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A quiet-but-real model release out of Google Research, and a state-backed number for just how much computation the agent era is expected to eat. Google's TimesFM-3 became the first model in the family that can forecast many variables at once — and it fills the
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The hardest closed-form math benchmark in the industry is over, and the interesting fact is not the winning score. It is that every candidate replacement is structurally worse at the one job a benchmark has to do: letting someone outside a lab check whether the lab is telling the
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Moonshot AI's legal team broke its silence on a rumor that had been swirling across Chinese social media since yesterday — and the response tells you exactly how fragile reputation gets when geopolitical accusations and unverified chat screenshots collide. Moonshot AI published a formal legal department statement on September
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A research-grade math benchmark built to stay ahead of models just ran out of road, Apple's dedicated neural chip gets its autopsy, and Oracle puts a price on the AI jobs it is cutting. Epoch AI's FrontierMath Tier 4 is saturated. GPT-6 Astra solved
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Tool calling — also called function calling — is a language model's ability to say "I need this specific external action run, with these exact arguments" instead of answering from memory. The model does not run anything. It writes a structured request in a format your code agreed
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Moonshot spent the week arguing about revenue and the weekend shipping a model that undercuts its own flagship. Meanwhile the person who built Redis quietly made DeepSeek's newest MoE run on a desktop Mac. Moonshot AI put Kimi K2.8 Preview live across Kimi Code and Kimi Work
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Shanghai's Inclusion·Bund Conference closed on Friday with China's agents doing the boring things — paying for fuel, tolls and movie tickets — and the numbers attached were bigger than the demos. Ant Group's in-car agent just took over the parts of driving that involve
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Europe's AI infrastructure ambition just got its first physical site: Nokia has stopped talking about an AI gigafactory in the abstract and started buying land for one. Nokia Solutions and Networks has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire a city-owned plot in the Toppila district of Oulu,
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The AI buildout has outgrown the insurance market meant to cover it — and the fix is about to be sold to hedge funds. This hour: the first data-center catastrophe bond is now a live design project, and a stealth radiology practice is betting that owning the clinic beats selling
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Robot brains and AI infrastructure drew the money this hour: a Chinese embodied-model lab run by two of Li Auto's most senior AI executives closed a nine-figure angel round, and one of OpenAI's most visible former leaders resurfaced on the board of a data-
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A quiet but consequential morning for machine mathematics: Nvidia has published the full recipe behind an open model reaching the International Mathematical Olympiad gold-medal threshold, and two new papers push at the boundary between informal reasoning and machine-checked proof. Nvidia's Nemotron scored 30 out of 42
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Google's Pixel test team open-sourced an Android automation agent this week. The team it was built on top of says the authorship trail was rewritten before anyone saw it. Minitap says Google's Artemis contains its code, and that the names of the people who wrote