The most built-upon model on the Hugging Face Hub isn’t Llama or Qwen. It’s FLUX.1-dev from Black Forest Labs, a German lab: 43k derivative models. Europe trained ~8% of the open-model compute on the Hub, but ~18% of what people build on top of it is European. Build or surrender? Build, and build open. See you at GTC Berlin this week

Every model has a distinct style. We found it. We used 64,000+ generated websites to calculate one "style" vector per model. @OpenAI: cream + italic serif @AnthropicAI: dark, glowing, purple @GoogleDeepMind: navy dashboards with sidebars @AIatMeta: loud magazine blocks On the left of each row, we overlay the 40 pages of that model that is most similar to the style we find.

Global smartphone purchases have collapsed. Worldwide smartphone shipments dropped -22.0% YoY in Q3 2026, to 255.3 million units, their largest quarterly decline on record. Samsung's shipments fell -5.8% YoY, to 57.8 million units, while Apple's declined -4.0% to 57.3 million units. At the same time, Xiaomi shipments fell -29.2% YoY to 30.7 million units, Oppo dropped -34.5%, to 25.6 million units, while Vivo fell -31.5%, to 19.1 million units. This comes as memory costs have surged +350% since last year, driven by AI-related demand, putting further pressure on smartphone manufacturers. As a result, soaring component costs are forcing vendors to raise prices and reduce budget-focused offerings, with consumers increasingly keeping their existing devices for longer. Global smartphone sales are contracting amid surging prices.

Strong disagree. Lattices have juicy mathematical structure, ripe for AI to attack. And the succinct versions based on module SIS are too new -- only around since 2012. I recommend waiting another 3-5 years for AI to kick the tires, before entrusting serious $ with it. DYOR; stay safe.

found a nasty bug with @AntithesisHQ. if a backup is happening during a leap second then the backup would be done/completed without doing a backup.

These are the Tesla Roadster’s deployable skirts, which work with four rear-mounted fans to generate enough suction to hold the vehicle upside down, even when completely stationary. It'll help with track performance too.

Okay, so it's just compressed air. Easier. But crappy specific impulse (less than 50 seconds). Even assuming that 50% of the mass of the car is the compressed air, that gives you less than 10s of useful thrust (with thrust-to-weight ratio larger than 1.0). Probably more like 5 seconds, actually. So the car must be an empty, lightweight shell containing big compressed air tanks. Cute demo, but totally impractical. But of course, you knew that.

🚨LATEST: Meta’s advertising business is closing in on Google Search, with quarterly revenue now just $4 BILLION behind. Meta generated roughly $59.4 BILLION in ad revenue in Q2 2026, up 27% year-over-year, versus $63.3 billion for Google Search & other. Meta delivered 14% MORE ad impressions while charging 12% more per ad, reaching an audience of 3.6 billion daily users across its apps. Its AI-driven advertising strategy aims to put relevant products in front of people before they even search, intensifying the battle for advertisers’ budgets.

🚨JUST IN: Anthropic’s Claude solves the NSA’s 26 year cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes. Claude found the NSA’s “random” seeds for cryptography curves like P-256 were generated from simple 1997 and 1998 timestamps. Nobody had explained them since NIST published the curves in 2000. The discovery claims a $36,864 bounty, which will be donated to the Internet Security Research Group. Anthropic says it is not a weakness in the curves, and it makes backdoor fears “much less plausible.”

Bank market cap exists b/c humans are lazy / busy. Agents never sleep.