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Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
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OpenAI is already trying to shape the 2028 election
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giant’s own business interests.
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Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only 4 people booked a ride using an AI agent.
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Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smart phone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said that product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
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Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
Tech industry in denial as US overwhelmingly votes to restrict AI, data centers.
OpenAI Recruits Former Army Secretary Driscoll as the Military AI Revolving Door Speeds Up
OpenAI has hired former U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll as its new senior advisor for national security modernization, deepening a Pentagon relationship already built on major contracts. The appointment highlights how AI companies are recruiting former officials to convert institutional trust into defense revenue, while raising questions about revolving-door safeguards.
Don’t assume composability in AI safety. Deployments need their own testing.
Deployed AI systems can behave very differently from their foundation models, so safety scores from system cards cannot be assumed to transfer. Teams should test complete deployment systems and account for measurement uncertainty.
Test Your Own AI Against Real-World Risks and Attacks with AILuminate Safety 1.2.1 and Jailbreak 1.1
Developers and deployers can now use two MLCommons benchmarks, AILuminate Safety 1.2.1 and AILuminate Jailbreak 1.1, to test AI systems' propensity to produce harmful content and how easily attackers can induce violations. Both benchmarks can be run on demand through MLCommons' new Candela service, and new public results for 27 systems have been released.
Introducing Candela: AI risk benchmarking-as-a-service for developers and deployers
MLCommons has launched Candela, a benchmarking-as-a-service offering built on the AILuminate benchmarks to measure AI risk and reliability. It enables organizations to test complete AI systems across configurations and cite results for governance and procurement.
HiCache Across Multi-Parallelism and Distributed Serving
On this page1. CP × HiCache: Page-based KV sharding1.1 Logical radix tree and page ownership1.2 Reading sharded KV: Gather one layer at a time1.3 HiCache integration: Restore each shard before gatheri
Elastic Expert Parallelism Scaling in SGLang: Growing a Live MoE Deployment with NIXL
On this pageTL;DRHow Scale-Up Builds on RecoveryOne Logical Deployment, Three Cooperating LayersHow a Live EP Group GrowsMeasuring the TransitionRoadmapEPLB after scale-upCUDA graph recaptureMulti-ran
Announcing the SGLang AWS Trainium Plugin Beta
On this pageBuilt on TorchNeuron from the startWhat's in the betaEarly preview: heterogeneous RLJoin the betaOver the past year, we have continued to expand the hardware SGLang supports, alongside lau
Training SWE agents with Miles on MI355X: taming long-tail trajectories and complex sandbox coordination
On this pageTL;DRBackgroundWhy agentic RL is differentArchitectureThe stackExperimental setupWhere the time goesStep time breakdownThe long-tail problemContext growth and the KV cacheThe CPU side: san
More Than DeepInfer: What SGLang Delivers
On this pageWhat is integratedResultsWhere the speed comes fromWhat SGLang addsAcknowledgmentsAppendix: benchmark setupPrefillDecodeTL;DR On par or ahead on DeepInfer’s own benchmarks. Up to 1.04x pre
miniTE Technical Report: Stable and Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Native NVFP4
On this pageTL;DRAbstract1. Introduction2. Why Native NVFP4 RL Becomes Unstable2.1 Failure Develops During Training2.2 Quantization Error, Conversion Error, and Execution Mismatch2.3 Activation Precis
SGLang security update: improving request isolation
On this pageImpact and affected deploymentsWhat happenedImmediate remediation and upstream fixRelated KV cache lifetime issuesBackgroundThe Problem: When Is a KVCache Slot Actually Free?Impact and Exp
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Google faces backlash for plan that would turn off Search for schools that restrict AI
Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.
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Roundtables: Inside the Quest for Cognitive Immortality
Tuesday, November 17, 2026 In an effort to reach an elusive continuity of the self, some far-thinking technologists are working on ways to keep your brain going—even beyond death. Join science editor Mary Beth Griggs and senior editor for biomedicine Antonio Regalado for a conversation exploring possible paths to keep your mind going, including gradual…
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Building on open source AI? Hugging Face’s policy chief on the costs, risks, and trade-offs
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how do companies capture value? And with Chinese open models gaining ground, can American players keep up?  On this episode of […]
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Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout. That might be kaput.
Texas is the fastest-growing data center market in the US and ground zero for Big Tech’s largest AI buildouts. But the blue wave that swept the Lone Star State may jeopardize that position. Democrat James Talarico won the US Senate seat against Ken Paxton. Gina Hinojosa won the race for governor against the Republican incumbent,…