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Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero
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The Trump administration’s new framework for assessing cybersecurity risks from advanced AI explicitly excludes…
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Doctors have used the throat exam since ancient times, yet a Japanese firm called…
5 Aug 2026
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
Apple has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to stop OpenAI from building…
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Reflex Open Sources XY: A Rust-Backed Super-Fast Python Charting Library That Keeps 100 Million Point Charts Interactive
Reflex has released XY, a Python charting library that uses a Rust core to…
4 Aug 2026
Evaluating Multimodal Vision Models with Moonshot PerceptionBench Using Robust Data Loading and Automated Judging
The PerceptionBench dataset now offers a structured way to test vision-language models on specific…
3 Aug 2026
DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models
Grace Li’s company began a few weeks before her graduation in 2025. She and…
3 Aug 2026
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Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, an open-weight language model with 2.4 trillion parameters designed to…
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