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τ_0-VLA: a Hierarchical Robot Foundation Model with World-Model-Guided Test-Time Computation. Introduces a hierarchical vision-language-action model that uses a learned world model to allocate test-time compute across decisions. Source

Listening Forward: Next Patch Embedding Prediction Enables Scalable Audio Learners. A self-supervised audio representation learner using next-patch embedding prediction, shown to scale with compute and data. Source

The Embedder's Dilemma: LLMs Are Better, but at What Cost?. Benchmarks LLM-powered embedders against traditional encoders on quality, latency, and cost, exposing the trade-offs of the new generation. Source

Why Self-Correction Loops Can Degrade Reliability in LLM Pipelines (85% Down to 62%). Empirical report shows LLM-as-judge self-correction loops dropped extraction consistency from 85% to 62% in a production-style pipeline. Source

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms. Open-source optimization of Qwen3-TTS hits 34ms p95 time-to-first-audio on a single H100, with full implementation and benchmark released. Source

Local. macOS app that runs fully private local AI, auto-tuning to hardware for chat, coding agents, and meeting notes with an "Office Mode" that turns one Mac into a shared inference node. Source

Voidleap Code. Agentic IDE with a custom harness built for token efficiency, BYOK, local runtime, and live multi-agent inspection in a single view. Source

ai.diy. Open-source, local-first AI workspace supporting web research, Python execution, MCP tools, multi-model comparison, and a browser-based Linux sandbox, all BYOK. Source

AI compute financing just tripled in ten weeks. Breakdown of the reported $100B Broadcom/Anthropic compute deal and its tranche structure, framing how rapidly AI capex financing is scaling. Source

AI Text Watermarking Is Free And Good. Zvi Mowshowitz argues that AI text watermarking is both free to deploy and effective, bucking the dominant skeptical view. Source

Simulation: the new Scaling Law. Joon Sung Park (Simile AI) argues that gains from richer simulation environments are outpacing classical pretraining scaling. Source

GitHub turns Microsoft Teams discussions into shared Copilot agent sessions. GitHub Copilot now lets Teams threads seed shared cloud-agent sessions with human-in-the-loop merge gates. Source

Does telling an LLM to "be concise" actually save you money?. Empirical study across 9 LLMs finds instructing concision cuts output cost without hurting accuracy, while input compression does not. Source

I developed my own quantized LLM from scratch, trained on 30B tokens, deploys in 60 MB. A from-scratch 250M-parameter LLM trained on 30B tokens, quantized below 2 bits with a disk-backed 1-bit KV-cache for cheap long-context retrieval. Source

1.7B model leading strict-7 formal reasoning above Qwen3-8B and Gemma-4-26B. TwIL-LM2, a 1.7B SmolLM2 fine-tune with a LoRA for formal logic translation, beats much larger generalists on strict-7 scoring. Source

From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games. DeepMind blog post synthesizing lessons from a decade and a half of game-AI research, from Atari through large-scale multi-agent sandboxes. Source