Vercel has released Scriptc, a TypeScript-to-Native compiler that produces executables without a JavaScript engine included.
Scriptc compiles TypeScript into small, fast native binaries by converting TypeScript into a typed intermediate representation (IR) and then into C, which is compiled using Clang. The process involves parsing and type-checking with TSC before lowering to IR. Each feature is validated with differential tests, requiring both test lanes to pass before merging.
Sam Tunick, a US citizen, faces charges after his GrapheneOS phone was wiped during an airport search, raising legal questions about the operating system's privacy features.
The incident occurred at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after Tunick returned from the Dominican Republic. Federal agents, suspecting him of terrorism activities, detained him for questioning.
New rules for context engineering have been established for Claude 5 generation models, significantly altering how these models are prompted.
Over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt was removed for advanced models like Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5, without any measurable loss in coding evaluations. Context engineering involves assembling context from various sources such as system prompts, Skills, and CLAUDE.md.
A 28.9 million parameter language model is running on an $8 ESP32-S3 microcontroller.
The model operates entirely on the chip, generating text at about 9 tokens per second and displaying it on a small screen. This achievement is possible because most of the model's parameters are stored in flash memory, using Google's Per-Layer Embeddings technique.
A recent exploration into optimizing Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY-backed data streams has demonstrated scalability, achieving 60,000 writes per second on a single Postgres server with millisecond-scale latency.
LISTEN/NOTIFY allows for efficient notification-based streaming, avoiding the resource-intensive polling method. The initial implementation faced throughput limitations due to a global lock during NOTIFY, capping performance at 2.
FLUX 3 x Mimic is a new video-action model developed in collaboration with Mimic Robotics and deployed at Audi.
FLUX 3 is a multimodal foundation model, trained jointly across images, video, and audio. Over 95% of the compute cost is dedicated to video prediction, requiring the model to learn motion, contact, and cause and effect to generate realistic videos.
Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 5, a new model that enhances the Opus tier for long-running agents and improves coding and professional work.
Claude Opus 5 is positioned as a cost-effective alternative to Claude Fable 5, offering comparable intelligence at half the price. It sets new benchmarks in coding and knowledge work evaluations such as Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA, although it trails Mythos 5 in cybersecurity tasks.
AI companies are reportedly concealing a massive amount of debt, as they invest billions in large data centers for complex AI models.
A recent investigation by Nikkei Asia reveals that five major US tech companies — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — have an estimated $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet debt. This figure surpasses the $1.35 trillion in debt they officially reported for the last quarter. Meta alone accounts for about $420 billion of this hidden debt, drawing parallels to Enron's notorious financial collapse in 2001.
Copilot now charges for usage based on the listed API rates.
This change prompts a comparison between accessing models directly and utilizing Copilot’s integrated coding workflow. The shift involves evaluating the coding processes, policies, and harness work surrounding Copilot. Andrea, a Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, highlights these aspects, bringing her extensive experience in developer tools to the discussion.
GigaToken supports a wide range of CPU hardware and is compatible with most commonly used tokenizers. It can be used with its own API for maximum performance or in compatibility mode with HuggingFace Tokenizers and Tiktoken.