ZeroSlop — October 28, 2026
Today: Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With…; WAKMan: Workload Aware KVCache Manager; BehaveRec: When Does Long-Term Behavioral History Help…
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With 10M-Token Context
MarkTechPost
Mirendil released Fern 0.1, its first model, pretrained from scratch with a 10M-token context window. It targets agentic AI R&D work, scores 100% on RULER single needle at 10M, but trails frontier models on agentic coding. The post Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With 10M-Token Context …
2. WAKMan: Workload Aware KVCache Manager
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2610.36355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prefix caching enables a Large Language Model (LLM) servers to reuse the Key-Value (KV) states and accelerate prefill computation stage for requests that share a prefix with earlier prompts, thus reducing latency and serving cost. With limited memory …
3. BehaveRec: When Does Long-Term Behavioral History Help Sequential Recommendation? A Study with Session, History, and Community Signals
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2610.36239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential recommendation models typically predict a user’s next action from recent session interactions, which limits personalization when short-term signals are weak or ambiguous. Rather than assuming that incorporating longer-term history and commu…
4. LM-DSB: A Lightweight Multi-agent System for Automated Daily Safety Bulletin Generation in Construction
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2610.36433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Construction safety management still struggles to produce daily safety bulletins (DSBs), structured daily communications that identify site-specific hazards, convey safety protocols, and set preventive measures for workers. Manual DSB creation takes 2…
5. Liquid AI Releases LFM3: 6 Open-Weight 2B-Class Multimodal Models
MarkTechPost
Liquid AI released LFM3, 6 open-weight 2B-class models for text, vision, audio, omni and decisions. LFM3-1.7B uses a tri-hybrid backbone, a 256K context window and fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit. The post Liquid AI Releases LFM3: 6 Open-Weight 2B-Class Multimodal Models appeared first on MarkTechPost ….
6. RouteDRAG: Learning to Route and Control Agentic Execution for Multimodal Document RAG
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2610.36444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web-based applications increasingly rely on understanding long multimodal documents, where answering questions often requires combining information across pages, tables, and figures. Agentic retrieval-augmented generation addresses these tasks through…
7. OpenAI expands partnership with Oracle to bring its apps to ChatGPT
OpenAI News
OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their partnership to bring business applications and AI agents into ChatGPT and power new Oracle offerings….
8. Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies
TechCrunch AI
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs….
9. Anthropic accelerates – for the rest of us, the speed of growth spells precarity
The Guardian Tech
The AI industry is still defined by a careening intensity that’s taking the world’s finances along for the ride This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. Sign up to receive it here . Today in tech, we’re discussing Anthropic ’s astronomic growth,…
10. Meet Google DeepMind’s Genie 4: Real-Time World Model With Native Audio
MarkTechPost
Google DeepMind released Genie 4 as a research preview. The real-time world model adds native audio, live dialogue and text steering, with Gemini 3.8 Flash planning events inside the simulation loop. The post Meet Google DeepMind’s Genie 4: Real-Time World Model With Native Audio appeared first on M…
11. Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs
The Verge AI
On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing increasingly tired of…
12. General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative
TechCrunch AI
General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem….