tc · General
Cerebras stock plunges after earnings as CEO says margin outlook was misunderstood
In its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business, scaring investors.
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tc · General
AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient
While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers are actually making up a larger share of new hires, according to SignalFire data.
tc · Research
AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals
Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.
tc · General
Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks
The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.
hn · General
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Announcement: https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-... https://decrypt.co/371971/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-first-cus... https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/tech/openai-broadcom-jalap…
hn · LLMs
Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
tc · Tools
Facebook rolls out an AI companion app for creators
The new app, which is currently being tested with select creators, will have Facebook's recently launched AI creator assistant built into it.
tc · Robotics
Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal
Agility Robotics, the humanoid robotics startup that spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, expects to generate $620 million in proceeds.
hn · General
Big AI labs are hiring philosophers
https://archive.is/T1FJG
hf · General
Accelerating Transformers Fine-Tuning with NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel
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hf · General
Accelerating Transformers Fine-Tuning with NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel
hf · General
Introducing the FFASR Leaderboard: Benchmarking ASR in the Real World
hf · Agents
Build real agentic apps using CUGA: two dozen working examples on a lightweight harness
hf · General
Shipping huggingface_hub every week with AI, open tools, and a human in the loop
hf · Tools
Experimenting with the proposed Cross-Origin Storage API in Transformers.js
Research paper of the day
arxiv · Research
DiffusionBench: On Holistic Evaluation of Diffusion Transformers
Diffusion transformer (DiT) research on image generation has converged to a single evaluation setup: class-conditional generation on ImageNet. While methods improve the FID and related metrics, it is increasingly unclea…
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