The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking
Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in thousands of snaking tubes, colored cables, and pressurized tanks. From the groun...
Prime Intellect Releases prime-rl 0.6.0 to Train Trillion-Parameter MoE Models on Agentic RL Workloads
Prime Intellect has released prime-rl 0.6.0, an open framework for asynchronous reinforcement learning on trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts models. It trained GLM-5 on SWE tasks at up to 131k sequence length, with sub-5-minute step times and 256 rollouts, on 28 H200 nodes. This breakdown covers ...
xAI Launches /goal in Grok Build, Adding Long-Running Autonomous Execution With Built-In Verification for Multi-Step Coding Tasks
xAI introduced /goal in Grok Build, a mode for long-running, autonomous task execution. You hand off one objective, and the agent plans an approach, executes a progress checklist, and verifies the result until the goal completes.
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Sakana AI Launches Sakana Fugu: An Orchestration Model That Routes Tasks Across a Swappable Pool of Frontier LLMs
Fugu and Fugu Ultra route tasks across a swappable model pool, leading most coding, reasoning, and agentic benchmarks.
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Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s latest feud with the US government, here’s a recap: In April the company said it had built an AI mode...
The founder conference built for growth: TechCrunch Founder Summit pass rates increase June 26
Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 by June 26, 11:59 p.m. PT. Designed for founders first on November 4 in Boston. Register here.
MoonMath AI Open-Sources a HIP Attention Kernel for AMD MI300X That Beats AITER v3 on Every Shape and Rounding Mode
The HIP kernel uses one-instruction asm wrappers and an eight-wave pipeline to outperform AMD's AITER v3 on MI300X.
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When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.
Crawlee for Python: Build a Web Crawling Pipeline with Robots Handling, Link Graphs, and RAG Chunk Export
In this tutorial, we build a complete Crawlee for Python workflow from setup to AI-ready output. We generate a local demo website, then crawl it with BeautifulSoupCrawler, ParselCrawler, and PlaywrightCrawler. We extract titles, metadata, product fields, and JavaScript-rendered cards, and capture fu...
Cisco AI Introduces FAPO: Pipeline-Aware Prompt Optimization With Step-Level Failure Attribution and Claude Code Orchestration
Cisco Foundation AI has open-sourced FAPO (Fully Automated Prompt Optimization), a Claude Code-driven system that autonomously optimizes multi-step LLM pipelines from baseline prompts to target accuracy. FAPO evaluates a chain, attributes failures at the step level, proposes variants across prompt, ...
Nous Research Updates Hermes Agent With a Blank Slate Mode That Pins Toolsets via platform_toolsets.cli and disabled_toolsets
Nous Research has added a Blank Slate setup mode to its open-source Hermes Agent. It starts an agent with everything off except provider, model, File Operations, and Terminal. You opt in to the rest.
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NVIDIA AI Introduce SpatialClaw: A Training-Free Agent That Treats Code as the Action Interface for Spatial Reasoning
SpatialClaw is a training-free agent that writes Python in a persistent kernel, composing perception tools for 3D spatial reasoning
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VibeThinker-3B: A 3B Dense Reasoning Model Built on Qwen2.5-Coder-3B With the Spectrum-to-Signal Post-Training Pipeline
VibeThinker-3B, a 3B MIT-licensed reasoning model matching DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 on verifiable benchmarks.
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Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?
Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling t...
The US banned Anthropic’s Fable 5 release, but the numbers don’t seem to care
Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling t...
AI Quantum Intelligence - Pic of the week (2026-06-19)
An artistic, stylized scientific infographic depicting the first confirmed live observation of a colossal squid in the Southern Ocean. Features a mosaic and metallic textured squid surrounded by bioluminescent deep-sea life, nautical charts, and oceanographic diagrams in a vintage-modern fusion styl...
A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs
Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had been holding back large language models for almost a decade. The details were thin, and many people were unconvinced. But Subquadratic has sta...
Liquid AI Introduces LFM2.5-Embedding-350M and LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M: Dense Bi-Encoder and Late-Interaction Models for Fast Multilingual Search Across 11 Languages
Liquid AI's LFM2.5 Retrievers combine a dense bi-encoder and ColBERT late-interaction model for multilingual search on edge devices.
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