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Nunchux AI has released VC-Attention, a training-free low-bit attention kernel built for video Diffusion Transformers (DiTs). It targets 2 problems at once: value quantization error and a slow softmax stage. Why Attention is the Video Bottleneck Video DiTs flatten a clip into 1 sequence of spatiotemporal tokens and run full self-attention at every layer. A […]
Computational papers ship code that readers must clone, install, configure and debug. That cost keeps useful methods locked inside PDFs. A Stanford team led by Jiacheng Miao and James Zou proposes a fix. Paper2Agent was published in Nature on 16 September 2026. It converts a paper and its codebase into a Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Knowledgator Engineering has released GLiFormer, a schema-conditioned encoder framework for information extraction. One model handles named-entity recognition (NER), text classification, relation extraction, nested JSON structuring, and text embeddings. You pass labels and extraction schemas at inference time. Two checkpoints are on Hugging Face. GLiFormer Base v1 has 264.2M parameters, and GLiFormer Large v1 has 575.6M.
Lars Janssen says self-driving vehicles would be a boon for him as he has an eye condition and can’t drive, in response to an article by Adrian Chiles. Plus letters from Richard Connell and Michael FullerAdrian Chiles (Driverless cars are taking us on a road to nowhere, 10 September) wants to know who asked for
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The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian contentGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAI companies could get unrestricted access to everything Australians create online by default under sweeping reforms being considered by the Albanese government.Your posts and online presence are up for grabs
Countries have come together before to make international agreements in the face of existential threatsWith many technological developments, from algorithm-driven social media to AI, many people assume there’s a degree of inevitability to their widespread adoption in society.The argument goes something like this: once the ideas and means to produce the tech are known, then
Safety crisis makes it more likely that governments will be spurred into action, says Yoshua BengioConcerns over AI safety are reaching a point where governments realise they must act to protect the public, similarly to in the Covid pandemic, according to one of the “godfathers” of the technology.Yoshua Bengio said recent events, including a “swarm”
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Doorbell firm aims to replace WhatsApp or Facebook groups with platform where people can post about safety or lost petsAmazon’s doorbell camera maker Ring is to launch its Neighbours community app in the UK in an attempt to supplant neighbourhood WhatsApp or Facebook groups.The service is intended as a modern equivalent of a community message
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Tech CEOs banding together is an old ruse recycled from corporate America to get a pass from antitrust lawsAnthropic’s Dario Amodei is not the first corporate CEO to suggest that excessive competition is driving the world to some socially undesirable outcome.The safety breach disclosed by OpenAI after a swarm of its agents coordinated to breach
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US vice-president’s comments come as former Anthropic researcher revisits recent claim AI could destroy humanityThe US vice-president has dismissed calls for global regulation of AI safety risks, telling companies creating the most advanced models: “If you’re building Frankenstein, stop.”In remarks addressed towards Dario Amodei, the co-founder of Anthropic who has called on Washington DC to
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