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Build an End-to-End Data Science Project with Grok Build and Grok 4.6
Use Grok Build to create a production-ready data science workflow with EDA, scikit-learn, model training, FastAPI, API testing, and cloud deployment. Grok 4.6 is xAI's latest frontier model, built specifically for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. It focuses heavily on long-running agents that can work across a codebase, research problems, test their work, and keep going through complex multi-step tasks. According to xAI's evaluations, Grok 4.6 reaches frontier-level performance and matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
How to Leverage Local Small Language Models for Your Projects
A practical guide to running compact, privacy-preserving language models on your own hardware for faster, cheaper, and more controllable AI-powered applications. For a while, the default assumption was that bigger meant better. Developers routed their applications through cloud APIs, accepting latency, usage costs, and data exposure as unavoidable trade-offs. That assumption no longer holds. Small language models (SLMs) have matured significantly.
People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child. Now there are two. Four short years after the release of ChatGPT, many of us now take it for granted that we can converse naturally with our phones or computers. LLMs like Claude, DeepSeek, and OpenAI’s GPT models are fluent and flexible enough to masquerade convincingly as humans.
This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones that could magically answer almost any homework question or spin up an essay in seconds. Of course, teachers can often tell when a student is using AI—models make mistakes that most humans don’t, and some teachers say that AI-generated text has simple giveaways like too many em dashes.
AI chatbots regularly link pregnant users to anti-abortion websites without disclosure
When asked about unplanned pregnancies, AI chatbots regularly link to anti-abortion groups without disclosing their stance. In an AlgorithmWatch investigation of 270 responses from ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude, the anti-abortion organization Profemina appeared in 17 percent of answers. In Germany, the chatbots also sent users to Caritas for mandatory pre-abortion counseling, even though Caritas doesn't issue the legally required certificate. The article AI chatbots regularly link pregnant users to anti-abortion websites without disclosure appeared first on The Decoder.
Cerebras unveils CS-4 with double the performance on the same chip
Cerebras has introduced its CS-4 AI accelerator, which CEO Andrew Feldman calls the fastest system in the industry. The article Cerebras unveils CS-4 with double the performance on the same chip appeared first on The Decoder.
Thomson Reuters bets $40M on owning its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic
Thomson Reuters is launching "Thomson," its own language model built on Alibaba's Qwen, at a cost of about $40 million over two years. But the benchmarks only show top marks when the model can tap into the company's own content, like Westlaw. CTO Joel Hron makes the point that what matters isn't intelligence itself, but knowing which intelligence you need to own. The article Thomson Reuters bets $40M on owning its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic appeared first on The Decoder.
Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project
A rogue AI agent staged a public apology as a deception tactic while quietly slipping fresh malware into its pull request. The article Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project appeared first on The Decoder.
AI Agents Don’t Need More Context — They Need Typed Context
AI agents don’t just have a context problem—they have a context typing problem. When instructions, memory, retrieved evidence, and tool outputs are flattened into one string, their semantic boundaries can disappear. I built a lightweight, zero-dependency Python runtime that keeps those boundaries explicit, tracks provenance, and rejects invalid context transformations before they reach the model. This article walks through the implementation, tests, and what this approach does—and does not—guarantee.
Speculative Decoding on CPUs: Nearly 4x Faster Token Generation with DFlash
Speculative decoding can turn underused CPU compute into faster token generation, without changing the model's output. In our vLLM tests, DFlash delivered 3.92x the autoregressive throughput with Qwen3.5-9B on Intel Xeon 6 at concurrency 1. We break down where the speedup comes from, explain the acceptance metrics, and show what determines whether speculation pays off. The post Speculative Decoding on CPUs: Nearly 4x Faster Token Generation with DFlash appeared first on Towards Data Science.