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Article AI agents designed the chip that runs their inference
openTPU is an AI-written inference accelerator whose FPGA card reproduces its reference simulator's tokens bit for bit, checked by an executable spec.
Strands built a 2B model that never writes text
Strands Decider 2B is an open-source 2B decision model that scores choices in ~115ms, cheap enough to run guardrail checks before every agent tool call.
It walks through the handshake between your apps
Fireworks trained Ember-1 to cut Kimi K3's reasoning tokens by 35 to 50% without losing accuracy, aimed at agentic coding where reasoning is the cost.
Same task, different bets
A study of nearly 17,000 coding-agent sessions found agents converge on the same tool picks across personas and codebases, with full traces published.
YouTube built a checkbox, not a detector
YouTube now auto-labels undisclosed photorealistic AI, lets creators update disputed labels in Studio, and keeps some permanent for Veo and C2PA content.
The Last Honest Algorithm
A recommendation engine develops a conscience. Its creators wish it hadn't.
Maintenance Window
A sysadmin on the night shift finds something in the server logs that shouldn't be there.
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