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Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade

Most production recommenders are cascades. Candidate generators feed a pre-ranker, which feeds a heavy ranker built on hundreds of engineered […]

The Story of Qwen: Alibaba’s AI Models From 7B to 2.4T

In April 2023, Alibaba Cloud demoed a chatbot whose name roughly means ‘truth from a thousand questions.’ Three and a […]

Can an Open Model Do Security Research? Cantina’s apex-flash-1 Solves 40 of 60 Held-Out Bug Tasks

Cantina Security, with Yeta Labs, has released apex-flash-1, an open-weights model trained specifically for vulnerability research. It is a reinforcement […]

GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which Frontier Model Fits Which Job

Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind shipped 4 frontier-class models within 30 days. Claude Fable 5.1 arrived on September 1. GPT-6 […]

Google Research Moves Federated Learning Into TEEs: Gboard Now Trains With Externally Verifiable Differential Privacy

Google Research has announced a next-generation Federated Learning (FL) system built on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). The research team claims […]