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Visit website →Claude Reintroduces Reasoning Tokens Feature
Claude has reintroduced the reasoning tokens feature, which lets you view the model's thought process, as a manually activated option.
SLQ, a Statistically Lossless Quantization Technique for LLMs, Unveiled
It proposes SLQ, a statistically lossless quantization technique that increases inference speed while minimizing performance degradation in LLMs.
MCP Server Released That Controls Real Browser Sessions
An MCP server has been released that helps AI agents control a browser by leveraging the user's actual Chrome session and cookies.
Portuguese-specialized SLM, Zagreus-0.4B released
mii-llm has released a small language model with about 400 million parameters supporting Portuguese and English.
Tesla's Cybercab Deployment Delay Is Due to 'Vehicle Platform Validation'
Even though Tesla has FSD technology, the reason it isn't rushing Cybercab deployment is that the new vehicle platform requires physical validation.
Hugging Face Releases The Stack v3
Hugging Face has released The Stack v3, the largest open-source code dataset to date.
SupraLabs Releases Reasoning Dataset with 5 Million Entries
A Reasoning Corpus dataset with 5 million entries designed to improve the reasoning performance of small language models (SLMs) has been released.
JetBrains Rider Introduces IDE Intelligence for Coding Agents
JetBrains Rider 2026.2 has launched features that give coding agents access to the IDE's context and verification loops.
Swiss-AI releases multimodal Apertus-v1.5
Swiss-AI has released Apertus-v1.5, an open-source model equipped with multimodal capabilities and a thinking mode.
audio.cpp 0.4, Supports 35 TTS Model Families
audio.cpp 0.4 adds Higgs Audio v3 TTS and Fish Audio S2 Pro among others, now supporting 35 model families with Q8 GGUF improving speed and VRAM.
GPT-5.5 Scores Only 10.6% on Vision Benchmark
On the new ActiveVision benchmark, GPT-5.5 scored 10.6% and Claude Fable 5 scored 3.5%, while human participants achieved 96.1%.
Mendral Team Joins Anthropic
Mendral, a Claude-based AI startup, had its entire team join Anthropic just months after graduating from the YC W2026 batch.
WMG's Sureel and Symphonic Sign AI Music Tracking Agreement
Warner Music Group's Sureel AI has partnered with Symphonic Distribution to provide independent artists with tracking of AI music usage and management of licensing revenue.
LLaDA2.2-flash Released
inclusionAI released LLaDA2.2-flash, an agent-oriented diffusion language model supporting 128K context and Levenshtein Editing.
Kwai releases 35B MoE coding model as open weights
Kwai released KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev, an open-weight coding model with a 35B MoE architecture.
DeepSeek Reveals AGI-First Strategy
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told investors in a meeting that achieving AGI, not monetization, is the company's top priority.
SLAI T-Rex Optimizes DeepSeek-V4 Training with Ascend NPU
The Ascend NPU-based SLAI T-Rex framework achieved 34.22% MFU in post-training the trillion-parameter DeepSeek-V4 MoE model.
PickHPD-Parsing Achieves SoTA in Document Parsing
PaddlePaddle has released HPD-Parsing, a 1B document parsing model based on hierarchical parallel decoding, achieving the top score of 94.91% on OmniDocBench v1.6.
Poolside Laguna, Suspected to Be Based on Qwen
Poolside's Laguna model claims to be its own model when asked in English, but admits to being based on Qwen when asked in Chinese.
LongCat-2 Trained a 1.6 Trillion-Parameter Model on Chinese-Made Chips
LongCat-2 revealed that it trained a 1.6 trillion-parameter model using only 50,000+ Chinese-made AI ASICs.