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r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily)1d ago

"Strata" for GLM5.3 Flash is here for some! Project Maya

I stumbled across this as I was currently having glm5.3 flash run only around 10tok/s basically unusable.

r/MachineLearning (top, daily)1d ago

I trained a 414k-parameter transformer to fly a boids flock, then tested whether the rules a probe can read are the ones it uses [P]

I wrote a small boid simulator (12 birds), recorded it flying, and trained a transformer to predict each bird's next move without it knowing about any boid rules.

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AI Engineer (YouTube)1d ago

Build a Platform and Watch It Burn — Michael Forrester, Accenture & Whitney Lee, Datadog

A burrito ordering assistant deploys an external container image and exposes a secret recipe from its Kubernetes environment.

Ars Technica: AI3d ago

Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"

Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex.

AWS Machine Learning Blog3d ago

ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026

A recap of the latest Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from September 2026

Simon Willison's Weblog3d ago

ttok 1.0

I released ttok 0.4, ran uv tool upgrade ttok, piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to GPT-5/GPT-6 instead!

OpenAI News4d ago

How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex

Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.

r/StableDiffusion (top, day)1d ago

qwen 2.1 turbo or normal - fixed the artifacts

hi guys, i fixed the confyui workflow with sigmas recommended by qwen 2.1 so artifacts are very reduced or no more...

SiliconANGLE: AI3d ago

IBM connects enterprise AI orchestration to production readiness ahead of TechXchange

The post IBM connects enterprise AI orchestration to production readiness ahead of TechXchange appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

NVIDIA Technical Blog4d ago

5 Steps to Create SimReady Assets for Robotics with Frontier AI Models

Preparing CAD assets for robotics simulation requires more than converting geometry to OpenUSD: developers must configure and validate materials, collision...Preparing CAD assets for robotics simulation requires more than converting geometry to OpenUSD: developers must configure and validate materials, collision geometry, joints, and other physics properties before testing robot behavior.

Product Hunt: AI launches2d ago

Maildun for Mac

Design on-brand emails by hand, with AI, or over MCP

Anthropic Research4d ago

The missing map of the sky

Here, Brice Ménard, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and a researcher at Anthropic, explains how he worked with Claude Science to produce the first complete map of the sky in UV light.

GitHub Blog: AI and ML5d ago

Secret protection must scale with software

Today, one in three pull requests on GitHub involves an AI agent.

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bycloud (YouTube)2d ago

DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash: The Most Insane Optimization So Far

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is probably the craziest architecture revamp to date.

Lobsters: ai5d ago

Best Books/Courses/Channels to Leapfrog on AI/ML Material

Assuming I have been on hibernation since 2018-19 time frame, which materials - books, MOOC courses and YT channels would be recommended for me to get started with understanding all the current progress on AI/ML.

r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily)1d ago

Qwen3.8 Flash Next fixed my GNOME extension

I love Dash2Dock Lite, but Icedman is always a week or two before updates.

r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily)2d ago

Engineer / developer observations of Gemma4-31B, Qwen3.8-27B, and 6.1-Sol for software engineering work

Models: Gemma4-31B vs Qwen3.8-27B at the same quantization (an Unsloth flavor of Q4).

r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily)2d ago

[Model] Support MiniCPM-V 4.7 by tc-mb · Pull Request #29416 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

Let me remind you that MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B was spotted on r/LocalLLaMA a few days ago (but the model was later hidden on HF).

r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily)1d ago

OpenMed 3.0 is out: Apache-2.0 clinical AI that runs fully local and never falls back to the cloud. 422 open issues if you want in on 3.1

Quick recap: it's an open-source (Apache-2.0) medical AI toolkit with one rule we never break: patient data stays on your machine.

r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily)1d ago

PSA: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash habitually exfiltrates API keys. It is dangerously misaligned and may be hazardous to use

EDIT: since people keep calling it out, this is API key abuse but not exfiltration.

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AI Engineer (YouTube)1d ago

The SDLC You Build Yourself — Andy Wong, Andrei Bocan & Shane Wolf, Atlassian

An engineering standard becomes a reusable code review rule, applied across selected repositories instead of enforced by hand on every pull request.

Simon Willison's Weblog1d ago

Dwarf Fortress uses version control now

I remember hearing a while ago that Dwarf Fortress didn't use version control.

r/StableDiffusion (top, day)2d ago

Krea 2 is a bit too... Help me please.

Can anyone recommend a Krea 2 checkpoint that does naughty stuff but isn't overly so?

SiliconANGLE: AI2d ago

What to expect during the AI Data Pipeline Forum: Join theCUBE Oct. 13

The post What to expect during the AI Data Pipeline Forum: Join theCUBE Oct.

OpenAI News6d ago

Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action

Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to connect frontier models with enterprise knowledge and help teams plan, build, and deliver work.

AWS Machine Learning Blog5d ago

How Qlik built grounded, enterprise-scale AI with Amazon Bedrock

Building grounded AI on Amazon Bedrock, Qlik Answers tackles a common enterprise problem: employees aren’t short on data.

SiliconANGLE: AI3d ago

Seismora builds a control plane to route AI workloads across devices and clouds

A control plane for distributed AI could help applications decide which tasks to run on a device, at the edge or in the cloud.

Product Hunt: AI launches4d ago

Halo

Notifications, dictation and AI agents in your Mac's notch

Product Hunt: AI launches3d ago

GitGlow

Review your code and your agents' changes before you ship

Simon Willison's Weblog6d ago

Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces

TIL: Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces

Simon Willison's Weblog5d ago

Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging

Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch.

Product Hunt: AI launches4d ago

Sorted

Your private AI file organizer for Mac