How Frontier Coding Agents Built a Video Diffusion Pipeline on MAX
We gave five frontier models a hard task: rebuild the full Wan 2.1 text-to-video inference pipeline on Modular’s MAX stack – without PyTorch or diffusers – in twenty hours. This…
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Freenome colorectal cancer test data improve on earlier results
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Freenome said its updated blood-based colorectal cancer screening test met…
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Why Strategic Clarity Is Crucial in the Age of AI
Frontiers Research Highlight AI and digital tools can deepen geographic disadvantages as easily as they erase them — unless strategy leads the way. Nataliya Langburd Wright July 14, 2026 Reading…
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How Much Does It Actually Cost to Run a Local LLM? (Euros per Million Tokens, Measured)
, so it’s basically free.” I’ve said that, you’ve probably said that, and it’s the kind of claim that sounds true until someone measures it. So I measured it. The…
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Salmon in the Loop
One of the most fascinating problems that a computer scientist may be lucky enough to encounter is a complex sociotechnical problem in a field going through the process of digital…
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Microplastic risk in Zyn pouches: Scientist questions FDA approval
Four years into the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s review of Zyn nicotine pouches, and not long before the agency approved them for sale, an FDA toxicologist ran some informal…
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PitchBook: US venture funding hits $412.7B in first half as AI deals dominate
U.S. venture capital deal value hit $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 30% more than investors put to work in all of last year — and a…
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SAM 2: Meta’s Next-Gen Model for Video and Image Segmentation
The era has arrived where your phone or computer can understand the objects of an image, thanks to technologies like YOLO and SAM. Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) can instantly…
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Featuring Every Eval Ever Results on Hugging Face Model Pages
Every Eval Ever (EEE) and Hugging Face Community Evals are now intercompatible. We enable cross-posting and interpreting evaluation results, while linking to open models, leaderboards, and a unified standardized metadata…
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Extreme Event Likelihoods with Guided Generative Models
Across science, engineering, and finance, many of the most important risks come from low-likelihood, high-impact events. Estimating the probability of these events with brute-force Monte Carlo sampling—running a model repeatedly…
