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April 11, 2026
Sam Altman Hits Back at Incendiary Profile Post-Home Attack
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a blog post responding to a New Yorker profile that questions his trustworthiness, labeling it 'incendiary'. The response follows an apparent attack on his home. This highlights ongoing scrutiny of Altman's leadership amid OpenAI's rapid growth.
Netherlands First for Tesla FSD Supervised
Tesla's Full Self-Driving Supervised gains approval in the Netherlands, its first European market. RDW confirmed the type approval after over 1.5 years of testing, calling it a road safety boost while stressing driver responsibility. This paves the way for potential EU-wide rollout amid ongoing US safety probes.
DFlash achieves 85 tok/s on Apple Silicon
Native MLX implementation of DFlash speculative decoding delivers 3.3x speedup on Qwen3.5-9B with M5 Max. Benchmarks show strong gains across model sizes and quantizations. Developer shares optimizations and future plans including open-sourcing.
Run Massive Qwen 397B on 8x R9700 GPUs
Tutorial enables running Qwen3.5-397B-A13B with vLLM on 8x AMD R9700 GPUs using MXFP4 quantization. Achieves 30 t/s single request, up to 100 t/s batched. Includes Dockerfile patches and launch script for high throughput.
Educational PyTorch FlashAttention FA1-FA4
FlashAttention-PyTorch repo updated with plain PyTorch implementations of FA1-FA4 to highlight algorithmic evolutions. Focuses on understanding design changes like tiled softmax to advanced schedulers, without CUDA optimizations. Aimed at clarifying 'What changed from FA1 to FA4?' via clean code.
DiDi Achieves L4 Self-Reliant Autonomous Tech
DiDi Autonomous Driving CEO announces 10-year breakthrough to L4 full-stack core tech self-reliance. R2 Robotaxi with GAC Aion launched in Jan 2026 for road tests. Full unmanned passenger tests started in Guangzhou and Beijing.
Apple High-Mem Macs Out: AI Shortage or M5?
High-memory configs of Mac mini (32/64GB) and Mac Studio (128/256GB) unavailable in US. Likely from global DRAM shortage driven by AI server demand. M5 updates rumored for late 2026.
Skip AI Art in AI Articles
New Yorker profile of OpenAI's Sam Altman features creepy AI-generated illustration by artist David Szauder. He has decade-long experience with pre-commercial AI generative processes. Article argues AI art is unnecessary and startling for AI topics.
PhD vs Masters in CCS Discussion
Reddit post queries Masters vs PhD differences in US and global Computational Cognitive Science programs. Seeks trends in booming research 2 years out, funding amid admin cuts, and field motivations. Inspired by Tenenbaum’s papers.
Your Harness, Your Memory
Agent harnesses are becoming the dominant way to build agents and show no signs of fading. They are deeply intertwined with agent memory systems. Using closed harnesses, particularly those behind proprietary APIs, means surrendering control over your agent.
84K Firefox Extensions: 40-Min Open, Total Crash
User Jack W. installed all 84,235 Firefox extensions (49.3GB total). Browser takes 40 minutes to launch, uses 27-37GB RAM, and becomes unusable; addons page loads in 6 hours. Ecosystem stats reveal 34% zero users, malicious code, SEO spam, and extensions with built-in AI models.
Deepal Hits Record Share, New Cars April
Deepal Auto set a record 1.2% overall market share in March 2026 with 31,742 global sales, up 30% YoY. Flagship models S05, S07, L06 drove growth; multiple new products launch in April. L06 advances with end-to-end ADAS and 30M km assisted driving.
Gemma 4 26B Excels at 262k Context
User tests show Gemma 4 26B A4B maintaining coherence at 94% of 262k context using llama.cpp and Unsloth GGUF. It handles complex tasks like debugging NVIDIA SMI scripts accurately. Optimized settings prevent looping at high contexts.
Hackers Use AI Tool to Breach Rockstar Data
ShinyHunters reportedly invaded Rockstar's backend via AI-powered supplier Anodot, stealing tokens to access Snowflake data platform. They targeted player telemetry and analytics data, bypassing multi-factor authentication for extended access. Ransom demanded by April 14 or data will be leaked; Rockstar has not commented.
AI Impersonates Musicians on Spotify
Generative AI is supercharging fraudulent music streams by impersonating real musicians on Spotify. Jazz pianist Jason Moran was alerted by friend Burniss Earl Travis to a fake record bearing his name. Experts highlight this as an escalation of long-standing industry fraud issues.
Curated 550+ free LLM tools repo
GitHub repo lists 550+ free or cheap LLM tools focused on builders: local models, APIs, RAG, agents, IDEs. Emphasizes practical dev tools over generic lists. Open to PRs for updates and additions.
AI Models Fail at Soccer Betting, Grok Worst
AI models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI perform poorly at predicting Premier League soccer betting outcomes. xAI's Grok fares the worst among them. This underscores limitations in LLMs' probabilistic reasoning on real-world events.
No Plans for Smaller GLM Models
A Reddit post suggests no plans exist for smaller GLM models from ZAI. A Hugging Face discussion on GLM-5.1 remains open, hinting at potential future talks like 'Air'. Users speculate on model development directions.
Game Team Tests 500 AI Tools: Only 6 Useful
Keywords Studios tested 500 AI tools in game development workflows. Only 6 demonstrated practical value. Most tools fall short despite widespread adoption attempts.
Didi Partners GAC Aion for R2 Robotaxi
Didi Autonomous Driving's Zhang Bo emphasizes prioritizing safety and user experience while pushing for global autonomous driving deployment. The team has collaborated with GAC Aion to develop the next-generation Robotaxi model R2.