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We are introducing Beam, Reflection’s first open-weight model. Beam is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 501 billion total parameters, 23 billion active, built for coding, reasoning, and agentic workloads. Beam’s capabilities come from major investments in both pretraining and reinforcement … Read more
This weekend, I had been intending to start writing a careful and comprehensive ‘how to argue against the people who believe AI is conscious’ piece. But, at this very minute, everyone is going crazy on the internet shouting at each … Read more
There are not many computer file formats I would trust to still be readable fifty years from now, but plain text is one of them. That may sound like faint praise. A text file cannot embed a spreadsheet, preserve elaborate … Read more
Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s environment, in particular, are known to have used other public wikis (collaboratively edited websites not … Read more
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said the US is closely monitoring the case of a Russian laboratory worker who died last week after a reported accident at a plague research institute in Siberia. “We’re watching and monitoring … Read more
Benchmark In Milliseconds matkladAboutLinksBlogroll Oct 5, 2026 How long should a micro benchmark run? My rule of thumb is to tweak the input size until the benchmark takes about 300ms, for the following reasons: Milliseconds are integers ranging from 1 … Read more
The future of independence is interdependence — Angie Dixon I spend most of my life in one room. At first glance, that may not sound much like independence. I cannot easily walk through my house. I need my husband’s help … Read more
Turbo BASIC Turbo BASIC started life as BASIC/Z and written by Robert “Bob” Zale. It was the first interactive compiler running on the CP/M operating system, but in 1987, Borland purchased it and published it for MS-DOS. It was sold … Read more
In this series, we are going to build a todo-list application using Haskell, GTK 4, and the Adwaita library. Adwaita will provide us with many useful widgets and styles. Let’s dive in! This series’ intended audience is intermediate Haskellers, with … Read more
We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We’re unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software, firmware and near … Read more