Inception has released Mercury 3, the newest version of its diffusion language model. Mercury 3 is a diffusion LLM from Inception that writes answers in parallel, not token by token. Inception reports 1,068 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs and a 1M-token context window. On Inception’s own benchmark table, it leads GPT-6 Luna and Claude…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size There could be a new face on the ice when the Winnipeg Jets take on the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday. The Jets recalled forward Brayden Yager from the AHL’s Manitoba Moose after injuries to Josh Morrissey and Vladislav Namestnikov. Yager had been on a tear with…
Pakistan captain Shaheen Afridi (left) flips the coin as England captain Harry Brook (centre) calls during the toss ahead of the second match of the ODI tri-nation series at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi on October 20, 2026. — PCB England won the toss and elected to bowl first against hosts Pakistan in the…
OpenCode, an open source AI coding agent that has been gaining ground among developers as an alternative to Claude Code and Cursor, said Saturday that attackers broke into an older system overnight, affecting 1.4% of users of its online platform, OpenCode Console, where some users store the API keys, or digital passwords, they use to…
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Seam-friendly conditions and careful planning to test Sooryavanshi in five-match T20I series MELBOURNE: New Zealand ​have done their homework on India prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and expect their home conditions will challenge the 15-year-old sensation in the Twenty20 series starting on Thursday, paceman Jacob Duffy said. Sooryavanshi has lit up world cricket with his power-hitting, ‌breaking…
Estonia-based Blackwall, which builds web traffic security tools for hosting providers, said on Tuesday that it has raised $100 million at a $2.2 billion valuation. It builds products that helps websites grapple with the skyrocketing volume of bot traffic, especially AI agents. The Series C was led by AVP, with participation from existing investors Dawn…
Most of the province of Alberta has rejected a formal referendum on separatism and would rather remain part of Canada. Elections Alberta began releasing the referendum results late Monday night, and by midnight around 76 per cent of Albertans voted to remain part of Canada without any further deliberation. The separatism question asked voters if…
The 41-year-old may also pay a 255-euro superb after apologising for his departure Cristiano Ronaldo has been handed a 30-day suspension for leaving the Portuguese nationwide workforce camp, the nation’s soccer federation introduced on Monday. Photograph: AFP LISBON: Cristiano Ronaldo has been handed a 30-day suspension for leaving the Portuguese nationwide workforce camp, the nation’s…
Eugenia Kuyda reflects on Luka’s early chatbot IO, demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt 12 years ago, and the path from that project to Replika and her later startup Wabi.
