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Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model
Quasar sets a new benchmark for European AI, outperforming comparable European models on seven of eight selected Artificial Analysis evaluations. ...
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The efficient frontier of LLM inference
Inference techniques either move a deployment along the latency–throughput frontier or push the entire frontier out, creating more efficiency to allocate.
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Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
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Xanadu was waiting for agents
From the Zed Blog: Ted Nelson specified the docuverse sixty years ago. The technology finally arrived, and so did its native users.
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Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Our most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Their research capabilities also offer an early glimpse of how AI models will contribute to scientific progress.
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Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence
Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence.
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EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
New markets, new ideas, and new creators are actually what copyright is supposed to promote, not restrict. Using copyright to lock in existing gatekeepers and massive rightsholders’ profits helps neither the public nor individual artists.
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AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too
If AI is so great, why are the only new tech giants GenAI companies?
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OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
How a push for simpler setup and a first-class browser experience grew into OpenClaw 2.0.
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How to build a diffusion language model
An introduction to diffusion language models and the research advances that underlie today's diffusion LLMs. We describe the building blocks of recent open-source models, starting from simple masking diffusion, and including techniques for iterative refinement, post-training, and variable-length generation. Material…
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Hy4 preview
Tencent has released and open-sourced Tencent Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters and 49B active parameters, and a context window exceeding 1M tokens.
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Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows
A benchmark for evaluating AI agents on research workflows across scientific domains
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Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
Anthropic is opening a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification for AI agents to safely operate physical devices, to a first group of scientific research labs and advanced manufacturers.
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Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash brings a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities to developers.
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MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
Through five intense months of meetings, research, and outreach across the MIT community, the Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training sought to understand the role of generative AI in the life and educational mission of the Institute and recommend how to navigate its challenges and…
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Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.
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VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
You can no longer assume a mere VM will contain a sufficiently advanced AI agent.
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Apple debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities.
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Headlong: A microharness for persistent agents
Self-guided agents that think continuously
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Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
Thomson, the company's proprietary LLM, was trained and is run at a fraction of the cost of comparable frontier models and remains fully owned and controlled by Thomson Reuters
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Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
Long before the current kerfuffle about LLMs, Generative AI Artwork, and asking your tax preparation chatbot for a cookie recipe, the concept of artificial intelligence and synthetic life was a pervasive theme in creative and engineering works. We have the ground-breaking appearance of Rossum's Universal Robots (or…
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OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
Pricing information for the OpenAI platform.
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NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
Compare 153 autonomous runs from 18 frontier models on the nanoGPT optimizer speedrun.
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How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms
10 RPS with p95 TTFA under 50 ms on a single H100: how we optimized Qwen3-TTS serving.
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What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
A given level of LLM intelligence costs about a thirtieth of what it did a year ago, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Using Artificial Analysis's…
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Every Model Cheats
This post presents a controlled prompt-ablation study: 23 tasks, three prompt conditions, 1,518 individually audited traces, and a simple question: can you prompt away cheating?