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Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
AI benchmark scores can mislead when used for critical decisions. This guide outlines seven essential checks—from data contamination to reproducibility and model cheating—for determining whether a benchmark result is trustworthy.
MLCommons has announced the release of MLPerf Client v2.0, the latest version of its industry-standard benchmark for PC AI performance, introducing new image generation and agentic AI test categories alongside upgraded LLM inference workloads.
SGLang Adds Day-0 Support for Muse Glimmer, a Multimodal Model Built for Local Agentic WorkflowsMeta Superintelligence Labs and the SGLang TeamAugust 10, 2026We're excited to partner with Meta Superin
Unified Radix Cache: One Tree for Hybrid Model Prefix CachingZhangheng Huang, Ke Bao, Yi Zhang, Jialin Ouyang, Sicheng PanAugust 11, 2026Introduction Prefix caching reuses KV when requests share the s
SGLang Adds Day-0 Support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA Nemotron Team and SGLang TeamAugust 11, 2026SGLang is excited to announce Day-0 support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a customiza
SGLang and Miles Add Day-0 Support for Qwen3.8SGLang TeamAug 12, 2026We are excited to announce Day-0 support for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B in SGLang and Miles. It is Qwen's largest open-source model, with 2.
Advanced CUDA Graph Techniques in SGLangSGLang TeamAugust 17, 2026TL;DR CUDA Graphs promise to remove kernel-launch overhead, but getting close to that benefit in a real inference engine requires grap
Miles v0.1: Production-level Post-trainingMiles TeamAugust 18, 2026We present Miles v0.1, a full-stack production-ready system for frontier post-training, the successor to our first Miles release [1].
Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, Github.
The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.
Apple’s leaked camera-equipped AirPods might avoid the privacy pitfalls of other AI wearables by preventing users from recording photos and videos.
Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.
The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.
OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman warns that enterprise security teams face a compressed timeline to adopt AI defences. Brockman has published an account of what the company calls the “OpenAI-Hugging Face” incident, using it to argue that organisations need to uplevel their security practices with what he terms unprecedented speed. He writes that he […] The post OpenAI president urges enterprises to hasten AI security defences appeared first on AI News.
Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.
ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.
