[History of Distillation] From Model Compression in 2006 to On-Policy Distillation in 2026

The DeepSeek-R1 paper reports that a 1.5B small model created via distillation achieved a score of 28.9 (pass@1) on the AIME 2024 math contest, surpassing the 9.3 achieved by GPT-4o (0513 version).
HPCwire

Intel and Altera Simplify Sensor Integration for Edge and Physical AI

Expanded collaboration aims to make it easier for customers to connect diverse sensors, turn data into real-time insights and accelerate development of intelligent solutions across healthcare, ...

Countries that possess technology and countries that multiply it: The 'stable loop of influence' that Japan's manufacturing industry should build

Countries that possess technology and countries that multiply it: The 'stable loop of influence' that Japan's manufacturing ...
Unite.AI

NVIDIA Debuts Open Nemotron 3.5 Models for Embedding, Reranking, Parsing

NVIDIA on October 21, 2026, expanded its Nemotron Retriever collection with new open, commercially available models for ...
Wall Street Journal

Hackers Are Hijacking AI Models, and Using AI to Do It

Hackers are using artificial-intelligence agents to commandeer legitimate AI models and turn them into unwitting accomplices in cybercrimes. The lamb’s-wool approach comes as cyber chiefs already face ...
WKYT

Lexington police use expanded resources to work on unsolved cases

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - At the Lexington Police Department, they’re not called cold cases; they’re called unsolved cases. The department’s unsolved case unit now has two detectives and two retired ...
The Christian Science Monitor

As AI agents multiply, report finds big gaps in controlling what they do

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Finextra

Barclays ramps up use of Anthropic's Claude

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The UK-based banking giant - which earlier this year said that ...
Ars Technica

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can’t use it yet

Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June, but it spent the summer trotting out smaller Flash models. Now, Google is ready to take on the frontier again with Gemini 4 Argon. The company claims this new ...
WTAW

Governor Abbott Issues Declaration Allowing Expanded Use of Dyed Diesel

(AUSTIN, TX) – Governor Greg Abbott today issued a statewide disaster proclamation to allow expanded use of dyed diesel on Texas roads. The proclamation also raises the allowable weight for fuel, ...
NBC News

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter roll purges

The Supreme Court permitted the Trump administration to use an expanded database which contains citizenship information, as Trump encourages states to purge voter rolls. Critics have said the data is ...
NBC News

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the Trump administration to use an expanded federal database containing citizenship information, as the president encourages states to purge people ...