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Jerry's Map: a 60-year imaginary city built by an algorithm of cards
What began in 1963 as a bored office worker's doodle has become a sprawling generative-art system. Jerry's Map is an imaginary city rendered across more than 4,
Krea 2: An open-weights 12B image model tuned for creative range, not safe defaults
Krea has released Krea 2, a 12-billion-parameter open-weights image generation model built around a contrarian premise: most production diffusion models have co
LeCun makes the political case for open-source AI as the only path to sovereignty
At the UN's Open Source Week, Yann LeCun—Meta's former chief AI scientist—argued that open-source models are the only viable route to AI sovereignty for most of
LSE extreme heat conference scrapped after UK issues red extreme-heat warning
An LSE Grantham Research Institute event on improving global governance around extreme heat has been cancelled because the UK Met Office issued a red extreme-he
Meta Halts Worker-Surveillance AI Program After Internal Data Exposure
Meta has suspended its Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI), a controversial program that captured employees' keystrokes, mouse movements, clicks, and screen co
MonoLisa v3 splits into Code and Text fonts, leans into the AI-assistant workflow
MonoLisa, a commercial typeface aimed at programmers and designers, has reached version 3 with a notable structural change: the family now splits into MonoLisa
Nub: a Rust-built toolkit that bolts Bun-style DX onto stock Node.js
Nub is a Rust-written command-line toolkit that aims to give Node.js developers the conveniences of Bun and Deno without swapping out the runtime. Rather than s
Open-Source Project Turns Raspberry Pi Pico W Into a USB Wi-Fi Dongle
A GitLab project repurposes the Raspberry Pi Pico W as a USB Wi-Fi adapter. Instead of running its own firmware in isolation, the board connects to a host compu
OpenAI's first custom silicon, 'Jalapeño,' targets inference costs and Nvidia reliance
OpenAI has revealed Jalapeño, its first in-house processor, co-designed and manufactured with Broadcom and aimed squarely at inference — the job of running alre
Quaise drills 100m into granite with millimeter-wave beam, no drill bit
Quaise Energy says it has bored 100 meters into hard granite at a Central Texas test site using a gyrotron-powered millimeter-wave beam that vaporizes rock inst
RubyLLM unifies a dozen AI providers behind one Ruby interface
RubyLLM is an open-source Ruby library that wraps the APIs of every major AI provider—OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, Bedrock, VertexAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, loca
Samsung's 3D Stacked FET wins VLSI Best Paper with triple-nanosheet channels at 42nm
Samsung's Semiconductor Research Center has built a working 3D Stacked FET at a 42nm gate pitch, stacking n-type and p-type transistors vertically instead of pl