MiniMax released MSA (MiniMax Sparse Attention), a sparse attention method built directly on Grouped Query Attention (GQA). It targets one […]
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OpenAI’s Deployment Simulation Extends Pre-Deployment Risk Assessment to Agentic Coding Through Simulated Tool Calls
OpenAI published a new pre-deployment safety method called Deployment Simulation. The idea is direct. Before a model ships, simulate its […]
How to Build Memory-Efficient Transformers with xFormers Using Packed Sequences, GQA, ALiBi, SwiGLU, and Causal Attention
In this tutorial, we implement xFormers: a practical toolkit for building fast, memory-efficient Transformer models on GPUs. We begin by […]
Meet Qwen-RobotSuite: Three Embodied AI Models for VLA Manipulation, Video World Modeling, and Navigation
The Qwen team has released three embodied AI models, grouped as Qwen-Robot-Suite. The three are Qwen-RobotManip, Qwen-RobotWorld, and Qwen-RobotNav. Each […]
The Ars Technica 2026 Reader Survey: Let your voice be heard!
Greetings, Arsians, and welcome to the great Ars Technica 2026 reader survey! It has been almost four years since we […]
Hermes Agent Adds Asynchronous Subagents, So Delegated Work No Longer Blocks the Parent Chat
Nous Research has shipped a change to Hermes Agent. Its delegate tool can now run subagents asynchronously. Per the announcement, […]
Meet Atoms: A Vibe Coding Tool That Uses AI Agents to Build, Deploy, and Market Your App (No Code)
The concept of vibe coding is interesting; you don’t need to be a developer or software engineer to build your […]
Google Cloud Introduces Open Knowledge Format (OKF): A Vendor-Neutral Markdown Spec for Giving AI Agents Curated Context
Foundation models keep getting stronger, yet they still stall on the same thing: context. A model can write code or […]
How to Build a Parsing Pipeline with Docling Parse for Layout-Aware Document Intelligence
In this tutorial, we build a workflow for using Docling Parse to analyze PDF documents at a detailed structural level. […]
Sakana AI Commercializes AB-MCTS in Sakana Marlin, an Enterprise Agent Generating Up to 100-Page Research Reports With Slides
Tokyo-based Sakana AI shipped its first commercial product ‘Sakana Marlin’ this week. Sakana team positions it as a Virtual CSO […]