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Ceva and Mobilint: the REGULUS edge-AI SoC delivers 10 TOPS under 3 W for robots, drones and IoT
According to IoT Now, Ceva announced that Mobilint has deployed Ceva's SensPro AI DSP and NeuPro-Nano NPU in its REGULUS SoC — the first production deployment of the NeuPro NPU family. The company says REGULUS delivers 10 TOPS at under 3 W with up to 8…
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BrainChip launches an AKD1500 Raspberry Pi 5 kit for low-power, always-on AI
According to New Electronics, BrainChip introduced a development kit that pairs a Raspberry Pi 5 with the AKD1500 M.2 accelerator board. The AKD1500 uses an event-driven neuromorphic…
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Matter 1.6.1 reaches Home Assistant: Groupcast, two-way camera audio and the matter.js 0.18 engine
According to Matter Alpha, the Connectivity Standards Alliance released Matter 1.6.1 in September: Groupcast graduated from provisional status and doorbell chimes gained independent volume…
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LeanGuard: checking every tool call of an LLM agent against a policy written in Lean 4
The authors (Sankar, Ganguly, Singh and colleagues) propose LeanGuard, a runtime that checks every tool call an agent proposes against a policy written in Lean 4 before it reaches the…
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Strategist: a meta-agent that evolves inference strategies as code, with 39% lower inference cost
Lu, Xu, Hua and Liu introduce Strategist, a meta-agent that writes inference strategies as “blueprints” — executable code that other strategies can reuse — and…
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DeepMind: an AI agent compresses a drug-design iteration to about an hour
Google DeepMind introduced "Cheminformatics Skills" for Google Antigravity. On real lung-cancer drug data, the agent searches thousands of compounds, runs matched molecular pair analysis…
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Qualcomm validates first HBC silicon: 18x memory bandwidth over LPDDR
According to Futurum, Qualcomm has validated its High Bandwidth Compute (HBC) technology in the lab: a two-layer stacked-DRAM sample bonded to a compute die measured 18x the bandwidth of…
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Nordic nRF71: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, Thread and edge AI on one chip, up to 20x lower standby power
Nordic Semiconductor announced the nRF71 SoC series (nRF7120 with dual-band Wi-Fi 6, nRF7120E adding tri-band Wi-Fi 6E). The company says standby power is up to 20x lower than the current…
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KAIST: CluSTER cuts LLM fine-tuning time by up to 69.6% with nearly the same quality
Professor Jae-Gil Lee's team at KAIST proposes CluSTER, which groups and selects data with similar learning effect and spreads it evenly over multiple GPUs to reduce repeated learning. On…
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UCL: the "REM" AI model reconstructs entire particle collisions, efficiency 61% to 92% (in simulation)
UCL researchers built the Reconstruct Everything Model (REM), a unified machine-learning framework that reconstructs particles directly from measurements across all detector systems…
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Zyphra ZHA: hierarchical sparse attention with subquadratic complexity for long context
Zyphra introduced Hierarchical Attention (ZHA), which builds a hierarchical tree and searches it to select the relevant tokens for each query, reaching subquadratic complexity. Existing…
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MediaTek and Ericsson: first multi-vendor pre-6G over-the-air connection, >5 Gbps peak download potential
MediaTek and Ericsson announced the first multi-vendor pre-6G over-the-air connection using a 400 MHz channel bandwidth, carried out in September at the T-Mobile 6G Innovation Hub in…
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Motorola Signature 27 launches globally Nov 5: Tandem OLED up to 12,000 nits, 200MP telephoto
Per Android Authority, Motorola has officially confirmed some key specs: a 6.8-inch Tandem OLED display with a claimed 12,000 nits (the article puts the Galaxy S26 Ultra at about 2,600…
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Xiaomi confirms global launch of the 18 Pro series in November
According to Android Central, Xiaomi confirmed on social media that the Xiaomi 18 Pro series (launched in China in late September) will debut globally in November, with no exact date yet.…
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Mistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4: a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model
According to Bad Influence's AI Weekly, Mistral AI released the open weights of an improved Mistral Large 4 after three more weeks of reinforcement learning — a 1T-parameter…
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Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon: tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index V5, but access starts with cyber defenders
According to Tom's Hardware, Gemini 4 Carbon scores 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index V5, one point ahead of Claude Opus 5.5, and ranks first on four of nine evaluations at a…
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OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Terra: half the price of GPT-6.1 Sol, 1.05M-token context
Per the LLM Stats newsletter, GPT-6.1 Terra is a fast model for computer use, vision and writing, priced at $1 / $5 per million input / output tokens (50% below GPT-6.1 Sol) with a…
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