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datasette-llm-accountant 0.1a4
Release: datasette-llm-accountant 0.1a4 Fixed bug tracking chains of responses. Refs datasette-llm#7 Tags: llm, datasette
datasette-llm 0.1a8
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a8 Fix for bug where llm_prompt_context() hook did not fully collect chains of responses. #7
A new era for AI Search
We shared the next step in our journey to bring together the best of a search engine with the best of AI.
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, attempting to summarize the last six months of developments in LLMs in five minutes. # Six...
Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD’s) Frequency Bias and How Adam Fixes It
Modern language models are trained on data with extremely uneven token distributions. A small number of words appear in almost every sentence, while many rare but meaningful tokens occur only occasionally. This creates a hidden optimization challenge: parameters associated with common tokens...
NVIDIA Introduces a 4-Bit Pretraining Methodology Using NVFP4, Validated on a 12B Hybrid Mamba-Transformer at 10T Token Horizon
NVIDIA introduces a 4-bit pretraining methodology built around the NVFP4 microscaling format — combining selective BF16 layers, 16×16 Random Hadamard Transforms on Wgrad inputs, 2D weight scaling, and stochastic rounding on gradients — validated on a 12B hybrid Mamba-Transformer trained on 10...
Fast-tracking genetic leads to reverse cellular aging
Biologists use Co-Scientist to find novel factors that successfully rejuvenate human cells.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at Dell Technologies World: “Demand Is Going Parabolic, Utterly Parabolic”
Agentic AI inference at one-tenth the cost per token with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72. Agent sandboxes run 50% faster on NVIDIA Vera than traditional CPUs — while enterprise data queries are up to 3x faster with the Vera CPU. And 5,000 enterprises like Lilly, Samsung, and Honeywell are running AI...
Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes
Amazon’s Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized AI content platform.
Inside Anduril and Meta’s quest to make smart glasses for warfare
The defense-tech company Anduril has shared new details about the augmented-reality headset for the military it’s prototyping with Meta, including a vision for ordering drone strikes via eye-tracking and voice commands. Quay Barnett, who leads the efforts as a vice president at Anduril following a...
Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman
After around two hours of deliberation, the jury has reached a unanimous verdict in Musk v. Altman, the tech trial of the year. The group found that two claims were barred by the statute of limitations, and a third failed thanks to the dismissal of one of these. The jury here is an advisory jury,...
Amazon Alexa Plus can now create AI-generated podcasts
Alexa Plus, Amazon's upgraded AI assistant, can now generate podcasts on "virtually any topic," according to an announcement on Monday. With the update, Amazon says you can give Alexa Plus a topic, and the AI assistant will offer an overview of what its AI hosts plan to talk about, allowing you to...
Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose
Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, in Los Angeles River, CA, USI'm heading home from PyCon US today so I went on a last morning walk to try and spot a pelican. I saw one! Didn't get a great photo of that, but I did see some goslings down by the swan boat lake.
Making it easier to understand how content was created and edited
We're expanding our tools to help you understand how content was created and edited across the web.
Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats
Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri.