Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants
Hugging Face added GGUF support to transformers. Users can choose a quantised checkpoint from the Hub and pass gguf_file to from_pretrained for local generation without additional configuration.
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Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models
TypeSafe AI released Jev last week, calling it the first example of a new System One model category, though the author prefers decision model. It takes text and returns floating-point values and confidence for categories, yes/no questions and scores. Only input is billed, at $0.042 per million tokens for the first model. The author sees uses in spam detection, tagging and ranking, has tried search reranking, and notes weaknesses with numbers, dates and adversarial content.
Jev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI
TypeSafe AI founder and CEO Diogo Almeida introduced Jev on the Latent Space podcast, describing it as a System One large model designed for consumption by software.
NVIDIA Launches DSX Ready to Qualify Power and Cooling Products for AI Factories
NVIDIA launched DSX Ready certification to validate partner products against its DSX AI factory reference design, initially covering battery energy storage systems (BESS) and coolant distribution units (CDU).
Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer
NVIDIA explains that deploying physical AI at scale requires safety covering hardware, software, AI behaviour and operating environments, and introduces its full-stack safety system NVIDIA Halos.
From Enablement to Execution, Egypt’s AI Ecosystem Reaches Production Scale
NVIDIA held an AI ecosystem event at the Grand Egyptian Museum, with Egyptian Deep Learning Institute participation growing over tenfold in a year. Hassan Allam received a data centre licence from Egypt's National Telecom Regulatory Authority and is developing a new centre with A15 with expected investment of $400 million. NVIDIA says four African AI factories have been announced or launched, with another 656 MW under construction.
Sep 21
Improving synthesis prediction of small molecules at scale with RetroChimera
Microsoft published RetroChimera, a retrosynthesis prediction framework, in Nature and open-sourced its implementation and weights. It combines the Transformer model R-SMILES 2 with GNN-based NeuralLoc, using a learned ensemble to rerank predictions. Chemists preferred its single-step reaction predictions in blind testing.
AI Security Is an Engineering Problem — How to Solve It at Every Layer of the Agent Stack
NVIDIA argues AI security should be treated as an engineering problem, with explicit requirements, executable controls, named owners and evidence of effective protection. Its open-source NVIDIA OpenShell enforces policies outside agent reasoning and provides sandboxed execution. Cisco DefenseClaw adds governance, while JFrog integrates OpenShell to scan and validate agent skills.
Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics
A long RAND report recommends a US 'freedom of action' strategy amid uncertainty on the path to superintelligence, preserving options through AI safety investment, safety architecture, national security reform and public resilience. It outlines seven prototype strategies in coexistence, denial and acceleration categories, and five uncertainties: proximity of danger, coexistence feasibility, constraint feasibility, decisive strategic advantage and suppression feasibility.
How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego spent 15 months creating the first comprehensive map and analysis of deaths near US border surveillance towers, examining migrant deaths since 2015. They requested records from 17 Texas county sheriff's offices and obtained over 4,000 pages from 14 counties, used Anthropic's Claude API to extract coordinates where remains were found, then manually checked samples.
Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra
Higgsfield AI used GPT-6 Astra to launch new video features in a day, helping small businesses create video adverts and bringing creative tools to market faster.
4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”
MIT Technology Review found systemic defects in the virtual wall of AI surveillance towers at the US border, including equipment failures, algorithmic misses and agents not responding to alerts, contributing to over 1,050 deaths, with the true number underestimated.
Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI is working with an independent mathematics and AI advisory group to guide review and communication of emerging AI results in the field. Specific members and operational details have not been disclosed.
The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
MIT Technology Review cross-referenced nearly 4,000 remains-discovery locations with almost 600 border surveillance towers, finding more than 1,050 deaths within tower coverage from 2015 to early 2026, involving three generations of systems from Anduril, Elbit and General Dynamics.
5 Companies Using NVIDIA AI for Clean Energy
NVIDIA highlighted five AI clean-energy companies at New York Climate Week. ThinkLabs AI's NVIDIA CUDA-based digital twins and agents help Southern California Edison cut grid connection application assessments from 30–45 days to two minutes.
Building standards for the next phase of AI
OpenAI proposed a path for building global standards for AI's next phase, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting and governance to improve safety.
Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths
OpenAI Academy added learning pathways for employees, developers, managers, educators, students and others to develop and demonstrate practical AI skills.
tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured
Hugging Face released tokenizers v1, preserving token IDs, APIs, vocabularies and merge ranks from v0.23 while increasing speed by up to tens of times.
V7 cuts costs 78% while boosting accuracy with GPT-5.6 Luna
V7 reduced costs by 78% with GPT-5.6 Luna while improving accuracy. GPT-5.6 turns scattered company documents into agent-ready context for completing complex work with source links.
Quoting voxium
An engineer who joined a large company two weeks earlier says specifications, code, tests, PRDs, tickets and their handling, and reports are all generated by Claude Code. Nobody likes the approach, but they are told to deliver as much as possible. They repeatedly heard leadership say shipping code was not the bottleneck, while engineers from L1 to L7 worked 12–13 hours daily just pressing Enter, with nobody reading anything.
MCP was always a bad idea?
Simon Willison rejected the view that MCP is now a bad idea, arguing it retains irreplaceable value beyond terminal agents such as Claude Code and Codex with unrestricted internet access. MCP makes it easier to limit external service access, keep agents from directly handling API keys, provide connection and authentication interfaces and maintain strong audit logs. Dismissing it because fully capable coding agents do not need it overlooks other use cases.
llm-keys-ui 0.1
Simon Willison released llm-keys-ui 0.1 to configure API keys on remote machines. Running uvx --with llm-keys-ui llm keys-ui --all opens an interface to save keys over the local network or a Tailscale device IP, avoiding pasting secrets into ChatGPT or agent sessions.
Sep 20
datasette-explain 0.2.2
Simon Willison released datasette-explain 0.2.2, related to SQLite and Datasette. The original does not specify the changes.
Sep 19
[AINews] Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days
Latent Space's AINews roundup said Jev's launch video reached 36 million views within two days, with at least six reproductions or similar approaches: ModernBERT-based Laya, diffusion-based DiffusionGemmaJev, Qwen3.5-9B LoRA-tuned Bespoke Nimble, SemIf, Jevlike and Kev-0.5B.
MilleMiglia: A realistic instance generator for middle-mile logistics
Google Research released MilleMiglia, a C++ generator of realistic, privacy-preserving benchmark instances for middle-mile logistics delivery. Source and documentation are public on GitHub.
Sep 18
Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?
The latest GitHub Podcast examines five AI development memes. AI-generated code still needs reading and accountability, with review proportional to risk. Skills package team experience, while MCP standardises connections to tools and data; they can combine. RAG is not dead: it provides relevant information beyond training data and can coexist with agents, Skills and MCP in one workflow.
Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
OpenAI released an Australian teen safety blueprint with six pillars for safer AI experiences that protect and empower teenagers.
[AINews] not much happened today
Anthropic introduced Projects in Claude Code, allowing one conversation to spawn parallel cloud sessions, pass context between threads and keep running after users leave. Google updated the Antigravity-based harness for Gemini managed agents with Credentials API and Files API, claiming up to 30% lower costs and 22% higher cache-hit rates.
The future of practice: Enabling teachers to create learning interactives with generative UI
Google Research shared an experiment enabling teachers to dynamically generate interactive simulations for lesson objectives with generative UI (GenUI). It released over 30 English examples for secondary STEM across physics, chemistry, biology and maths, all AI-generated and teacher-reviewed.
Sep 17
Cute Critters Come to the Cloud: ‘Aniimo’ Launches on GeForce NOW
Pawprint Studio's open-world creature-catching RPG Aniimo launches day one on GeForce NOW, enabling streaming on Steam Deck and newly supported Firefox without waiting for a 45 GB download.
How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT
Cooley built GO Public on ChatGPT Work, bringing intelligence into IPO workflows to help lawyers spot potential issues earlier and focus judgement where it matters most.
[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
Latent Space's AINews rounds up 15–16 September developments, highlighting two reality checks for coding-agent optimism. Steve Yegge shut down Gas Town and admitted that despite spending thousands of dollars monthly on coding-agent subscriptions, Gas Town was the only project he had built with them.
Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
GitHub used the Copilot app and Copilot CLI to completely rewrite the Copilot agent runtime from TypeScript into over 800,000 lines of production Rust. AI agents wrote most of the code, delivered incrementally across 128 PRs, improving performance by several orders of magnitude.
Introducing Astra for Law
OpenAI released OpenAI for Law, providing frontier intelligence, firm-specific workflows, connected legal data and legal-grade controls for confidential client work. It includes Astra for Law.
Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC
AIUC announced a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital and First Harmonic, with customers including Cursor, Harvey, Lovable and ElevenLabs.
Our framework for reporting model misalignment
OpenAI released a framework for tracking, investigating and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behaviour.
Helping older adults use AI in everyday life
OpenAI and AARP will provide free hands-on ChatGPT workshops for 1,000 older adults in ten US cities, helping them safely develop practical AI skills.
Sep 16
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut
NVIDIA submitted preview results for Vera Rubin NVL72 to MLPerf Inference v6.1 for the first time, achieving throughput up to 3.7 times that of GB300 NVL72 on Qwen3-VL and up to 2.5 times on DeepSeek-R1.
Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers
Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA announced the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA) to encourage data centres to dynamically adjust electricity use to grid conditions.
Reimagining advertising with AI
OpenAI introduced new AI advertising experiences, including Sponsored Agents and tools for marketers, integrated with HubSpot and Shopify.