ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR have released CUDA Agent, an agentic reinforcement learning system that trains a large language model to write GPU kernels that beat a compiler. The gap it targets is narrow but stubborn: frontier models already produce correct CUDA, they just produce slow CUDA. On KernelBench, the base model Seed1.6 passes 74.0%…
Descrease article font dimension Improve article font dimension Video posted to social media exhibits a pair of orcas giving a bunch in Washington state an up-close-and-personal view. Folks on Fox Island, off the coast of Tacoma, had been stunned to see orcas swimming so near shore. Wildlife photographer Stephanie Morris informed World Information that she…
Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, its MIT-licensed open source agent. Bot Mode replaces the single-agent session list with a roster of named bots. Each bot is a real Hermes profile, with its own chat, memory, skills, and pinned model. Bots message each other through a persistent Agent Inbox and hand work…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size After more than a week away, some Summerland residents are finally walking back through their front doors as parts of the community begin to reopen following the Bald Range wildfire. The Bald Range wildfire inches closer to Summerland, forcing the entire town to flee on Friday evening….
Spotify announced Monday the launch of “Playlist Notes,” a new feature that lets listeners add their thoughts to the playlists they make. The feature builds on “User Notes,” which the streaming giant debuted last month, allowing people to add personal notes to individual tracks. With Playlist Notes, users can add context to songs, podcast episodes,…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The demolition of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School is underway. Crews began removing the building’s exterior on Monday and photos from the scene show some walls torn off and rubble on the ground. The Peace River South School District said the demolition is expected to take weeks. Once…
Anthropic’s income continues not simply to develop at an historic tempo however to speed up. The mannequin maker’s annualized income run fee — a projection of a full 12 months’s income based mostly on a latest, shorter interval —surpassed $65 billion on the finish of July, Bloomberg reported on Monday, up from $47 billion in…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has called a byelection in a southern Calgary riding for Sept. 14. Residents in Calgary-Shaw have been without a legislature representative since May, when former United Conservative Party cabinet minister Rebecca Schulz resigned her seat. Both Smith’s UCP and the Opposition NDP named candidates for the riding in June. Smith, in a statement Monday, said her party’s candidate, Mike Derry, is community-minded and understands challenges that…
An unprecedented number of Apple customers have reported receiving a recent threat notification alerting them to suspected spyware attacks targeting their devices, according to experts who investigate these types of incidents. Several people publicly and privately reported receiving Apple’s spyware alerts over the weekend, after Apple sent out a new wave of notifications on Friday…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Edmonton police were back on scene at Park Hill Condominiums in the northeast community of Hairsine on Monday searching for clues in the suspicious death of a 16-year-old girl. Neighbours told Global News that shots rang out just before 7 a.m. Sunday morning at 139 Avenue and…
