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Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models

Mistral introduced Timestral, a family of four time‑series foundation models with 5 M, 28 M, 123 M and 209 M parameters. The 209 M‑parameter version achieves top‑rank performance on the public GIFT‑Eval, TIME and fev‑ben…

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Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

An Ask HN post asks for advice on how to handle shipping AI-generated code that developers do not fully understand. The discussion focuses on strategies for ensuring reliability and maintainability of such code before re…

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Any 3D Scene is Worth 1K Tokens: 3D-Grounded Representation for Scene Generation at Scale

The paper introduces a novel approach for 3D scene generation by leveraging high-dimensional implicit 3D latent spaces derived from 2D foundation models such as DINOv2, SigLIP2, and DA3, addressing limitations of traditi…

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RoboValue: A Fine-Grained Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Unified Evaluation of Robotic Value Models

RoboValue introduces a unified benchmark for evaluating robotic value models across four capability dimensions: task-state understanding, temporal progress monitoring, failure and recovery reasoning, and value consistenc…

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HarnessPro: Recursive Harness Self-Improvement with Pareto Optimization for Performance-Cost Trade-offs

HarnessPro introduces a label‑free recursive self‑improvement framework that evolves agent harnesses to boost task performance while lowering execution cost through Pareto‑based optimization. Candidate harnesses are asse…

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash released, Model weights Oct 23

MiniMax has released the M3.1 Flash version of its model, making the model weights publicly available as of October 23. The announcement was posted on the LocalLLaMA subreddit by user MagicZhang.

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AI labs report benchmark scores 6.4% higher than independent testers, on average

An analysis of 1,629 published benchmark results found that AI labs report scores averaging 6.4% higher than independent testers for the same models and tests. The study compared 611 results across 180 models and 103 ben…

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Qwen 35B does 154 tok/s on 2024 Macbook M4 Pro 48GB with Kapitsa: Open-source Apple Silicon optimized custom Metal engine built for Qwen. See benchmarks of Qwen 3.8 27B, Qwen3.6 35B, 3.8 Flash-Next on M1 Pro (16GB), M4 Pro (48GB) and M5 Max (128GB)

Kapitsa is an open‑source, Metal‑accelerated inference engine for Qwen models optimized for Apple Silicon. It achieves a throughput of 154 tokens per second running the Qwen 3.6 35B model on a 2024 MacBook M4 Pro with 48…

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Accused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says

A U.S. court denied bail for Abdulrahman Alfozan, a former OpenAI engineer accused of espionage after allegedly planting bugs in a top-secret conference room to steal proprietary AI research. Federal prosecutors argued t…

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AI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their work

Indie developers are increasingly reluctant to share early builds of their games after observing that AI‑assisted coding tools can rapidly reproduce gameplay concepts and visual styles. Alliance Arts postponed the public…

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CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership

CERN and Mistral have signed a statement of intent to form a long‑term strategic partnership aimed at creating foundation models for scientific discovery, beginning with high‑energy physics. The collaboration will produc…

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4 Layers of AI Agent Guardrails to Contain Agent Risk

The article proposes a four‑layered defense strategy for mitigating risks posed by autonomous AI agents. Layer 1 focuses on input guardrails: every piece of data entering the model is validated against schemas, length li…

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