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Introducing Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
Mistral releases Timestral, its first family of time-series foundation models in four sizes from 5M to 209M parameters. The largest ranks first on GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench, delivers probabilistic multivariate forecasts with past and known-future covariates, runs efficiently on CPU, and ships under a modified MIT licence.
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Felix Palmer announces A5 v1.0, the pentagonal Discrete Global Grid System that encodes any point, line or polygon on Earth as 64-bit cell IDs. The release freezes a permanent cell ID definition and adds compacted coverings with set operations, spatial hierarchy functions, equal-area cells and faster indexing across languages.
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Research@ 2026: 10 ways we're amplifying human ingenuity
Google Research VP Yossi Matias recaps 10 highlights from the Research@ 2026 event: Earth AI planetary intelligence and public health forecasting, a multi-agent orchestrator for reproducing science, the public launch of Deep Review, a new Edge AI wearables chip, TimesFM and TabFM, MedGemma with tool use, an AMIE study in The Lancet, Groundsource disaster data, learning interactives and Play with Putty.
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Jev: For the builders AND dreamers
TypeSafe AI releases Jev 1.14.0, an improved version of its decision model, alongside experimental opt-in danger zone features for builders who want to explore: composable image inputs, output types beyond decisions, and a longer context window, plus the company's own internal intelligence measurements against open-weight models.
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Awesome Gaming on Linux Without Cheating
Epic explains why Easy Anti-Cheat's Linux support lagged Windows and introduces EAC Linux v2, which uses existing platform features instead of a kernel driver: signed kernels and modules, TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, measured boot, IOMMU, kernel lockdown, disabled kexec and BPF LSM, with an FAQ on keys, distros and Steam Deck.
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Plasma 6.8 released (KDE’s 30th birthday)
KDE announces Plasma 6.8 for its 30th anniversary: foundation work for future Plasma, desktop improvements, Wayland polishing, and app updates across the stack.
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Announcing the Waylith Engine and Update 1.7
Ludeon Studios moves RimWorld from Unity to its in-house Waylith engine in update 1.7, reporting roughly 2–4× performance gains, save and mod compatibility with 1.6, an unstable Steam beta for testing, and a tease that RimWorld will not be the only Waylith game.
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Introducing Firefox Enterprise
Mozilla announces Firefox Enterprise, which pairs the Gecko-based Firefox browser with a customer-operated management console for organizations with strict security, governance and compliance needs, pitching it as a way to reduce dependence on a few technology providers and as a first step in a wider sovereignty push.
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GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence
Z.ai introduces GLM-Legal, a legal agent model built on GLM-5.3-Flash that scores a 19.2% all-pass rate on Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (12.5 points above its base model) and matches frontier models on LegalBench and PLawBench, and explains its mid-training, harness co-evolution and production feedback loops, with example legal workflows and a beta signup.
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Positron October Release Highlights
Positron is Posit’s new, next-generation IDE for data science. Positron is designed to be an extensible, polyglot tool for exploring data and reproducible authoring in Python, R, and more.
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LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for Fast On-Device Agents
Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, an open-weight 24B-parameter reasoning model with 2B active parameters aimed at fast, private on-device agents. The post covers changes since LFM2-24B-A2B, agentic and tool-use benchmarks against Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, inference speed on Apple and NVIDIA hardware, and how to get started.
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Frontier Models for Every Robot: Announcing our API beta
Physical Intelligence opens a beta of the Pi API, letting robotics developers upload data, fine-tune its latest robot foundation models on managed compute and run cloud-hosted inference on their own hardware, and shares results from early partners deploying it across different tasks, robots and industries.
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Indra OCR: a 1M-parameter OCR model that reads 49 pages per second on CPU
Datalab releases Indra OCR, an open OCR package built around a 1M-parameter recognition model that reads 49 pages per second on 32 CPU cores, 11-17x faster than Tesseract and PP-OCR, while returning full layout with line and block boxes, labels, reading order and clean markdown or JSON output.
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Announcing pg_vectorsearch: Scalable Open-Source Vector Search in PostgreSQL
Tiger Data launches pg_vectorsearch, an open-source PostgreSQL extension whose PRISM index uses partitioning and compression instead of HNSW graphs to deliver faster vector queries with far less memory and quicker index builds.
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Character.ai announces it has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale, explaining the board’s reasoning, that the platform stays up during the process but will be wound down if no actionable bid emerges, and how users can manage or export their data.
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10 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition of "Site Reliability Engineering"
Google announces a completely rewritten second edition of its Site Reliability Engineering book, ten years after the first: how SLOs, observability, automation, reliability testing, capacity management and SRE org models have matured, how SRE supports and uses AI, and why culture still matters.
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Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions for fast, consistent web app performance anywhere
AWS introduces Lambda Web Functions: run standard HTTP servers (Express, Hono, Fastify, Next.js and other Node frameworks) on Lambda without event-handler adapters, with multi-concurrent requests, active CPU billing, one-command multi-region deploy and latency-based routing alongside Event Functions and MicroVMs.
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LittleJS, the small dependency-free HTML5 game engine, gets its biggest update yet: a full 3D renderer that shares the canvas with 2D games, built-in 2D and 3D level editors, ready-made particle effects, a faster core, new tools for making games with AI, and a new demo site, alongside the third LittleJS Game Jam.
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Meta AI Research introduces the Muse Wonder series (Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full), frontier models aimed at personal and professional agentic tasks that combine Active Memory and Active Focus, available through the Meta Model API and Muse Code.
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Microsoft-Decision-1: Our model for fast decision-making
Microsoft introduces Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision-scoring model in Foundry built to return structured outputs software can act on immediately, and reports that it leads on latency and quality across structured decision tasks against LLMs and other decision models.
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