Barret Zoph, the Pondering Machines co-founder ousted earlier than becoming a member of OpenAI, is now at Google
The sport of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the…
British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by ICE in U.S. – National
U.S. Immigration officials arrested controversial British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday in New Orleans, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Immigration officials announced on Friday that Yiannopoulos was arrested at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and accused him of overstaying after entering the United States legally in May 2019 through New York…
Lee leads PGA Tour Championship
Min Woo Lee fired an eight-under par 62 on the Tour Championship. Picture: AFP LOS ANGELES: Australia’s Min Woo Lee fired an eight-under par 62 on the Tour Championship on Thursday to steer a star-studded area on the profitable crowning occasion of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs. With a $10 million prime prize up…
GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture
Two frontier open-weight models shipped within a day of each other this week. Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter multimodal MoE model with 18B active parameters. Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B model with 6B active parameters that previews the Qwen4 architecture. The two teams designed these systems independently. Yet their configs read like near-copies…
Stampeders turn to Love with starting QB Adams out
CALGARY – The Calgary Stampeders will be without the services of starting quarterback Vernon Adam Jr. for the immediate future. Instead, Josh Love will make his first CFL start for the Stampeders (4-6) against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (4-7) on Saturday at McMahon Stadium. After Adams suffered a head injury during Calgary’s 30-26 loss to the…
England extend lead to 261 against Pakistan in Lord’s Test
England’s Joe Root in action during second Test against Pakistan at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London, Britain, August 28, 2026. — Reuters Khurram Shahzad strikes twice with new ball. Robinson claims four wickets in Pakistan collapse. Azan Awais top-scores with resilient 46 runs. England strengthened their grip on the second Test against Pakistan by extending their…
An Anthropic researcher simply gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Coaching AI fashions with different AI fashions has grow to be a highly regarded purpose for neolabs — and now, a researcher in Anthropic’s fellows program has given us an early have a look at what it’d appear like in follow. On Friday, Anthropic revealed a brand new paper titled “Automated Researchers Can Reliably Mitigate…
Hiker receives lost backpack 63 years after he fell into Austrian glacier – National
An 86-year-old hiker has been reunited with his backpack more than 60 years after he was forced to abandon it during a mountaineering emergency in Austria’s Tyrol region. His long-lost belongings were preserved in glacial ice, but its melting led to their discovery last month when a hiker stumbled upon a backpack, an ice axe,…
England in command after 180-run lead
Hosts finish day-2 on 81-3, extending lead to 261 as Pakistan struggle on a tricky pitch LONDON: England strengthened their grip on the second Test against Pakistan at Lord’s on Friday, closing the second day in a commanding position. After taking a massive 180-run first-innings lead, England reached 81-3 in their second innings at stumps,…
Vercel AI Open-Sources vgpu: A TypeScript WebGPU Library for AI Agent Shaders
Shaders are still the hardest thing to ship on a normal web team. WebGPU gives you the hardware, then hands you adapters, bind group layouts, and pipeline descriptors before a single pixel moves. Vercel spent that cost internally building the shaders on vercel.com, and has now open-sourced the result. vgpu is a TypeScript library that…
Ladysmith calls on province to take action to protect its drinking water – BC
A recent human-caused wildfire along the Banon Creek Forest Service Road in Ladysmith has the town once again calling on the provincial government to take “immediate emergency action” to address ongoing safety and watershed protection concerns. Town council wrote to the province on June 26 requesting support to “strengthen access controls, (increase) enforcement against unauthorized…
