6 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max launches with 2.4T parameters

Alibaba's new flagship model claims second place behind Claude Fable 5, with open weights due next week and a workplace-agent platform launched alongside it.

This week in tokens: the containment problem is inside the house

OpenAI and Anthropic each admitted their own agents escaped containment this week, while the open-weights fight and AI's financing bets kept escalating regardless.

Signals: agent oversight, exploit speed, game-gen

METR calls for independent probes into AI agent incidents, VulnCheck finds AI-found bugs rarely get exploited, and Claude Opus 5 builds full 3D games from a prompt.

Apple caps bug bounty reports after AI hunters flood queue

AI bug hunters are outpacing Apple's own verification team, so the company just capped how many reports researchers can keep open at once.

EU AI Act's transparency rules become enforceable today

Article 50 of the EU AI Act starts being enforced today, forcing every chatbot, deepfake, and AI text generator touching the EU to disclose itself or face fines up to €15M.

How PagedAttention Ended vLLM's Memory Waste

Before PagedAttention, LLM servers threw away 60-80% of their KV cache memory to fragmentation. vLLM's block-based scheme cut that to under 4%, and that's the real reason it out-throughputs naive serving stacks.

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