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The Sequence Radar #857: Last Week in AI: Inside the Machine, Outside the Text Box

We continue our series about alternatives to transformers. In the AI of the week, we dive into Anthropic’s groundbreaking paper about natural language autoencoders.

Added: 5/13/2026, 3:32:05 AM
www.latent.space
[AINews] The End of Finetuning

The proximal cause of today’s op-ed is OpenAI’s deprecation of their finetuning APIs. For years, OpenAI stood out among the big labs for their finetuning support, and many many many talks and content pieces and AI engineers promoted how you can get some variant of “get o1 performance at 4o prices” and insisting that it was an important part of the toolkit.

Added: 5/13/2026, 3:32:00 AM
venturebeat.com
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide.

Added: 5/13/2026, 3:31:51 AM
venturebeat.com
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure. TQ Ventures led the round, with…

Added: 5/13/2026, 3:31:50 AM
arstechnica.com
Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks

Both privilege escalation vulnerabilities stem from bugs in the kernel’s handling of page caches stored in memory, allowing untrusted users to modify them. They target caches in networking and memory-fragment handling components.

Added: 5/13/2026, 2:44:06 AM
www.theverge.com
Sony’s new Xperia phone gets an overdue redesign

Sony’s Xperia 1 flagships have looked more or less the same since 2020 , but that’s finally changing with the Xperia 1 VIII, which moves to a chunky square camera island. The phone also boasts what should be a substantially improved telephoto camera, along with an AI camera assistant that looks like an improved version of Google’s Camera Coach.

Added: 5/13/2026, 2:43:54 AM