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  • The Weights File: Qwen3.8-Max Was Called Open-Source
    2026/08/07
    Alibaba shipped Qwen3.8-Max on 3 August 2026 and it was widely reported as open-source. As of 6 August there is no model card, no checkpoint and no license on Hugging Face. What shipped, what it costs, where it ranks, and the gap between a promise to publish and a publication. https://qwen38max.novcog.us.com/
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    4 分
  • The Feature That Was Switched Off: DeepSeek on One Mac
    2026/08/03
    We upgraded a 284-billion-parameter model on one Mac Studio and measured it 30 percent slower — until we found the feature most community builds strip out. Enabling native multi-token prediction took warm decode from 23.1 to 34.5 tokens per second. Every number measured locally: https://mtp.novcog.us.com/
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    11 分
  • Article 50: The EU AI Act Rule That Went Live
    2026/08/03
    On 2 August 2026 the EU AI Act Article 50 transparency duties became enforceable — while the high-risk regime quietly slid to 2027-28, moved six days before the deadline. What switched on, what did not, and the one-day marking grace cliff. Clause-by-clause: https://article50.novcog.us.com/
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    10 分
  • Ten Proofs: What the $2,000 Number Leaves Out
    2026/08/02
    OpenAI says an internal version of Astra produced ten new results on decade-old open problems, each shipping a machine-checkable Lean certificate. The proofs are the strongest part of the story — the $2,000 price tag is the weakest, and the person who first said so works at OpenAI. Full sourced analysis: https://tenproofs.novcog.us.com/
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    10 分