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New AI model: Jev
A new AI model called Jev has been released by TypeSafe AI, a new frontier-AI lab led by former OpenAI researcher and ChatGPT contributor Diogo Almeida. TypeSafe emerged from stealth alongside the launch and announced $40 million in seed fu...
AI Agent Security Is Real. But We Need More Proof, Not More Panic.
There is a lot of talk right now about AI agents becoming a security threat.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently warned that, within 6–12 months, a swarm of AI agents could potentially take over large parts of the internet through persiste...
GPT-6 Astra, 10,000 Agents, and a Solved $1M Math Problem: Is This Actually AGI?
OpenAI just dropped GPT-6 Astra, and simultaneously claimed that an unreleased, hyper-advanced internal system cracked one of the famous $1M Millennium Prize math problems—the Navier-Stokes equations—by orchestrating 10,000 concurrent AI ag...
The AI You Actually Own Isn’t a Chatbot
For most people, AI still looks like a chatbot.
You open an app, type a question, and receive an answer. The better the answer, the better the AI.
But that is only the surface.
The real AI race is shifting away from just “who has the sma...
Your DGX Spark Needs More Than the Smartest Model
Your DGX Spark Is Not Just a Box to Run Models. It Is a Local AI Lab.
When I started running open models on the NVIDIA DGX Spark, I kept coming back to the same question:
What is the best model to actually run here?
At first, that seems...
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