News & Updates
The latest announcements, product releases, and platform updates.
BAIR Celebrates 2026 PhD Graduates Shaping AI's Future
Berkeley's AI research lab honors a new generation of graduates headed to faculty positions, industry labs, and startups across the AI landscape.
Nunchaku 4-Bit Inference Now Natively Supported in Hugging Face Diffusers
Hugging Face integrates Nunchaku Lite into Diffusers, enabling 4-bit W4A4 diffusion inference with up to 50% less VRAM and faster generation on consumer GPUs.
Gigatoken: A Rust BPE Tokenizer That Encodes Text at 24.53 GB/s
Stanford PhD student Marcel Rod released Gigatoken, a Rust BPE tokenizer that processes text at 24.53 GB/s on a 144-core EPYC, up to 989x faster than HuggingFace tokenizers.
SenseTime Launches Galaxy Project to Scale Domestic AI Chip Production in China
SenseTime has launched the Galaxy Project with nearly 20 partners to scale domestic AI chip infrastructure in China, targeting self-reliance amid international sanctions.
AMD Commits Up to $5 Billion in Anthropic AI Infrastructure Partnership
AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a strategic partnership that includes deploying up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs in Helios rackscale systems.
IBM Mainframe Revenue Plunges 42%, CEO Insists AI Is Not the Culprit
IBM reported a shocking quarter with mainframe revenue down 42%, prompting an unprecedented pre-earnings warning that tanked the stock 25%. CEO Arvind Krishna insists the drop is temporary.
ServiceNow Invests $40M in Indian Banking Software Firm BusinessNext
ServiceNow has invested $40 million in BusinessNext at a $700 million valuation, deepening its push into AI-driven financial services through the Indian banking software specialist.
Lego Donkey Kong Arcade Set Has Infinite Barrels, Miyamoto Approves
Lego's new Donkey Kong arcade set has a working joystick, a jump lever, and a 20-barrel pump that loops them back to the top. Miyamoto reportedly approves.
Framework Laptop 13 Pro Preorders Ship With Less RAM After Cost Surge
Framework is shipping its Laptop 13 Pro preorders with reduced memory after supplier costs more than doubled. Affected customers can cancel for a full refund.
IBM Mainframe Revenue Falls 42%, CEO Says It's a Pause, Not a Pivot
IBM's mainframe revenue fell 42% as customers shifted budgets to data center hardware. CEO Arvind Krishna insists the slip is temporary, not a structural shift.
ServiceNow Invests $40M in BusinessNext, Targets AI in Banking
ServiceNow is investing $40 million in India's BusinessNext for a 5% stake, valuing the banking software maker at $700 million and opening a joint AI push.
Rider 2026.2 Ties AI Agents to the IDE, Adds Native Copilot
Rider 2026.2 connects AI agents to the IDE's own coverage, profiler, and refactoring data, and folds GitHub Copilot into the agent picker as a default option.
ReSharper C++ 2026.2 Adds C++26 Reflection, ISPC, Unreal Speedup
JetBrains rolls out ReSharper C++ 2026.2 with first-wave C++26 reflection support, native ISPC tooling, and a meaningful Unreal Engine indexing speedup.
Cloudflare Internal DNS Is Now Generally Available for Enterprise
Cloudflare Internal DNS is now generally available, unifying public and private DNS management on one platform at no extra cost for Enterprise customers.
Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5 After Favorable Policy Shifts
Anthropic has officially launched Claude Sonnet 5 following relaxed government restrictions. Meanwhile, new AI chip hardware from Etched enters the market.