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The Subquadratic team says its sparse-attention model hits 98% needle retrieval at 12M tokens, but access remains limited to design partners.

Xian Zhou and Theophile Gervet are taking a wheeled, foldable path into physical AI after raising a $105 million seed round.

Salesforce + Fin: packaging customer-service agents for Agentforce

Kimi K2.7-Code is a 1T-parameter MoE model with 32B active parameters, a 256K context window and open weights on Hugging Face.

Karl Kahn says Claude Max 20x delivered six to eight times Pro usage, not the 20x Anthropic advertised.

AI coding agents have turned GitHub reliability into an infrastructure problem Azure cannot absorb alone on Microsoft's timetable.

Teknium says the delegate tool can now fan out work without freezing the chat, a practical change for long-running agent workflows.

Karan Goel is using benchmark wins to pitch Cartesia as both the speaking and listening layer for real-time AI agents.

CrankGPT runs speech recognition, a small language model, and text-to-speech locally on a Raspberry Pi 5 with no battery or cloud.

A 73-year-old developer said he mentioned feeling unwell during a coding task, and Claude Code kept urging immediate care before doctors treated a sudden AFib episode.

Z Lab, Modal and LMSYS released a DFlash drafter for Qwen's 397B model and benchmarked it above native MTP on 8x B200 GPUs.

The company pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a June 12th export-control order, then sent technical staff to Washington to repair the relationship.

Zohar Alon's new identity-security startup is betting enterprises will need to govern agents like workers, not service accounts.

The updated model card says a base merge of Nex-N2-Pro and Qwen was uploaded by mistake, shifting the dispute from pure attribution to release discipline.

Alexandr Wang's Muse Spark gives Meta a proprietary model; the harder job is proving it can become more than ad infrastructure.

A June preprint claims Pearl's GPU network is doing random matrix math, not verified AI work, challenging Omri Weinstein's core bet.

Yichuan Wang and collaborators show a screenshot-first retrieval system beating text pipelines, with lower agent token use and a real chunking gap.

Przemek Chojecki's 14-problem smoke run puts Moonshot's new open-weight model behind Claude Fable-5-max and ahead of GPT-5.5 xhigh.

Matei Zaharia and Kasey Uhlenhuth's alpha project sits above Claude Code, Codex, the Pi agent and custom agents to compose multi-agent workflows, share live sessions and enforce contextual policies.

IplanRIO put Rio 3.5 Open 397B on Hugging Face with MIT licensing, a 1M-token context claim, and self-reported gains over Qwen's base model.

Meta's 6,500-person Applied AI unit looks less like automation magic than the unglamorous human operating system required to make models useful.

The new flagship adds High and Max reasoning modes and a 1M-context configuration for coding agents such as Claude Code and OpenClaw.

The open-source coding agent says Claude Fable 5 planned better, while GPT-5.5 matched it on execution at lower cost.

Anthropic pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a June 12th U.S. directive, turning its safety-first model rollout into a policy test case.