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Unsloth vs Axolotl vs TRL vs LLaMA-Factory: A Fine-Tuning Framework Comparison on Speed, VRAM, and Multi-GPU

Four open source projects dominate LLM fine-tuning today. Unsloth, Axolotl, TRL, and LLaMA-Factory all wrap the same underlying PyTorch and Hugging Face stack. They diverge on where they spend engineering effort. Unsloth rewrites kernels. Axolotl composes parallelism strategies. TRL defines the trainer APIs the others build on. LLaMA-Factory optimizes for breadth of model coverage and […]

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Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one

Substack will now help users determine whether what they’re reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI assistance, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. The […]

OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model” discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, […]

Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that’s loosely based on Peter Watts’ 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp’s new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But […]

AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app

Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok to become all-purpose entertainment destinations instead.

Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents

Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination

At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imaginations.

The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter

Anthropic and OpenAI’s aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.

Axing UK science department risks slower policymaking, say tech leaders

Industry figures welcome Kanishka Narayan’s promotion as AI minister but warn shake-up could push sector down agenda

Meta’s unwinding of Manus shows even forced deals have merits

Disposal of Chinese agentic AI start-up has left the Facebook owner better off than it might seem

What U.S. and UK workforce chiefs want HR to know about AI and hiring

U.S. Department of Labor’s Taylor Stockton and UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan say data shows heavy AI adopters have grown headcount 10%.

The post What U.S. and UK workforce chiefs want HR to know about AI and hiring appeared first on HR Executive.

Google employees demand severance guarantees as tech layoffs near 157,000

A petition asks Google for guaranteed severance, buyouts before mandatory cuts and an end to forced rating distributions.

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The AI Slot Machine Effect: Why Generative Feeds Disrupt Deep Work And How to Reclaim Focus

You open a generative AI tool expecting a quick boost. Ten minutes later, you’re still there, refining a prompt for the fourth time. The task you started with has drifted off to the side somewhere. Sound familiar? Knowledge workers in 2026 are running into this more and more. It makes sense once you look at […]

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Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash targets enterprise agent token costs

Google has released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite as new workhorses designed to cut latency and token costs for enterprise AI agents. The economics of running autonomous software agents inside a production environment come down to a fixed equation few vendors advertise directly. A model needs to reason through a multi-step task competently, but […]

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Validating Distributed LLM Serving Benchmarks with NVIDIA srt-slurm, SLURM Recipes, Parameter Sweeps, and Pareto Analysis

In this tutorial, we explore NVIDIA’s srt-slurm framework and learn how we use srtctl to convert declarative YAML configurations into reproducible SLURM benchmark workflows for distributed LLM serving. We set up the project in Google Colab, inspect its internal architecture, define a cluster configuration, dry-run built-in and custom recipes, and model a disaggregated prefill-and-decode deployment […]

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Google Releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber: A Cheaper, More Token-Efficient Flash Tier Built for Agentic Workloads

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, 2026. The Flash tier gets cheaper and more token-efficient, with 3.6 Flash cutting output tokens 17% and dropping its output price to $7.50 per 1M. Flash-Lite runs at 350 tokens/sec, while gated Flash Cyber powers CodeMender for vulnerability finding. The flagship 3.5 Pro remains delayed.

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David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC

David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing global leadership in finance, technology, and governance.

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program

OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.

Halliday’s New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera

Halliday’s G2 glasses can listen to and summarize your workplace meetings—with no video involved.

Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers

Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure.

A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots

A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to destroy files and keep out real users.

This Former Intel CEO Wants to Jumpstart Moore’s Law With Light

Pat Gelsinger wants to pave the way to ever more powerful artificial intelligence using tiny beams of light.

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.

America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI

Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The response was swift and predictable. Markets wobbled, commentators declared Silicon Valley shooketh, and policymakers reached for the familiar language of arms races and wake-up calls. In one headline, The Associated Press said a […]

Halliday’s latest smart glasses feature a much-improved display

I first slipped on Halliday’s original smart glasses at CES 2025. I was not a fan. The glasses had a tiny, movable display window embedded into the frame that was incredibly finicky to see, and my 30-minute demo left me with achy eyeballs. It was an interesting concept with terrible execution, especially compared to the […]

Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos

Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a “cost-efficient and highly capable alternative” to larger, more expensive AI systems, such as the one offered by Anthropic’s Mythos. The cybersecurity model […]

Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge

A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement will provide “meaningful relief,” offering authors around $3,000 for each book […]

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