The Archive

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.

MTP speculative decoding ported to Qwen 3.6 35B shows modest 2.5-6% speedup vs. 2-2.5x on 27B; architecture may limit gains.

TSMC backs renewables during record demand for energy-hungry chip manufacturing.

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.

Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired's Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page now contains a message that says: "Thank you for using Project Mariner. It was shut down on May 4th, 2026 and its technology voyaged to other Google products." Google first revealed Project Mariner in December 2024 and later announced an update allowing it to perform up to 10 tasks at a time. Over the past year, Google has integrated features powered by Project Mariner into its other AI tools, inc...

Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.

Reddit speculation that xAI will dissolve as a separate entity; unconfirmed claim lacking official sources or detail.

Anthropic product lead outlines three near-term model focus areas: improved autonomous coding capability, extended context windows with memory, and multi-agent coordination.

User reports successful local inference with Qwen3.6-35B on AMD R9700 GPU, generating functional code and tests via llama-cpp.

GB10 Solution Atlas, Rust+CUDA inference engine, achieves 100+ tok/s on Qwen 35B; open source, minimal footprint, no Python runtime.

Hi, A few hours ago we started seeing unauthorized charges coming out of our company card. This card was only provided when purchasing Claude Max. By sheer luck, we blocked the card after the first transaction. Since then there have been 5 more attempted charges. All of them were to random services like Auto Glass and Walmart, most showing Memphis in the header. Check your cards.

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Reddit user reports Claude exhibiting erratic behavior; anecdotal observation without technical detail or reproduction steps.

Reddit discussion argues prefill latency is underemphasized vs. token generation speed in local LLM benchmarking and optimization focus.

User complaint about Claude Opus 4.6 performance restrictions and usage limits; expresses concern about competitive loss to alternative tools.

Zyphra releases ZAYA1-8B, an 8B parameter model optimized for inference efficiency, trained on AMD hardware.

Since two days ago quality of responses dropped dramatically, and now I see why. This is Sonnet 4.6. At this point it's not even trying.

Claude declined to optimize a CV for Philip Morris tobacco role, citing ethical concerns about tobacco marketing.

Just a reminder that the data centre announced to be used is the one xAI installed a massive amount of toxic gas turbines to power it, which is illegal and deadly to the local area.

Genesis AI claims Gene'26.5 is autonomous; limited details available from social media post.

Reddit post speculating on Anthropic-SpaceX partnership; lacks concrete details or sourced reporting.

Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.

Reddit speculation that Elon/xAI rented GPUs to Anthropic, interpreted as signal of competitive pressure and capacity constraints.

Study identifies outlier tokens in Diffusion Transformers that attract disproportionate attention in image generation, affecting both encoder and denoiser layers.

Research shows pretrained language models implicitly distinguish grammaticality from string probability through internal representations, despite surface statistics.

Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model. In a video deposition shown during the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial on Wednesday, Murati said Altman falsely stated that OpenAI's legal department determined a new AI model did not need to go through the company's deployment safety board. "As you understand it, was Mr. Altman telling the truth when he made that statement to you?" Murati was asked in the deposition. "No," Murati said. Murat said that during her tenure at OpenAI, Altman made her work more dif...

Grok AI model discovered five new mathematical inequalities and bounds in convex geometry and combinatorics, verified by human authors.

Mathematical analysis refuting Carbery's triangle inequality conjecture for Lp spaces with counterexample and sharp bounds on exponent.