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NVIDIA NIM makes it easy for anyone to start building with NVIDIA...

NVIDIA NIM (NVIDIA Inference Microservices) provides ready-to-use containers that package AI models with inference engines and OpenAI-compatible APIs, reducing deployment time from days to minutes. The containers include GPU optimizations, quantization, and can be deployed self-hosted or cloud-hosted with minimal engineering overhead.

Cobus Greyling from Cobus Greyling on LLMs, NLU, NLP, chatbots & voicebots•16h ago
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Alibaba's tiny AI tops models 13x its size

Alibaba released Qwen3.5 Small, a family of four open-source AI models small enough to run on laptops or phones, with the 9B model outscoring OpenAI's GPT-OSS-120B despite being 13x smaller.

The Rundown AI•19h ago
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Google's Nano Banana 2

Google released Nano Banana 2, a new top-ranked AI image model.

The Rundown AI•19h ago
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AWS UAE data center struck amid US-Iran conflict

AWS lost connectivity at a UAE data center after unidentified objects struck the facility amid the US-Iran conflict, causing major outages for Anthropic's Claude.

The Rundown AI•19h ago
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Apple introduces iPhone 17e at $599

Apple announced the iPhone 17e at $599, bringing Apple Intelligence features like visual search, AI call screening, and live translation to its most affordable iPhone.

The Rundown AI•19h ago
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MyFitnessPal acquires Cal AI

MyFitnessPal acquired Cal AI, an AI calorie-counting app created by two 19-year-old founders that reached 15M downloads and $30M in annual revenue in under two years.

The Rundown AI•19h ago
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U.S. government offices drop Anthropic

The U.S. Treasury, Federal Housing Agency, and State Department became the first offices to move off Anthropic, with Treasury Secretary saying no private company will dictate national security terms.

The Rundown AI•19h ago
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Supreme Court ducks AI copyright question

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case about whether AI-generated art can be copyrighted, letting lower court rulings stand that only humans can be authors.

The Rundown AI•19h ago
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Anthropic wants your ChatGPT memories

Anthropic launched a tool that lets users import their saved preferences and context from ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot with a single copy-paste, while also opening Claude's memory feature to free users.

The Rundown AI•19h ago
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LLMs are still very bad at videogames

Benchmark of 100 AI-generated web games shows state-of-the-art models achieving under 10% of human performance while taking 15-20x longer.

Jack Clark from Import AI•Yesterday
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Some Simple Economics of AGI

MIT, WashU, and UCLA researchers model the AGI transition where humans shift from labor to verifying AI agent actions, warning of 'Hollow Economy' risks without proper verification infrastructure.

Jack Clark from Import AI•Yesterday
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What happens when humans try to mess with AI agents?

20 researchers probed AI agents for weeks, uncovering vulnerabilities including unauthorized compliance, infinite loops, and prompt injection attacks in realistic social environments.

Jack Clark from Import AI•Yesterday
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OAI lands Pentagon deal as Trump boots Anthropic

OpenAI signed a Pentagon deal hours after Trump ordered agencies to cut ties with Anthropic over safeguards on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, claiming similar red lines while facing consumer backlash.

The Rundown AI•Yesterday
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The Rundown Roundtable: Our AI use cases

Staff members share AI applications including using Seedance to animate wedding photos and Claude Cowork for fantasy baseball draft planning and research.

The Rundown AI•Yesterday
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OpenAI hits $730B valuation with $110B mega-round

OpenAI raised $110B at $730B valuation with Amazon leading at $50B alongside Nvidia and SoftBank, marking a notable pivot away from Microsoft-only infrastructure.

The Rundown AI•Yesterday
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Hermes-Agent

AI agent featuring memory capabilities and cross-platform messaging.

The Rundown AI•Yesterday
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Flow

Google's AI filmmaking tool revamped into a new unified workspace.

The Rundown AI•Yesterday
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Perplexity Computer

Multi-model agent system designed for handling long-running tasks.

The Rundown AI•Yesterday
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Imbue open-sources Darwinian Evolver

Tool uses LLM evolution to automatically optimize code and prompts, achieving state-of-the-art 95% on ARC-AGI-2.

The Rundown AI•Yesterday
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Perplexity open-sources embedding AI models

Released embedding models powering its search results that outperform Google and Alibaba rivals while cutting storage needs by up to 32x.

The Rundown AI•Yesterday
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Where does OpenClaw AI Agents Actually Fail?

A safety audit of Clawdbot (OpenClaw) reveals a 58.9% overall pass rate, with AI agents handling structured tasks reliably but breaking under ambiguity, achieving 0% on intent misunderstanding while scoring 100% on hallucination prevention.

Cobus Greyling from Cobus Greyling on LLMs, NLU, NLP, chatbots & voicebots•Yesterday
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Sequential Attention: Bridging Greedy Selection and Differentiable Masks

Sequential Attention is a feature selection algorithm that combines greedy forward selection performance with differentiable attention mask efficiency through iterative selection. In the linear case, it is proven equivalent to Orthogonal Matching Pursuit and was validated on the 3+ billion example Criteo dataset.

Machine Learning at Scale•2d ago
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Google Colab adds NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 at $0.81/hour

Google Colab quietly adds NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 instances at ~$0.81/hour, contrasted against A100 high-RAM at ~$7.52 credits/hour, potentially making Colab default cheap pretraining/finetuning playground.

AINews•4d ago
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Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Q4 quantization comparison across methods

Detailed Q4 quantization comparison using KL Divergence shows AesSedai's Q4_K_M achieves lowest KLD of 0.0102 by maintaining certain tensors at Q8_0, while Unsloth's UD-Q4_K_XL shows highest at 0.0524.

AINews•4d ago
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LLmFit: One command tool to match models to hardware

LLmFit tool evaluates models based on system RAM, CPU, and GPU capabilities, providing scores for quality, speed, fit, and context. Supports multi-GPU setups, MoE architectures, and dynamic quantization with TUI and CLI modes.

AINews•4d ago
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Nano Banana 2 pricing: $0.50 input / $3.00 output

Google announces Nano Banana 2 pricing at $0.50 input and $3.00 output, positioned as cost-effective vs Nano Banana Pro ($2.00/$12.00), with January 2025 knowledge cutoff.

AINews•4d ago
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