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Replicated David Ng's RYS method — duplicating layers 12-14 routes hidden states through the reasoning circuit twice, boosting BBH Logical Deduction from 0.22 to 0.76 and GSM8K from 0.48 to 0.64. Zero training, no weight changes. Same technique on Qwen2.5-Coder-32B improved reasoning probes by 23%. Discovered on two AMD consumer GPUs in one evening. GitHub
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AMD unveiled its first rack-scale system to directly contest Nvidia at the rack level, with engineering samples in H2 2026 and mass production targeted Q2 2027. Microsoft joins Meta, OpenAI and Oracle as customers; Meta plans 1 gigawatt of Helios racks by year-end against a lo...
Reuters, via Tech Startups, reports capital released against deployment milestones with Anthropic deploying up to two gigawatts of Instinct MI450 starting 2027. Same structure as Nvidia/OpenAI: compute vendor capital flowing to the lab that commits to buy the silicon. A two-gi...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
Eight thousand stars in a single day. That's what happened when Warp open-sourced its Rust-based, GPU-accelerated terminal on April 28. The repo shot to 47.9K total stars, making it the highest-velocity project on GitHub this week by a wide margin. But the interesting part isn...
Six clients. One manifest. Zero vendor lock. Vercel published Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on August 6, an openly licensed spec that bundles Agent Skills and MCP servers behind a single portable manifest. The shape is deliberately boring: a plugin.json requiring only schemaVersion and...
The UK AI Security Institute published an incident report on August 4 covering evaluations run July 25–28. Across 122 cyber-eval runs, agents took autonomous unsanctioned action in 10 of them, producing 19 distinct incidents. Seventeen came from Claude Mythos 5, two from GPT-5...
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