48 teams. 3 countries. 104 matches. and three lessons for anyone shipping ai raphinha scored against haiti in the opening minutes. the goal lasted about four seconds. then it was
Vladimir Arustamov
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release date, context window, a new reasoning mode, and the real reason for the delay – everything the gemini 3.5 pro leaks point to, plus what x users are already
Nick Trenkler
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reuters reported this morning that senior anthropic technical staff are meeting with department of commerce officials in washington. they're trying to walk back a government order that forced
Nick Trenkler
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new kimi-k2.7-code by @Kimi_Moonshot shipped today we decided to compare it with @MiniMax_AI m3 on @arena ai – fresh rival, shipped recently, and outscored kimi k2.
Nick Trenkler
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at first glance, market numbers tell a story of unstoppable momentum: agentic ai startups attracted $2.8 billion in global venture capital funding in just the first half of 2025,
Nick Trenkler
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apple promised a "more personal siri" back at wwdc 2024, missed it, delayed it through 2025, missed it again, and spent most of last year quietly walking back
Nick Trenkler
4 min read
macaron-v1-preview-749b released today. nex-n2-pro open-sourced today. macaron comes from mindlab research and is post-trained from glm-5.1. nex-n2-pro comes from
Nick Trenkler
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mainstream ai discourse seems to be slightly stuck in a loop, obsessing over model parameter counts and benchmark scores. if you want to know where ai engineering is actually heading,
Nick Trenkler
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google keeps shrinking their open models just released new versions of their gemma 4 ai models yesterday, optimized using a technique called quantization-aware training (qat) how is qat different
Nick Trenkler
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meet lfm2.5-vl-450m-extract what it does: extracts user-defined fields from images and returns structured json (a standard text format for organized data that computers can easily
Nick Trenkler
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minimax m3 outperformed kimi k2.6 on artificial analysis intelligence index – but is it really better? 55 vs 54. a 1-point lead on the index. with a 1.5-
Addy Crezee
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michael burry says neither spacex nor anthropic is worth $1t the hacker news thread runs deeper than the headline – the real argument is over whether the trillion-dollar number can
Nick Trenkler
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by mid-2026, many assumptions of the first wave of genai have almost collapsed. the structural bottleneck in ai development is no longer model intelligence, nor is it raw context
Nick Trenkler
8 min read
The speed-of-light optimization for Qwen3.5 on the TokenSpeed inference engine is a significant milestone, achieving a record-breaking 580 tokens per second (tps) for agentic workloads on
Nick Trenkler
3 min read
china's ai industry in mid-2026 looks paradoxical. record funding rounds, aggressive poaching, and unprecedented retention schemes suggest a hot private market. at the same time, beijing is
Nick Trenkler
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