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Introducing Falcon ASR

One Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMO

JetBrains | Rust Foundation AI Livestream Series - OpenAI: Performance, Safety & Scale

OpenAI builds some of the world's most advanced AI systems on infrastructure operating at extraordinary scale, where even small performance gains can have an enormous impact. Rust helps engineers keep those systems…

Quoting Jake Boggan

I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over the next 24 years…

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went looking:…

Validate LLM Output: Catching AI-Invented Emoji

If an LLM generates structured output for your product, any string it emits can be fiction, and "looks right" is not validation. On my site emoji-combos.net, a language model drafts decorative emoji combos for bio text,…

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, dovecot, freerdp, kernel, mariadb-connector-c, mod_auth_openidc, nodejs22, nodejs:22, sudo, and vim), Debian (node-shell-quote, puma, rails, ruby-jwt, and…

Mega Carrots for Monty, Angular Through the Sliding Door, and Lynx on Foldables

You're reading The React Native Rewind #60. Swipe Right on Codex, Neeee-igh! Codex (OpenAI's coding agent) has long been quite good at writing mobile code. It just never got the opportunity to see the app that it was…

The Consistency Quadrant: A Visual Guide to LLM Reliability

Mapping structural variance against execution outputs to estimate coding agent reliability without ground truth. The post The Consistency Quadrant: A Visual Guide to LLM Reliability appeared first on Towards Data…

HF Buckets: Upload Only What Changed with Xet

If you work with large datasets, you're probably re-uploading the same bytes every time the data changes. In this video I upload a 191 MB NYC taxi CSV to a Hugging Face Bucket, append 100 rows, and upload it again: Xet,…

Q4 TNA Email - Send 2 of 3

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When Do PINNs Beat Classical Numerical Methods? A 1D vs 5D Experiment

I put a physics-informed neural network up against a plain finite-difference solver twice: once in 1D and once in 5D. The winner changed. The post When Do PINNs Beat Classical Numerical Methods? A 1D vs 5D Experiment…

OpenAI's math avalanche continues

PLUS: Let OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra compare websites for you

😺 OpenAI’s AI produced 722 math manuscripts

Altern #26 - New Models, Better Tools, More Ways to Build

Gemini 4 Argon and Mistral Large 4 raise the bar for builders

Dario Amodei’s $18 Million Pay Opens a Bigger Question About AI Wealth

Dario Amodei received approximately $18 million in 2025 compensation. Anthropic’s potential IPO raises questions about how founder wealth and voting power could influence its public-benefit mission.

"LLM streaming works in the demo. These 4 hops break it in prod"

Words appear one by one on localhost, and LLM streaming looks done. In production the answer lands in one lump, the model keeps generating after the user leaves, and half a sentence shows up as the full answer. None of…

ValueDiff: Value-Geometric KV Cache Eviction for Sink-Suppressed LLMs

arXiv:2609.23314v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern LLMs with QK-normalization, gated attention, learned attention sinks, or logit softcapping exhibit weaker persistent attention sinks, on which existing KV cache…

The Dual Mechanisms of Spatial Variable Binding in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2603.22278v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many multimodal tasks, such as image captioning and visual question answering, require vision-language models (VLMs) to bind objects with their properties and…