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We present GLM-5V-Turbo, a step toward native foundation models for multimodal agents. As foundation models are increasingly deployed in real environments, agentic capability depends not only on language reasoning, but also on the ability to perceive, interpret, and act over heterogeneous contexts such as images, videos, webpages, documents, GUIs. GLM-5V-Turbo is built around this objective: multimodal perception is integrated as a core component of reasoning, planning, tool use, and execution, rather than as an auxiliary interface to a language model. This report summarizes the main improvements behind GLM-5V-Turbo across model design, multimodal training, reinforcement learning, toolchain expansion, and integration with agent frameworks. These developments lead to strong performance in multimodal coding, visual tool use, and framework-based agentic tasks, while preserving competitive text-only coding capability. More importantly, our development process offers practical insights for building multimodal agents, highlighting the central role of multimodal perception, hierarchical optimization, and reliable end-to-end verification.

The UK new car market grew by 24.0% to reach 149,247 registrations last month, according to the latest figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The increase reflects...

Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement.

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Last week’s adventures with the Exidy Sorcerer led me to write a Z80 version of the LZ4 decompressor I’d previously used on the SNES, the CoCo, and the Genesis. At this point, this has …

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The law, which takes effect May 6, doesn't make VPNs illegal — but it's a blow to your rights even if you don't live in Utah.

How the connected car became an advertising surface. From Stellantis startup pop-ups to GSTV pumps to Gulp Radio aisles, and the consent infrastructure the automobile never developed.

Firmware for the ESP32-C3 SoC Xteink X4 e-paper display reader - yattsu/biscuit

Farewell to a Giant of Botany: Peter Raven, the transformative conservationist and father of “coevolution,” passed away this week

How Wordtrak started

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PGX is stepping in to maintain pgBackRest as pgxbackup, ensuring critical fixes and PostgreSQL compatibility for the industry-standard backup tool.

Instagram will remove end-to-end encryption for direct messages between users from May 8, 2026. When the date comes around, Meta will potentially be able to see the contents of all messages between users on the social media platform. Encrypting messages has been an optional feature in Instagram since 2023, but in March of this year the social media platform quietly updated a help page to say the feature would no longer be available for direct messages between users from May 8.

A nanoparticle ink that can print structural colour onto flat or 3D surfaces could be used to create anti-counterfeit images, smart windows and displays, and vibrant artworks

A beautiful, interactive graph of the 100DaysOfJava series with topic intelligence and direct post navigation.

It would be difficult for modern readers to accept the text-only version of a newspaper. One online source containing "a brief history of the birth of photojournalism," states that the first illustration to appear in a newspaper, similar to modern courtroom renderings, was around 1806, and the first actual…

A comparison of 15 sRGB profiles from diverse sources: ArgylLCMS, color.org (two V2 variants), Cinepaint, DarkTable, Dcraw, Krita, LCMS, Photivo, RawStudio, RawTherapee, Scarse, ShowFoto, UFRaw, and a mystery profile.

A 200-line POC that wires the meta-harness optimization loop onto Islo sandboxes. Goes from 0/5 to 5/5 in four proposer steps.

Apple has removed more desktop Macs from its online store as the global memory shortage continues. Mac mini models with 32GB and 64GB of RAM are no longer available for purchase, nor is the M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 256GB RAM. The M3 Ultra Mac Studio is now available only in a 96GB RAM configuration, with higher-tier options eliminated. Both M3 Mac Studio and M4 Max Mac Studio models have delivery estimates of 9 to 10 weeks.