2026-08-19

On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.

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Overview UI-Mate-27B is an open-weight foundation GUI agent for long-horizon work across applications and operating systems. It observes live screenshots, reasons over the visible state, and produces structured keyboard and mouse actions for native desktop interaction. UI-Mate supports two complementary modes: General computer use: execute tasks from natural-language instructions and live screenshots. Demonstration-guided computer use: adapt a reusable workflow extracted from one successful demo

Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K.

Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index That's the same score as GPT-5.6 Luna (max), and just one point behind GLM-5.2 (max) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) - that GLM is 753B and that DeepSeek is 1.7T parameters , and Luna is size unknown but presumably a whole lot bigger than 27B. Qwen 3.8 27B is a truly astonishing model . Via Hacker News Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , qwen , ai-in-china , artificial-analysis

Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, its MIT-licensed open source agent. Bot Mode replaces the single-agent session list with a roster of named bots. Each bot is a real Hermes profile, with its own chat, memory, skills, and pinned model. It is now bundled and default-on in Hermes Desktop. The post Nous Research Ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, Turning Agent Profiles Into a Roster of Named Bots appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Two days ago I released a hyper-optimized Qwen3.8-27B inference engine for an RTX 3090 (82 tps single request, 672 peak) - yesterday's update took that to 99 tps single-user / ~1,000 tps at 64 concurrent. Since then I've focused on the single-request number, again without quality degradation. It's now ~114 tps at default sampling and ~124 tps greedy (real chat prompts, not random tokens), up from 90 / 98. What we had: - fp8 KV cache, lm_head + embed_tokens int8, fp16 recurrent state, int8 activa

As large language models become increasingly widespread, third-party providers that deploy open-weight models have become an important part of the ecosystem. Auditing the quality of their inference APIs is therefore an open problem. We formalize hosted model routing as a stochastic process and propose \textbf{Ventor-QTest}, a composite black-box audit that requires no probability information from the target API. Its repeated-request component sends each frozen constrained context to the target m

Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains why model routing helps control AI costs for organizations, and how human feedback loops at scale improve its routing systems.

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Qwen released the 2.4T Max weights and I was curious how well it can re-create COD in one prompt I ran the model on a rented B200 cluster and used roughly 1.1M output tokens over a 5 hour time span Realistically barely anyone can run this model locally, but the fact that it's open weights unlocks a lot of opportunities for the local AI community even regarding quantization options that might bring us closer to running frontier level intelligence on consumer-ish hardware For consumer hardware the

Cartesia has released Sonic-3.6, a streaming text-to-speech model built on state space models rather than transformers. It now ranks #1 on both Artificial Analysis speech leaderboards — 1,283 Elo on Provider Voice and 1,123 on Controlled Voice, the board that clones every model onto the same eight reference voices to isolate the synthesis engine. Cartesia states sub-90ms time-to-first-audio. The model is available in beta on Cartesia's own API The post Cartesia Ships Sonic-3.6: A Streaming TTS M

changed a db password in my .env, ran docker restart on the stack, then spent an hour convinced the db was corrupted because auth kept failing. turns out restart just brings the container back with the exact config it was created with. env is only read at creation. docker compose up -d --force-recreate fixed it in ten seconds. two years running this stack and never got bitten by it until now. what's the dumbest thing that ate an evening for you?

AI has long assisted scientific research, but the rapid advance of LLMs and agentic scaffolds is reshaping the landscape; a single system can now carry whole-stage research from an initial hypothesis all the way to final published paper, which is a paradigm now referred to as AutoResearch. Existing evaluations reveal little about how these agents operate or where they break down. Tasks are narrowly-scoped, evaluation measures performance but not process, and failure diagnoses lack systematic cov

arXiv:2608.14550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI efficiency has recently taken the spotlight in both academy and industry due to massive model scales, high energy demands, and environmental costs. While reporting Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) is a traditional approach for assessing computational costs, the relationship between FLOPs and execution time is not straightforward, as layers with the same number of FLOPs may not have the same execution time because some operations are more easily

The rapid evolution of text-to-image (T2I) generation models has effectively solved the foundational challenge of raw pixel synthesis, shifting the community's focus toward fulfilling increasingly intricate user requests. While recent agentic image generation workflows enhance static inference with advanced capabilities like external knowledge retrieval and iterative reasoning, they mostly operate in isolated silos with fixed ``one-size-fits-all" topologies. This inevitably leads to severe compu

Frontier agentic systems powered by large language models (LLMs) exhibit human-like patterns of cognition. As these systems become deeply integrated across different domains, their cognitive engagement raises critical concerns for human society that remain insufficiently studied. To address this gap, we systematically analyze risks induced by expanding cognitive capabilities, following a three-level framework defined by their cognitive scope, from physical cognition to social cognition, and fina

No GPUs, no Agents, just really, really, really good infra and distribution.

LLM agents in the ReAct paradigm alternate between reasoning, acting, and observing, but deliberate reasoning is confined to the Thought phase: while the agent serializes an action and waits for the environment, its reasoning is frozen. We identify this recurring interval for Action and Observation as a reasoning idle window and ask whether it can host additional reasoning in parallel that serves future turns. Therefore, we propose Second Thought, a training-free inference framework that forks f

In cognitive science, resource rationality asks how an agent should allocate limited computation to maximize expected value. Most reasoning and agent benchmarks use independent per-task budgets; existing shared-budget studies do not calibrate suite performance against the same model's demonstrated single-problem competence. We introduce R^3-Bench, which evaluates six-problem suites under shared budgets across mathematics, competitive programming, and abstract reasoning in tool-free and agentic s

The current best bounds on the matrix multiplication exponent ω are obtained through a refinement of the laser method called combination loss analysis (Duan et al., 2022; Williams et al., 2024; Alman et al., 2025). In this note, we address the optimization problem at the core of this approach and propose several improvements. First, we reformulate the optimization problem allowing us to solve it in a larger setting than was previously possible. Second, we leverage recent advances in machine lear

Develop a complete document intelligence pipeline with docTR, integrating OCR, layout analysis, and KIE for production-oriented extraction and searchable PDF creation. The post Developing an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with docTR for OCR, Layout Analysis, KIE, Benchmarking, and Searchable PDFs appeared first on MarkTechPost .

We present MOSS-VL, an open vision-language model family that treats real-time interaction -- perceiving while it speaks -- as a first-class capability. It is co-designed across the stack: the language decoder attends to vision only through gated cross-attention, so the model can naturally see incoming frames while generating; a synthesized interaction corpus supervises when to speak, when to stay silent, and when to revise; and a staged curriculum concentrates all real-time-specific training in

OpenAI launches an initiative to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security, supporting government institutions with tools, training, and expertise.

Passwords are less secure than passkeys, even if you use a password manager. Here's why and how to get started with passkeys.

Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.

Give AI a complete history of your desktop activity

This first release of Prior Labs in relational learning shows our continued commitment to open science. We open-source three pieces of software that we expect to accelerate research in the field towards meaningful real-world impact. We aim to steer further development based on feedback from, and in collaboration with, the community. Given the early stage of development, our α-release targets researchers and early-adopting practitioners. Over the past years, a variety of datasets and tasks for re

arXiv:2608.14559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective communication in multi-agent reinforcement learning requires agents to decide not only \textit{what} to communicate, but when? Existing approaches either communicate at every timestep or learn a binary gate through REINFORCE policy gradients \cite{singh2019}, a high-variance signal that produces unstable and uninterpretable gating behavior. I propose a principled alternative: agents communicate only when the KL divergence between their le

I know why Qwen3.8 27B shipped with xhigh reasoning as default, it's to do its best in benchmarks. Models from top labs often get benchmarked at multiple reasoning levels, but that same treatment doesn't apply to other labs. Open models are lucky to even be benchmarked at all. (See Laguna S 2.1) So it makes total sense that Qwen team decided to ship with a default that show the model at its maximum capabilities, assuming Artificial Analysis would benchmark at the default. And before anyone accus

arXiv:2608.14579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Logic synthesis optimization poses significant challenges due to exponentially growing search spaces, sparse reward signals, and diverse logic structures. Traditional expert-designed flows lack adaptability, while reinforcement learning (RL) methods often suffer from low sample efficiency and limited interpretability. We introduce SKILL, a Self-correcting Knowledge-guided Iterative Large Language Model Agent that unifies multi-agent LLM reasoning a

Enabling agents to learn from experience and internalize it into their policy has become a central problem in self-evolving AI. On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) offers an effective pathway by using a privileged self-teacher to provide dense supervision on the student's own trajectories; however, existing methods still rely heavily on designer-specified privileged artifacts (e.g., answers, feedback, skills, or trajectories), limiting the end-to-end learnability and scalability required for cont

Not even sure if I'm joking, my thinking history is about 50% "wait".

It's a small experiment of mine to check thinking effort on Qwen and I do have to say xhigh does overthink but I'm not sure if it's bad because the result is rather amazing. Although the prompt was very open-ended so it took liberties. TL:DR at the bottom. Images in order: Qwen 3.8 27b xhigh, Qwen 3.8 27b medium, DS V4 Flash default thinking, ChatGPT Free with Thinking, Claude Opus 5 Medium, Qwem 3.8 27b medium adjusted prompt Qwen 27b is UD_Q4_XL and DS4 Flash is Q2_XXL Prompt: Write a simple h

Video understanding is a fundamental task for evaluating the capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing leading models have already achieved approximately 90% accuracy on the Video-MME leaderboard, suggesting that conventional single-turn video understanding tasks are becoming increasingly saturated and insufficient for assessing the intelligence of advanced MLLMs. Towards this end, we introduce VideoGAIA, an agentic video understanding benchmark for general arti

Create and manage ElevenLabs voice agents in your chat Discussion | Link

A new feature added to Comcast's newest routers can detect if there is motion inside your home without needing traditional motion sensors.

This is the latest large-scale DDoS attack to hit the social networking site this year.

Apple is once again overhauling App Store rules in the European Union, which the company says will resolve its "disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution." As part of the changes, every developer that distributes apps will be moved to a single set of business terms, and digital transactions for apps distributed […]

ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.

Apple is simplifying its EU App Store fees, replacing its per-install fee with a 5% commission for apps distributed outside the App Store and making it easier for developers to operate alternative app marketplaces.

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A few days ago I had the slightly ridiculous idea of building a mobile homelab inside my everyday backpack. Today I started looking through some old hardware I had lying around and realized: I can actually build this. And I barely need to buy anything. 😂 The main machine is an old ASUS TUF Gaming F15 that I bought from a friend for €300 and barely used: Intel Core i5-10300H 64 GB RAM GTX 1650 2.5 TB SSD storage across three physical drives Built-in battery = basically a tiny UPS Pop!_OS + Window

This paper investigates an increasingly important topic in generative modeling: pixel-space diffusion models. Although numerous studies have explored this topic, most focus on small-scale or class-conditional settings. Consequently, a practical recipe for training pixel-space models that rival or exceed well-established latent-space counterparts remains elusive. Through a comprehensive empirical study, we first observe that direct large-scale pre-training in pixel space converges substantially m

arXiv:2608.14552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evaluated and used in medicine, but clinical usefulness depends on answer accuracy and whether confidence tracks evidence quality and uncertainty. We developed a controlled, psychophysics-inspired clinical benchmark to test diagnostic choice and confidence behavior in a medical LLM. The benchmark focused on probable Alzheimer-type neurocognitive disorder (AT-NCD) versus depression-related cognitive impa

Build deterministic agents that actually follow your process Discussion | Link

arXiv:2608.14565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI safety research has mainly focused on two areas: technical alignment (ensuring AI systems produce human-aligned outputs) and the regulation of generative AI's societal impacts (including unemployment risk and labor market disruption). However, an equally important dimension remains underexplored: the risk inherent in dependence on AI systems themselves. In this position paper, we argue that AI safety research should address AI Lock-In, the pheno

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Fine-grained robotic evaluation matters for understanding embodied models, going beyond binary success rates and rule-based process scores. We present PRM-as-a-Judge 1.5, a toolkit for robot process assessment that turns rollout videos into dense progress curves and derives multiple fine metrics. PRM-as-a-Judge 1.5 introduces three metrics, building on version 1.0, that characterize failure-side progress, post-drawdown recovery, and success-side execution quality, helping users understand embodi

Despite recent advances in unified multimodal models for multi-reference image generation, existing benchmarks remain organized around predefined task types (e.g., "subject composition"), which are ill-suited to this combinatorial setting and lead to fragmented coverage, uncontrolled complexity, and little diagnostic value. Recognizing that diverse multi-reference tasks share a common set of atomic operations, we adopt a capability-oriented perspective and formalize four operators: Anchor (f), D

MiniMax released MiniMax-Music3, an open-weights text-to-music model. Given lyrics with section tags and a structured caption, it generates a complete song of up to five minutes in a single pass, as 32 kHz, 16-bit stereo WAV. Here is the architecture, the three serving paths, and the license conditions that matter before you ship. The post MiniMax Releases MiniMax-Music3: An Open-Weights Music Model Generating Complete Five-Minute Songs From Lyrics and a Structured Caption appeared first on Mark