AI & Tech

DeepSeek released DSpark, a speculative decoding framework, with open-source checkpoints and training code. It is a serving optimization, not a new model. The checkpoints DeepSeek-V4-Pro-DSpark and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark reuse the existing V4 weights, with a draft module attached. The DeepSeek research team also open-sourced DeepSpec, an MIT-licensed codebase for training and evaluating speculative decoding drafters. The…

Conno Christou doesn’t leave things to chance. He tracks his sleep with a Whoop band, cross-references it with an Oura ring, and gets nearly 100 biomarkers checked every year. He had been doing the annual bloodwork for four consecutive years, following the protocols of longevity researchers like Peter Attia and Rhonda Patrick. He was optimizing…

Take a stroll around San Francisco and it won’t take long to spot an empty autonomous vehicle cruising the city’s streets, waiting to be hailed by a rider or heading off to a distant depot to be charged and cleaned. These deadhead miles — an industry term for miles driven without a paying passenger —…

On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 reportedly unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropic’s Mythos. That’s the cybersecurity-focused AI model that is reportedly so powerful, the Trump Administration has currently banned it and its more restricted version, Fable 5, from the hands of non-Americans. Earlier the same week Sakana AI,…

Meta released Astryx this week. It is an open-source design system, currently in Beta. The project grew inside Meta’s monorepo over eight years. Astryx is built on React and StyleX. StyleX is Meta’s compile-time CSS engine. TL;DR Astryx is Meta’s open-source, agent-ready React design system, now in Beta. It pairs StyleX styling with a CSS-variable…

Although TikTok is widely described as a social media giant, it’s been gradually moving beyond that category. Over time, the video app added TikTok Shop, a map for local discovery, robust search, games, and so much more. Recently, it’s added hotel booking capabilities and is pursuing a fintech license.  It appears that TikTok is taking…