🌅 AI Daily Digest — May 10, 2026

Data Pulse

• 9 news articles
• 1 tutorials & reviews
• 5 trending models
• 5 research papers
• Cheapest GPU: Tesla V100 at $0.02/hr
• 3 new AI jobs

Today's News

• 80 tok/sec and 128K context on 12GB VRAM with Qwen3.6 35B A3B and llama.cpp MTP A community-driven effort achieved a milestone in local LLM inference by running the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model with a 128K context window at 80 tokens per second on a system with only 12GB of VRAM.
• A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.5 Pro faced intense scrutiny in late 2023, following events that highlighted both its capabilities and vulnerabilities.
• B80-million Thai-language AI project launched Thailand launched an 80 million Thai Baht ($2.3 million USD) initiative to develop advanced Thai-language AI capabilities.
• Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free Anthropic raised the monthly cost for Claude Code professional tiers to up to $200, while Goose offers similar functionality for free.
• Do AI summaries hurt critical thinking? Concerns are growing about how AI-generated summaries might negatively impact critical thinking skills.
• Nvidia has already committed $40B to equity AI deals this year Nvidia committed $40 billion to equity AI deals in 2026, accelerating its investment in the artificial intelligence ecosystem.
• Porting microgpt to Futhark, Part I The kmjn.org editorial board released “Porting microGPT to Futhark, Part I,” detailing the initial stages of adapting microGPT to the Futhark programming language.
• The Download: AI malaise and babymaking tech This week’s edition of The Download highlights rising “AI malaise” alongside rapid advancements in reproductive technology.

Trending Models

Model	Task	Likes
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	text-generation	5805
openai/gpt-oss-20b	text-generation	4595
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1	text-generation	13324
Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B	text-generation	1234
openai/gpt-oss-120b	text-generation	4765

Research

• EMO: Pretraining Mixture of Experts for Emergent Modularity — Ryan Wang, Akshita Bhagia, Sewon Min. Large language models are typically deployed as monolithic systems, requiring the full model even when applications need only a narrow subset of capabilities, e.g., code, math, or domain-specific know...
• PianoCoRe: Combined and Refined Piano MIDI Dataset — Ilya Borovik. Symbolic music datasets with matched scores and performances are essential for many music information retrieval (MIR) tasks.
• StraTA: Incentivizing Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Strategic Trajectory A — Xiangyuan Xue, Yifan Zhou, Zidong Wang. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as interactive agents, but optimizing them for long-horizon decision making remains difficult because current methods are largely purely reactive, wh...
• GeoStack: A Framework for Quasi-Abelian Knowledge Composition in VLMs — Pranav Mantini, Shishir K. Shah. We address the challenge of knowledge composition in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), where accumulating expertise across multiple domains or tasks typically leads to catastrophic forgetting.
• Generative Quantum-inspired Kolmogorov-Arnold Eigensolver — Yu-Cheng Lin, Yu-Chao Hsu, I-Shan Tsai. High-performance computing (HPC) is increasingly important for scalable quantum chemistry workflows that couple classical generative models, quantum circuit simulation, and selected configuration inte...

GPU Deals

GPU	Price	Provider
Tesla V100	$0.02/hr	Vast.ai
RTX 4000Ada	$0.04/hr	Vast.ai
RTX 4070	$0.04/hr	Vast.ai

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Learn & Compare

• Review: Notion AI - AI-native workspace — This review provides an in-depth analysis of Notion AI's AI-native workspace, detailing its features, pricing, and key pros and cons. Readers will discover how the tool integrates AI capabilities into task management and collaboration, along with its strengths and limitations for different use cases.

AI Jobs

• Senior Manager Government & Industry Affairs Opera at VGW (Maryland)
• Mid Senior AI Cinematic Video Editor at EverAI (Remote)
• Asset Administration Operations Specialist at Forge Global (Denver)

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Community Events

New this week:

• Google I/O 2026 (Mountain View, USA)
• Springing into AI: PyTorch Conference Europe and ICLR 2026 (Online)
• Microsoft Build 2026 (Seattle, USA)
• ACL 2026 (Online)
• Papers We Love: AI Edition (Online)

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