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Machine learning community has been stuck on the autoregressive bottleneck for years, but a new paper shows that it's possible to use diffusion models to work on discrete at scale. The researchers trained two coding focused models named Mercury Coder Mini and Small that completely shatter the current speed and quality tradeoff.

Independent evaluations had the Mini model hitting an absurd throughput of 1109 tokens per second on H100 GPUs while the Small model reaches 737 tokens per second. They are essentially outperforming existing speed optimized frontier models by up to ten times in throughput without sacrificing coding capabilities. On practical benchmarks and human evaluations like Copilot Arena the Mini tied for second place in quality against huge models like GPT-4o while maintaining an average latency of just 25 ms. Their model matched the performance of established speed optimized models like Claude 3.5 Haiku and Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite across multiple programming languages while decoding exponentially faster.

The advantage of diffusion relative to classical autoregressive models stems from its ability to perform parallel generation which greatly improves speed. Standard language models are chained to a sequential decoding process where they must generate an answer exactly one token at a time. Mercury abandons this sequential bottleneck entirely by training a Transformer model to predict multiple tokens in parallel. The model starts with a sequence of pure random noise and applies a denoising process that iteratively refines all tokens simultaneously in a coarse to fine manner until the final text emerges. Because the generation happens in parallel rather than sequentially the algorithm achieves a significantly higher arithmetic intensity that fully saturates modern GPU architectures. The team paired this parallel decoding capability with a custom inference engine featuring dynamic batching and specialized kernels to squeeze out maximum hardware utilization.

The high-stakes lawsuit between adult content producers and tech giant Meta over the alleged downloads of copyright-infringing videos is heating up. In a new filing, Strike 3 claims that a Meta employee allegedly deleted over 9 terabytes of torrented files. Meta notes that this claim, which originates from an unrelated case, is mischaracterized and irrelevant. Regardless of the outcome of these and other ongoing discovery disputes, both parties aim for a trial in 2028.

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The USS Gerald R. Ford has been at sea since June last year. The Republican leader's decision to extend its deployment for a second time has snowballed into a growing list of problems, such as blocked toilets and sewage troubles.

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The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding member of the Palestinian-led BDS movement, endorses the growing, organic consumer boycott of Spotify.

In October 2025, Spotify users began to hear racist recruitment ads for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as the agency continues to terrorize immigrant communities and those in solidarity with them across the country.

Spotify’s complicity in Israeli apartheid goes much deeper than the typical lifecycle of these unethical and potentially illegal ads. The company launched in the Israeli market with a multi-year deal with Partner Communications Company Ltd, an Israeli telecommunications company listed in the United Nations’ database of businesses involved in illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

Any such deal violates the 2024 International Court of Justice ruling that Israel’s entire presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, is illegal and amounts to apartheid. Failure of corporations to comply with international law may also constitute criminal complicity, according to leading legal experts.

In the wake of the shocking ABC investigation into a rise of IS-terrorist inspired attacks on young gay and bi men in Sydney, NSW Premier Chris Minns has announced the government will implement new laws to combat hate crimes.

A group legal claim against South West Water alleging sewage pollution into coastal waters is harming businesses and individuals has been expanded across Devon and Cornwall.

Thousands more individuals could now join the first environmental community group legal action against a water company over the impact of sewage pollution.

Until now 1,400 people from Exmouth had joined the legal action but Leigh Day said on Wednesday it was being expanded to residents and businesses across Dawlish, Sidmouth, Teignmouth in Devon and Newquay and Penzance in Cornwall.

The claim argues failings by South West Water are wide and entrenched in many coastal towns across the Devon and Cornwall region, rather than just the Exmouth area.

"Water companies don’t own the sea. We are an island nation, the sea belongs to us all and for water companies to use the sea in this way feels immoral and ethically bankrupt.”