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I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Bogomil Shopov invites developers, researchers and activists to the Digital Dissident Devroom at FOSDEM 2027, a track on free software for censorship circumvention, secure communication and whistleblowing, and lays out its scope, the kinds of talks wanted and the call-for-participation dates.
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Zero-Shot to New Robots: Introducing Dream-1
Dream Labs comes out of stealth with $90M in seed funding and releases Dream-1, a World Action Model offered through a public API that controls bimanual parallel-gripper robots it was never trained on, zero-shot, from $3/hour, with fine-tuning-as-a-service for robots further from its training data and a candid look at its limits.
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Dessa: the conversation model trained only on speech
Block's small Dessa research lab introduces Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained from scratch only on human conversation audio, with no text or pretrained models, that listens and talks at once and picks up emotion, laughter and timing.
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Moonshot AI introduces Kimi K3.1 Pro, a post-trained 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context window and gains in coding, 3D creation and financial research, plus a 2-3x faster Highspeed variant; full weights are due by Nov 4.
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Resend announces Forge, its own Mail Transfer Agent built from scratch and sending from IP blocks it owns, with no code changes for customers, faster time-to-inbox and improved deliverability figures, activated per domain with a single CNAME record.
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We just gave a million dollars to Open Source maintainers
Sentry raised its Open Source budget from $750,000 to $1,000,000 this year. The post explains why, its Open Source Pledge, and how the money was split among maintainers and foundations, with the full list of recipients.
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Anthropic opens a waitlist research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent, starting with US Pro and Max subscribers; the post covers how it directs attention, its safety and discretion design, tester use cases and how it works.
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Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”
The DuckDB team announces DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS, its biggest feature release so far: a polished Quack protocol for DuckDB as a server, asynchronous I/O, a first-class VARIANT type, agent mode, triggers, an extensible PEG-based SQL parser, plus breaking changes and migration notes.
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Announcing the GPU notification group and Linker Working Area
The Rust compiler team announces a GPU-target notification group for vendor experts helping diagnose GPU backend issues, plus a Linker working area to integrate alternative linkers such as Wild and to field linker questions, with Zulip streams and signup via rust-lang/team.
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Introducing Clairic, a new System One class of extraction models
Cloudflare previews Clairic, a System One-style extraction model on Workers AI that extracts, computes, estimates and forecasts values from unstructured text and images with higher accuracy, lower latency and lower cost than general LLMs, with worked examples, how requests work, and plans to release open weights.
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Security Update – October 2026: Unauthorized Access to PingCAP Cloud Resources
PingCAP reports that between 9 September and 7 October 2026 an unauthorized party used stolen service account credentials to access internal systems, copy data, and obtain source code; the company describes containment, customer impact, and hardening steps.
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Diffusion at Scale: Introducing Mercury 3
Inception introduces Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM more than 40x larger than Mercury 1 that it says matches or beats speed-optimized frontier models while running at over 1,000 tokens per second, with a 1M-token context, low per-token pricing, and early production use in browser agents, tutoring, search and support.
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Redefining Agent Performance and Cost
MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, its next-generation Flash model and the model behind the anonymous Space Bunny, claiming big gains in agentic tasks, coding, computer use and cybersecurity with nearly 3x faster inference and 70% lower cost, available now via API, M Plan and MiniMax Code with weights to follow.
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In a guest post on Terence Tao's blog, mathematician Shaoming Guo says he and colleagues are preparing a new open-access math journal that prioritises understanding over priority, and invites the community to discuss what journals should reward, how papers are evaluated, and how new tools could reshape mathematical publishing.
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Reflection releases the weights of Beam, its first open-weight model, a 501B-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts with 23B active parameters, on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, with a model card and safety technical report. The post covers early developer demos, BF16/FP8/NVFP4 builds, the open-source Mirror CLI harness, fine-tuning and RL recipes, and more than 40 launch partners.
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Daniel Stenberg recounts how curl moved off the GPL in 1998, landed on a MIT/ISC-style license, and why the Open Source Initiative has now formally approved the curl license as its own listed open-source license.
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An update on independent evaluators
Anthropic describes giving employee-like access to a METR team for independent risk assessment, with publication rights subject only to narrow redactions, and outlines tiers of evaluator access while also working with SecureBio, Accenture and others.
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Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B-parameter open weights model for text-to-image generation, editing and multi-reference generation with up to 10 references, with native 4K output and bounding-box control. It ships base and step-distilled checkpoints plus FP8, INT8 and NVFP4 builds under the FLUX Kommunity License, and is available through the BFL API.
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Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort To Help Mathematicians Navigate AI Era
The Simons Foundation, Anthropic and OpenAI commit $15 million in combined funding and resources to help the mathematics community adapt to AI. The foundation will run an open call for workshops and initiatives on evaluating AI-assisted results, learning new tools and setting shared standards, while the two labs provide AI tools and compute to supported researchers.
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CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for science
CERN and Mistral AI have signed a statement of intent for a long-term partnership on foundation models for science, starting with a pretrained Large Physics Model for collider physics trained on billions of simulated LHC proton-proton collisions to support tasks from particle reconstruction to analysis.
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