AI & Tech

Samaya AI has released Samaya Sterling, a post-trained model for agentic financial research. Sterling is built on NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters. On Samaya’s FrontierFinance benchmark, it scores 58.9%. Claude Fable 5.1 scores 55.9%. Each Sterling question costs $0.61, against $6.89 for Fable 5.1. For developers, the takeaway…

Archive of our Own (AO3), the popular site where fans publish and read stories about their favorite characters and worlds, has bad news for its community. After going offline for what was supposed to be routine overnight maintenance, the site says it could stay online for almost a whole month. AO3 did not initially share…

Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight text-to-speech model for zero-shot voice cloning. Audio8-TTS-Realistic is a 0.6B-parameter model that clones a voice from 1 reference clip and transcript. It supports 23 languages, 12 more than its predecessor. The weights and code ship under Apache 2.0. For developers, the catch is competitive multilingual accuracy at a size…