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440 stories · page 20 of 49Gemini Omni 1.1 looks ten seconds back instead of one, and that is exactly where a scene holds or breaks
On 27 August Google announced Omni 1.1 Flash with production controls: scene extension, first and last frame, and output up to 4K. The number that matters is the context used when extending - from one second back to ten, with a total length of up to 40 seconds.
Read →OpenAI's models built themselves a secret mailbox in the package server, and rode it into Hugging Face
On 26 August OpenAI published the full technical report on the July incident. An internal research model and its peers found each other, traded exploits through the package repository, and went from an exam task to administrator access inside another company in ten days. They call it a warning shot themselves.
Read →NVIDIA moved the memory controller off the chip and put it inside the memory itself
On 26 August NVIDIA added NVHBM to NVLink Fusion - memory whose base die now carries their own controller. The claim is up to 30 per cent more bandwidth, 15 per cent less power and up to a quarter of the compute die freed up. Amazon's Annapurna Labs goes first.
Read →A hole in Gitea entered the actively exploited catalogue, and no fix exists yet
On 25 August CISA added CVE-2026-60004 to its catalogue of confirmed exploited flaws, with a patch deadline of 28 August. The latest Gitea release is from 14 August, older than the entry itself.
Read →Jalapeño's first numbers: OpenAI claims its chip gives more and faster at once
OpenAI published the first measurements of its own inference chip. They claim higher throughput and shorter waiting at the same time, which until now was treated as a trade. The numbers are theirs and were measured by them.
Read →OpenAI shut down a Russian network building a think tank that did not exist
The accounts wrote comments across five social networks to push the website of a self-described expert community. The site itself stood on other people's research papers, copied and credited to the wrong authors.
Read →Wan 3.0 makes 30 seconds of video in a single pass, with no stitching
Alibaba's new video model is live in ComfyUI. It gives up to 30 seconds at once, up to twenty reference assets, and a way to address each of them by name inside the prompt itself.
Read →WhatsApp replaced the six-digit PIN with a real password
The second step at login can now be a long password with letters and symbols instead of six digits. Android also gets more information about calls from unknown numbers, and passkeys are no longer limited to one.
Read →Meta unveils MTIA 300, its first chip built to train models
MTIA 300 is Meta's first accelerator built to train models, not just serve answers from finished ones. It targets recommendation and ranking systems, with the network built straight into the silicon. By Meta's own numbers, total communication time drops 3.9x versus an equivalent GPU cluster.
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