DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.

What is GLM-5.2: China’s AI model challenging Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 in coding and long-context reasoning

In recent days, a new large language model from China has started circulating through technical circles with an unusual mix ...

Z.ai’s open-weights GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on multiple long-horizon coding benchmarks for 1/6th the cost

It allows engineering teams to host frontier-level AI on their own sovereign infrastructure, entirely eliminating vendor lock ...
Tech Times

NVIDIA Diffusion LLM Hits 2.42x Throughput Without Retraining: Nemotron TwoTower Released

NVIDIA diffusion language model Nemotron TwoTower achieves 2.42x LLM inference throughput without a full retraining run, ...

Z.ai pitches GLM-5.2 for long-running software engineering tasks

The open-source model combines a one-million-token context window with architectural updates aimed at lowering the cost of repository-scale AI coding.
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Your GPU is probably making VLC stutter during 4K playback — here's the fix

My 4K videos stuttered in VLC until I turned off one setting.

Tamil Nadu Names Ex-ISRO Scientist Mylswamy Annadurai to Head School Syllabus Revamp Committee

The Tamil Nadu School Education Department has reconstituted its Curriculum Design Committee for a three-year tenure, ...

Waterloo's PAW compiles task specs into 23MB LoRA adapters a 600M-parameter model runs entirely offline.

Local AI inference at 32B-parameter quality, no cloud API required: University of Waterloo researchers released PAW on July 2, 2026, a system that compiles any natural-language task spec into a 23MB ...
New Electronics

QuEra outlines gigaquop quantum roadmap and invites industry collaboration

QuEra Computing has set out its next phase in fault-tolerant quantum computing, and invited industry collaboration.

Animated stamps from USC celebrate 14 builders of the modern internet, from DNS and video calls to JPEG, encryption, and the algorithms inside phones

USC is celebrating America's 250th anniversary with animated digital stamps honoring unsung heroes of computing. These stamps ...
eLife

Neural activity profiles reveal overlapping, intermingled subpopulations spanning area borders in mouse sensorimotor cortex

Single neurons in mouse sensorimotor cortex are organized by their activity features into distinct subpopulations with area-spanning footprints whose boundaries align closely with anatomical and ...