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UPDATED 2026-11-03 03:13 PST

2026-10-25 · SUNDAY · 21:13 PDT

  1. 1 SK Hynix shares buck an AI selloff on a report of a $12 billion special dividend from its Kioxia gains BLOOMBERG SK hynix is weighing a special dividend of about 16 trillion won, or $12 billion, funded by gains from selling its stake in Japan's Kioxia, the newspaper Dong-A Ilbo reported. The plan could be unveiled with third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, and the company could not be reached for comment. Its shares rose against a broad selloff in AI-related stocks.
  2. 2 NVD discloses an out-of-bounds write in llama.cpp's Pocket-TTS loader, fixed in release b11796 NVD · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION The National Vulnerability Database published CVE-2026-116096, a heap out-of-bounds write reached through a malformed mmproj file in llama.cpp's Pocket-TTS state-slot function. The attack requires local access, a proof of concept is public, and the fix shipped in release b11796. A September pull request to prevent such accesses by construction is still open.
  3. 3 A ReBAR and PCIe peer-to-peer unlock roughly doubles prompt processing on dual 20GB RTX 3080s R/LOCALLLAMA A tester running vLLM on two modded 20GB RTX 3080s reports that layering a new ReBAR and PCIe peer-to-peer unlock on the existing gpu-unlock module lifts tensor-parallel prefill 71 to 115 percent over stock, from 562 to 962 tokens a second on a 261,900-token prompt. Token generation stayed flat within noise. The peer-to-peer part alone adds up to 70 percent.

2026-10-25 · SUNDAY · 18:17 PDT

  1. 1 CrowdGPT asks volunteers to train a 1B open model on home PCs, with all of its data public R/LOCALLLAMA A developer posted CrowdGPT, a project to train a 1 billion parameter language model collaboratively on contributors' own machines instead of in a data center. Participants train independently and merge their work into a global model, and the project publishes all of its training data alongside the weights. The post asks what would persuade people to donate GPU time, floating inference credits as one option.
  2. 2 Musk says SpaceX has closed a $40 billion debt deal for AI chips and predicts neocloud failures BLOOMBERG Elon Musk said SpaceX has closed the $40 billion debt package reported in early October for Nvidia chips, calling it mainly callable debt for GPUs arriving in the first and second quarters. He also said debt markets have almost entirely closed to companies without substantial revenue outside AI data centers, and predicted failures among neoclouds. Reuters says it is unclear whether pricing is agreed.
  3. 3 An analysis credits open-weight competition for OpenAI's and Anthropic's price cuts of up to 80 percent MAX WOOLF'S BLOG · VIA HACKER NEWS · 120 PTS · 138 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Max Woolf walks through every major OpenAI and Anthropic model announcement since June and finds input and output prices down by as much as 80 percent. He argues the cuts answer cheap open-weight rivals rather than loss-leading: 29 providers now serve DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on OpenRouter, two of them within 10 percent of DeepSeek's own effective cost. That cuts against the view that token prices must eventually rise.
  4. 4 Jensen Huang puts Nvidia's agent software licensing at about $2,000 per GPU a year TOM'S HARDWARE · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION Speaking at GTC Berlin on October 22, Nvidia's chief executive said licensing all the software the company supplies to run agents on AI factories costs about $2,000 per GPU per year, and that software licensing will become an increasingly large part of the business. Nvidia's existing AI Enterprise platform lists at $4,500 per GPU for one year, and the company has not said whether the two cover the same products.
  5. 5 A llama.cpp fork gets Kepler-era Nvidia cards running again with cuBLAS fixes and CUDA graphs GITHUB · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION A developer published a llama.cpp fork and patch set for pre-Ampere Nvidia GPUs, fixing cuBLAS compute-type selection so cards from compute capability 3.5 to 5.0 initialize at all. On four Tesla K40c cards running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at Q8_0, generation went from failing to launch to about 35 tokens a second, and to roughly 55 with CUDA graphs. The author calls the figures preliminary.

2026-10-25 · SUNDAY · 15:16 PDT

  1. 1 Grok publishes a seven-minute Episode 1 of its AI-generated Odyssey TECHCRUNCH Three months after Elon Musk promised a full-length, historically accurate movie version of The Odyssey, Grok has published seven minutes of it, now billed as Episode 1 of an Odyssey series. Musk had attacked Christopher Nolan's July adaptation over its casting; that film became a box office success.
  2. 2 Lure-TTS is a 600M voice model fine-tuned from Qwen3-TTS for under $200 HUGGING FACE · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION A developer released Lure-TTS and Lure-Turbo, 600M-parameter voice models fine-tuned from Qwen3-TTS that they say run about four times faster than real time and support inline tags, spoken direction and voice cloning. The author puts training cost under $200, using labeling classifiers and multi-teacher on-policy distillation, and ships the weights under Apache 2.0.
  3. 3 Bloomberg calls Meta's camera-free Ray-Ban Audio glasses an odd proposition at $349 BLOOMBERG Bloomberg reviewed Ray-Ban Meta Audio, the camera-free smart glasses Meta announced last month at $349 and up, and calls them an odd proposition. They cost more than some of Meta's entry-level frames while doing many of the same things: playing music, taking calls, answering questions through Meta's AI assistant and dictating texts.
  4. 4 llama.cpp merges a CUDA change that fuses a dense FFN's gate and up matmuls GITHUB · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA llama.cpp merged a CUDA change that runs a dense FFN's gate and up matrix multiplications and the following GLU as a single kernel launch during prompt processing, extending a fusion that previously covered only small batches. Benchmarks on a DGX Spark put Qwen3.8-27B prompt throughput up 4.6 to 7.1 percent from Q4_K_M through Q8_0.
  5. 5 Technical colleges expand on a bet that AI will lift demand for skilled workers BLOOMBERG Bloomberg reports that technical colleges are betting AI-driven demand for skilled workers will lift their profits. The schools are expanding campuses and programs to take in more students, though the report says the payoff may take time.

2026-10-25 · SUNDAY · 12:13 PDT

  1. 1 Anthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs to train AI models THE GUARDIAN Authentic Brands Group, which owns Elvis Presley's music catalogue and likeness, has sued Anthropic over the alleged use of 274 Presley songs to train Claude. The suit, first reported by Billboard, was filed on Friday and seeks $150,000 per infringed track, or about $41 million. The Guardian describes it as one of the first major cases brought by an artist's estate against an AI developer.
  2. 2 AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN · VIA HACKER NEWS · 73 PTS · 105 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Richard Borcherds, a Fields medalist who teaches mathematics at UC Berkeley, told the Daily Californian in an interview that he has stopped grading homework for correctness, after finding that students using AI consistently scored top marks. He now grades on completion, a system he admits is not a good one, and says he no longer knows whether to advise students to enter the field.

2026-10-25 · SUNDAY · 09:13 PDT

  1. 1 Neighbours episodes are being recut with AI into a phone microdrama, and cast members object THE GUARDIAN Fremantle, the producer of the Australian soap Neighbours, is working with RoseBerry Media to recut old episodes into vertical micro-episodes for phones, using an AI-assisted production tool called RedSnapper. The first series centres on Margot Robbie's character and runs about 150 minutes. Cast members including Stefan Dennis and Matthew Werkmeister say they were not consulted about the use of their images.
  2. 2 Western Australia seeks a refund from Deloitte over a university merger report with AI-hallucinated references THE GUARDIAN The Western Australian government said it is extremely disappointed and is seeking expedited cost recovery from Deloitte after errors were found in a $166,000 study on merging three state universities. The report carried AI-hallucinated references and cost totals out by $260m and $311m. Deloitte says in the report that it used generative AI to collate research, synthesise information and proofread.
  3. 3 r/opensource bans projects that use or are made by AI, and a rival subreddit appears THE VERGE Moderators of the r/opensource subreddit posted new submission rules on Saturday evening barring any project that uses AI, is made by AI or is intended for AI. The rules also require submissions to be at least a year old, actively maintained and backed by multiple contributors, which shuts out solo developers looking for help. The change drew a backlash and spawned a rival subreddit.
  4. 4 Bloomberg says AI spending fears threaten to overshadow strong Big Tech earnings this week BLOOMBERG Bloomberg reports that three of the world's largest technology companies are expected to show healthy growth when they report earnings this week, but investor fears about AI spending threaten to swamp those results. The framing puts capital spending on AI, rather than revenue growth, at the centre of how markets read the quarter.
  5. 5 US media, film and arts jobs are down more than 200,000 in four years, a data analysis finds APRICITAS · VIA HACKER NEWS · 441 PTS · 459 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION A data analysis from the economics newsletter Apricitas finds US employment in media, film and the arts has fallen by more than 200,000 jobs in four years, with roughly 50,000 lost in the past year alone. Movie and sound recording accounts for over 100,000 of that, close to a third of the sector, and written publishing for more than 70,000. The author cautions that AI's exact share is hard to prove.

2026-10-25 · SUNDAY · 06:14 PDT

  1. 1 Nanbeige releases a 33B open-weights model built as a teacher for smaller agents HUGGING FACE · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION The Nanbeige team published Nanbeige4.3-33B on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, a 33-billion-parameter model with a 512K context window. Its model card reports 80.9 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 against 73.0 for Qwen3.8-27B, and leads most of the agentic coding and office benchmarks it lists. The team says it will distill the model into smaller ones, starting at 3B.
  2. 2 JPMorgan's private bank is using AI for client onboarding and investment research BLOOMBERG JPMorgan Chase's private bank is using artificial intelligence to onboard clients, run investment research and handle other tasks, in an effort to make its wealth advisers more productive. Pablo Garnica, who runs the business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, set out the approach to Bloomberg.
  3. 3 Hyperscale author Paris Marx says the US data center fight has overseas precedent WIRED Wired interviewed Paris Marx, whose new book Hyperscale traces Big Tech's pursuit of computing power and the resistance it has drawn, from Vietnam-era protests to recent fights in Ireland and Chile and an alternative vision in New Zealand. Marx argues US opponents, now a factor in midterm races less than two weeks away, can learn from that history.
  4. 4 Lean-QwenFlash runs a 125B Qwen model from an NVMe drive on 16GB of VRAM GITHUB · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION A developer released lean-qwenflash, which serves the 125-billion-parameter Qwen3.8-Flash-Next by streaming experts straight from an NVMe SSD rather than pinning them in system RAM. On an RTX 4090 limited to 16GB of VRAM and 8GB of system memory, it reports about 20 tokens a second at the full 262K context and roughly 1,600 tokens a second of prefill.
  5. 5 Socceroo Cristian Volpato licenses his AI likeness, voice and biometrics to a US agency THE GUARDIAN Guardian Australia reported that Cristian Volpato, the 22-year-old Australia international at Serie A club Sassuolo, signed a deal in mid-September handing California-based Callandor exclusive rights to his digital likeness, voice, biometric profiles and performance data. Callandor, founded in February, takes a cut of brand work done by the synthetic twin and moves to restrict content he has not approved.

2026-10-25 · SUNDAY · 03:18 PDT

  1. 1 Cerebras details how it splits a 3-trillion-parameter model across wafer-scale chips CEREBRAS · VIA HACKER NEWS · 164 PTS · 57 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Cerebras published a technical walkthrough of how it serves multi-trillion-parameter models across its WSE-3T wafers, which hold 44 GB of on-chip memory each. Using the open-weight Kimi K3 as its example, it puts one dense attention layer on a wafer to leave room for the KV cache and two linear-attention layers where no cache is needed, and reports 1,000 to 2,000 tokens a second.
  2. 2 An open-source kernel module doubles BF16 throughput on Nvidia's RTX 30 cards WCCFTECH · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION A Linux kernel module loads before Nvidia's driver binds the card and restores the full FP16 and BF16 instruction issue rate on GA102, GA103, GA104 and GA106 chips, with no vBIOS flash or patched driver. On an RTX 3090 Ti, measured BF16 goes from 87.5 to 157.4 TFLOPS and TF32 from 42.6 to 82.6. Users report prefill 33 to 36 percent faster and time to first token down 25 percent, with decode unchanged.
  3. 3 Sebastian Raschka releases an 11-hour video course on building reasoning models AHEAD OF AI Sebastian Raschka released eight coding videos, more than 11 hours in all, as a companion to his book on building a reasoning model from scratch. The lectures start from a pretrained LLM and implement evaluation, inference-time scaling, reinforcement learning and distillation in Python and PyTorch.
  4. 4 ISTA-DASLab publishes 2-bit quantizations of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and the scores draw scrutiny R/LOCALLLAMA ISTA-DASLab released GSQ-RCO quantizations of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 at 1.75, 2.00 and 2.25 bits per weight, with backbone files of 120.7 to 155.2 GB plus a shared 110.6 GB file holding the model's Engram lookup tables. The lab's own table shows the 2-bit build scoring level with the base model. A follow-up thread argues those benchmarks are saturated and that no KLD or perplexity figures have been published.
  5. 5 UK chancellor promises a distinctively British AI package in Wednesday's budget THE GUARDIAN Chancellor John Healey said Wednesday's budget will commit hundreds of millions of pounds to what he calls a distinctively British approach to AI, including fresh money for the AI Security Institute. The package covers AI chip design work in Edinburgh, an AI Centre of Excellence in Manchester and 10 million pounds a year to study how the technology reshapes jobs.

2026-10-25 · SUNDAY · 00:11 PDT

  1. 1 Mathematicians open a community repo to revise OpenAI's math write-ups TERENCE TAO'S BLOG · VIA HACKER NEWS · 42 PTS · 34 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Four mathematicians have opened oai-math-revised, a public repository inviting the wider math community to rewrite OpenAI's math write-ups. The guest post on Terence Tao's blog says the originals at github.com/openai/math can be difficult to understand and carry incomplete citations, and it asks for volunteer admins and reviewers by category.
  2. 2 Blue Planet III keeps cloudier, less polished shots to prove its footage is real THE GUARDIAN The producers of the BBC's Blue Planet III say they deliberately left in cloudier, less polished footage so viewers can tell the animals were not generated by AI. Shots once dropped for plankton in the water or a stray boat in frame are now being kept, and the BBC's specialist factual commissioning head said no generative AI was used in the series, not a single frame.
  3. 3 Ollama adds text to speech, starting with Gradium's Phonon models OLLAMA BLOG Ollama can now turn text into speech, starting with Phonon, Gradium's family of small text-to-speech models covering five languages. The feature is macOS only for now, with Windows and Linux support to follow. Ollama says its MLX-accelerated build runs 35 percent faster than Gradium's own runtime on a MacBook Pro with an M5 Max.