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Manus seeks $4B valuation in new fundraise after Meta split
Chinese startup Manus is raising $500 million at a $4 billion valuation. It resumed independent operations after breaking off its merger with Meta.
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Chinese startup Manus is raising $500 million at a $4 billion valuation. It resumed independent operations after breaking off its merger with Meta.
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Deploy production-ready Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI using six open-source agent skills. Point a coding agent at a model and get back a real-time endpoint with the right serving container, autoscaling, Amazon CloudWatch ala...
From AWS machine learning blog
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Meta released a new app called Muse for macOS computers. It lets the AI interact with files, messages, and calendars inside native apps.
From TechCrunch AI
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Table reservations end at 11:59 p.m. PT on September 18, 2026. The Expo Hall opens October 13 in San Francisco for three days.
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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway is a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing add-on for Amazon EKS. It uses real-time GPU signals to send each inference request to the best-suited pod, cutting first-token latency by up to 82% wi...
From AWS machine learning blog
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A global fintech runs GLM 5.2 on Together's Dedicated Model Inference to handle spiky traffic.
From Together AI blog
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AWS compares three customer-managed vector store backends for RAG solutions. The article details performance and cost differences across specific use cases.
From AWS machine learning blog
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Huawei plans to launch its new Ascend 960DT AI chip in the first quarter of 2027. This is earlier than its previous plan for the third quarter.
From TechCrunch AI
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Databricks rolled out Astra to engineers after seeing higher spending. Steve Yegge admitted Gas Town failed to build useful tools.
From Latent Space
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cuTile Rust (cutile-rs) is a tile-based system for safe, idiomatic GPU kernel authoring in the Rust programming language. Extending the Rust ownership model to...
From NVIDIA technical blog
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At Orange, the leading France-based multinational telecom provider, there are days when engineering teams set aside their delivery backlogs and spend the day cleaning up cloud spend together. There's a leaderboard. There are goodies on t...
From Google Cloud AI blog
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AWS released a serverless pipeline using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation to detect and redact personal data. The system processes thousands of scanned documents without manual intervention.
From AWS machine learning blog
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Registration for exhibit tables closes on September 18 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The event runs from October 13 to 15 in San Francisco.
From TechCrunch AI
LLMs1 min read
Researchers propose NarraLite, a framework for multimodal generative recommendation that compresses visual contexts and uses latent reasoning tokens. The system improves narrative coherence in short-form drama continuation while reducing redundant computation.
From arXiv cs.CL
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A retrieval-augmented generation framework extracts crash mechanisms from narratives to recommend site-specific traffic safety countermeasures. Evaluated on 312 fatal crashes, it achieved an F1-score of 0.82 with LLMs guided by engineering reasoning.
From arXiv cs.CL
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A new study finds few-shot prompting effects vary by task and are driven by demonstration content rather than prompt length. Replacing demonstrations with random text isolates the impact of representation shifts caused by content.
From arXiv cs.CL
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A new paradigm named State of Thought (SoT) uses a compact controller to activate historical reasoning support based on internal model states, improving accuracy while reducing tokens and latency.
From arXiv cs.CL
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Tool: Gemini Live audio Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today - two new speech-to-speech models that are a similar shape to OpenAI's GPT-Live family. I pointed GPT-6 Astra Extra High at the documentation an...
From Simon Willison on LLMs
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Learn how to leverage NVIDIA’s cuDNN Frontend Graph API to build custom kernel fusions, autotuning engine configurations, FP8-style epilogues, scaled dot-product attention, dynamic shapes, and CUDA graph captures. This practical tutorial...
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