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All newsQwen’s Former Lead on What Hybrid Thinking Got Wrong — and Why He Now Backs Agents
Junyang Lin, the former technical lead of Alibaba's Qwen, walked through the model family in a talk "towards a generalist model / agent," then expanded it in an essay. We read both for practitioners: Qwen3 hybrid thinking modes and dynamic thinking budgets, where the merge fell short, the shift from reasoning thinking to agentic thinking, why agentic RL infrastructure is harder, and where reward…
Structured PDF-to-JSON: A Guide to Open-Source Extraction Models in 2026
Most enterprise data still sits inside PDFs, scans, and slide decks. Large language models and agents cannot use that data until it becomes structured JSON. Open-source document extraction has become the standard way to do that conversion on your own hardware. Two different problems hide under the phrase ‘PDF to JSON.’ The first is schema-driven […] The post Structured PDF-to-JSON: A Guide to…
Jul 5, 2026
New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?
Jul 4, 2026
Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%
The open-source tool pxpipe converts long text prompts for Claude Code into compact PNGs, exploiting the fact that Anthropic charges for images by pixel size, not text content. Developer Steven Chong reports cost savings of 59 to 70 percent, at the price of accuracy and speed. The article Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70% appeared…
Jul 4, 2026
Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.
Jul 4, 2026
Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code
Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.
Jul 4, 2026
Anthropic Launches Claude Science Beta: A Multi-Agent AI Workbench for Reproducible Genomics, Proteomics, and Cheminformatics Pipelines
Anthropic released Claude Science in beta on June 30, 2026. The app runs on existing Claude models. A coordinating agent delegates to domain specialists, a reviewer agent flags and corrects citations and numbers, and every figure ships with its exact code, environment, and full message history. It manages compute across local machines, HPC over SSH, and Modal, and connects to 60+ databases plus…
Jul 4, 2026
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Machine Learning Specialization
Andrew Ng's flagship program covering supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, and best practices for real-world ML.
Generative AI for Everyone
Andrew Ng explains how generative AI works and how to apply it in your work and life — no coding required.
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