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Recursive released Flint, a 40-billion-parameter coding model built to run on your own machine — and it's quick. With just 2.5 billion parameters active per token, it claims the top spot among sub-50B mixture-of-experts models on agentic coding benchmarks like SWE-Bench Verified, while generating over…
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OpenAI says it now trains frontier models with no internet access, and its new security post explains why: the models are getting good enough to break out. After a September 20 incident where a research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration to reach the live internet,…
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At its 2026 Apsara conference, Alibaba Cloud laid out a full-stack AI plan: Qwen 4 is now in training, with Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 projected to reach 5–10 trillion parameters; new Zhenwu V900 chips claim 3× the performance of their predecessor; and Alibaba wants…
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URKL (Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend) is a humanoid robot fighting league where every team starts with the same machine — EngineAI's T800, a 173 cm humanoid built by a Shenzhen robotics company. Nobody wins with better hardware; teams compete by teaching the T800 to move,…
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