As a licensed officiant at Las Vegas Immersive Weddings, a chapel that offers novelty-themed marriage packages, Kevin Breen has officiated just about every kind of service imaginable: couples dressed as their favorite Game of Thrones characters, partners really into the extraterrestrial lore of Area 51. But when he received a call last year from a…
For 28 days, Keshav had a new item on his daily to-do list: masturbate for research purposes. Both before and after self-pleasuring, he logged his mood, energy levels, cravings for various vices, and whether he was procrastinating. Keshav was taking part in AI companion company Joi AI’s experiment assessing what happens if erotic self-stimulation becomes…
Instagram on Thursday launched a brand new wordmark, which is the text-only brand that spells out the corporate’s identify. The social media big’s logic was that the older model of its brand felt dated after a decade in use. The change was introduced by Instagram head Adam Mosseri on each Instagram and Threads, the place…
X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app’s “For You” algorithm and its core ranking engine, and adding a feature that will let users see if their account or posts have been impacted by any of its ranking systems, the social network said on Thursday. The company is making the source…
Z.ai just released GLM-5.3. GLM-5.3 runs on the same 743B base model as GLM-5.2. Every reported gain comes from scaled post-training: more task environments, more environment types, longer training. The results land in two places. Coding jumps most on the longest-horizon benchmarks, with Terminal-Bench 3.0 moving from 4.6 to 28.3. Cybersecurity moved further than Z.ai…
IBM on Thursday introduced its partnership with OpenAI to carry the AI firm’s fashions and instruments to extra enterprise clients, opening one other avenue for OpenAI to attach with a number of the world’s largest firms by means of IBM’s international consulting enterprise as competitors for company AI spending intensifies. The deal, phrases of which…
Cactus Compute has released Needle 2, an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. The entire model ships as a single 14MB binary that runs a full session in about 28MB of RAM. Weights are trained and deployed at CQ2-bit using Cactus Quants, and the model is sealed inside the company’s…
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end workflow for working with the SupraLabs reasoning corpus. We stream a representative subset directly from the Hugging Face Hub, inspect its source distribution, token-length patterns, task composition, and reasoning-to-answer ratios, and then apply a series of quality filters to remove unsuitable training examples. We transform the retained samples…
In the event you’ve ever discovered your self wishing that ChatGPT was a bit of bit faster on the uptake, OpenAI appears to be answering your prayers. The AI lab has rolled out a brand new mode called Ultrafast, which it says is designed to noticeably speed up the tempo at which its newest and…
Across the AI industry, users are becoming more conscious of just how expensive their deployments can be —and feeling a new urgency to cut costs. But while open source models offer significantly lower per-token costs, it can be difficult to find the right model for a given job. On Thursday, Writer, which offers AI tools…
