Research
Meta Releases Muse Ember, a 1M-Context Model for High-Volume Agent Work
Meta Muse Ember is Meta’s smallest model, built for tool calls, coding subtasks and document parsing. It ties Claude Haiku 5.5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at rou…
Google Unveils TPU 8i Max and TPU 8tx: A Dual-Chip TPU and a Confidential TPU
Google added TPU 8i Max and TPU 8tx to its eighth-generation TPU lineup. TPU 8i Max packs 2 TPU 8i chips per package for long-context agents. TPU 8tx adds hardware confidential in…
Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI
As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a tight congressional race for former Speaker of the…
Baidu’s ERNIE Evolve Automated Research System Beats NanoChat and NanoGPT Records
Baidu’s ERNIE Evolve is an automated research system that edits code, runs experiments and keeps only verified gains. It beat public bests on NanoChat and NanoGPT Speedrun and spe…
The Download: empty AI climate claims, and an Nvidia investigation
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Opinion: The climate case for AI has not …
The climate case for AI has not been made
This week, as countries meet in Antalya, Turkey for the United Nations climate conference, one topic likely to dominate the conversation is artificial intelligence. The host has a…
Reason Machines Open-Sources Aspen, a Git Server Built for AI Agents
Reason Machines has open-sourced Aspen, a self-hosted Git server for AI agents. It follows OpenAI’s Pando design and sustained 567 pushes per second on one 8-core server in the co…
0sec Labs Open-Sources 0, an AI Security Harness With Web UI, CLI and MCP
0sec Labs has open-sourced 0, an AI security harness for code review, pentesting, reverse engineering and fixes. It runs locally through a browser console, a headless CLI and an M…
Google AI Releases Elephant-Goldfish Model Plugin for Spec-First Coding
Google's Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin makes coding agents draft specs, then runs 5 zero-context review stages before any code. The post Google AI Releases Elephant-Goldfish Mode…
Which Routing Does Each MoE Model Use? DeepSeek, Qwen, Mixtral, Llama 4, gpt-oss Compared
A config-verified comparison of how 10 open MoE models route tokens: total and active parameters, expert counts, top-k, shared experts, gating functions and load-balancing methods…
MoE Routing Strategies Explained: Top-K, Expert-Choice, Sigmoid Gating and Dynamic Routing (2026 Guide)
MoE routing strategies decide which experts process each token. This guide explains 7 methods, from Mixtral's top-2 softmax to DeepSeek-V4's hash routing, with the models that use…
Nous Research Releases Arete-27B that Cuts Qwen3.8-27B Propaganda From 22% to 0.9%
Nous Research released Arete-27B, an Apache 2.0 fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B. On Nous’s 803-prompt eval, propaganda answers fell from 22% to 0.9% while Hermes Bench stayed flat at 65.…
How to Run NVIDIA Dory 4B with llama.cpp: Loop by Loop Guide
Explore a comprehensive coding guide for NVIDIA's Dory 1.0 4B looped language model. Learn how to build the pinned llama.cpp branch, analyze loop-by-loop compute costs, test memor…
Buoyant Releases Kinference: An Open Source Inference Control Plane for Kubernetes and vLLM
Buoyant has released Kinference, an Apache 2.0 inference control plane for vLLM on Kubernetes. It adds declarative routing policies, KV-cache-aware load balancing and per-tenant m…
Zyphra ZYFA: FP8 FlashAttention for AMD MI355X, Up to 1.76x Faster
Zyphra released ZYFA, open-source FP8 and BF16 prefill attention kernels for AMD Instinct MI355X. On real model activations, its FP8 kernels run 1.16-1.76x faster than AMD’s AITER…
The Download: a humanoid cleans house and Samsung builds for the AI boom
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. I watched a humanoid robot clean my apart…
Thinking Machines Releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE With 17B Active
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling 2 Small, a 594B-parameter MoE with 17B active parameters. It scores 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and runs on Tinker, wit…
Google Releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: 15-Second AI Video at $0.07 per Second
Google released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, a video generation and editing model with native 15-second clips, multi-turn conversational editing and a 30% price cut to $0.07 per second …
Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: A 280B MoE Base Model With 14B Active Parameters
Baidu has released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, a 280B sparse MoE base model with 14B active parameters, trained on 33.5T tokens and published before any mid- or post-training. The post …
The Download: Texas’s fragile AI boom and energy policy shifts
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Texas was the new epicenter of the AI dat…
A new bill could change how the US builds energy infrastructure
A sweeping bit of legislation designed to cut red tape could speed up the buildout of energy infrastructure in the US. With the dust barely settled on this week’s momentous midter…
Together AI Releases Together Compiler: Agents Make Inference Up to 2.6x Faster
Together AI released Together Compiler, an agent-driven loop that keeps re-optimizing the inference forward pass as traffic shifts. It beat the best InferenceX configurations by u…
OpenAI Launches GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and Sunburst: Adds GIFs, SVG Export and 6-Second API Generation
OpenAI released Images 2.6 and the GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and Sunburst API models. Flare generates images in as little as 6 seconds, and both add GIF output, SVG export, markup edits…
Google AI Research Releases Agile Deliberation Framework for Gray-Area Image Classifiers
Google Research released Agile Deliberation, a human-in-the-loop framework that helps users define subjective visual concepts through borderline images. In 18 live sessions, it li…