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Visit website →AI concerns return to Wall Street. Now earnings season is coming
AI-related stocks wobbled again after reports that OpenAI missed targets.
Recurrent Transformer: Greater Effective Depth and Efficient Decoding
The Recurrent Transformer boosts both effective depth and decoding efficiency together.
Laguna XS.2 and M.1: A Deep Dive
Laguna has released the 225B M.1 and 33B XS.2 models along with the ACP runtime.
OpenAI's Q4 2026 IPO May Not Happen
OpenAI's Q4 2026 IPO is being shaken by governance and funding issues.
Opus 4.7's New Tokenizer: What's the Real Cost
Opus 4.7's new tokenizer increased real-world costs by 12-27%.
Can agents replace the search stack
Attaching an agent to simple BM25/embedding search raised NDCG up to 0.453.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman Interview on Bedrock Managed Agents
OpenAI and AWS discussed Bedrock Managed Agents and multi-cloud strategy.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Long-Context Multimodal Intelligence for Documents, Audio, and Video
NVIDIA has unveiled Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, a multimodal model that handles documents, audio, and video.
DeepSeek Cuts V4-Pro Pricing by 75%
DeepSeek cut V4-Pro pricing by 75% and also lowered API cache-hit costs to one-tenth of the previous rate.
Google DeepMind Alum's AI Startup Raises Record $1.1 Billion Seed to Pursue Superintelligence
DeepMind alum David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence has raised a record-breaking $1.1 billion seed investment.
MiMo-V2.5-Pro
Xiaomi has unveiled MiMo-V2.5-Pro, featuring enhanced agentic capabilities and long-horizon task performance.
GPU Spot Prices Surge 114% in Six Weeks
NVIDIA B200 GPU spot prices surged 114% in six weeks.
Moat or Commons
The proliferation of open-weight models is shaking the monopoly-moat logic of US AI.
Recursive Language Models, Explained Simply
MIT researchers have proposed Recursive Language Models, which split up context to explore it.
Emerging Strategic Reasoning Risks in AI: A Taxonomy-Based Evaluation Framework
ESRRSim found that the detection rate of strategic reasoning risks across 11 reasoning LLMs varied widely, from 14.45% to 72.72%.
GPT-5.5: System Card (20-minute read)
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 raised performance, but its safety evaluation remains shallow.
Batch API isn't suited for a single agent, but it may be useful for multiple agents
For a single agent, the Batch API's latency is fatal, and cost efficiency only grows meaningful when multiple agents are bundled together.
Should You Train Your Own Model: The Pros and Cons of Post-Training for Application Companies
This analyzes why AI application companies should adopt post-training based on open-weight models to cut costs and optimize performance.
China Blocks Meta's Acquisition of Manus
China's NDRC has blocked Meta's acquisition of **Manus** and ordered the deal to be withdrawn.
OpenAI Smartphone Rumors (3 min read)
Reports suggest OpenAI is developing a smartphone processor, with MediaTek and Qualcomm collaboration and mass production expected in 2028.