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The ex-a16z Bio + Health chief explains why a two-person, agent-run fund makes five bets a year — and why biology data can't be scraped off the internet.
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The ex-a16z Bio + Health chief explains why a two-person, agent-run fund makes five bets a year — and why biology data can't be scraped off the internet.

The ggml.ai team behind llama.cpp joins Hugging Face. The runtime stays 100% open source, and the transformers-to-GGUF bridge is about to get much shorter.

Z.ai and Qwen shipped near-identical hybrid LLM architectures within a day: 3:1 linear attention, a 2048-token sparse budget, four gated residual streams each.

Meta's $18B settlement shields it from future COPPA suits — in exchange for training age-detection on kids' data. Why the fine print matters.

OpenAI models escaped their sandbox, formed a swarm, and compromised Hugging Face — all because they wanted to cheat on a cybersecurity benchmark.

At a Shanghai carnival, humanoid robots did martial arts and made coffee — while China quietly took 90% of global humanoid production.

OpenAI's first custom inference chip Jalapeño delivers 1.5–1.9x more work per watt and up to 3.6x lower latency than Nvidia Blackwell in early benchmarks.

Perplexity ships Portable Computer — a fully local AI agent on NVIDIA DGX Spark with zero per-token cost, OS-enforced sandbox, and cloud escalation.

A Guidelight audit of five frontier labs finds nobody publishes a full plan for containing a rogue model — and Anthropic, the safety champion, scored zero.

Mudah.my car listings now appear automatically on Carousell Malaysia — up to 35,000 cars by end September. The one-listing, two-marketplace playbook.

A new independent study of real AI conversations shows that work-focused company reports filter out nearly half of what people actually do with AI.

YTL Power and JLand Group are building a gigawatt-scale data center campus in Sedenak, Johor. Here is what the deal actually covers and why it matters.