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AI
US Bans Anthropic Fable 5 & Mythos 5 — Export Control Order
US export control forces Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally. Gov cites jailbreak; Anthropic calls…
AI
Ollama MLX Update: NVFP4, Agent Snapshots, 20% Faster on Mac
Ollama's June 11 MLX update brings NVFP4 quantization, snapshot-based prefix caching for agents, and 20% faster output on…
AI
DeepSeek V4-Pro’s MIT License Changes Everything
DeepSeek V4-Pro ships MIT-licensed with a 1M-token context and 93.5 LiveCodeBench — the open model that finally closes…
AI
Run a Local LLM With Ollama in 5 Minutes
How to run a local LLM with Ollama in 2026: install, pick a model sized for your RAM,…
AI
Power Apps MCP Learns From Its Mistakes
Microsoft's Power Apps MCP server turns user corrections into org-wide agent improvements — a structural fix for enterprise…
Gaming
Steam Deck June Updates: Client Fixes + SteamOS 3.8.9 Beta
Steam Deck Client update June 10 and SteamOS 3.8.9 Beta June 12 bring NAT traversal fixes, HDMI VRR,…
AI
Connect an MCP Server in Five Minutes
Step-by-step guide to connecting an MCP server to your AI assistant in 2026: prerequisites, config, first server, troubleshooting,…
AI
MiniMax M3 Cracks Open the 1M-Context Frontier
MiniMax M3 is an open-weight model with a 1M-token context window and 59% SWE-Bench Pro score — here's…
AI
What Is Model Quantization? The 4-Bit Trick
Model quantization shrinks AI weights from 16-bit to 4-bit, cutting VRAM by 75%. Here's how it works, where…
AI
What Is RAG? The Retrieval Problem Nobody Talks About
What is RAG? Retrieval-augmented generation makes AI search your own docs before answering — and the real failure…
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