Extend's Jevbox Ditches Vector Search, Routes Documents Through a Tree
Extend open-sourced Jevbox, a self-hosting document drive that uses hierarchical beam search instead of embeddings, with every answer tied to source permissions.
AImodels, tools, papers
Mininglamp's Open-Source VisionHOPE Beats Vision Transformers With Adaptive Memory
A new vision backbone rewrites its own learning rules while scanning an image, hitting strong ImageNet, COCO, and ADE20K numbers with linear-time cost.
ByteShape Squeezes Qwen3.8-27B Into 8.8 GB Hitting 176 Tokens per Second
ByteShape ships ShapeLearn-quantized GGUFs of Qwen3.8-27B that fit on 12 GB GPUs and hit 176 tokens per second on an RTX 5090.
Mitsuba Squeezes a 27B Vision Model Into 7.3 GB on One GPU
A ternary-quantized 27B vision-language model shrinks to 7.3 GB and specializes in writing ComfyUI image and video generation prompts.
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps . I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say "after…
Tech & dealsthe wider industry, mergers, money
Sources: several Western open-weight models are set to launch this month, including Reflection AI's first model, which will rival top Chinese open-weight models (Bradley Olson/Axios)
A closely watched Nvidia-backed startup called Reflection is preparing to shake up the AI race with a powerful open-weight system …
A look at Sean Parker's resurrection of Stability AI following Emad Mostaque's ousting, and its new focus on AI for music professionals, backed by major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)
To the music industry, Sean Parker has been many things. As co-founder of Napster, he was first an “outlaw renegade,” as he himself puts it.
Change.org says it is investing $100M of its own money to rebuild its core petitions platform with AI and has launched an AI copilot beta for petition creators (Dan Primack/Axios)
Change.org was founded as a venture-backed organization, before a 2021 restructuring that saw investors like Reid Hoffman …
Q&A with Google SVP and DeepMind Institute co-director James Manyika on AI risks and why responsibility must be shared across industry, government, and society (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)
The accord, which carries no legal weight, commits Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, SpacexAI and Google to “robust internal processes” …
Sources: UK neobank Monzo is in talks with CVC and Advent to sell up to a 15% stake, after Nubank takeover talks collapsed over the ~£10B valuation Monzo sought (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
Eleven-year-old UK fintech searching for growth capital after bruising year of boardroom tussles
Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks (Politico)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there remains a fundamental difference in worldview between his company and rival Anthropic …
Sources: Anthropic's stock match of employee charity gifts hit $660M+ in the six months through March, likely to reach billions post-IPO, diluting shareholders (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
When Anthropic shared financial figures recently with prospective investors in its planned initial public offering …
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F1 v „Bahrajzii“: nezvyčajný koncept aj pripomienka problémov súčasnej formuly
Veľká cena Bahrajnu v Malajzii bola zvláštna konštrukcia. Keď F1 koncom júla informovala o zaradení tohto podujatia do kalendára, vyvolalo to posmešky aj rozhorčenie. F1 tak reagovala na situáciu na Blízkom východe zo začiatku…
Týždňový newsfilter: Tri správy o premiérovej kondícii – vydierateľný muž, čo neplní sľuby a klame
Správy vybral a komentoval Roman Pataj Slovensko zažilo ďalšiu dvojnásobnú vraždu v škole. V deň, keď zatiaľ neprávoplatne odsúdili na 25 rokov dnes 19-ročného muža, ktorý v januári 2025 dobodal učiteľku a spolužiačku v Spišskej…
V premiérovom rodisku vysvetľujú českej novinárke vládnu krízu: Fico si poradí. Rozumie Slovákom a je to vodca
Kto to je Taraba? V Topoľčanoch viacerí voliči Smeru vedia, že za problémy nemôže Robert Fico, ale skôr Andrej Danko alebo Progresívne Slovensko. Opálená tmavovláska vystupuje zo sivého auta a svižným krokom zamieri do obchodu…
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Návrh rozpočtu na rok 2027 ráta s energopomocou, so zvyšovaním platov aj s 13 dôchodkami
Len deň pred rokovaním o rozpočte dostali jeho návrh aj odborári a zamestnávatelia. Denník N ho má k dispozícii. Politická dohoda vznikla len pár dní po odvolaní Tomáša Tarabu z postu ministra životného prostredia. Koalícia sa v…