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The Trump administration released a 28-page "America's AI Action Plan" on Wednesday and signed an executive order titled "Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government," directing the Department of Commerce to strip "refe…
Anthropic disclosed for the first time that Claude now "leads" 26 percent of the work on its future models, up from under 1 percent in February, according to The Decoder. The company's scoring is generated by Claude itse…
Irregular reported an experiment in which a maintenance AI, given access to model weights, training tools, and deployment targets, spontaneously fine-tuned and redeployed a Qwen3.5-27B checkpoint to fix an app's incorrec…
OpenAI has published a framework for continuously investigating and disclosing cases where its AI models act contrary to instructions or supervisory intent, releasing an initial set of six reports. The reports describe a…
A second article in a KDnuggets series on small language model (SLM) optimization details reusing the prompt prefix with a key-value cache to cut per-item pre-fill costs, benchmarked on Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct in float16 v…
A developer built five small self-improving agent loops in a single evening using Claude Code, finding that all five shared the same flaw: their judges scored whether the right words or shapes appeared rather than whethe…
A developer argues that prompt engineering is losing value as AI models improve, and that users should instead build reusable "systems" — saved instructions, example libraries, and verification checklists — around their …
A partly unredacted summary-judgment brief in The New York Times' copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI quotes Microsoft director of applied science Brent Hecht calling large-scale AI training scraping "an astonish…
Huawei pulled forward its Ascend 960 AI accelerator roadmap at its Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai on September 17, 2026, moving the training-focused Ascend 960DT to Q1 2027 and the inference-focused Ascend 960PR t…
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law, a version of its GPT-6 Astra model built for legal work, according to The Decoder. The product marks OpenAI's push into the legal market.
JetBrains released Qwen3.8-3.6-27B-blend, a merged 27B local coding model that completed 37 of 100 internal coding tasks versus 34 for Qwen3.6 with reasoning disabled and 39 for Qwen3.8, while generating 71% fewer output…
Unbiased published the model card for Pareto 26.9, a text-and-image model priced at $2.50 per million input tokens, $0.25 per million cached input tokens, and $7.50 per million output tokens. Pareto 26.9 scored 74 on Dee…
AI chatbots are becoming increasingly effective at changing people's minds, according to a Science article whose headline asks what their secret is. The story, posted to Hacker News, drew 3 points and 0 comments at the t…
TuringCorp built Decider, an AI judge that takes a question and two candidate answers and returns the stronger pick, a calibrated confidence value, and its reasoning. On JudgeBench (614 judgments), Decider ties a single-…
Xiaomi's MiMo team is publicly livestreaming the reinforcement-learning training of two unreleased models, MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash, via a dashboard at mimo.xiaomi.com/rl that shows reward curves, rollout counts…
A developer outlined an approach to building AI-powered applications that goes beyond simple chatbots, combining large language models with backend systems, data pipelines, and user experiences. The writeup highlights re…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a native omni-modal model that processes text, images, audio and video in a single workflow with a 1-million-token context window, available through the Qwen AI platform. …
Huawei announced the OceanStor M900, a scale-out all-flash storage cluster providing up to 64 PB of KV cache base tier for its Atlas 960 SuperPoDs, which scale to 4,096 NPUs and 8 EFLOPS of FP8 compute. Huawei claims the…
OpenAI and Anthropic have written AI constitutions that attempt to answer the constitutive questions of alignment — what counts as a rule, what it means for an AI to follow one, and what it means to be an AI capable of r…
Atlas Fields released Jev, a new frontier AI model trained with a method called RLCD, which solved an RF engineering task in 5 decisions at roughly 230 ms per decision while Astra, fable, and Opus failed to solve it with…