
ModelBest Drops BitCPM-CANN: First 1.58-bit LLM on Ascend 910B
ModelBest released BitCPM-CANN, the first 1.58-bit ternary LLM on Ascend 910B NPUs, using 6× less VRAM than BF16 with minimal capability loss.
Sunday, May 24, 2026
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ModelBest released BitCPM-CANN, the first 1.58-bit ternary LLM on Ascend 910B NPUs, using 6× less VRAM than BF16 with minimal capability loss.
Hermes Agent Desktop App Launches for Multi-Agent Management
Hermes Agent launched a desktop app for orchestrating autonomous AI agents with persistent memory and continuous workflows, announced via X.

Kling AI video used in 'House of David', first Hollywood production at industrial scale. Show reached 44M+ viewers, #1 on Prime Video U.S.

TrapDoor planted 34 malicious packages on npm, PyPI, and Crates.io, and injected poisoned AI config files into repos to weaponize Claude Code and Cursor.

NUS open-sourced PaperDebugger, an in-editor tool that auto-fixes academic writing clarity and structure. It runs locally via Ollama and catches 40% more issues than Grammarly.

Jensen Huang wants zero coding by NVIDIA engineers, framing it as a task to minimize. The bet is AI-generated code will match human output for performance-critical software.

KIT researchers show WiFi routers can identify individuals with near-perfect accuracy via beamforming feedback, tested on 197 subjects.