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xAI Plans Grok 4.6 Launch With 1.5 Trillion Parameters
Elon Musk said xAI plans to release Grok 4.6, a 1.5-trillion-parameter model, around August 7, 2026. The company describes the…
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Five Questions the US Government Should Answer About Its Secretive Frontier AI Framework
Michelle De Mooy writes in Tech Policy Press that the U.S. government’s secretive framework for reviewing frontier AI models before…
Engineering
Lattice: an 8 MB static retriever that embeds Wikipedia in 7 minutes
Hugging Face engineer Erik Kaum introduced Lattice, a static embedding model built on tokenization and a lookup table with mean…
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AI Is Not Social Media. New Child Safety Laws Should Reflect That.
Sameer Hinduja argues in Tech Policy Press that general-purpose AI tools differ fundamentally from social media and should not be…
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EU AI Act Transparency Rules Are Now In Effect. Was It A Missed Opportunity?
Bruna Santos and Jacobo Castellanos write in Tech Policy Press that the EU AI Act’s transparency provisions, which took effect…
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The Future Of Knowledge Workers In An AI-Driven World
Aaron Horwath writes in Noema Magazine that knowledge workers are undergoing existential disillusionment as AI automates tasks central to their…
Engineering
Language Identification for 42 Indian Languages: Opening New Frontiers in Indic Speech AI
Researchers from ARTPARK-IISc released Vaani-LID_v0, a language identification model trained on 10 hours each of 42 Indian languages drawn from…
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A Patchwork Approach to AI Regulation Is Best—for Now
An analysis in Foreign Policy argues that the emerging patchwork of state-level AI regulations in the United States, though imperfect,…
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Congress Must Pass a New Federal Law on AI Governance
Writing for Brookings, the authors argue that Congress should establish a comprehensive federal AI governance framework rather than continuing to…
Engineering
Rebuilding Among AIs from Six Log Files
Developer DedeProGames reverse-engineered a social-deduction game’s engine and 59×34 map from six log files to build a benchmark for evaluating…
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AI’s Impact on Labor and Hiring
Kartik Athreya writes on the New York Fed’s Liberty Street Economics blog that despite widespread anxiety about AI-driven job losses,…
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Firmus Raises $2 Billion, Doubling Valuation to $10.5 Billion for AI Data Centers
Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus Technologies raised $2 billion in a new funding round, nearly doubling its valuation to $10.5…