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,…
Google is about to look really different, and if you’re not a fan of the AI Overviews feature, then you’re not going to like what’s coming. At the Google I/O 2026 keynote this week, the company announced that it is overhauling Search to embrace a conversational, AI-driven approach, even inviting users to enlist AI agents…
Microsoft Research’s AI Frontiers lab released Fara1.5. It is a family of computer-use agent (CUA) models for the browser. The release ships three sizes: Fara1.5-4B, Fara1.5-9B, and Fara1.5-27B. The models are integrated with MagenticLite, Microsoft’s sandboxed browser interface for these agents. Computer-use agents are pixel-to-action models that drive a real browser. They read screenshots and…
An international coalition of law enforcement agencies announced Thursday that they took down a popular virtual private network service used by cybercriminals and arrested its administrator. The FBI said in an alert that First VPN was so popular that “at least” 25 ransomware gangs used the service to hide their malicious activity. Cybercriminals also relied…
The Gulf’s AI ambitions depend on something surprisingly fragile: a handful of undersea cables running through some of the world’s most volatile waterways. Countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE have spent billions building AI infrastructure, attracting hyperscalers and positioning themselves as future exporters of compute capacity. But as the region shifts from oil wealth…
Elon Musk has incredible sway over the companies he leads. And while he already calls himself “TechnoKing” at Tesla, he is a real ruler over SpaceX, wielding an unprecedented level of control over one of the most valuable companies in the world. Musk’s monarchical grip on SpaceX was finally laid bare in the company’s IPO…
Long before Zohran Mamdani became New York City’s 112th mayor, he understood that if you want to reach young voters, you have to meet them online. Now, in classic Mamdani fashion, the mayor has taken that strategy even further. On Thursday, Polygon exclusively revealed that Mamdani is launching a recurring Twitch livestream series titled “Talk…
Finnish phone maker HMD today launched its first smartphone, called the Vibe 2 5G, which comes preloaded with Indian AI company Sarvam’s chatbot Indus. Both companies had first announced the partnership during the India AI summit held in New Delhi in February. The Indus app is powered by Sarvam’s locally trained 105-billion-parameter model — a…
Waymo has suspended robotaxi service on freeways in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Miami as it really works to enhance efficiency in building zones, the corporate confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Waymo stated it’s within the technique of integrating “current technical learnings into our software program and count on to renew these routes quickly.”…
