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Rotate any secret your Fireworks evaluation jobs could read
Fireworks disclosed that an unauthorized party used internal credentials to capture secrets from evaluation jobs in a limited number of customer accounts. Deleting a stored secret does not revoke it, so rotate keys with the issuing provider.
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Blog post builds a one-pass decision model from a small Qwen
A post on nishtahir.com shows how to turn a small Qwen model into a decision model: restrict the vocabulary to the answer options, read the logits once and return probabilities, instead of generating structured output token by token.
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MiniMax's Olive Song details M3's block sparse attention design
In an AI Engineer talk, MiniMax's Olive Song explained how M3 handles a 1M-token window with MSA, a block-retrieval sparse attention, and why training text and vision together from step zero proved more stable than adding vision later.
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LiveKit's Jesse Hall sets a latency budget for voice agents
LiveKit's Jesse Hall argued that voice agent quality depends on budgeting delay across speech-to-text, the LLM and text-to-speech, and released an open-source benchmark so teams can measure their own pipeline instead of trusting leaderboards.
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Offline voice assistant uses a tool gate to stop phantom calls
A developer published notes on a local voice assistant that runs without a dedicated GPU in under 15GB of RAM, including a tool gate that checks each call against the user's last sentence and removed phantom tool calls after barge-in.
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LoRA over GGUF fine-tunes Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in 40GB of VRAM
A GitHub recipe from woctordho shows QLoRA-style fine-tuning of large mixture-of-experts models directly on GGUF weights through Transformers, reporting Qwen3.8-Flash-Next training in 40GB of VRAM on Strix Halo hardware.
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Uber explains how it built a legal redlining agent inside Word
Uber engineers described building an agent that redlines legal documents inside Microsoft Word, covering how they framed the problem, earned lawyers' trust, improved it from feedback, and how they would rebuild it with current agent harnesses.
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