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Researchers proposed converting ready-made language models to work with UTF-8 bytes. This takes less than 1% of a typical pretraining budget, and the quality of the byte versions is close…
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Nikon disqualified the winner of the Small World In Motion competition: the jury did not recognize the generative AI work in the video by Ning Xu. First place went to…
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Yandex's data center in Vladimir completely halted operations after a drone attack. Some of the company's services are unavailable, and there are no casualties.
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On October 11, 1950, the US Federal Communications Commission adopted the CBS system as the color television standard. It was mechanical, was not compatible with black-and-white receivers, and lasted until…
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On October 10, 2007, Radiohead posted their seventh album, In Rainbows, without an announcement and without a label, letting listeners set their own price. It was later released on XL…
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Ledger is investigating the loss of funds from wallets linked to devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis, amid reports of more than $86 million stolen. The amount and the link have…
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On October 8, 2026, Anthropic published a new version of its model usage policy; it takes effect on November 12. Among the edits: a separate prohibition on sustained and needless…
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The ministry is working out a requirement for a speed of at least 1 Gbit/s per household in apartment buildings, with operators given 10 years. The draft law is planned…
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Last night Microsoft showed new devices, including Copilot+ PCs on Nvidia RTX Spark, but people noticed something else: on a slide, the Surface line was apparently called “Surace.”
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According to preliminary IDC data, global PC shipments in the third quarter of 2026 fell 20.1% year over year, to 62.7 million units. The cause lies in stockpiling and supply…
Read the newsThe model for routing, classification, prioritization, and checking is available in Microsoft Foundry and through OpenRouter. By Microsoft's own measurements, it showed the best accuracy on 36 benchmarks and turned…
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On 10 October 1957, a reactor caught fire at the British Windscale site. The fire burned for three days, fallout spread across Europe, and the authorities concealed details. Later studies…
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