Research
webAI Releases TwIL-8B, an 8.8B Reasoning Model Scoring 98.2 on MATH-500
webAI released TwIL-8B, an 8.8B reasoning model post-trained from IBM Granite 4.2 8B. It posts 98.2 on MATH-500 and 81.6 on LiveCodeBench, but trails similar-size models on knowle…
Ricursive AI Releases Ripple-65B Preview: A 65B Dense Open-Weight Model Scoring 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1
Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B dense open-weight LLM under Apache 2.0. It scores 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, ahead of US open models up to 15x its size.…
Roundtables: Inside the Quest for Cognitive Immortality
Tuesday, November 17, 2026 In an effort to reach an elusive continuity of the self, some far-thinking technologists are working on ways to keep your brain going—even beyond death.…
What’s next for US energy policy after the midterm elections?
I’ve been locked in to my various screens since results from midterm elections started to roll in last night. And it didn’t take long to see the beginning of the blue wave: Democr…
The Download: blended meat, restored sight, and the agentic web
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. These startups hope “blended” food will c…
Tencent WeVisOne-VL Unifies Detection, OCR, Segmentation and Matting
Tencent’s WeChat Vision team released WeVisOne-VL, an Apache 2.0 vision language model in 2B and 4B sizes. It handles detection, OCR, counting, segmentation and alpha matting in o…
Anthropic Releases FlashProve: Cryptographic Proofs That a Reply Came From Committed Weights
Anthropic released FlashProve, an Apache 2.0 zkSNARK prototype that proves a reply came from a committed model without revealing weights. It proves Llama 4 Maverick at 110 tokens/…
NVIDIA Shows 3 Ways to Speed Up MoE Inference on DGX Spark, Lifting Ling-3.0-flash Throughput 42.5%
NVIDIA shows how 3 stacked optimizations speed up MoE inference on a single DGX Spark. On Ant Group inclusionAI's 124B Ling-3.0-flash, GSM8K decode throughput rose 42.5% with no d…
Soniox STT v6 Adds Agent Text Input and Echo Filtering for Voice Agents
Soniox has released Soniox STT v6, the latest generation of its speech-to-text API. Soniox STT v6 is a speech-to-text model that reads what a voice agent says while hearing the ca…
The Download: controlling AI agents and “Super Intelligence” loyalty tests
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. How “reverse game theory” could keep AI a…
OpenAI Introduces Pando: A Git Backend That Cuts Median Push Latency ~80%
OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend for its monorepo. It handles branches independently, reuses stored packfiles across fetches, cut median push latency by nearly 80%, an…
Zyphra AI Introduces Zyphra Hierarchical Attention (ZHA): A Path to True Subquadratic Attention
Zyphra Hierarchical Attention (ZHA) is a tree-indexed sparse attention method that retrofits frozen LLMs with 4B tokens of distillation, matching dense attention on reasoning and …
The Letter Company Releases Letterpress-1: A Coding Agent Built for Growth Engineering
Letter has released the beta of Letterpress-1, a coding agent, harness and IDE for growth engineering. It reads a git-based site and its market, then opens pull requests for SEO, …
Deep Principle Releases Hydrogen-1.0: A 753B Open-Weight Model for Scientific Discovery
Deep Principle has released Hydrogen-1.0, an open-weight scientific model for chemistry, materials science and life sciences. It is built by post-training Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 on domain…
Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics
In just a few years, generative AI has changed the face of enterprise analytics, notably by making analytics accessible to users across the organization. Agentic AI promises to do…
The Download: the agentic web arrives and the drive for safer roads
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. The agentic web is here In 2001, a decade…
The agentic web is here
In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he published an article in the magazine Scientific …
NVIDIA Releases Auto Ontology: An Open Semantic Layer That Grounds AI Agent SQL
NVIDIA released Auto Ontology, an Apache 2.0 library that generates a semantic layer from enterprise metadata. It grounds agent SQL in certified definitions and serves context thr…
Meet qwenGPU: Qwen3.5-2B With 45 Compiled GPU Layers That Run CUDA
qwenGPU compiles a 4-lane SIMT GPU into Qwen3.5-2B as 45 untrained layers. The model writes every step of real CUDA launches itself, using Gated DeltaNet state as registers and me…
Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon
Nace AI open-sources Drex Max v1, a 27B multimodal decision model scoring 67.52 that runs on Apple Silicon. The post Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Ru…
DeepSeek Open-Sources dsh-superagent, a Router-Worker Coding Agent
DeepSeek released dsh-superagent, an MIT-licensed research prototype that turns GitHub and Feishu requests into parallel worker sessions. In DeepSeek’s own simulation, p95 task co…
Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode
Factory released Droid 1.0, a model-independent coding agent harness that makes programmatic tool calling the default. On Factory’s own Terminal-Bench 4 runs, Droid scores 65.2% w…
Vercel Labs Open-Sources agent-desktop for Agent Computer Use
Vercel Labs released agent-desktop, an Apache-2.0 Rust CLI that gives any AI agent computer use on macOS, Windows and Linux by reading OS accessibility trees and acting on stable …
Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%
Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released TokenEconomizer, an open-source plugin that learns from past sessions to cut coding agent token costs by 18.4% to 30.9% on SWE-Bench, w…