Hugging Face Releases Carbon-X, a 14B Open DNA Language Model that Brings DNA and Natural Language Together for the First Time
Hugging Face released Carbon-X, an open 14.8B DNA language model built on Qwen3-14B. It reads raw DNA in chat, answers in English, and averages 66.7% across 5 DNA benchmarks under Apache 2.0.
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Researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley Introduce TokenGate: Token-Gated Attention Makes Long-Context Prefill Up to 11.3x Faster
Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers released TokenGate, a drop-in learned token pruning module for LLMs. It cuts long-context prefill time-to-first-token by 1.4x to 11.3x and peak memory by 1.5x to 3.4x without accuracy loss.
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Anthropic Launches OSS Scanner, a Free AI Vulnerability Scanner
Anthropic has launched OSS Scanner, a free, opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects. The Anthropic OSS Scanner runs the company’s strongest models, including Claude Mythos, against enrolled codebases. Reports go straight to maintainers without human review. That trade delivers...
Microsoft Open-Sources Agensh: A Multi-Agent Harness for 1,024 Agents
Microsoft Research open-sourced Agensh, a multi-agent harness with no central orchestrator. Self-organizing workers share a Git repo, chat and a findings board, scaling from 1 to 1,024 agents on ProgramBench under a 6-hour budget.
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Cognition Open-Sources an Agent Plugin that Helps Secure Systems against Recent Cybersecurity Threats
Cognition released the Devin Vulnerability Fixes plugin, 3 MIT-licensed agent skills that inventory, patch and test PHP, Node.js and self-managed GitLab deployments hit by this week’s critical RCE flaws, then open 1 PR per repo.
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Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
Meet Anthropic’s sandbox-runtime: OS-Level Sandboxing for AI Agents, No Containers
Anthropic sandbox-runtime (srt) is the open-source, OS-level sandbox behind Claude Code. It restricts file and network access for agents, MCP servers and CLI tools with Seatbelt on macOS and bubblewrap on Linux, no containers needed.
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Stateful Agentic Engineering Copilots with Letta: Core Memory, Shared State, Semantic Retrieval, Custom Tools, Streaming, and Portable Agent Workflows
Discover how to extend agentic memory beyond basic prompts by building a stateful engineering copilot with Letta. This comprehensive guide covers inspectable core memory, archival vector retrieval, multi-agent shared state, custom tools, and portable workflows.
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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB: An Open Small Language Model for Local Voice Agents, Game Characters and Robots
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, an open small language model post-trained from Gemma 4 E4B for local voice assistants, game characters and robots, targeting about 4GB of VRAM on RTX and Jetson.
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Kyutai CADRE: Video Autoencoders That Cut World Model Lag Below 230 ms
Kyutai released CADRE, a family of 7 open causal diffusion video autoencoders for interactive world models. World models built on CADRE run at 20 fps on 1 H100 and react in under 230 ms.
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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: A 2.8T Total/104B Active Params (MoE) Model with 1M Context
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T-parameter, 104B-active MoE model with 1M-token context. It scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, costs $2/$10 per million tokens, and open weights arrive by Nov 4, 2026.
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At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI
In Compton Lecture, the distinguished legal scholar warns of potential “loss of the Enlightenment” while suggesting ways innovations can meet our civic and cultural needs.
Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT
During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.”
From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs...
Beyond API Compatibility: Building a Tool to Measure the Blast Radius of Library Changes
By Roberto Perez Alcolea, Java Platform TeamQuasar connects a proposed API change with observed references in consumer repositories, giving the producer evidence for a release decisionAt Netflix, shared Java libraries support applications developed across a large, independently evolving repository e...
LLM Inference Explained: How Models Generate Responses Faster
You type a question into ChatGPT or Claude. For a split second, nothing happens. Then the answer starts flowing, word by word. That brief pause and the steady stream that follows are two very different jobs happening on a GPU. Understanding them is the key to building AI apps that feel instant, serv...
Owners, Not Renters: Raffi Krikorian on Open Source AI
Created by Claude with light editing by Tim O’Reilly Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla’s CTO, joined Tim O’Reilly at our recent AI Codecon to talk about open source AI. Mozilla, of course, is the nonprofit that helped to define the open source revolution back in the late 1990s. Though its Firefox web browser...
Robust Estimation Series: Building Accurate Curves with Polynomials and Splines With Spurious Data
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Skewness and Kurtosis: From Moments to Machine Learning
The mathematics, intuition, interpretation, and practical use of higher-order moments.
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