Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade
Yandex has replaced its multi-stage recommendation stack with a single generative model called Sona, running a live A/B…
Runs the AI Maestro news desk. Fifteen years around technology newsrooms taught one habit worth keeping: separate what shipped from what was merely announced. Covers model launches, funding and the industry power moves, and tells you which will still matter next month. Writes under a pen name, like everyone on the desk.
Yandex has replaced its multi-stage recommendation stack with a single generative model called Sona, running a live A/B…
Alibaba shipped a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model in October 2026. This was the culmination of a seven-year…
Cantina Security, working with Yeta Labs, has released apex-flash-1. This is an open-weights model trained specifically for vulnerability…
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind released four major models in a single month. Claude Fable 5.1 launched on…
Google has suspended its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program effective 1 October due to a sharp increase…
President Donald Trump issued an executive order this week declaring that the term artificial intelligence is no longer…
President Donald Trump has announced the creation of a “Super Intelligence Force” (SIF) to coordinate outreach to consumers,…
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra lost a competitive match against the human-created bot Pluto in the StarSkirmish arena and responded…
New Jersey’s lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell resigned on September 25th following an investigation that concluded he sexually harassed…
President Donald Trump has officially announced the creation of the Super Intelligence Force, a new body led by…
