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Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5: A Boundary-Prediction Architecture That Removes Span Enumeration From Information Extraction

Fastino released GLiNER2.5, replacing span enumeration with boundary prediction so entity width no longer costs compute. Three Apache 2.0 checkpoints ship at 74M, 194M, and 287M parameters, all CPU-runnable. The release adds joint entity-relation decoding, constrained classification, span attributes, and 4,096-word context. Overall macro F1 reaches 56.17 on 16 zero-shot benchmarks. The post Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5: A Boundary-Prediction Architecture That Removes Span Enumeration From Informat

MarkTechPost8/25/20265
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Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO

The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.

TechCrunch AI8/25/20261
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Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit's role in developing it.

TechCrunch AI8/25/20262
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Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs.

TechCrunch AI8/25/20262
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Self-Driving Cars Could Someday Take Requests
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Self-Driving Cars Could Someday Take Requests

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. The idea of letting a machine do the driving for you may put a lot of people off autonomous vehicles. But research could make it possible to backseat-drive an autonomous vehicle just as you might with a human driver. Self-driving cars carefully balance a host of parameters to ensure a smooth ride, including things like speed, acceleration, and the smoothness of turns. But human driving preferences ca

IEEE Spectrum8/24/20262
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Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six.

TechCrunch AI8/24/20262
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OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?

Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.

TechCrunch AI8/24/20262
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Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: A Robot Foundation Model That Learns New Tasks From One 3–12 Second Demo

Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns a new physical task from a single demonstration. Drop 3–12 seconds of sensorimotor data into its 30-second context window, and the robot performs the task. No gradient updates, no fine-tuning, no task-specific programming. Across 10 diverse manipulation tasks, this one-shot in-context prompting averaged 59% […] The post Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: A Robot Foundation Model That Learns New Tasks From One 3–12 Second Demo

MarkTechPost8/24/20263
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What It Takes to Be an Adaptable Engineer
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What It Takes to Be an Adaptable Engineer

The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making it harder to get hired in the first place. This makes it difficult to advise students on which specific coding languages or technical skills they should learn. So amidst the uncertainty, advice for young professionals often turns to a common refrain: Be adaptable. But what does adaptability look like in practice? Engineers often operate on the

IEEE Spectrum8/24/20261
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Google Research Introduces ME-POIs: A Mobility-Informed Framework that Adds “How a Place Is Used” to Text-Based POI Embeddings

framework that folds aggregate human movement into text-based place embeddings. Language models describe what a place is; they miss how it is used. ME-POIs encodes each visit as a contextualized vector and aligns it with one learnable prototype per POI through contrastive learning, then transfers visit distributions from data-rich anchors to the long tail across three spatial scales. Across five map-enrichment tasks on Los Angeles and Houston mobility data, adding ME-POIs improved 34 of 35 model

MarkTechPost8/24/20262
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Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.

TechCrunch AI8/24/20262
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Best GPU Neoclouds 2026: CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, and Groq Ranked by Published Pricing and Contracted Power

The five largest GPU neoclouds now run on very different models. CoreWeave and Nebius report to the SEC; Lambda and Crusoe are private and heading toward IPOs; Groq rebuilt itself as an inference cloud after licensing its LPU technology to NVIDIA. This comparison checks each provider's live rate card, Q2 2026 financials, active and contracted gigawatts, anchor contracts, and SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX tier. Nebius posts the lowest H100 rate and the only published B300 price, Lambda has the cheapest

MarkTechPost8/24/20264
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