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A case of a frontier open-weight model disclosing the rationale for its architecture choices ablation by ablation. In the authors' own reporting, loss and downstream accuracy do not always move together, and combining th

Advertising, outside subscriptions and the API, is formalized as a major revenue pillar of consumer AI. As the funding for expanding free tiers converges on the same structure as search advertising, the separation of ans

The first comprehensive US legislative attempt to address child safety in companion chatbots by statute — whether it is signed will decide the state-law standard

A case of a frontier lab proactively backing state-level youth-safety regulation. In contrast with its 2024 opposition to SB 1047, it shows a phase in which the industry, rather than rejecting regulation wholesale, accep

A strand that, instead of the ColPali lineage of reusing generative models as retrievers, returns to a single tower designed as an encoder from the start — a claim that "encoder-only" is valid again for multimodal retrie

A Saudi sovereign wealth fund affiliate puts forward an on-device AI PC as the endpoint of a sovereign AI stack — a phase in which local inference becomes an item of geopolitical procurement

The de facto standard recipe for context extension, unifying Position Interpolation and NTK-aware interpolation

The document that gave the field its name. It led to the workshop the following year, in 1956