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Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."

The Benchmark Behind the Next Wave of Ultra-Low-Power AI

Machine learning has moved beyond data centers into battery-powered devices with milliwatt power budgets. MLPerf Tiny provides a fair, architecture-neutral benchmark to compare performance and efficiency across radically different ultra-low-power systems.

Agentic Inference for MLPerf Inference

MLPerf Inference introduces a new Agentic Inference benchmark targeting multi-turn agentic workloads such as coding assistants and workflow agents. It uses real-world traces to evaluate inference serving stacks under long context, KV-cache reuse, and variable output lengths.

Call for Submission: Edge Agentic Inference Benchmark for MLPerf Inference v6.1

MLCommons introduces the new Edge Agentic Inference benchmark in MLPerf Inference v6.1, using Qwen3.6-27B with Q4_K_M quantization to measure accuracy and latency for on-device agentic LLM workloads. Submissions are due July 31, 2026.

MedPerf Meets Google Cloud Confidential Computing: Secure AI Benchmarking for Brain Tumor Research

At Google Cloud Next 2026, MLCommons Medical AI Working Group and Google Cloud announced that MedPerf, MLCommons' federated benchmarking orchestrator, now supports Google Cloud's Confidential Computing capabilities, demonstrated through a clinically relevant brain tumor segmentation scenario to protect both patient data and AI model IP.

Accelerating SGLang HiCache with Netpreme X-Mem™ MPU

Accelerating SGLang HiCache with Netpreme X-Mem™ MPUNetpreme TeamJuly 8, 2026 Netpreme X-Mem™ Memory Processing Unit (MPU) makes SGLang HiCache faster and more scalable by augmenting the slower Host D

DSpark in SGLang: Speculative Decoding with Confidence-Driven, Variable-Length Verification

DSpark in SGLang: Speculative Decoding with Confidence-Driven, Variable-Length VerificationSGLang TeamJuly 6, 2026Speculative decoding trades extra compute for fewer decode steps, and the trade sours

Bringing DeepSeek-V4 Flash RL Training to AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs with Miles

Bringing DeepSeek-V4 Flash RL Training to AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs with MilesAMD & Miles TeamJuly 10, 2026DeepSeek-V4 RL is now supported in Miles on AMD Instinct™ MI355X GPUs with ROCm™! RL requi

Serving GLM5.2 NVFP4 Agentic Workload with SGLang: Reaching 500 TPS in 2 Weeks

Serving GLM5.2 NVFP4 Agentic Workload with SGLang: Reaching 500 TPS in 2 WeeksSGLang TeamJuly 14, 2026TL;DR More than 500 TPS on 8xB300 (bs=1) Sync free speculative decoding for GLM 5.2 MTP Built-in I

SGLang and Miles Add Day-0 Support for Inkling, a Frontier Multimodal Model

SGLang and Miles Add Day-0 Support for Inkling, a Frontier Multimodal ModelSGLang Team & Thinking Machines LabJuly 15, 2026We're excited to partner with the Thinking Machines team to bring Day-0 s

OPD Support in Miles

OPD Support in MilesKaixi Hou & Miles TeamJuly 18, 2026We recently implemented On-Policy Distillation (OPD) as an important feature in Miles. OPD is now integrated into Miles rollout and training

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Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AI

Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models. The letter, published today (PDF), carries signatures from a list that spans direct commercial rivals and organisations with little obvious overlap in business model: Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Dell Technologies, CrowdStrike, Palantir, ServiceNow, Hugging Face, Perplexity, Mistral, Andreessen […] The post Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AI appear

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Anthropic launches Opus 5

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.

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The quest to keep organs alive outside the body

This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body. There’s a huge shortage of donor organs, and one of the main reasons is time—they survive only a matter of hours outside the body, even when they’re kept on ice. Doctors dream of organ banks—stores of human organs that can be preserved…

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Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer

Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

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Did Chinese AI Steal From Anthropic, and OpenAI Loses Control of Two Models

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.

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Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.

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OpenAI pushes ChatGPT into patient health records

OpenAI is deploying a Health feature inside ChatGPT, giving users the option to connect Apple Health data and medical records to the chatbot. Logged-in users aged 18 and older can access it now on web and iOS, across the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro tiers. Users link Apple Health and, where supported, records from US […] The post OpenAI pushes ChatGPT into patient health records appeared first on AI News.

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Silicon Valley Is Completely Divided Over Chinese AI

The AI “startups” worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a totally different take.