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AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion
The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
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Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."
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Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.
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Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Released: More Than 30% Faster and 30% Cheaper, but Performance Details Not Fully Disclosed
Anthropic announced that Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available, claiming it runs more than 30% faster and costs up to 30% less than Sonnet 5. However, full performance details have not yet been disclosed.
MLCommons Agent Reliability Profile Named a Finalist in Global Agentic Regulator Hackathon
The MLCommons Financial Services Working Group's Agent Reliability Profile has been selected as a finalist in C:>DIR's global “Agentic Regulator” Hackathon. The framework aims to help close the authorization and oversight gap for AI agents in financial services.
MLCommons Sets Participation Record with New MLPerf Inference v6.1 Benchmark Results
MLCommons has released the latest MLPerf Inference v6.1 results, featuring a record number of submitting organizations, two new tests aligned with recent AI inference deployment trends, and first-time peer-reviewed performance results for several new AI platforms. Top performance improved by up to 5.7x compared with a year ago.
Where the Industry Is Investing: A Look at MLPerf Inference v6.1
MLPerf Inference v6.1 draws a record 30 submitters and 120 submitted systems, while signaling a clear shift toward agentic and end-to-end benchmarks. The round also features new hardware, major gains for VLM and DeepSeek R1, and record multi-node and large-scale submissions.
MLCommons Joins EU-Funded AIRIS Project to Build and Benchmark Next-Generation Biomedical AI
MLCommons has become a member of the EU-funded AIRIS project consortium, where it will develop comprehensive evaluation frameworks and benchmark suites to assess multimodal generative AI platforms for biomedical research.
MLPerf Training Introduces Its First LLM Post-Training Benchmark
MLPerf Training will add an LLM post-training benchmark starting with its October 2026 v6.1 submission round, supplementing the existing pre-training suite. The workload uses reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) on agentic software engineering tasks, built on Qwen 3.5 397B and the R2E-Gym dataset.
Running DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Kimi-K3 on Consumer Hardware with SSD Expert Pack
Running DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Kimi-K3 on Consumer Hardware with SSD Expert PackWiCi AI Team, SGLang TeamAugust 29, 2026 SGLang brings the core idea of SSD-LLaMA to MoE inference: keep routed experts t
Accelerating Long-Context and Agentic Inference with NVFP4 KV Cache
Accelerating Long-Context and Agentic Inference with NVFP4 KV CacheSGLang, Qwen, and NVIDIA teamsSeptember 16, 2026The KV cache is a fundamental building block of the modern LLM inference system. The
Scaling JEV-like Decision Models with SGLang
Scaling JEV-like Decision Models with SGLangSundara Raman Ramachandran, Chuanrui Zhu, Qing Lan, Shri Rajamanikandan Vasudevan, Jian Sheng, I-Ting Chen, Fedor BorisyukSeptember 25, 2026A customer asks
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Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents
As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents to […]
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Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents
Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with a buyer’s authorization.
Claude Opus 4.7 Ties GPT-5.5 at 80.2: 2026-09-29 Smoke Quick-Test Data Brief
The 2026-09-29 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 10 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 tied for first place that day at 80.2. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to spotting short-term signals, and its results are not equivalent to Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
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OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.
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Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative
Meta says it will focus on bringing its full technology stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more to businesses and developers.
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When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what…
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OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breadth of the incidents is alarming.