IBM Releases Two Granite Speech 4.1 2B Models: Autoregressive ASR with Translation and Non-Autoregressive Editing for Fast Inference
IBM Releases Granite Speech 4.1 2B and Its Non-Autoregressive Twin — Compact ASR Models Built for Enterprise
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Cursor Introduces a TypeScript SDK for Building Programmatic Coding Agents With Sandboxed Cloud VMs, Subagents, Hooks, and Token-Based Pricing
Cursor Launches TypeScript SDK to Let Developers Build and Deploy Programmatic Coding Agents
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Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending
The e-commerce giant is making more money than expected from AWS but it's also spending a lot, and will continue to do so in the near term, its chief executive said.
AI Weekly Issue #488: OpenAI lost three things in five days
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Musk takes the stand in the OpenAI trial: "If we make it OK to loot..." — Jury selection wrapped Monday; Musk testified Tuesday in the $134B suit to return OpenAI's assets to the nonprofit and oust Altman. Live coverage tracked every hour. The case will set the legal template for what co...
Is AI video just a prequel? Runway’s CEO thinks world models are next
AI-generated video has gone from novelty to creative tool almost overnight, and Runway has a front row seat to the shift. The New York-based company has raised close to $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation, and its models are going toe-to-toe with the most well-funded labs in the world, includin...
Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise
The AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has raised $100 million, led by Sequoia, months after raising a previous $100 million.
Qwen Team Releases FlashQLA: a High-Performance Linear Attention Kernel Library That Achieves Up to 3× Speedup on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs
The QwenLM team has released FlashQLA, a new kernel library that dramatically accelerates the forward and backward passes of Gated Delta Network (GDN) Chunked Prefill, targeting both large-scale pretraining and edge-side agentic inference scenarios.
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Poolside AI Introduces Laguna XS.2 and M.1: Agentic Coding Models Reaching 68.2% and 72.5% on SWE-bench Verified
Poolside Releases Laguna XS.2 and M.1: Open-Weight Agentic Coding Models Built for Long-Horizon Tasks
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Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices
A new method could bring more accurate and efficient AI models to high-stakes applications like health care and finance, even in under-resourced settings.
OpenAI Releases Privacy Filter: A 1.5B-Parameter Open-Source PII Redaction Model with 50M Active Parameters
OpenAI's Privacy Filter Is a 1.5B-Parameter PII Detector Built on a Distilled Decoder — And It Runs in Your Browser
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