Democrats edge out, neck and neck with Republicans in 5 key Senate races: Polls The HillSenate Races in Republican States Tilt Toward Democrats, Polls Find The New York TimesWith a new breed of candidate, Democrats are challenging in states they usually lose CNNDemocratic surge predicted to hit R...
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'Anger in the streets': Tens of thousands protest in Spain over housing crisis BBCSpanish Lawmakers Reject Eviction Freeze, Spurring Calls for Early Elections The New York TimesSpain: Massive protests after housing bills voted down DW.comSpain’s housing crisis is a warning for all of Europe – rig...
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AWS's Strands Agents team released Strands Decider 2B, an Apache-2.0 decision model built on Qwen3.5-2B-Base. It returns choices, yes/no probabilities and scores with calibrated confidence in one forward pass, never text. It runs at a 115 ms median on an RTX 3090 and scores 0.723 on the JevBench ...
Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, its first real-time speech-to-text model. It ranks #1 of 38 models on Artificial Analysis AA-WER Streaming. It scores 2.5% WER at 0.13s on final transcripts and 2.5% at 0.12s on first partials. It covers 60 languages with continuous language d...
NVIDIA announced a new 64GB configuration of DGX Spark — from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI — its GB10-powered desktop AI system. It gives developers a way to start with one system for local models and agents, then cluster two 64GB units for 128GB of memory across the cluster and more co...
Prime Intellect has launched Prime Inference, an OpenAI-compatible platform for serving frontier open models on NVIDIA Blackwell. Its GLM-5.3 deployment uses Dynamo, vLLM and NVFP4 KV compression to serve 66 sessions per prefill group at 101 tok/s per user. The post Prime Intellect Launches Prime...
TL;DR: Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots and Uber’s driver assistant share one bet: the agent speaks first. That moves the hard problem from what to answer to when to interrupt, on which channel, and with what offer. Classic ML and new decision models can solve it. Three launches, one pattern From pull ...
Content-based row matching, 6 per-value verdicts and a null rule make OmniExtractBench an extraction benchmark anyone can audit. The post Datalab Introduces OmniExtractBench to Fix Bias and Opacity in Extraction Benchmarks appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Decision AI models answer typed questions with calibrated probabilities instead of generated text. TypeSafe's Jev costs $0.042 per million input tokens and returns responses in 70 to 500 milliseconds. We break down how it works and its benchmarks, then compare it with Fastino's GLiDE, GLiNER2.5-D...
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