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This blog post focuses on new features and improvements. For a comprehensive list, including bug fixes, please see the release notes. LLM inference at scale typically involves deploying multiple replicas of the same model behind a load balancer. The standard approach treats these replicas as interchangeable and routes requests randomly or round-robin across them. But LLM inference isn’t stateless. Each replica builds up a KV cache of previously computed attention states. When a request lands on a replica without the relevant context already cached, the model has to recompute everything from scratch. This wastes GPU cycles and increases latency. The…

Dairy cows at the Puyallup Fair, now called the Washington State Fair. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Wastewater treatment startup Sedron Technologies — a Washington company that once served Bill Gates a glass of water purified from sewage — announced it’s being acquired by Ara Partners. The global equity firm is investing up to $500 million in Sedron to facilitate the deployment of its sewage and manure cleaning technologies, which gives it a controlling stake in the business. “The Ara investment is largely designed to provide us with the equity on our own balance sheet to scale up production of…

The era of truly good budget phones is over, and you can blame AI for that. Due to the rising chip costs, even flagship phones are feeling the pinch. And that’s why, when TCL finally brought the NXTPAPER 70 Pro to the US, it came as a big surprise to me. The phone costs just $199, nearly half the price you’d pay in other markets.  Yes, the phone is exclusive to T-Mobile, but at $199, the NXTPAPER 70 Pro felt something else. A 6.9-inch 120Hz display, IP68 water resistance, 5,200mAh battery, 50MP camera, and TCL’s NXTPAPER 4.0 display technology, which…

Meta AI has unveiled Muse Spark, the first AI model from its newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). This marks a significant overhaul of the company’s AI strategy. Designed as a foundation for personal superintelligence, Muse Spark is a natively multimodal reasoning model that combines tool use, visual chain-of-thought, and multi-agent orchestration. It aims to deliver advanced performance across perception, health, coding, and agentic tasks. Muse Spark emphasizes efficiency and scalability through improved pretraining techniques, reinforcement learning, and test-time reasoning. Pretraining enhancements allow the model to extract more capability per unit of compute, achieving performance comparable to previous larger models…

The Artemis II space mission is making history.Farthest humans have ever traveled in space? Check.First Black, woman, and Canadian astronauts to make it around the moon? Also check.First time a toilet has made this journey? Big, important check.Because while there are many significant questions about space — Is life out there? Could we settle Mars? How far does the universe stretch, really? — one question holds plenty of gravity: What happens when nature calls in space?This mission hopes to return with answers.After years of research, the Orion spacecraft used in the Artemis II mission has departed Earth with an actual…

Candace Owens spent years building a pro-MAGA audience by supporting President Donald Trump. Now, she’s calling for his removal from office.Over the past few months, right-wing media figures like Owens have broken with Trump on a number of issues, including the Epstein files and the administration’s intervention in Venezuela. But the fracturing among the MAGA media coalition appears to have reached the point of no return after the president’s threats to annihilate “a whole civilization” in Iran this week.“The 25th amendment needs to be invoked,” Owens wrote Tuesday on X. “He is a genocidal lunatic. Our Congress and military need…

A federal appeals court in Washington DC today rejected Anthropic PBC’s request for a stay in its lawsuit against the Department of Defense. A panel of three judges said the artificial intelligence company had failed to meet the strict requirements for an emergency stay in the case. Anthropic has sued the DOD in two separate lawsuits after the Pentagon designated the company as a supply chain risk. In a separate but related case last month, a judge in San Francisco granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the supply chain risk designation. “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion…

Dyson just announced its first-ever handheld fan, the HushJet Mini Cool. As the name suggests, it uses the company’s proprietary HushJet air projection system. This tech first showed up on an air purifier that .Dyson promises the fan can deliver focused airflow of up to 25m/s, which works out to 55mph. The brushless motor spins up to 65,000 RPM. This thing looks like a legitimate cooling system, despite its size. It also weighs just 7.5 ounces.It offers five speeds and a boost mode, which should be useful during that next heat wave. It charges via USB-C and ships with a…

Anthropic’s new AI found a 27-year-old bug in minutes, but they’re keeping it a secret. Is the future of cybersecurity just a private race for the elite? Anthropic just revealed a new AI model called Claude Mythos Preview, but you won’t be using it anytime soon. Instead of a public launch, the company formed a private club called Project Glasswing. This coalition involves heavyweights such as Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. They are currently using Mythos to find the holes in our digital world before someone else does. The data behind this move is jarring. Mythos found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities…

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? I thought the two shoe-and-also-bathtub-problem clues (1-Across and 1-Down) were pretty funny. Read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving…