Open source, open science, and cryptography

Looking at the open-source approach, discussing pros & cons and initiatives in the space. [...]

With Lumo, Proton thinks it can carve a place at the AI table

Proton released Lumo — its privacy-focused chatbot built on open-source models — in mid-July, and, following an update in August that addressed some early issues, I find myself using it more ofte [...]

Ai2's new Olmo 3.1 extends reinforcement learning training for stronger reasoning benchmarks

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept iterating on the models, expanding its reinforcement learning (RL) [...]

Google releases FunctionGemma: a tiny edge model that can control mobile devices with natural language

While Gemini 3 is still making waves, Google's not taking the foot off the gas in terms of releasing new models.Yesterday, the company released FunctionGemma, a specialized 270-million parameter [...]

Google PM open-sources Always On Memory Agent, ditching vector databases for LLM-driven persistent memory

Google senior AI product manager Shubham Saboo has turned one of the thorniest problems in agent design into an open-source engineering exercise: persistent memory.This week, he published an open-sour [...]

Miami startup Subquadratic claims 1,000x AI efficiency gain with SubQ model; researchers demand independent proof.

A little-known Miami-based startup called Subquadratic emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a sweeping claim: that it has built the first large language model to fully escape the mathematical constrai [...]

ACRouter picks the smartest AI model per task, beating Opus-only setups by 2.6x on cost

Model routing is becoming a key component of the enterprise AI stack, dynamically sending prompts to the right AI model to optimize speed and costs. However, current frameworks mostly treat routing as [...]

The OnePlus Open 2 isn't happening this year

The OnePlus Open was a surprisingly good device, especially considering that it was the company's first attempt at making a foldable phone. Unfortunately, in a community note published today, One [...]

How to trace a picture's origin with reverse image search

Reverse image searching is a quick and easy way to trace the origin of an image, identify objects or landmarks, find higher-resolution alternatives or check if a photo has been altered or used elsewhe [...]