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AISep 22, 2026MIT Technology Review

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Gebru and Bender argue this summer’s AGI theater — hacks, math “breakthroughs,” resignation fireworks — collapses when domain experts get time to look.

AISep 21, 2026Hugging Face

Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants

Hugging Face transformers can now load GGUF quants with ggml Metal kernels — local laptop models without leaving the Python API you already know.