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User quantifies cost savings from running local Qwen-397B with Hermes agent vs. API pricing: 200M tokens in 5 days ≈ $250 saved at API rates.

Christophe Fouquet, who became ASML's CEO in 2024 after more than a decade at the company, sat down with this editor on the rooftop deck of his Beverly Hills hotel Tuesday morning ahead of his appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference. Dressed in a blue suit and white shirt, he was relaxed — even when the conversation turned to the rivals.

Xbox is "winding down Copilot on mobile" and "will stop development of Copilot on console," new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sharma's reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft's CoreAI team - where Sharma worked before taking over Xbox - to the Xbox side of the company. Sharma, on X: Xbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers. Today, we promoted leaders who helped build Xbox, while also bringing in new voices to help push us for...

The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to allow third-party chatbots to power its AI features system-wide in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, all expected for this fall. In addition to running Siri, compatible third-party AI models, called "Extensions," will also now be able to run other Apple Intelligence features like Writing Tools and Image Playground. According to Gurman, Apple will also allow users to choose different Siri voices for different...

Reddit observation about a repeated word in Claude Opus 4.7 outputs; informal linguistic pattern-spotting.

Reddit discussion about NeurIPS submission volume potentially exceeding 40k submissions.

Benchmark comparison shows Gemma 4 31B trades inference speed for token efficiency vs Qwen 3.6/5 27B; Qwen optimizes for metrics, Gemma for throughput.

Prompt engineering demo: multi-Claude adversarial roleplay with five lawyer archetypes, persistent case law, and emergent jurisprudence system.

User shares practical tips for Claude usage including system prompt design, file uploads, and critique workflows.

PALACE: kernel method for certified point-cloud/graph classification with adaptive landmarks and cover-theoretic guarantees.

SaFE-Scale framework reveals clinical LLM safety and accuracy follow divergent scaling laws; introduces RadSaFE-2 benchmark.

OpenSeeker-v2: SFT on informative trajectories achieves frontier LLM search agent capabilities without full RL pipeline.

HeadsUp: scalable feed-forward 3D Gaussian head reconstruction from multi-view captures using UV-parameterized representation.

Production AI deployment reveals hidden cost scaling: token usage doubled after adding retrieval context, pushing teams from GPT-4o toward cheaper alternatives.

According to Pennsylvania's filing, a Character AI chatbot presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation, and also fabricated a serial number for its state medical license.

Dreadnode SDK enables agentic red teaming for AI systems; reduces manual vulnerability testing from weeks to hours.

BRIGHT-Retriever: benchmark and training approach for reasoning-intensive retrieval in agentic search, beyond topical matching.

CDS (Conditional Diffusion Sampling): combines parallel tempering and diffusion for sampling from unnormalized multimodal distributions.

SymptomAI: conversational agent for differential diagnosis via Fitbit; real-world study (N=13,917) on everyday symptom assessment.

OpenAI begins rollout of GPT-5.5 Instant model variant in ChatGPT, positioning faster inference tier.

Medical imaging: assorted precision training for 3D brain tumor segmentation to improve early identification.

MAKA: multi-agent architecture for risk-aware CNC machining decision support; separates intent, quantitative analysis, and verification.

Fairness audit of five LLMs (Gemini, GPT-4, DeepSeek, Mistral, Nemotron) on emergency triage reveals gender bias persistence in clinical decision support.

Google's smart home ecosystem is getting its biggest update since the AI-fueled 2025 revamp.

Experience-RAG Skill introduces agent-oriented retrieval orchestration layer that learns task-specific retrieval strategies via experience memory.

Framework automates multi-agent system composition through intent-to-execution workflow and agent recommendation, replacing manual orchestration.

Flow Sampling framework uses diffusion models to sample from unnormalized densities via denoising conditional processes without data.

The new GPT-5.5 Instant model will replace GPT-3.5 Instant as the default model for ChatGPT

OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has "significant improvements in factuality across the board." The company claims that, based on "internal evaluations," GPT-5.5 Instant produced "52.5% fewer hallucinated claims" than its Instant model for GPT-5.3 "on high-stakes prompts covering areas like medicine, law, and finance." GPT-5.5 Instant also "reduced inaccurate claims by 37.3% on especially challenging conversations users had flagged for factual erro...