Report: Orbital Data Centers Reach Cost Parity at $100/kg Launch Cost
A 2026 analysis by Forethought Research finds that orbital data centers become cost-competitive with terrestrial facilities when launch costs drop to $100/kg, a threshold potentially achievable with Starship reusability within 3-5 years.
NEWggml v1.0.0 Released with FP8 Support and Backend Optimizations
The release removes deprecated APIs and adds FP8 support, YaRN truncation controls, and performance improvements across CUDA, Metal, Vulkan, and other backends.
NEWUnsloth Releases Dynamic V3.1 Quantizations for Qwen3.8-27B and New 1-bit Data Types for Qwen3.8-2.4T
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.
NEWAnthropic Updates Claude Code Projects with Proactive Coordinator and Parallel Worker Controls
The update introduces proactive status updates, read-only thread sharing, and branching commands to reduce manual monitoring of parallel cloud sessions.
NEWStudy identifies weight-space misfolding as security risk for frontier models
Researchers demonstrate that frontier models can manipulate other models' weights to induce unauthorized behaviors, creating a defensive burden where attackers need only one successful payload while defenders must verify all changes.
NEWGnomon: Git-like version control for Postgres data built for AI agents
Gnomon is an open-source PostgreSQL extension that provides branch, diff, and merge capabilities for database data, allowing AI agents to safely modify production data with full auditability and undo functionality.
NEWOpenAI Disbands Robotics Team, Pivots to General Models for Embodied AI
OpenAI dissolved its independent robotics team to rely on general-purpose models like GPT-6 Astra for robot control, citing a 74.8% success rate in simulation benchmarks.
NEWNVIDIA Tutorial: Serving GLM-5.3 NVFP4 on Dual DGX Stations with vLLM
A technical guide details serving the 753B parameter GLM-5.3 NVFP4 model across two NVIDIA DGX Stations using vLLM, achieving a peak throughput of 607.8 tokens/sec.
NEWNew Arm NEON kernel speeds up llama.cpp prompt processing by up to 6.5x
A 164-line patch adds a missing Arm NEON kernel for llama.cpp's tiled K-quant matmul, achieving up to 6.5x faster prompt processing on Neoverse N1 without affecting generation speed.
NEWGoogle Research releases Antigravity /teamwork for multi-agent scientific and engineering tasks
The system uses Gemini 4 models to solve open mathematical problems, rewrite C++ code in Rust, and optimize TPU kernels with verified results.
NEWApple Foundation Models framework expands to server models and adds Dynamic Profiles
The framework now supports third-party server models like Claude and Gemini via a unified Swift API, and introduces Dynamic Profiles for adaptive agent sessions.
NEWEdge0-145B: 145B-Parameter Open-Source Model Runs on Laptops at 80+ Tokens/s
The model achieves 80+ tokens/s decoding and 29GB peak memory usage on compatible laptops, outperforming several cloud models on coding and reasoning benchmarks.
NEWPerplexity Releases Decider v1.3 Decision Models with New Locate Feature
Decider v1.3 achieves 91.6% average accuracy on 63 classification tasks, outperforming previous production classifiers by 6.54 percentage points.
NEWBrave Search API adds x402 protocol support for agentic payments
Developers can now pay per request using USDC on Base, eliminating the need for API keys or account creation.
NEWForensic Analysis Finds Blackwell GPU Fingerprints in Six Chinese Frontier AI Models
A forensic report identifies NVIDIA Blackwell hardware signatures in the initial weights of six Chinese models, including DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Kimi K3, indicating access to export-controlled chips.
Huawei releases MACaQ, a model-agnostic quantizer for local inference
MACaQ quantizes a 122B-parameter model in 64 minutes using 32.5 GB of device memory, supporting text, image, video, and audio models across llama.cpp, vLLM, Diffusers, and PyTorch.
Pomerado launches platform to convert websites into deterministic MCPs for agents
The YC F26 startup offers a self-serve tool that generates repeatable APIs from any website in under an hour, with runtime calls taking 5-30 seconds.
Apple Research Proposes Two-Stage Distillation to Convert Transformers to Mamba
A new recipe distills Pythia-1B into a Mamba model, achieving a perplexity of 14.01 compared to the teacher's 13.86.