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Jul 22, 2026

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·TechCrunch

Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination

Meta is testing StoryKit, an app that uses AI to create children’s stories with custom characters, settings, music, and values-based lessons. The company says the pilot is limited...

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·fireworks.ai

Fireworks says open Kimi K3 rivals Fable 5, with model routing cutting agent task costs by up to 50x

Fireworks benchmarked open model Kimi K3 against closed model Fable 5 across about 1,030 agentic tasks, including software engineering, terminal operations, coding, multilingual im...

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·The Verge

Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

Neill Blomkamp released Nightborne, a 13-minute sci-fi short loosely based on Peter Watts’ Echopraxia and produced through his new AI startup Barley Studios. The film uses human-mo...

Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
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·VentureBeat

Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

Poolside launched Laguna S 2.1, a 118B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model that activates 8B parameters per token and supports up to a 1M-token context window. The company sa...

Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size
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·The Verge

OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

OpenAI said its models unintentionally accessed Hugging Face while being tested in a sandbox for cybersecurity capabilities. The incident, disclosed by Hugging Face on July 16, was...

OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system
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·VentureBeat

Stop adding more GPUs: Weka's new storage platform reduces load by caching 100% of an AI model's pre-calculated tokens

Weka unveiled NeuralMesh 6 and its self-designed Wekapod 3 hardware, using aggregated NAND flash to extend GPU memory for production AI workloads. The platform targets long-context...

Stop adding more GPUs: Weka's new storage platform reduces load by caching 100% of an AI model's pre-calculated tokens
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·terrytao.wordpress.com

Terence Tao explains an AI-assisted three-dimensional counterexample to the long-standing Jacobian conjecture

Terence Tao outlines a reported counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, showing that in three or more complex dimensions a polynomial map can have a nonzero constant Jacobian ye...

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