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Powering AI is an architecture problem

On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…

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DeepSeek AI Released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with 1M Context, FP4 KV Cache, and Cross-Layer Attention Reuse

Long-horizon agents have turned LLM serving into an input-heavy workload. Repeated prefills and million-token contexts leave KV caches that strain HBM, SSD capacity, and bandwidth. DeepSeek AI built its newest release around that exact bottleneck. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 552B backbone parameters, 196B additional Engram parameters, and a 1M-token context window. It […]

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JD.com expands physical AI in logistics with 3 million robots

JD.com is expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network under a new Physical AI Acceleration Plan, while reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles, and 100,000 delivery drones. The company launched the plan at JDDiscovery 2026 in Beijing. JD Logistics also unveiled its industrial Wolf Robot series, designed […]

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Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work 

Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company’s models benefited from unpublished work, a second mathematician has come forward accusing the AI giant of unethical and “dishonest” behavior and a lack of transparency about the origins […]

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Why the current tech backlash feels different

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.  Nick Statt: Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer. And I’m joined by our brand-new supervising producer, Greg Ott. Greg Ott: Good day, everyone. And Hi, Nilay. Nilay is here too. He is […]

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Google Open-Sources Mantis: A Modular Skills Toolkit That Lets Coding Agents Find, Reproduce and Patch Vulnerabilities

Google has open-sourced Mantis, a stack-agnostic toolkit of security review skills for AI coding agents. It runs the full vulnerability lifecycle: sweep the code, filter false positives, reproduce the bug in a sandbox, patch it, re-attack the patch, then score the risk. Apache 2.0, and documented as demonstration-only.

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LandingAI Releases Agentic Document Extraction Gen2 with DPT-3 Pro and DPT-3 Verity

LandingAI has shipped Agentic Document Extraction Gen2, a rebuild of its document stack on the DPT-3 model family. Chunks are retired in favor of a document, page and block tree. DPT-3 Pro grounds to the line, DPT-3 Verity grounds to the word with a confidence score, and Parse billing now counts output characters instead of flat pages. Gen1 code will not run against Gen2 endpoints.

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Microsoft has new AI privacy rules for schools

Microsoft agreed to a set of safety and privacy principles for AI in schools a week after two major school systems announced a ban on student-facing AI. In a new agreement with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in the US, and its New York City affiliate the United Federation of […]

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