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Oct 16, 2026
Pipeline task: translation. Tags: llama.cpp, gguf, translation, index, base_model:IndexTeam/Index-Echo-S2ST-9B, base_model:quantized:IndexTeam/Index-Echo-S2ST-9B, license:apache-2.0, endpoints_compatible, region:us, conversational. Downloads: 815; likes: 0.
Source: Hugging Face
Oct 16, 2026
Oct 16, 2026
Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline
Source: Hugging Face Blog
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Oct 15, 2026
The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.
Source: TechCrunch (AI)
Oct 15, 2026
Comments
Source: Hacker News
Oct 15, 2026
Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint
Source: Hugging Face Blog
Oct 15, 2026
The incident is likely 1st confirmation of mercenary spyware delivered by targeted ads.
Source: Ars Technica (AI)
Oct 15, 2026
Oct 15, 2026
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
Source: TechCrunch (AI)
Oct 15, 2026
Oct 15, 2026
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.
Source: TechCrunch (AI)
Oct 15, 2026
Tool: Chirp Pong Another game experiment - I wanted to see if it was feasible to have a two player game on two separate phones running in static HTML where the networking code uses chirps sent via the microphone. Build a two player competitive pong like game where two players use their phones close to each other and the game state is sent via audio noises which the web microphone API can…
Source: Simon Willison
Oct 15, 2026
AI, agents, voice, and physical controls are shifting software development from operating tools to expressing intent—and helping developers stay focused on building. The post The next developer interface is ambient intelligence appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Source: GitHub Blog
Oct 15, 2026
Oct 15, 2026
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
Source: TechCrunch (AI)
Oct 15, 2026
Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.
Source: OpenAI Blog
Oct 15, 2026
Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.
Source: TechCrunch (AI)
Oct 15, 2026
Meta's Muse Spark Open is a new open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that processes text, images, video, and audio with up to one million tokens of context. It performs roughly on par with the most capable open-weight Chinese AI models on benchmarks and is optimized to run locally on Apple's M5 Ultra. The article Muse Spark Open is Meta's answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight…
Source: The Decoder
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