The Stack
Knowledge distillation is a way of training a small "student" AI model to imitate a big "teacher" model — so the student picks up much of the teacher's skill while being far smaller, faster, and cheaper to run. If you have read tech news lately,
The Arena
Cobots are quietly becoming an AI business. Dobot (Yuejiang Technology, HKEX 02432) reported first-half revenue of RMB 320 million, up 106.6% year over year — and the number that matters most is a single line item: embodied-intelligence robot sales jumped more than twenty-fold to over RMB 45
The Guardrails
Australia's record industry drew a hard line on generative music this week, while new research shows state-linked hackers quietly industrializing their operations with open-weight models. Two very different answers to the same question: what happens when machines can do the creative — and criminal — work end to
The Frontier
A Chinese lab just started what it bills as the largest fully-open large-model training run ever — and it wants the world to watch it happen in real time, not read about the results after the fact. Marin has begun training a 535-billion-parameter MoE model with its
The Arena
Two infrastructure stories today — one financial, one silicon: an Indian drone startup just banked $37 million to undercut trucking, and RISC-V finally got a server you can stop thinking about. Airbound, a Bengaluru startup building autonomous delivery drones, has raised $37 million in Series A funding as it chases
The Stack
OpenAI is pulling the plug on the unlimited era for its coding agent — and the backlash started within minutes. OpenAI is bringing back the five-hour usage limit for Codex and ChatGPT Work on Plus accounts, ending weeks of effectively uncapped access that had made the $20 plan the standout
The Frontier
IJCAI-ECAI 2026 closed in Bremen over the weekend with an awards slate that reads like a map of AI's past and future — and a participation report that exposed a widening gap between who produces AI research and who actually shows up. China submitted more than 4,000
The Frontier
The hardest leaderboard in robotics has a new number one — and this time, anyone can download it. Dexmal's DM0.5, an open-weight vision-language-action model, has taken first place on RoboDojo, according to Dexmal and QbitAI's report on the leaderboard. Its composite score of
The Arena
Orbital AI compute got a calendar date today — and Hugging Face gave app builders a new canvas. Elon Musk says SpaceX has designed a space-optimized version of Nvidia's flagship Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system, with the first units scheduled to launch into orbit in the fourth
The Arena
The neocloud fundraising wave keeps rolling. Nvidia-backed Lambda is reportedly in talks to raise up to $3 billion in a pre-IPO round that would value the GPU cloud provider above $12 billion — with revenue this year already estimated to top $1.5 billion, per Bloomberg. WSJ separately reports
The Arena
Money is pouring into the AI build-out from every direction today — SoftBank is tapping Japanese retail investors for a record bond to keep funding its OpenAI bet, while South Korea just rewrote its privacy law to let AI developers actually use the data they're collecting. SoftBank plans
The Arena
One of China's most-cited AI scientists is now an embodied-AI founder — without leaving his day job. The move caps a week when every major Chinese robotics player seemed to be carving out a separate entity. NIO's head of autonomous driving, Ren Shaoqing — a co-