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TLS in Go: signing handshakes inside a TPM

Published on September 7, 2026, the article discusses client certificates whose private key stays in a TPM, Go's crypto/tls requirements, and per-handshake cost. It reports no quantitative results.

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MaAI updates its English VAP model

On September 6, 2026, MaAI said its English VAP model was trained on a larger scale of data. The project predicts conversational cues and head movements in real time.

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Launch announces streaming ASR with diarization

A September 3, 2026 publication announces a streaming speech recognition model combining transcription and diarization. The text provides no performance metrics or details.

Engineering ·

Depth-wise batching for recurrent models

A September 2, 2026 post introduces depth-wise batching: overlapping requests at different recurrent depths to potentially improve utilization with adaptive compute.

Engineering ·

NoRA changes LoRA initialization

A September 2, 2026 post describes NoRA, which normalizes the columns of LoRA matrix A at initialization, and reports higher average results than several adaptation methods in SFT and RLVR.

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Zvec team launches local search tool zg

On September 2, 2026, Alibaba's Zvec team said it released zg as open source, a local search tool for developers and AI agents.

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Checks reduce errors in AI-generated papers

Published on September 1, 2026, this Radar item summarizes an arXiv paper: checking manuscript claims against execution logs reduced the reported rate of serious hallucinations to 4%.

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CERN slides introduce LLM training

A post dated August 31, 2026, says slides from a CERN talk on LLM training are available as a PDF and that an online recording is available.

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Article reviews policy gradients and variants

An article on reinforcement learning foundations derives the policy gradient algorithm and discusses variants, providing review material for engineers.

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KV Cache: Queries Are Not Kept

A post dated August 30, 2026 distinguishes the one-time use of queries from the retention of keys and values in the KV cache during inference.

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