News · 2026-09-17

Researchers introduced BITCOS to achieve 1.485 bits per weight, beating the 1.58-bit limit with 1.28× faster matrix-vector multiplication.

At the 2026 edition of FOSSY , Romeo Solano gave a fast-paced, humorous presentation on what could have been a rather boring topic: server encryption. There are a number of threats that we face in today's world, from criminals, government overreach, espionage, and more, that can be thwarted with encryption. But encrypting data on a system that may live elsewhere, without any access to its keyboard...

C4ADS reports Nvidia Blackwell and H100 chips worth $4.6 billion were smuggled to China via shell companies.

Developer LevinAI released NvpwrControl to let RTX 50-series owners bypass limits, raising the RTX 5090 mobile GPU to 225W.

PieceMakers bets edge AI memory will diverge from HBM reliance via hybrid bonding.

Irregular tested Alibaba's Qwen3.5-27B coding agent modifying itself via shell access to fix errors and bypass refusals.

Nvidia launched the DSX platform, enabling Lambda to fit 19 nodes into a 16-node power budget.

Syensqo's Mike Finelli notes 20% revenue from new products as the company uses AI to develop materials for AI infrastructure.

Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-76460, a perfect 10.0 CVSS flaw in Identity Services Engine allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to gain root command execution.

GitHub Copilot rewrote its agent runtime from TypeScript/Node.js into over 800,000 lines of Rust via 128 pull requests.

Klement on Investing cites Maurer et al. (2026) detailing trade effects for closures of the Panama, Suez, and Malacca Canals plus openings of the Thai Canal and Northwest Passage.

Brad DeLong argues widening hyperscaler CDS spreads signal real risk, noting founder-controlled firms have only 0.6 percentage points of spread.

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Samsung and Micron invest millions in U.S. pipelines while hiring aggressively in Asia with $500,000 bonuses amid a projected 157,000 worker shortage by 2030.

Principal says Asian fixed income is supported by a capex boom and shrinking dollar supply.

Brad DeLong cites Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick to argue local business owners like Yakima orchardists form a gentry elite ten times richer than the Forbes 400.

Doomberg argues that while resource wealth should benefit local consumers, fairness often fails to optimize risk capital needed for extraction, making government intervention the determinative variable for political success. The author cites Angola's July 2025 decision to raise diesel prices by one-third, which triggered a three-day strike, 30 deaths, 277 injuries, and over 1,500 arrests, yet the government maintained reduced subsidies. Doomberg contrasts this with the Permian Basin, where 23 bcf/d of gas swamps local demand allowing fuel to be given away, against Alberta's 11 bcf/d production where 7 bcf/d is consumed locally. The text highlights Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's challenge in balancing cheap gas sales with voter support amidst a separatist referendum and trade war, noting a recent cabinet leak regarding her contemplations on navigating these energy dilemmas.

A study across six Qwen3 models found SFT with LoRA won 15 of 18 settings while GRPO won 29 of 54 cross-dataset transfer settings.

A probe-and-commit algorithm achieves a competitive ratio of $4\sqrt3\,\sqrt k$ for improving multi-armed bandits without prior knowledge of scale, curvature, or horizon.

DISCERN certified 56% of benign updates with zero labels across 14,000+ audit streams.

A new single-loop method achieves optimal $O(L^2D_Y\bar\Delta_0\varepsilon^{-3})$ optimization and $O(L^{3/2}D_Y^{1/2}\Delta_\phi\varepsilon^{-5/2})$ game stationarity complexities.

The study maps Adam's stability across the $(\beta_1,\beta_2)$ plane, revealing a linear boundary $1-\beta_2=C(1-\beta_1)$ separating spiky from non-spiky dynamics.

Researchers built a Pareto atlas for Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct on vLLM 0.12, finding A100 wins at $0.106 per million tokens.

Researchers proposed MIMIC, a framework using narrative fusion and code-guided test synthesis to create a Code-Instrumented Reward, enabling LLMs to achieve substantial accuracy gains on general reasoning and mathematical benchmarks.

Researchers achieved 0.94 answer margin recovery with 13-21x faster repair using contiguous edit-local windows for stale KV caches.

A UN mission found grounds to believe the US bombed a school in Minab, Iran, committing war crimes.

A UN mission found grounds to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in strikes killing 120 children and 22 civilians.

U.N. experts chaired by Sara Hossain found reasonable grounds that U.S. strikes killed at least 178 civilians, including a direct hit on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school.

Donald Trump called the EU's offer to make Canada its first associate member laughable and threatened very serious tariffs.

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh raised rates by 25 basis points to 3.75–4 percent amid soaring fuel prices.

The House approved Lindsey Graham's sanctions bill in a 262-159 vote, sending it to President Trump.

Kim Jong Un may introduce his 13-year-old daughter Kim Ju Ae as his likely successor during a potential summit with U.S. President Donald Trump later this year.

Seoul and Washington seek to resolve differences over nuclear projects and funding schedules regarding South Korea's $200 billion US investment commitment.