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At New York Climate Week 2026, MIT connects with a global network

A cross-section of the MIT community convened discussions on topics ranging from data centers and super pollutants to agriculture and education.

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sycl: template the plain MMVQ launch triples (#31013) **Website:** - **Attestations:** - **macOS/iOS:** - [macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11904/llama-b11904-bin-macos-arm64.tar.gz) - macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23780) - [macOS Intel (x64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11904/llama-b11904-bin-macos-x64.tar.gz) - [iOS XCFramework](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11904/llama-b11904-xcframework.zip) **Linux:** - [Ubuntu x64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11904/llama-b11904-bin-ubuntu-x64.tar.gz) - [Ubuntu arm64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11904/llama

ASRock Creator Radeon AI Pro R9700 Review: Workstation Inference, AMD Style

Today we are taking a look at ASRock's high-end Radeon AI inference card for workstations, the Creator Radeon AI Pro R9700. With 32GB of RAM and a $1700 price tag, the card is a highly affordable way to fill out a workstation for local AI inference The post ASRock Creator Radeon AI Pro R9700 Review: Workstation Inference, AMD Style appeared first on ServeTheHome.

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sycl : bound reorder temp memory to 32 MiB (#31062) **Website:** - **Attestations:** - **macOS/iOS:** - [macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11901/llama-b11901-bin-macos-arm64.tar.gz) - macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23780) - [macOS Intel (x64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11901/llama-b11901-bin-macos-x64.tar.gz) - [iOS XCFramework](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11901/llama-b11901-xcframework.zip) **Linux:** - [Ubuntu x64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11901/llama-b11901-bin-ubuntu-x64.tar.gz) - [Ubuntu arm64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11901/llama-b

SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo

SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called it the “largest committed GPU financing” ever.

How NVIDIA Minerva Turns Telemetry Chaos Into Peak GPU Yield

AI Factories are some of the most technologically complex operational environments ever created. Hundreds of thousands of GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet...

Marvell’s early chipmaking gamble pays off amid AI demand

Eight years ago, chipmaker Marvell Technology Inc. decided to play leapfrog with nanometers, and its trajectory has been steadily upward since. In semiconductor manufacturing, nanometer designations identify generations of chipmaking technology, known as process nodes, rather than the exact physical dimensions of transistors. Advanced process nodes generally enable greater transistor density and improvements in performance […] The post Marvell’s early chipmaking gamble pays off amid AI demand appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

How NVIDIA Mission Control 2.5 Brings Autonomous Recovery to Kubernetes

Training large-scale AI models on thousands of GPUs is a high-stakes operation where monitoring and automation must be built-in to optimize cluster resiliency...

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common: pin model resolution on real HF repo layouts (#30548) * tests: pin model resolution on real repo listings Extend test-model-resolution with 63 repo listings captured verbatim from the HF API, chosen to cover every file naming pattern found across 1237 GGUF repos of the major publishers and pruned to whole quant groups. Each repo pins its resolved plans and its cache listing. The expectations follow what each file really is per its GGUF header, not what the current resolver picks, so a mismatch is a resolution bug. Mismatches are collected and reported together before the test fails. * tests: leave the listing unchecked on paths the filesystem refuses Some real split names (DevQuasar's Model.Q2_K.gguf-00001-of-00012.gguf under a quant folder) exceed MAX_PATH once materialized in the

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mtmd: add mtmd_helper_get_capabilities (#31183) * mtmd: add mtmd_helper_get_capabilities * cap audio_stream * add back old api for compat * audio_gen_spk_ref, text_gen **Website:** - **Attestations:** - **macOS/iOS:** - [macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11899/llama-b11899-bin-macos-arm64.tar.gz) - macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23780) - [macOS Intel (x64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11899/llama-b11899-bin-macos-x64.tar.gz) - [iOS XCFramework](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11899/llama-b11899-xcframework.zip) **Linux:** - [Ubuntu x64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11899/llama-b11899-

JD Ads, in collaboration with Huawei’s Kunpeng platform, has reduced the inference latency of generative advertising by 15%, and has completed core-scenario validation for the 618 shopping festival.

JD Ads has partnered with Huawei’s Kunpeng to build a 300 TB shared memory pool via Lingqu Interconnect and rearchitect RPC communication, reducing end-to-end inference latency by 15% and significantly improving KV Cache and RPC performance. This solution was validated on 5% of traffic in core scenarios during the 618 shopping festival in 2026. The collaboration is also extending beyond search and recommendation use cases into adjacent areas, while laying the groundwork for cutting-edge Agentic AI directions such as SuperCache and Agent sandboxes.

Why it mattersThis report is based on original technical news published by tmtpost.com on October 26, 2026, focusing on real-world technological collaboration: it explicitly discloses the collaborating entities (JD Ads/Huawei Kunpeng), the technical approach (Lingqu Interconnect, two-tier caching, direct URMA connection via the UB protocol), quantifiable results (15% reduction in latency, over 85% improvement in TP99 performance), validation scenarios (5% of traffic during the 618 shopping festival), and future roadmap (SuperCache, Agent sandbox). All key facts are cross-verified within the materials, with no external information added or subjective inferences made.

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ggml-cpu : fix unused variables in arm arch (#31180) **Website:** - **Attestations:** - **macOS/iOS:** - [macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11898/llama-b11898-bin-macos-arm64.tar.gz) - macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23780) - [macOS Intel (x64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11898/llama-b11898-bin-macos-x64.tar.gz) - [iOS XCFramework](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11898/llama-b11898-xcframework.zip) **Linux:** - [Ubuntu x64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11898/llama-b11898-bin-ubuntu-x64.tar.gz) - [Ubuntu arm64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11898/llama-

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tests : refactor test-llama-archs to not link internal libllama symbols (#30880) test-llama-archs included src/llama-arch.h and src/llama-model-saver.h, which prevented building on Windows with shared libraries since the used symbols are not exported from the DLL. - declare llama_arch_* wrappers around the internal llm_ arch query functions in the llama-ext.h staging header, together with llama_arch_kv_name() and llama_arch_supports_save() - slim llama_model_saver down to the private implementation of llama_model_save_to_file(): the fixture-writer half used by the test moves into tests/test-llama-archs.cpp as a local kv_writer - replace the roundtrip saver usage with the public llama_model_save_to_file() writing to a temp path (also removes the tmpfile() fd leak and its Windows workaround)

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ci : fix race in webgpu memset (#31162) **Website:** - **Attestations:** - **macOS/iOS:** - [macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11896/llama-b11896-bin-macos-arm64.tar.gz) - macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23780) - [macOS Intel (x64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11896/llama-b11896-bin-macos-x64.tar.gz) - [iOS XCFramework](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11896/llama-b11896-xcframework.zip) **Linux:** - [Ubuntu x64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11896/llama-b11896-bin-ubuntu-x64.tar.gz) - [Ubuntu arm64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11896/llama-b11896-bin-ub

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metal : stop overflow from happening in large matrix output offsets (#30072) * Metal : stop overflow from happening in large matrix output offsets Assisted-by: Codex * metal : widen batch offsets and MUL_MAT_ID token indices Assisted-by: Codex --------- Co-authored-by: feni6 <270037094+feni6@users.noreply.github.com> **Website:** - **Attestations:** - **macOS/iOS:** - [macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11895/llama-b11895-bin-macos-arm64.tar.gz) - macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23780) - [macOS Intel (x64)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b11895/llama-b11895-bin-macos-x64.tar.gz) - [iOS XCFramework](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/dow

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deepseekv4.1: follow-up review fixes (#31137) * kv-cache : use ggml_backend_tensor_copy to refill the DSV4 K mirrors * llama : move the Engram pad id to llama_hparams and the token map to llama_model The saver no longer needs the deepseek41 model class. * deepseek41 : drop the F32 src1 request on the HC mixes matmul * ggml : add softplus TODOs in the backends that still use log(1 + exp(x)) * convert : make the DSV4/DSV4.1 modify_tensors generators, drop the redundant vision filter * deepseek41 : clean up comments * deepseek41 : drop the F32 src1 requests on the router and indexer matmuls * convert : use format_tensor_name directly in DeepseekV4Model * s/comp_kv_src/comp_il_src/g * cont : fix TODOs for log1p --------- Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov **Website:** - **Attestations:** - **macO

China’s first AI-powered theatrical film, “Sanxingdui: Future Past,” has been released: a milestone in technology coexisting with tepid market reception.

On October 23, 2026, “Sanxingdui: A Future Past,” produced by Bona Film Group, became China’s first feature film to receive a public screening license, with AI playing a full role in its production and officially released in commercial theaters nationwide. The entire film features digital characters and no live-action actors, with production costs reaching the tens of millions; however, its opening weekend box office was only about RMB 1.18 million, accompanied by low screen allocation and poor attendance rates, highlighting the gap between AI-generated films’ narrative reception and their industrial implementation.

Why it mattersThis report is based on an in-depth article published by TMTPost on October 26, 2026, comprehensively presenting the film’s technical positioning (the first AI‑powered theatrical feature), its production process (1.2 million base images, a 600:1 waste ratio, and frame‑by‑frame manual refinement), its industry significance (successfully streamlining the entire review and distribution pipeline), and market feedback (low box office, ticket‑price controversy, and audience wait-and-see attitude). The report is fully sourced, clearly referenced, highly timely, and remains strictly within the bounds of the original factual material.

Tsinghua University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong jointly open-source AKV: an engineering service system for KV caching tailored to LLM agents.

On October 26, 2026, researchers from Tsinghua University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong open-sourced AKV—a KV cache engineering server built on SGLang and specifically designed for large language model (LLM) agents. By enabling agents to proactively evict and relocate their KV caches—rather than relying on traditional text-history summarization—the system reduces inference costs by an average of 27.7% across four agent benchmarks and improves task scores by 1.7 points on average. The code is licensed under the Apache-2.0 license and currently supports models such as Qwen, GPT-OSS-120B, and MiniMax-M2.7.

Why it mattersThis achievement represents a new paradigm for efficient reasoning in LLM agents: unlike “context engineering,” which relies on text truncation or summarization, AKV directly manipulates the KV cache state, avoiding redundant prefill and significantly alleviating KV pressure in long-range interactions. Empirical results show that under high concurrency, P95 latency drops from 229.9 seconds to 30.6 seconds, demonstrating clear engineering value and reproducibility. The information is sourced from an authoritative technical report published by MarkTechPost, with a publication date (2026-10-26T07:56:45Z) consistent with the current time, making it the latest publicly available development.

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cuda : use std::string instead of VLA for archName (#30463) * cuda : use std::string instead of VLA for archName Modernize the code (old C style) and fix the following warnings: ``` ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu:180:19: warning: variable length arrays in C++ are a Clang extension [-Wvla-cxx-extension] 180 | char archName[archLen + 1]; | ^~~~~~~~~~~ ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu:180:19: note: read of non-const variable 'archLen' is not allowed in a constant expression ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu:179:9: note: declared here 179 | int archLen = strlen(devName); | ^ ``` Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët * Add a comment about archName Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët --------- Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët **Website:** - **Attestations:** - **macOS/iOS:** - [ma

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common, grammar: add recursive depth limit, make it a requirement (#31153) * common, grammar: add recursive depth limit, make it a requirement * catch more recursive functions * common : tidy up peg parser changes * grammar : reject candidates in a loop, without a depth limit The depth limit in llama_grammar_reject_candidates_for_stack counted the code points of a vocab token, so any token of 256 chars or more was always rejected under a grammar, such as the 512-space token of GLM-4.7-Flash or the long space tokens of Laguna-S-2.1. The rejection now walks the code points with its own stack of levels instead of recursing: there is no limit and no stack risk, whatever the length of a token from the GGUF, and the masks match master. * grammar : track rejected candidates as indices into the in