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Google's AX: a Kubernetes-style control plane for running AI agents at scale
AX is a declarative orchestrator, seeded inside Google and drawing on DeepMind research, that treats AI agents as a distinct class of workload rather than shoeh
How the Letter W Was Born From the Wreckage of Rome
Editor's note: This is a linguistics and history piece from Literary Hub, not a cybersecurity or technology-industry story. It appears miscategorized for our be
iPhone 18 Pro Camera Scores 172 on DXOMARK, Held Back by Long-Range Zoom
DXOMARK's lab and perceptual testing puts the iPhone 18 Pro among the top imaging phones with an overall score of 172. The standout hardware change is a variabl
Kev: Self-Hostable Decision Models on Qwen3.5 That Return Calibrated Odds
Kev is an openly published family of small "decision models" — 0.8B, 4B, and 9B parameters — fine-tuned on Qwen3.5 bases and modeled on the closed 'Jev' archite
Laya runs structured LLM inference offline on Apple's M4 via CoreML
A developer demo shows Laya, a structured question-answering inference tool, running entirely offline on an Apple M4 Mac through CoreML (repo: github.com/mizore
Mathematician: AI's security risks will create more human jobs than it kills
Po-Shen Loh, writing in a guest post on Terry Tao's blog, responds to the wave of anxiety and open letters sweeping the math community after OpenAI's reported s
Mini-AGI: a byte-level model that trains from scratch and never stops learning on 8GB VRAM
Mini-AGI is an experimental continual-learning language model designed to be trained end-to-end on a single consumer GPU with as little as 8GB of VRAM. Its cent
OpenAI's __obi cookie links your off-site browsing to your ChatGPT account
A researcher has documented how OpenAI's advertising infrastructure quietly connects activity on third-party websites back to individual ChatGPT users. When you
Pirate Face torrents Hugging Face models to keep open weights alive after takedowns
Pirate Face mirrors permissively-licensed open models from Hugging Face — LLMs, image and audio models, and datasets — as BitTorrent magnet links, positioning i
Radius Launches as a Lighter, Location-First Challenger to Meetup
Radius is a new community-organizing platform pitched on Hacker News as an alternative to Meetup.com. Its core sell is low friction: creating or joining a group
Resident Evil 4 for GameCube gets a full byte-perfect C/C++ decompilation
A new project reconstructs the source of Resident Evil 4's GameCube debug build (the G4BE08 'Nov 25 2004' prototype) so faithfully that recompiling it reproduce
Samsung to double HBM4/HBM4E output as glass-carrier demand jumps 2.5x
Samsung is on track to more than double production of its HBM4-generation high-bandwidth memory next year, spanning both sixth-gen HBM4 and seventh-gen HBM4E. T