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    webAI Releases TwIL-8B, an 8.8B Reasoning Model Scoring 98.2 on MATH-500

    webAI released TwIL-8B, an 8.8B reasoning model post-trained from IBM Granite 4.2 8B. It posts 98.2 on MATH-500 and 81.6 on LiveCodeBench, but trails similar-size models on knowledge benchmarks. The post webAI Releases TwIL-8B, an 8.8B Reasoning Model Scoring 98.2 on MATH-500 appeared first on MarkTechPost .

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    Midterm elections 2026: all the news

    The 2026 midterm elections will determine the scope of President Donald Trump’s power in his final two years in office, and signal what voters care about going into the 2028 presidential election. While this year’s races are expected to be most broadly defined by affordability issues, there are several topics…

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Ghost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernatural

Ghost hunting has changed in recent years due to AI chatbots, and paranormal enthusiasts are concerned Ghost hunting is a tech-heavy pursuit. When Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting investigate haunted locations, they’re loaded up with software of their own design, such as an app that assigns signals from a phone’s sensors…

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Baseten Releases joey-1, a 2B Decision Model at $0.01 per 1M Tokens

Baseten has released joey-1, a 2B open-weight decision model that returns calibrated probabilities instead of text. It runs at 20 ms P50 latency and costs $0.01 per million input tokens. The post Baseten Releases joey-1, a 2B Decision Model at $0.01 per 1M Tokens appeared first on MarkTechPost .

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Poetry for Engineers: Of Code and Shortleaf Pine

I step into the warm moist air among the columns of the pines, their net of twigs and roots complex as any lines of code. The trees purify and anchor. Their branches balance my restlessness. Their calling is to be present, mine to develop apps. Our tasks verge toward a common logic: living filaments of root, of…