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Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026 With Improved NPU Handling, Expanded LLM Support

Intel's open-source OpenVINO AI toolkit is out with its first major release of 2026. With today's OpenVINO 2026.0 release there is expanded large language model (LLM) support, improved Intel NPU support for Core Ultra systems, and a variety of other enhancements for benefiting Intel's CPU / NPU / GPU range of products for AI.

OpenVINO 2026.0 adds support for CPU and GPU execution of the GPT-OSS-20B,
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FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year

The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4'2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel driver support up to scratch.

The FreeBSD Foundation funded work in Q4 included Sylve as the new unified web management interface for FreeBSD servers. Plus audio stack improvements, improved OpenJDK Java support, wireless driver updates, suspend/resume improvements, and other enhancements to
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AOMedia Open Audio Codec "OAC" Aims To Be The Successor To Opus

While the Alliance For Open Media "AOMedia" is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the associated AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), and the next-generation AV2, they are now working on the Open Audio Codec (AOC).

I was tipped off this morning to the formation of the Open Audio Codec (OAC) becoming public this week. The Open Audio Codec is based off the Opus audio codec and intended to be its successor.

This commit this week took to establishing
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ChatGPT 成人模式代號曝光 程式碼出現「Citron」代號和 18+ 警告

開發者 Tibor Blaho 在 ChatGPT 網頁版程式碼中發現「Citron Mode Enabled」字串,揭示 OpenAI 正在內部測試成人模式。相關對話一旦分享系統會自動顯示敏感內容警告,收件人須確認年齡達 18 歲或以上方可查看,與 OpenAI 管理層早前公布的 2026 年 Q1 推出時


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Software connection: US firm opens doors for global adoption of China’s humanoid robots

OpenMind founder and CEO Jan Liphardt goes on a ride with a G1 humanoid from Unitree Robotics. Photo: Handout

US software company OpenMind, according to founder and CEO Jan Liphardt, caused a commotion last year at a park in San Francisco where the firm shot a promotional video.

“A crowd of people came, children came running, cars stopped and the police came,” he said, because “there was a robot in the park”.

In an interview, Liphardt told the South China Morning Post that such a scenario would have been treated differently


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ollama 0.17 Released With Improved OpenClaw Onboarding

The open-source ollama project that makes it easy to get up and running with a variety of LLMs under Windows, macOS, and Linux is out with a new release. The ollama v0.17.0 release is driven by new functionality around enhancing the OpenClaw onboarding process.

For those interested in OpenClaw, the AI agent that runs on your machine and allows interacting with a variety of files / apps services while being focused on interfacing with the user via messaging platforms, there is improved integration with ollama 0
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AMD AOMP 23.0-0 Compiler Continues Enhancing Fortran Support

AMD AOMP 23.0-0 was released overnight as the latest build of this LLVM/Clang downstream that continues to carry the very latest AMD patches focused on delivering the best support for GPU offloading to Radeon/Instinct hardware with the likes of the OpenMP and OpenACC APIs. AOMP continues to serve as a great leading-edge compiler for the best AMD GPU offloading experience until the patches ultimately work their way into upstream LLVM.

AOMP 23.0-0 is re-based against the very latest LLVM/
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Apple researchers develop on-device AI agent that interacts with apps for you

Despite having just 3 billion parameters, Ferret-UI Lite matches or surpasses the benchmark performance of models up to 24 times larger. Here are the details.

In December 2023, a team of 9 researchers published a study called “ ”. In it, they presented a multimodal large language model (MLLM) that was capable of understanding natural language references to specific parts of an image:

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This New AI Chipmaker, Taalas, Hard-Wires AI Models Into Silicon to Make Them Faster and Cheaper; Early Results Crush Modern Solutions

Well, it appears that the chip startup Taalas has found a solution to LLM response latency and performance by creating dedicated hardware that 'hardwires' AI models.

When you look at today's world of AI compute, latency is emerging as a massive constraint for modern-day compute providers, mainly because, in an agentic environment, the primary moat lies in token-per-second (TPS) figures and how quickly you can get a task done. One solution the industry sees is integrating SRAM into their offerings,


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OpenAI developing AI devices including smart speaker, The Information reports - Reuters

OpenAI developing AI devices including smart speaker, The Information reports Reuters
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