StepFun Releases Step 3.7 Flash: A 198B MoE Vision-Language Model for Coding Agents and Search Workflows
StepFun today released Step 3.7 Flash, a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model targeting agentic use cases. It adds native vision input and...
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Researchers automated LLM reasoning strategy design and cut token usage by 69.5%
Test-time scaling (TTS) has emerged as a proven method to improve the performance of large language models in real-world applications...
Google Pay preps for AI agents with Universal Commerce Protocol
Google Pay is overhauling its payment infrastructure for an impending wave of transactions from AI agents.The latest updates introduce the...
Perplexity AI Open-Sources Unigram Tokenizer That Achieves 5x Lower p50 Latency Than Hugging Face tokenizers Crate
Perplexity AI’s research team reimplemented their Unigram tokenizer from scratch in Rust and open-sourced the code in pplx-garden, their inference...
MiniMax teases upcoming M3 model with new sparse attention mechanism and 15.6X long-context response speed boost
Among the many Chinese AI companies and laboratories vying for market share and attention (no pun intended) on the global...
Autonomous AI systems test governance in physical environments
Autonomous AI systems are beginning to move beyond software environments and into warehouses, delivery networks, and public spaces. The development...
Meet OmniVoice Studio: A Local, Open-Source Alternative to ElevenLabs
OmniVoice Studio — How to Use It 01 / 08 What Is OmniVoice Studio? OmniVoice Studio is an open-source desktop...
Why prompt debt, retrieval debt, and evaluation debt are quietly reshaping enterprise AI risk
Over the past two decades, technical debt meant outdated architecture, messy code, and poorly maintained documentation. That definition is no...
Together AI Open-Sources OSCAR: An Attention-Aware 2-Bit KV Cache Quantization System for Long-Context LLM Serving
Long-context inference makes the KV cache one of the main costs of serving LLMs. During autoregressive decoding, the cache grows...
AI agents are quietly generating chaos engineering failures enterprises don’t track yet
There is a category of production incident that engineering teams are not tracking yet — because it doesn't fit any...
Microsoft Research Releases Webwright: A Terminal-Native Web Agent Framework That Scores 60.1% on Odysseys, Up from Base GPT-5.4’s 33.5%
Most web agents today drive a browser one action at a time. The model receives the current page state —...
Valid certificates, stolen accounts: how attackers broke npm's last trust signal
On May 19, 633 malicious npm package versions passed Sigstore provenance verification. They were cleared by the system because the...
AI gave China a god’s-eye view of its energy grid. No one else has this mapping.
Every major economy is staring at the same problem right now. Artificial intelligence is consuming electricity at a pace that...
Perplexity Open-Sources Bumblebee: A Read-Only Supply-Chain Scanner for Developer Endpoints
Attackers increasingly target the packages, editor extensions, and AI tool configs on developer machines and not just production systems. Perplexity...
Your AI agents need a terminal, not just a vector database
When agentic workflows fail, developers often assume the problem lies in the underlying model’s reasoning abilities. In reality, the limited...
Musk and Zuckerberg convinced Trump to scrap AI executive order
The ceremony was scheduled. The CEOs were on the guest list. And then it wasn’t happening.On Thursday, US President Donald...
One Model, Three Modalities: ByteDance Releases Lance for Image and Video Understanding, Generation, and Editing
Building a single model that can both understand and generate images and videos is harder than it sounds. The two...
Google's Managed Agents API promises one-call deployment at the cost of execution layer control
At Google I/O, the company unveiled Managed Agents in its Gemini API — a service that promises to collapse weeks...
Alibaba’s AI Agent Chip Strategy Goes Beyond Nvidia
Alibaba has unveiled a new AI processor built specifically for AI agents, pairing the chip announcement with a multi-year silicon...
Alibaba Qwen Team Introduces Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash: Real-Time Multimodal Interpretation Across 60 Languages at 2.8-Second Latency
Simultaneous interpretation is one of the harder problems in applied AI. You’re asking a model to translate speech before the...
Claude agents can finally connect to enterprise APIs without leaking credentials
The reason enterprises have been slow to connect AI agents to internal APIs and databases isn't the models — it's...
AI is a matter of power, infrastructure and security: TechEx North America
Although visitors to an event like TechEx North America will always want to see the cutting edge front and centre...
