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US government takes $2 billion equity stake in nine quantum computing firms
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US government takes $2 billion equity stake in nine quantum computing firms

Beneficiaries include startup backed by firm with links to the Trump family.

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One Model, Three Modalities: ByteDance Releases Lance for Image and Video Understanding, Generation, and Editing
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One Model, Three Modalities: ByteDance Releases Lance for Image and Video Understanding, Generation, and Editing

ByteDance's Intelligent Creation Lab released Lance, an open-source multimodal model that performs image and video...

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We’re announcing new community investments in Missouri.
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We’re announcing new community investments in Missouri.

We’re helping build the state’s next-generation workforce and investing in energy programs.

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Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users
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Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 42 months earlier, is fixed.

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Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create 6-minute songs
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Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create 6-minute songs

Stability AI has released Stability Audio 3.0 small model, capable of generating two-minute audio tracks that can run...

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Stability AI launches Stable Audio 3.0 with up to six-minute tracks and open weights
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Stability AI launches Stable Audio 3.0 with up to six-minute tracks and open weights

Stability AI released Stable Audio 3.0, a new audio generation model capable of creating music tracks up to six minutes...

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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion: A Tri-Mode Language Model with 6× Tokens Per Forward Over Qwen3-8B
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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion: A Tri-Mode Language Model with 6× Tokens Per Forward Over Qwen3-8B

NVIDIA has released Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a language model family available in 3B, 8B, and 14B sizes that supports...

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Alibaba Qwen Team Introduces Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash: Real-Time Multimodal Interpretation Across 60 Languages at 2.8-Second Latency
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Alibaba Qwen Team Introduces Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash: Real-Time Multimodal Interpretation Across 60 Languages at 2.8-Second Latency

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash, a real-time multimodal translation model supporting 60 input...

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In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo
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In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo

SSH keys, plaintext passwords, other sensitive data had been up since November 2025.

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Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview: The First MoE Diffusion Model Converted From an Autoregressive LLM With Up to 7.7x Speedup
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Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview: The First MoE Diffusion Model Converted From an Autoregressive LLM With Up to 7.7x Speedup

Zyphra released ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview, the first mixture-of-experts diffusion model converted from an...

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Poetiq’s Meta-System Automatically Builds a Model-Agnostic Harness That Improved Every LLM Tested on LiveCodeBench Pro Without Fine-Tuning
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Poetiq’s Meta-System Automatically Builds a Model-Agnostic Harness That Improved Every LLM Tested on LiveCodeBench Pro Without Fine-Tuning

Poetiq developed a meta-system that automatically creates and optimizes a model-agnostic inference harness for...

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Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
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Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections

It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating.

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Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day
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Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day

Layoffs are "not a savings-driven restructure," CFO says.

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Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.0 doubles compression and cuts generation steps from 40 to 4
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Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.0 doubles compression and cuts generation steps from 40 to 4

Alibaba released Qwen-Image-2.0, an image generation model that achieves twice the compression of competitors and...

The Decoder
ChatGPT's web traffic share dropped from 78% to 54% in one year as Gemini quietly tripled its reach
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ChatGPT's web traffic share dropped from 78% to 54% in one year as Gemini quietly tripled its reach

ChatGPT's web traffic share declined significantly from 77.6% to 53.7% over twelve months, while Google Gemini surged...

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Fastino Labs Open-Sources GLiGuard: A 300M Parameter Safety Moderation Model That Matches or Exceeds Accuracy of Models 23–90x Its Size
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Fastino Labs Open-Sources GLiGuard: A 300M Parameter Safety Moderation Model That Matches or Exceeds Accuracy of Models 23–90x Its Size

Fastino Labs released GLiGuard, a 300M parameter open-source safety moderation model that performs four safety tasks in...

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Luma opens Uni-1.1 image model API at prices and quality matching OpenAI and Google
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Luma opens Uni-1.1 image model API at prices and quality matching OpenAI and Google

Luma has launched its Uni-1.1 image model API with competitive pricing starting at $0.04 per image. The model ranks...

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China's AI suppliers can't keep up as critical component shortages hit production
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China's AI suppliers can't keep up as critical component shortages hit production

China's AI hardware suppliers are struggling to meet surging demand due to critical component shortages and...

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Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves
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Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves

Adaption has released AutoScientist, an AI tool that automates the fine-tuning process, enabling models to quickly...

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