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Visit website →Kapitsa Achieves 128 tok/s on MacBook Pro M4 Pro for Recursive's Flint 40B A2.5B Q4
Open-source engine Kapitsa matches Recursive's native performance on short contexts and leads by 1.30x at 128K context on Apple Silicon.
Base Compute releases BaseQuant V1 for Qwen3.8-27B with lower KL divergence
The new quantization offers three GGUF sizes ranging from 10.93 to 20.82 GB on Hugging Face.
Ling-3.1-flash 1019 update scores 44 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Ant Ling's upcoming 1019 checkpoint raises the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score from 41 to 44 and improves AutomationBench-AA performance to 68%.
Google's A2A Protocol Joins Agentic AI Foundation Alongside MCP
The Linux Foundation-backed body now hosts A2A next to MCP, with the protocol v1.0 adding multi-protocol bindings and signed agent cards.
Berth v0.3.4 adds experimental GPU passthrough to Windows VMs via VFIO
The update introduces a command to drain engines and pass the GPU to a VM, alongside gateway fallbacks and security fixes.
KittenML releases Kitten-TTS 2, an open-source 1.58-bit TTS model with real-time CPU inference
The 1.7B parameter model supports zero-shot voice cloning in 20+ languages and expressive emphasis control without requiring a GPU.
GameFrame: Claude Code skills and agents for reverse engineering and porting legacy games
The toolkit drives Ghidra and the Unicorn emulator to verify ports match original game logic across thousands of inputs.
AbliteratedOutTheBox enables live model abliteration in llama.cpp without fine-tuning
The tool operates as a llama.cpp fork that modifies models at runtime, requiring no additional VRAM or pre-processed files.
Experts: Improved AI coding and agentic capabilities drive surge in autonomous cyberattacks
Experts attribute the rise in autonomous AI attacks to improved coding skills and agentic capabilities that lower the cost of exploitation.
Izwi 0.1.0 releases fully local voice AI stack for Mac, Linux, and Windows
The open-source desktop app supports real-time voice conversations, TTS, and ASR using models like Qwen3-TTS and Parakeet TDT v3 without requiring Python.
Seth, Block, and Tononi Argue AI Systems Are Not Conscious in Nature Comment
Three prominent researchers argue that current AI architectures lack the biological and theoretical prerequisites for consciousness.
SpaceX posts first operating profit as public company with AI revenue nearly tripling to $7.6 billion
SpaceX reported its first operating profit as a public company, driven by a 161% revenue surge and an AI segment that outpaced its connectivity business.
China fines companies for AI data poisoning, with 30% of cited links showing fake placement
Regulators in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen have issued fines ranging from 50,000 to 120,000 yuan to companies planting fake content to manipulate AI chatbot citations.
InclusionAI releases Ming-3.0-TTS-0.5B with voice cloning and 7-language support
The 0.5B parameter model supports voice design, 7 languages, and emotion/style control.
inclusionAI Releases Ling-3.0-flash-UBTree and Ling-3.0-tiny-UBTree Speculative Decoding Models
The draft models combine a five-layer DFlash backbone with a learned bigram selector to propose multiple candidate continuations for target-model verification.
Research Shows Frozen 16 MB Vocabulary Outperforms Learned Embeddings in Small Language Models
A frozen 16 MB vocabulary table matches or exceeds learned embeddings on key benchmarks while reducing model size to 46 MB and boosting CPU inference speed by five to six times.
OpenBMB MiniCPM-V 4.7 Achieves 20.51 tok/s on iPhone 18 Pro Max via Lookahead Expert Scheduling
The system uses Lookahead Expert Scheduling to preload weights, achieving 6.07x speedup over the baseline with only a 0.16-point benchmark drop.
HF Viewer Launches embedl.com with 1000+ Models for Edge Device Farm
The platform supports NVIDIA Orin Nano Super, AGX Thor, AGX Orin, Orin NX, and RTX GPUs with detailed profiling results.
Taalas Demonstrates 17,000 tok/s Inference for 8B Llama Model on Single Custom Chip
The experimental proof of concept burns the model into silicon, achieving speeds 213x faster than an RTX 5070.
MemT-1.0 Introduces Memory-Native Foundation Models with Gated DeltaNet-2 Architecture
The new architecture internalizes memory via Gated DeltaNet-2 and Mixture-of-Storage, outperforming parametric baselines while preserving general capabilities.