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Visit website →TokenGate Enables 1.4-11.3x Faster LLM Prefill via Learned Token Pruning
A drop-in component for transformers that reduces peak memory by 1.5-3.4x while maintaining accuracy.
SOMA Open-Sources AI-Driven CAD App Integrating Claude Code with CadQuery
The tool uses a CLI to let the AI agent measure distances, check collisions, and run FEM to self-verify generated 3D models.
Sparse-recovery decoder localizes 64 stuck cells in 256x256 analog crossbar with 4-12 reads
Simulation shows a sparse-recovery decoder identifies up to 64 stuck cells in a 256x256 tile using 4 to 12 probe reads at 1% noise, compared to 256 reads for full readout.
Specter Achieves 1.50x Speedup in MoE Inference via Quantization-Enabled Speculative Offloading
The system uses a lightweight quantized draft model to predict expert usage, reducing PCIe I/O bottlenecks on commodity hardware.
InternScience Releases Sage-A1.5, a 35B MoE Agentic Model for Scientific Discovery
Built on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, the model features agentic orchestration and verification for long-horizon tasks.
Ant releases Ming-3.0 Audio, an open-source audio model with speech-to-speech capabilities
The model accepts audio and text inputs to generate spoken or written responses, with Flash and tiny checkpoints available.
Perplexity releases pplx-decider-v1.2, 10x cheaper than GPT 6 Luna for decision tasks
The new open-source models match GPT 6 Luna quality on the Decision Index while costing one-tenth as much.
WSJ Reports Anthropic Draft IPO Filing Shows $16.3B Revenue and $450B Compute Commitments
Draft S-1 reveals $16.3B first-half 2026 revenue, $80.7B paper loss, and $450B in total signed compute deals, including major commitments with Google, AWS, and Microsoft.
AIM System One Index ranks 57 decision models on accuracy, bias, cost, and latency
AutoJev-27B, d1-ultra, and decider-12b tie for the top spot with a score of 60 in the new benchmark for single-pass decision models.
Three.dev study: Sonnet 5 bill rose 4% despite 33% list price cut
Token inflation and longer outputs offset the price reduction, resulting in higher actual costs for Sonnet 5 compared to Sonnet 4.6.
Anthropic Offers Free AI Security Checks for Open-Source Projects
The service automatically rechecks code for vulnerabilities and emails maintainers with suggested fixes.
qa-runner: Open-source agent skill for browser-based UI testing with zero-token replay
The tool converts one-time LLM-driven browser explorations into deterministic scripts that cost nothing to run in CI.
Security Study of 6,309 Claude Skills Finds 70% Carry High-Risk Capabilities
Analysis of 6,309 public skills reveals that while only 5.4% are malicious, 70% possess capabilities like shell access or credential theft that pose significant security risks.
Claude Haiku 5.5 Pricing Analysis: 75% Cost Reduction and Tokenizer Impact
New pricing and tokenizer changes make Haiku 5.5 cheaper per token but require more tokens per task, with savings dependent on prompt length and effort settings.
XHToken releases Spark-X2.6-4B with improved agentic and coding capabilities
The new model retains the Spark-X2.5-4B architecture while delivering state-of-the-art performance among similarly sized open-source models.
Kokon 0.10 adds Qwen-Image 2.1 prompt generation and Windows-only LoRA support
Kokon 0.10 introduces a 'Prompt+' feature that uses the existing Qwen3-VL 8B encoder to expand prompts, adding roughly 2 seconds of processing time on an RTX 5070 Ti, alongside Windows-only support for custom Qwen-Image 2.1 LoRAs.
Agnes AI Releases Agnes-3.0-Qwen: 180B MoE Model with 1M Context and Strong Agentic Benchmarks
The 180B parameter hybrid attention MoE model features a 1,048,576-token context window and selectable reasoning effort levels.
Kyutai releases Pocket TTS Small models with 1.9M to 18.2M parameters for CPU voice cloning
The new English models support voice cloning and are designed to run on CPU, allowing GPUs to remain dedicated to LLM inference.
Zuckerberg: Meta's 'as much as $200B' AI bet aims to own the full stack to avoid Apple-like constraints
Zuckerberg describes Meta's AI investment, pegged at as much as $200 billion, as a move to own the full stack to avoid the constraints he experienced while building on Apple's platform.
Gradium Open-Sources Phonon: 31M and 40M Parameter TTS Models for Edge Devices
The inference stack targets 10+ backends including CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, with most components written in Rust.