The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 AI model after the company agreed to extend an existing guardrail to prevent users from trying to access certain restricted capabilities, according to two people familiar with the matter. The safeguard means any users trying to unlock those capabilities will be notified that their…
Gemini Spark, Google’s AI agent that can help with aspects of your digital life, is now available on Mac. The company on Wednesday said Spark is being added to the existing Gemini desktop app, as well as several updates and new features, including the ability to stay up to date on topics in real time,…
Concerns over the impact of AI chatbots on mental health, personal safety, harassment, and disinformation have forced AI developers to implement safeguards to better control how and what their AI models are allowed to respond or do. But concerns and worries can’t erode demand. AI offers a lot of promise, and people don’t want a…
Google Research introduced TabFM, a foundation model built for tabular data. TabFM performs classification and regression without dataset-specific training. Every prediction comes from a single forward pass. The model reframes tabular prediction as an in-context learning problem. It is available now on Hugging Face and GitHub. TL;DR TabFM predicts on unseen tables with no training,…
Jeff Bezos’ house firm Blue Origin is doubling down on utilizing its New Glenn mega-rocket once more this yr after final month’s explosion. However the firm nonetheless doesn’t know why that explosion occurred within the first place. In his most detailed public assertion in regards to the explosion but, CEO Dave Limp wrote on Blue…
Meta’s Threads is adding new capabilities to its recently launched Live Chats feature while expanding access to more users, the company announced on Tuesday. The updates include support for translations, new tools for chat hosts, and more. With support for translations, conversations in chats become more accessible to users around the world. Threads is also…
A new startup wants to bring AI to the software you use the most: your smartphone’s keyboard. On Tuesday, Singapore-based Acti (short for “action”) launched an agentic keyboard for iOS and Android, one that doesn’t just suggest your next word but can also take actions on your behalf, bringing AI tools directly into the apps…
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched issued a progress report on Tuesday, after TSMC successfully manufactured its chip earlier this year. The startup says it has already booked $1 billion in contract orders for its product: full systems powered by those chips. Etched is currently in the process of testing that first product with customers. It…
NVIDIA has released Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower, a diffusion language model built on a pretrained autoregressive backbone. It ships as open weights under the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License. The release targets a throughput bottleneck in text generation. Autoregressive (AR) models decode one token at a time. That serial process caps generation throughput. Discrete diffusion language models take…
banner(“4. IN-MEMORY KV CACHE (cup.cache)”) try: from cup import cache kv = cache.KVCache(name=”demo”) kv.set({“user:1”: “alice”, “user:2”: “bob”}, expire_sec=2) kv.set({“config:flag”: “on”}, expire_sec=None) print(“size after sets :”, kv.size()) print(“get user:1 :”, kv.get(“user:1”)) print(“get missing key :”, kv.get(“nope”)) print(“sleeping 2.2s to let the 2s-TTL keys expire …”) time.sleep(2.2) print(“get user:1 (expired) :”, kv.get(“user:1”)) print(“get config:flag (eternal):”, kv.get(“config:flag”)) reclaimed…
