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thesequence.substack.com
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] Thinking Machines' Native Interaction Models - TML-Interaction-Small 276B-A12B - advances SOTA Realtime Voice and kills standard VAD

By complete coincidence, the day we released Neil Zeghidour (CEO of Gradium, the for profit spinoff of the vaunted Kyutai Moshi )’s talk on what remains to be built for realtime voice, Thinking Machines emerged for only the third time in a ~year (despite much drama) to drop Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration ,…

Added: 5/13/2026, 3:32:02 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
techcrunch.com
Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman finally took the stand this morning to defend himself against his former co-founder Elon Musk’s lawsuit challenging OpenAI’s corporate structure. Altman was immediately asked what he thought of Musk’s allegation that OpenAI’s other founders “stole a charity” when they launched a for-profit subsidiary to market products based on the…

Added: 5/13/2026, 2:43:43 AM
techcrunch.com
Medicare's new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea

Neil Batlivala has spent seven years building a healthcare company that most of the tech industry has never heard of and that serves a patient population most of Silicon Valley ignores. But last month, that work put him at the center of something much bigger.

Added: 5/13/2026, 2:43:37 AM
huggingface.co
Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS

Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS For a long time, "scaling" in foundation models mostly meant one thing: spend more compute on pre-training and capabilities rise. That intuition was supported by empirical work such as Kaplan et al.

Added: 5/13/2026, 2:43:21 AM