Attention ISN'T all you need?! New Qwen3 variant Brumby-14B-Base leverages Power Retention technique

When the transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 in the now seminal Google paper "Attention Is All You Need," it became an instant cornerstone of modern artificial intelligence. Ever [...]

Cambridge Audio unveils three wireless bookshelf speakers at CES

Cambridge Audio has three new active speakers at CES 2026. The L/R Series is a trio of active bookshelf-style speakers, each with wired and wireless modes.The flagship L/R X is an 800W model (400W per [...]

Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome

Google is weeks away from permanently disabling every Manifest V2 browser extension in Chrome, a change that will kill uBlock Origin and fundamentally limit what content blockers can do inside the wor [...]

Cambridge Aerospace is in talks to raise $300M at a $3.5bn valuation, almost nine times its worth a year ago

Cambridge Aerospace, a British defence-technology startup building systems to shoot down drones and cruise missiles, is in talks to raise around $300M at a valuation of about $3.5bn, according to a Bl [...]

Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta bigwigs just agreed to a settlement in $8 billion suit

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with a group of current and former company directors and officers, just agreed to settle to end a trial that sought $8 billion in damages, according to a report by Reut [...]

Cambridge has unveiled three active bookshelf speakers at CES and it’s not hard to see the KEF resemblance

I’ll take a set in orange: Cambridge’s new active bookshelf speakers are so thoroughly un-Cambridge – in the best way [...]

MiniMax teases upcoming M3 model with new sparse attention mechanism and 15.6X long-context response speed boost

Among the many Chinese AI companies and laboratories vying for market share and attention (no pun intended) on the global marketplace, MiniMax stands out for its commitment to providing frontier-level [...]

Researchers extract up to 96% of Harry Potter word-for-word from leading AI models

Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, 1984: researchers pulled nearly complete books from commercial language models. Two of the four systems tested didn't even put up a fight. The findings could shape [...]

Google's new open model DiffusionGemma generates text from noise instead of word by word

Google released DiffusionGemma, a 26-billion-parameter model that generates text not token by token but through diffusion, similar to how image AI turns noise into a picture. According to Nvidia, it h [...]