In the latest sign of these AI-heavy times, the National Transportation Safety Board temporarily removed access to its docket system after discovering that voices of pilots who were killed in a UPS plane crash last year had been recreated using AI and were circulating on the internet. NTSB is prohibited by federal law from including…
Blue Origin’s new mega-rocket, New Glenn, is not grounded. The corporate mentioned Friday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the rocket to fly once more after the higher stage did not ship a industrial payload throughout an April launch. Blue Origin didn’t supply a lot element, however said in a post on X that…
So bad, it’s good? Google on Friday joined in the disco ball icon fun taking place on home screens everywhere. After Spotify’s temporary new disco ball app icon, released to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary, drew extensive online backlash (and a bit of praise for those who like a little kitsch!), Google decided to get…
Your AI agent is smart but forgetful. Every new session starts from zero — no memory of who you met, what you read, what you decided last Tuesday. GBrain is an open-source fix for that. Built by Garry Tan (President and CEO of Y Combinator) to power his own OpenClaw and Hermes deployments, it’s a…
Spotify was a music app at one time. Then it added podcasts. Then audiobooks. Now the company is piling AI features into its app at a pace that can feel overwhelming. The latest wave, announced at its investor day, skews heavily toward using AI to generate content rather than using AI to help users find…
In Apple’s seemingly never-ending lawsuit with Fortnite maker Epic Games over App Store commissions, the iPhone maker is once again fighting a court’s ruling. Its latest tactic? Saying that Epic Games’ beef with Apple over its fee structure shouldn’t lead to an injunction that applies to all developers that publish on the U.S. App Store,…
The merchandise website of FBI director Kash Patel was taken offline on Friday after reports that it had been hijacked by hackers trying to infect visitors with malware, as first reported by Straight Arrow News. As of this writing, the website of Based Apparel is offline. On Thursday, an X user who goes by Debbie…
At Google’s I/O developer conference this week, we had the opportunity for a brief hands-on with its upcoming AI-powered glasses — not the audio-only glasses that Google said will begin shipping this fall but rather the glasses that offer a combined audio and visual experience. First announced at last year’s event, these Android XR glasses…
It’s been 17 years since I sat in on the iconic weekly search quality meeting in the Ouagadougou conference room at Google’s Mountain View campus. That Thursday morning, around three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives sat at a table or sprawled on the floor to discuss why certain search queries or categories didn’t yield…
def build_model(attn_type: str = “mla”, max_loop_iters: int = 8) -> tuple: “””Build a small OpenMythos model. Two attention variants supported. MLA — Multi-Latent Attention (compressed KV cache, DeepSeek-V2 style) GQA — Grouped-Query Attention (fewer KV heads than Q heads) “”” base = dict( vocab_size = 64, dim = 128, n_heads = 4, max_seq_len = 32,…
