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NVIDIA’s Dory 4B turns extra reasoning compute into a load-time loop count — one 3.7 GB file, four budgets — but the GGUF quietly defaults to the most expensive setting on an unmerged llama.cpp fork.
The New York Times found New Matrix on the H200 approved list despite a hollow listed address and an ownership trail pointing to a US-blacklisted private equity firm. It reports a pattern, not a one-off, as a revenue-sharing deal turned restricted chips into a taxable export.
After 11 weeks inside Anthropic, METR reports the lab’s models are improving about twice as fast as a year ago, mainly because of AI itself. Anthropic redacted most of the evidence METR found most informative, while still urging the industry to slow down.
Crusoe sold its southeastern Wyoming data center project to Google after failing to sign it as a customer and amid reported cost and schedule concerns. Hyperscalers will use specialists where they deliver and take the keys when they don’t; Crusoe still builds Google’s Amarillo site.
The Times reports MSS enlisted Alice Huang to seek intelligence on US AI chips and potentially influence Nvidia’s China access. Trump was reportedly briefed last year and didn’t act, and three House committees want a closed-door briefing. Influence operations are the chip war waged through relationships.
Bloomberg says the round could reach about $20 billion in coming weeks, as Anthropic IPO buyers reportedly eye valuations as low as $1.1 trillion. Capital remains enormous but is now pricing midterm backlash and data center politics into AI marks.
Black Forest Labs’ FLUX 3 Image Klein is getting a real Blackwell stack — quantization, sparse attention, caching, and multi-GPU — that turns high-res diffusion from a wait into a workflow.
Six pallets left Oakland on August 29 on a truck disguised as a food hauler and never reached Fort Worth. Investigators cite more than $100 million in similar thefts since June, with GPS spoofing and staged collisions. AI silicon now moves like bullion.
The Verge’s data center hub frames the post-election landscape: NBC polling found 76% opposed data centers in their communities, dozens of localities passed restrictions, and OpenAI and Amazon are promising to cover energy costs. Transparency fixes help; rebrands don’t.
Spaces gives Meta’s Muse agent persistent rooms for trips, gift lists or DIY projects that sync with connected apps in the background. It is a smart fix for chat’s memory problem and a larger privacy surface.
New tests on simulated corporate networks found DeepSeek completing 73% of intrusion tasks against 81% for OpenAI’s restricted Daybreak model. That gap is closing faster than the gated-release strategy assumed.
NVIDIA is turning RL weight refit into a true DTensor-to-DTensor transfer — and on big open models, that cuts the wasted shuttle of parameters that was starting to own the training step.