Quant: OCP FP8 E4M3 support (#27512) * WIP OCP FP8 E4M3 support * Fix python type-checker * Materialize input_scales also for FP8 when converting * Fix conversion of https://huggingface.co/RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 1. Per row FP8 wrongly fell to NVFP4 conversion, as NVFP4 checked on dims alone.

API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the equivalent quantity of (expiring) credits to use with the Anthropic API.

The UK Amazon Quick User Group's 2026 roundup: three quarterly meetups, 150+ attendees, and customer stories from Arriva, Carsa, and Propulse Lab on using agentic AI and Amazon Quick to turn data into faster decisions, higher satisfaction, and scalable growth.

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We introduce the Controlled Attribution Benchmark (CATT) for fact tracing, in which we fine-tune LLMs on entirely fictitious knowledge, providing unambiguous ground truth for attribution. This synthetic setup allows us to systematically alter one dataset configuration at a time, such as document redundancy and lexical distractors.

We introduce \emph{propose-filter-release} (PFR), which, by privately filtering its input, turns a mechanism that protects the addition or removal of a typical record, one that fits the remaining data, into one that is differentially private in the standard sense, on every input.

The Neural Thickets hypothesis posits that pretrained language models lie in dense neighborhoods of task-specific experts in weight space, which random Gaussian perturbations can uncover. We reproduce the reported gains, but show that they do not require this geometric explanation.

Based on this insight, we introduce SpecSlot, a pixel-space rectified-flow Transformer that decouples output detail from the length of the global attention sequence. SpecSlot expands each spatial anchor into multiple slots, each assigned a disjoint band of DCT coefficients; this separates anchor density from spectral subdivision.

We instead propose a Kullback-Leibler (KL) ball centered at a density model fitted to the record, the learned nominal, which lets the adversary up-weight costly unobserved realizations in proportion to the probability the model assigns them.

Luggage re-identification (ReID) is a critical task in video surveillance for forensics, security or border management (suspicious or abandoned luggage recognition), as well as luggage management (lost luggage recovery).

Extreme weather is forecast days ahead, yet its consequences for agriculture remain hard to predict: a forecast says where a storm will strike, not which crops will suffer or how much is at risk, and the records that could tell span many sources.

Here, we introduce world2vec to learn mechanistic world models without reward information directly from observations and actions. World2vec learns latent dynamics that faithfully reproduce the true system over long prediction horizons, with at least one order of magnitude fewer parameters than DreamerV3, TD-MPC2 and LeWM.

Do visual foundation models provide representations that support such a state? We study this question through four levels of spatial capability---spatial structure, object persistence, predictive spatial update, and actionability---using frozen-feature probes on ten representations under streaming egocentric observations of static indoor environments.

Safety alignment has enabled large language models to reliably refuse harmful requests directly, yet the same request distributed across a multi-turn conversation still succeeds far too often.

Assertions about how events unfold across many cases fill the Web, and each is a temporal hypothesis that only a significance test over the right records can settle. The verifier must specify the null, select the test and decide which records bear on the hypothesis, and any of these choices can go wrong while the conclusion still comes out right.

In this paper we address the question whether an analogous formulation exists for discrete diffusion models and answer it affirmatively by introducing exponential residual flows (ERFs). Our framework augments the discrete state with a continuous residual variable for each token and position.

Spawn is a massively multiplayer gaming environment where players can use prompts (to the in-game agent, Savi) to modify the game world. I fired it up on my phone for a few minutes and was able to prompt a castle into existence, then a dragon, then ride the dragon to fly around that castle.

OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.

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This post explores its architecture and use cases, then shows how to deploy it on Amazon EKS, EKS Auto Mode, and Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS with NVIDIA Dynamo and vLLM.

Students at the Google Colorado Impact Hackathon built AI tools like SolarSnap to modernize the energy grid. See the winning innovations here.

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Granite Switch 4.1.1 is a patch release. The version number means what it means in software: fully backwards compatible with 4.1, no migration, incremental improvements under the hood.

Built by clinicians at Google, the new Google AI for Healthcare Professionals Certificate helps healthcare professionals prioritize patients.

Earlier this month, we released Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk), our flagship 1-trillion-parameter, natively multimodal model, in public preview. The response to the preview has exceeded our expectations, and we're grateful to our developer community, early-access customers, and partners for their support, collaboration, and feedback.

New studies from the UK and Italy show how Gemini can boost student learning and help teachers facilitate more active learning in the classroom.

OpenAI uses layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior so responders can intervene before incidents escalate.

Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence with OpenAI. Lawyers review grouped documents, summaries, and reports before advising clients.

Google announced a new research hub and initiatives to support clinicians, advance research, and help Singaporeans live healthier lives.

AI bots flooded a government consultation with tens of thousands of fake responses in a failed attempt to stop the UK’s ban on disposable vapes.

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There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes. Despite that complexity, much of the variation in performance is explained by just a single variable: model size.

Google is expanding AI Mode ads to 10 new countries, including Canada and India. See how these relevant sponsored results improve your search experience.

The Ray Train Deep Learning Container ships the full CUDA-through-EFA stack, so you build no image. This post walks through a reproducible sample that fine-tunes Qwen2.5-1.5B with PyTorch FSDP across eight GPUs on two EFA-enabled g6.12xlarge instances on Amazon EKS, using the container exactly as published.

Today, we are rolling out immersive explorations in the new Gemini student hub.

Chrome now pulls flight bookings and order numbers from Gmail to autofill forms. See how Gemini in Chrome simplifies your data entry today.

XREAL AURA, the first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR, lets you work, watch, and play anywhere with Gemini by your side.

I think we've reached a new inflection point in October 2026, and this time it's for vibe coding computer games . Tree Appreciator Emberwick Battle Drones Pumpkin Farmer, aka Quarter Sun Cove Four times as insulting What happens if someone actually puts the work in?

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Backward passes were added to the dense and grouped FP8 matmuls, and `is_trainable` is now `True`. Backward also dequantizes experts in chunks and skips autograd at inference, which cuts peak memory in the MoE layer backward from about 28.9 GiB to 2.8 GiB at 8k tokens.

On 7 October, I paid €180 to renew Claude Max 20x for another month. On 13 October, they cut off my access.

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# Patch release v5.21.1 ** Fix rope_scaling setter for configs that assign it during init (#50080 ) We broke remote code loading in vllm, this fixes it sorry everyone!

Stand up a governed, multi-account Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through the architecture and an open-source reference blueprint: the operating model, control plane, per-Workstream cells, separate inference and tool gateways, and a CI/CD evaluation pipeline that gates each agent before production.

OpenAI and ServiceNow expand their partnership to bring OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow and ServiceNow workflows into ChatGPT and Codex.

See how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to accelerate legal workflows, expand contract analysis, and free lawyers to focus on higher-value work.

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