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Articles · AI & ML Showing 1–10 of 53

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AI & ML

Saudi Arabia's humain-m3 Is MiniMax's M3, Under MiniMax's Licence

Same 428 billion parameters, same 23 billion active, same mixture-of-experts design as the model Shanghai open-weighted in June. The Arabic pre-training is real; the benchmark claim has no numbers in it.

5 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & ML

One embedding model, four different maximum lengths

The most downloaded sentence-embedding model ships four config files declaring 128, 256, 512 and 512 as its maximum input length. Which one binds depends on your import statement, nothing warns you, and text past the cut is discarded silently — so two chunks differing only in a late sentence embed to almost the same vector.

4 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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AI & ML

One token can double your bill

OpenAI charges 2x input and 1.5x output on the full request once a prompt passes 272,000 tokens, so the 272,001st token doubles the input cost of everything before it. Anthropic committed to the opposite. The result flips which flagship is cheaper — for exactly one of three model pairs, and only until a promotional rate expires.

3 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & ML

Two providers charge a toll for your prompt cache. One charges rent.

All three major providers price a cache read at a tenth of normal input, so caching looks like the same deal everywhere. It is not. OpenAI and Anthropic take a one-off write premium, so the break-even is a count — two requests. Google bills storage per hour, so the break-even is a rate you have to keep hitting, and an idle cache loses money.

3 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & ML

One cloud answers with a different model instead of failing

Every hosted model has a date after which it stops answering. Almost everywhere that is an error you can see in your logs. On one major platform the default is to silently swap in a newer model — across model families — and keep returning 200s.

2 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
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AI & ML

Anthropic's AI Beat Human Researchers, but Only on Problems a Computer Can Score

Automated agents beat experienced human proposals within six hours, at four dollars an hour against a hundred and fifty. The paper states the boundary itself: the method needs a problem that can be scored automatically.

30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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AI & ML

Your AI Coding Agent Charges You for Coffee Breaks

A long session is cheap. An interrupted one is not. Every AI coding agent re-reads your whole conversation at a tenth of the input price — until the cache expires, when the same tokens cost 12.5 times more. The window is an hour on a subscription and five minutes the moment you start paying per token.

29 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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AI & ML

Alibaba's Screen-Operating Agent Scores 82 Per Cent On Phones And 40 On Desktops

Qwen-UI-Agent drives real phones, desktops and browsers by looking at the screen rather than calling an API. Its own technical report leads on mobile and records a 40 per cent partial-progress score on the harder computer-use set.

23 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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AI & ML

OpenAI Will Not Let You Self-Serve Its Enterprise Agent Product

Presence handles billing disputes, insurance claims and IT requests by voice and chat. Deployments are limited to eligible customers and delivered by OpenAI's own engineers and selected integrators, which says more than the feature list does.

23 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
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Nvidia Is Talking To The Korean Startup Whose Chips Compete Where Nvidia Is Weakest

Jensen Huang met Rebellions' chief executive in Santa Clara. The company designs inference NPUs, is valued near US$2.3bn, counts SK Hynix, Samsung Ventures, Arm and the Korean government among its backers, and had just begun preparing a domestic listing.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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