If you have ever considered swapping out the API calls your coding harness is making for a local model it probably ended in disappointment. You ran a quick llama-bench and thought you were going to see X tokens/second. What that benchmark doesn’t tell you…

We’re launching the Gemini app for Windows, the new desktop app built to work alongside your favorite tools and daily applications.

Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.

Why Conviva replaced mmap with io_uring in its Rust query engine, what went wrong under real production load, and why the first rewrite ended up 60% slower.

Germany's renters have found the loophole to energy independence: a solar panel that plugs into the wall like a toaster, dodging landlords, permits, and the 55 percent of households locked out of rooftop solar.

Cherenkov radiation is a form of energy that we can perceive as a blue glow emitted when the electrically charged particles that compose atoms.

Neijuan,[a] sometimes known by the English term involution, is a Chinese term that describes a condition in which a system, institution, or competitive process continues to intensify in effort, complexity, or participation without a corresponding increase…

La Dyson CameraJet n'est plus commandable sur le site de la marque, et plusieurs distributeurs, dont Darty et Boulanger, ont reçu la consigne de l'écarter de leurs rayons et de rembourser les clients. Plusieurs témoignages font état d'une brosse à dents à…

GPT‑Live‑1 brings natural, full-duplex voice conversations to the API, with stronger instruction following, custom voices, and telephony support.

Contrived Standards Skirting.

Increasingly, people are ignoring social norms in favor of a narrow self-interest. The results are disastrous.

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We tested RTK (Rust Token Killer) with Claude Code on Fable 5.0, and OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Terminal-Bench 2.1.

How frictionless technologies teach us to prefer our own company – and why research leaders should worry.

Adam Mosseri says Instagram engagement can fall by half on a chronological feed and that satisfaction drops sharply, as Australia consults on forcing platforms to offer the option.

Our thoughts about the future of version control

The MacBook has been folding since 1991. foldelight finally gives the lid the folding-glass effect. Free, open source, macOS.

And remember Joshua Wong: political prisoner, democracy champion, braveheart.

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.