"Improved Large Language Diffusion Models" ByteDance just made bidirectional masked diffusion on-par with autoregessive LM! This paper iLLaDA trains an 8B Transformer from scratch on 12T tokens, then keeps the same denoising objective for SFT on a 25B-token instruction corpus.
BIG TECH
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Open source harness advances depend on model intelligence from few firms
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Lots of advances coming from the open source harness movement (including Moltbook, RAG approaches back in the day, etc.) but they depend on the intelligence of the models created by a small handful of companies & the more intelligent those models, the more others can do with them
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Anthropic uses moral language to justify opaque and anti-competitive behavior
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Anthropic is a company wrapping a business model in moral language, then using that language to justify opaque model behavior, anti-competitive access rules, regulatory pressure, and a future where builders, startups, researchers, and Opensource communities stay downstream of a
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Skepticism about OSS owning high-end model hardware
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Those of you who are putting all your hope in OSS – you really think that if they are serious about all of this they’ll let you own the hardware that can run the top end models?
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Google adds Collections support to NotebookLM for grouping notebooks
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Google is working on Collections support for NotebookLM. > Users will be able to group multiple notebooks into a single collection.
> Collections will appear in a separate tab in the NotebookLM main menu. Since Notebooks now also function as "projects" in Gemini, this may -
Anthropic’s $1T valuation threatened by free GLM 5.2
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Wanna know why Anthropic hates Opensource AI? GLM 5.2 being free and available to download made their $1 Trillion valuation make no sense
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How open source and local AI can defeat Microsoft
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Except that we can make Opensource and Local AI win. Anthropic isn’t Google, it’s Microsoft , and Microsoft was beaten; they even ship Linux now.
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Microsoft’s Singularity: 100,000 GPU Planet-Scale AI Infrastructure
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Singularity: 100,000 GPUs. AI Infrastructure at Planet-Scale! Singularity is Microsoft’s distributed scheduling AI infrastructure, designed for the highly efficient and reliable execution of deep learning training and inference. Maximizing accelerator utilization without
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GPT-5.6 US-only release would be seismic, speeding up timeline
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https://t.co/WxdXoaUQVw pic.twitter.com/bNyA5f3Gdo
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) 27 juin 2026Ominous. It would be seismic if the general release of GPT-5.6 turned out to be US only. It would also almost guarantee that Fable 5 would get the same treatment. I did expect this eventually, and have said so, but not in summer 2026. Not this soon. Everything is speeding up. x.com/sama/status/20…
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Anthropic’s fearmongering prompts urgent open-source AI sovereignty
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This is Anthropic's fearmongering dictating terms on the entire industry, and it cannot go unnoticed Every enterprise out there needs to move as fast as possible to ensure its Intelligent Infrastructure Sovereignty, securing their compute need and moving to Opensource AI