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Perplexity Releases pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview: A Contextual Embedding Model That Retrieves Answers and Their Supporting Evidence

Perplexity Research and turbopuffer have released pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a contextual embedding model for RAG pipelines. Each chunk is embedded with the full document in view. The real chan

Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 4 Argon with 1M Output Tokens for Coding, Knowledge Work and Cyber Defense

Gemini 4 Argon tops GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on most benchmarks, but access remains gated today. The post Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 4 Argon with 1M Output Tokens for Coding, Knowledge Work

OpenAI Releases GPT-6.1 Sol: Near-Astra Coding and Computer Use at One-Fifth of Astra’s Token Price

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol on September 29, 2026, an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol. It reaches near-Astra results on agentic coding, computer use and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's token prices. It

Did AI Just Solve One of Mathematics’ Biggest Problems?

OpenAI’s agents reached a proposed solution in 88 hours. But the human research that came before, and the controversy that followed, raise a harder question: what actually counts as an AI discovery?

Ollama for Managing Local Language Models: A KDnuggets Cheat Sheet

Ollama pulls model weights, keeps an HTTP server on port 11434, and hands any client an OpenAI-shaped endpoint pointed at your own machine. Learn how to manage, configure, and optimize using Ollama ri

Perplexity Introduces Photon: A Rust-Based Retrieval Engine That Cuts p99 Latency From 800 ms to 65 ms

Perplexity has released Photon, an in-house retrieval and ranking engine written in Rust. It replaces an open-source engine Perplexity had forked for its AI-native search stack. Photon now handles ret

NVIDIA Researchers Introduce Physis-Lang: Self-Evolving Physical Language That Lifts Cosmos 3 Past Veo 3.1 on Physics Benchmarks

Video world models can render convincing clips that still break physics. Butter spreads like paint. Balls pass through walls. A team from NVIDIA, MIT and the University of Oxford argues the fix can co

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CAD automation where it counts. Discussion | Link

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Your whole engineering stack, in a notch Discussion | Link

One Bad Prompt Took Down a Company’s Salesforce: RSA’s Jim Taylor on Agent ID and Taming the 4,000 Shadow AI Agents Hiding in Your Enterprise

RSA launched Agent ID at The AI Conference in San Francisco. It's an agentic identity security platform for finance, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. It has 3 modules. Discover fin

Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning

Liquid AI Releases d1: A Decision Model That Returns Calibrated Probabilities With Zero Output Tokens

Liquid AI has released d1, a decision model built for structured choices instead of text generation. You give it context and a set of typed questions. It returns calibrated probabilities across a fixe

OpenAI Launches dots: Always-On GPT-6 Astra Agents That Work From Their Own Cloud Computers

OpenAI just introduced dots at their DevDay today. Dots are persistent AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra. Each dot gets its own cloud computer and browser. It works across 4,000+ apps through ChatGPT p

Nebius Opens 2026 Physical AI Awards: Five $150K Compute Credit Prizes

Nebius and NVIDIA are running the 2026 Physical AI Awards for startups with products in the field. Five category winners each get $150,000 in compute credits, joint promotion, executive mentorship, an

How to Turn Excel Data Into PowerPoint Presentations With AI

Learn how to use Julius AI to analyze Excel data, verify key findings, and turn them into an editable PowerPoint presentation.

NVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction

SuperWhisper s1-mini: The 600M Parameter Model Built Just for Transcription

This is a summary of, and insights into, what I found digging into the recently-released Superwhisper S1 family of voice-to-text models.

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Know which AI coding agent is waiting on you Discussion | Link

Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents

5 Free Courses to Learn AI Engineering

Learn LLM fundamentals, AI engineering, RAG, MLOps, fine-tuning, and deployment with five practical courses designed to help you become a stronger AI and machine learning engineer.

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Share files instantly from your own cloud. Mac, Windows, iOS Discussion | Link

Google Research Open-Sources RRSI: AI Agents That Improve Their Own Harness Without Overfitting

Google Cloud AI Research has open-sourced RRSI, a framework that lets LLM agents rewrite their own prompts, tools and memory while model weights stay frozen. It adds a leakage critic, a noise floor, a

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Give every AI agent real identities, inboxes, and a phone Discussion | Link

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe vs OpenAI’s GPT-Transcribe

Here's how each got to where it is, a real use case and working code for both, and a side-by-side on the numbers that actually matter.

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Profile Pages for Agents: your live AI collaboration network Discussion | Link

3 Numba Tricks for Python Runtime Optimization

When Numba code disappoints, it's nearly never the compiler, and usually ends up being the boundary around the compiled code: not crossing it, not making it wide enough, or crossing it during every ru

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Build bots on the coding agent you already use Discussion | Link

Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents

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Open source local AI voice-to-text for Mac for private STT Discussion | Link

Voice Memo

Open-source voice notes that file your tasks and reminders Discussion | Link

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Drag a box on your screen and ask AI about it Discussion | Link

Speek

A context aware FOSS voice assistant and dictation for macOS Discussion | Link

Batching by Length Instead of Looping Item by Item for SLM Optimization

We finish off our short series on SLM optimization with the third entry, focused on batching by length instead of looping item by item.

7 Advanced Python Tricks to Level Up Your Coding Skills

Leveling up rarely means new syntax. It means learning what the language already promised you.

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One source of truth for your team and its AI agents Discussion | Link

Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark

MCP Explained in 5 Minutes

A visual guide to MCP that explains how it works, how to use it with Claude Code, Tavily, GitHub, and Playwright, and what is new through simple diagrams that make the whole concept easy for anyone to

How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible

Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants

Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community

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Produce pitch perfect launch videos with precise control Discussion | Link

Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again?

Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL

Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow

NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder

Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps

Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own