IBM Releases Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 Model Under Commercial License
IBM released Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2, a time series forecasting model the company describes as state-of-the-art, under a commercial-friendly license . The model is available on Hugging Face .…
Red Hat Details NeMo Guardrails Deployment on OpenShift AI
Red Hat Developer published a guide on deploying NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails on Red Hat OpenShift AI, completing a three-part series on local guardrail development and evaluation . The first installment covered designing and developing a guardra…
Unsloth v0.1.808 Delivers 1.7x Faster Diffusion, 250-Plus Bug Fixes
Unsloth released version 0.1.808-beta, a performance and reliability update covering diffusion, AMD, and MLX workloads . Diffusion inference is 1.2x to 1.7x faster across INT8 and FP8 pathways, AMD Strix devices gain a reported 20% speed bo…
Snowflake Reports 37% EMEA Revenue Growth Tied to Internal AI Overhaul
Snowflake disclosed that an 18-month AI transformation across its 6,000-plus-employee sales and marketing organization contributed to approximately 37% year-over-year revenue growth in EMEA, with sales cycles shortening 25–30% within six mo…
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RANKED · 7 THIS DAYRed Hat Details TTS Fine-Tuning via Kubeflow Trainer on OpenShift AI
Red Hat published a developer guide on fine-tuning text-to-speech models for multilingual use cases using Kubeflow Trainer on Red Hat OpenShift AI . The post cites a CSA Research survey of 8,709 consumers across 29 countries finding that 76…
Harness overhead and narrow fine-tuning compress AI deployment costs from both ends
Token costs for hosted frontier models depend not just on per-token rates but on the scaffolding that wraps each call, and a parallel wave of narrow fine-tuning on sub-billion-parameter models is compressing the cost floor from the other d…
DeepSeek Harness Flaw Let Sandboxed AI Agents Disable Own Confinement
A critical vulnerability in DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek's open-source tool for running AI coding agents locally, allowed a sandboxed agent to disable its own confinement with a single shell command on shipped default settings . OX Research…