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"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.

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.
VideoBuild 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.

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.
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
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!
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.
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...
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.
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.
Maildun for Mac
Design on-brand emails by hand, with AI, or over MCP

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.
Secret protection must scale with software
Today, one in three pull requests on GitHub involves an AI agent.
VideoDeepSeek-V4.1 Flash: The Most Insane Optimization So Far
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is probably the craziest architecture revamp to date.
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.
Qwen3.8 Flash Next fixed my GNOME extension
I love Dash2Dock Lite, but Icedman is always a week or two before updates.
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).
[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).
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.
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.
VideoThe 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.
Dwarf Fortress uses version control now
I remember hearing a while ago that Dwarf Fortress didn't use version control.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Halo
Notifications, dictation and AI agents in your Mac's notch
GitGlow
Review your code and your agents' changes before you ship
Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces
TIL: Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging
Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch.
Sorted
Your private AI file organizer for Mac