• Someone Fine-Tuned OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 Traces to Ship a 657MB Local Thinking Model

    July 20, 2026

    A community developer, GnLOLot, has published a 1B model that runs fully on local hardware. The model is MiniCPM5-1B-Claude-Opus-Fable5-Thinking, with GGUF builds for llama.cpp-compatible runtimes. It needs no API key and makes no cloud calls. The Proposed Model The model is built on openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B. That base is a real, documented release from OpenBMB. It is a dense 1.08B-parameter model using a standard LlamaForCausalLM architecture. It has 24 layers, grouped-query attention, and a 131,072-token context length. OpenBMB reports 1B-class open-source SOTA within its own comparison set. The base already ships a native thinking template. Reasoning is toggled through enable_thinking, giving both…

  • Denza Z9 S electric sedan revealed as smaller sibling to Australia-bound Z9 GT

    July 20, 2026

    The exterior of the electric Denza Z9 S sedan has been revealed in China with a similar styling and powertrains to the Z9 GT, which is due in Australian showrooms later this year with ‘flash’ ultra-fast charging. According to Car News China, the Z9 S follows the same design language as the Z9 GT, courtesy of former Audi designer Wolfgang Egger who heads design for Denza and parent company BYD, but wraps it in a smaller body riding the same e3 platform. Denza Australia told CarExpert it considers all models for local showrooms but stopped short of confirming whether the…

  • Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name

    July 12, 2026

    Reed Jobs is easy to like. He’s motormouthed, self-deprecating, prone to video-game analogies, and clearly loves his work. He doesn’t particularly want to discuss the fact that he is Steve Jobs’s son, but he’s not uptight about it, either. When our producer, Maggie, asked if he was on a MacBook for our video call Thursday morning, he didn’t miss a beat: “Are you kidding?” What he’d much rather talk about is Yosemite, the oncology-focused venture firm he launched in 2023 to, in part, build biotech companies from scratch, out of early academic research, using a mix of philanthropy and outside…

  • Expert Insights: Q&A with Honda Australia director Robert Thorp

    July 12, 2026

    Honda Australia has a spring in its step after the launch of the born-again Prelude sports car and updates for its best-seller, the CR-V mid-size SUV, including an expanded hybrid lineup. Yet while rival brands are posting record sales, Honda’s growth has remained modest. The company has also had to scale back its electric vehicle (EV) ambitions after the Japanese automaker axed most of its futuristic-looking 0 Series models shortly before their planned release. At the same time, the introduction of Australia’s New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) and record fuel prices have made market conditions even more challenging. Even so,…

  • Phoebe Gates’ AI Shopping App Phia Reportedly Claimed Unearned Affiliate Sales Through Fake Clicks

    July 12, 2026

    Gates, who is Bill Gates’ daughter, founded the app alongside Sophia Kianni. Kimberly White/Getty Images According to multiple reports, the AI-powered shopping plugin Phia used a tactic known as cookie stuffing to attach its affiliate code to sales it didn’t actually drive. Phia, which launched last spring, was co-founded by Phoebe Gates — Bill Gates’ daughter — and Sophia Kianni. Investigations by researcher Ben Edelman, Bloomberg and Capital One Shopping all reportedly found instances of the browser extension claiming referrals through fake clicks, and even taking credit for sales that other publishers should have gotten the commission for.…

  • MoonMath AI Open-Sources a HIP Attention Kernel for AMD MI300X That Beats AITER v3 on Every Shape and Rounding Mode

    June 22, 2026

    MoonMath AI team has released a bf16 forward attention kernel for AMD’s MI300X GPU. It is written in HIP, not hand-written assembly. The code is open-source under the MIT license. The MoonMath.ai team reports it beats AITER v3, AMD’s own optimized kernel, on every tested shape. Bare-metal access came from HotAisle, an AMD cloud provider. Attention is the fused softmax(QKᵀ/√d)·V operation inside every transformer. The MI300X is AMD’s CDNA3 data-center GPU, with the ISA target (gfx942). This kernel runs on that hardware only. TL;DR MoonMath.ai open-sources a bf16 forward attention kernel for AMD MI300X, written in HIP, not assembly (MIT).…

  • GM’s clever hands-free driving tech still not locked in for Australia despite local filing

    June 22, 2026

    General Motors still has yet to confirm its Super Cruise hands-free driving technology for Australia, despite filing to trademark the name locally and continuing the global rollout of the feature. The American automaker submitted a filing to IP Australia on October 7, 2025, with a General Motors Australia and New Zealand (GM ANZ) spokesperson at the time confirming “it’s quite common practice for organisations to trademark proprietary terms in the markets they operate”. The company had no announcements to make at the time, and this hasn’t changed despite GM moving closer to rolling out the tech in new markets. Looking…

  • Waymo says it built a better benchmark for comparing robotaxis to humans

    June 10, 2026

    Waymo has created a new computer model designed to more accurately answer a fundamental question: how does its autonomous driving software stack up against humans? The Alphabet-owned robotaxi company, which developed the computer model of human driving capabilities in conjunction with TU Delft, published a research paper about it in Nature Communications on Wednesday. Waymo said it expects the new model to be more accurate than the previous version it has used over the past several years. The new model was built using a framework called active inference — the theory that a driver is constantly imagining possible futures and…

  • New Chevrolet Corvette C9 may have been revealed in GM video

    June 10, 2026

    The next-generation Chevrolet Corvette may have been teased in footage from a tour of the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, where the iconic sports car is designed. The tour shown on NBC included an interview with GM CEO Mary Barra and, in the background, computer screens appeared to show coupes featuring the Corvette’s distinctive forward-leaning nose. Looking for your next car? We’ll help you research and compare so you choose with confidence. It may be the first glimpse of the ninth-generation ‘C9’ Corvette, which GM Authority recently reported will enter production in 2029. A full-size clay model of a two-door sports car…

  • Snap Will No Longer Allow Younger Teens’ Spotlight Videos To Be Publicly Viewable

    June 10, 2026

    Maybe it wasn’t a great idea to let 14-year-olds post videos to Spotlight in the first place. Snap Snapchat is making another change meant to further restrict the reach of its youngest users. The app will no longer allow young teens to share content to a publicly viewable version of Spotlight, the app’s hub for shortform video content. Unlike most other parts of Snapchat, videos shared to Spotlight are public and can be viewed by anyone in the app. Up to now, Snap allowed users as young as 13 to contribute content to the feature, though the app…