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The great sparsification: 2026 open-weight MoE models now activate 1 to 9 percent of their weights
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The great sparsification: 2026 open-weight MoE models now activate 1 to 9 percent of their weights

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6 min read
When the attacker is an agent: a defender's field guide to autonomous AI intrusions in 2026

When the attacker is an agent: a defender's field guide to autonomous AI intrusions in 2026

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Decision AI Is Becoming Its Own Category, and the Metrics Are Not Ready

Decision AI Is Becoming Its Own Category, and the Metrics Are Not Ready

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3 min read
Ling-3.1-flash and the 7:1 hybrid: how much KV cache does a 560B model need at 1M tokens?
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Ling-3.1-flash and the 7:1 hybrid: how much KV cache does a 560B model need at 1M tokens?

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10 min read
Can two Mac Studios really run an 816B model? A bandwidth roofline check on Muse Spark Open
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Can two Mac Studios really run an 816B model? A bandwidth roofline check on Muse Spark Open

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12 min read
Shorter outputs, same price: what DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 changes in an agent's bill
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Shorter outputs, same price: what DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 changes in an agent's bill

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13 min read
Is open-weight really 90% as good at 10% of the cost? Checking IBM's claim against list prices
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Is open-weight really 90% as good at 10% of the cost? Checking IBM's claim against list prices

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Inference NPUs That Train: What a 325M Pretraining Run on a Rebellions ATOM-Max Shows, and What It Does Not
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Inference NPUs That Train: What a 325M Pretraining Run on a Rebellions ATOM-Max Shows, and What It Does Not

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