Sakana AI Proposes DiffusionBlocks: a Block-wise Training Framework That Converts Residual Networks into Independently Trainable Denoising Modules

Researchers from Sakana AI and the University of Tokyo propose DiffusionBlocks. It trains transformer-based networks one…

NVIDIA Releases Polar, a Token-Faithful Rollout Framework for GRPO Training Across Codex, Claude Code, and Qwen Code

Reinforcement learning for language agents is growing more complex. Agents now manage multi-turn tool use, long-running…

Justice Department contractor sentenced after gambling away government phone fraud proceeds

A former Department of Justice contractor who admitted stealing and reselling thousands of government-issued cell phones…

DraftKings pushes deeper into federally regulated sports prediction markets through Railbird

DraftKings is moving further into federally supervised prediction markets after Railbird Exchange submitted its first group…

Trump declares prediction markets patriotic while state regulators wonder if they’re gambling

Trump just posted what may be the most aggressively pro-prediction-market presidential rant in modern American history…

Connecticut tribes seek to join federal lawsuit over controversial sports prediction markets

Connecticut’s two federally recognized tribes are asking a federal judge to let them join the government’s…

Meet EAGLE 3.1: The Speculative Decoding Algorithm That Fixes Attention Drift in LLM Inference

Speculative decoding is a technique for speeding up large language model inference. A small, fast draft…

MEMO: A Modular Framework for Training a Dedicated Memory Model on New Knowledge Without Modifying LLM Parameters

Large language models become static after pretraining. Their knowledge does not update as the world changes.…

Design a High-Precision Retrieve-and-Rerank Pipeline with ZeroEntropy Zerank-2 Reranker

In this tutorial, we use zeroentropy/zerank-2-reranker, a 4B Qwen3-based cross-encoder reranker, to improve retrieval quality. We…

Stability AI Releases Stable Audio 3: A Family of Fast Latent Diffusion Models for Audio Generation and Editing

Stability AI has released open weights for Stable Audio 3 along with a technical research paper.…

Inspectors uncovered widespread sports gambling materials displayed throughout Pennsylvania federal penitentiary

Federal inspectors say sports gambling materials were sitting out in the open across several housing units…

Ontario regulated gambling market now captures overwhelming majority of online players

More Ontarians are sticking with legal online gambling websites, according to a new Ipsos survey commissioned…