The Trump administration eliminated a key finding that underpinned limits on planet-heating pollution from cars and power plants, according to The Verge, while also seeing advancements in space travel and artificial intelligence. Simultaneously, OpenAI released its first production AI model to run on non-Nvidia hardware, and Nvidia developed a technique to reduce the memory costs of large language model reasoning. In other news, a website saw a surge in bot traffic from China and Singapore.
The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the finding that supported restrictions on pollution from vehicles and power plants, as reported by The Verge. This action was taken on February 12, 2026.
In the realm of space exploration, Europe's Ariane 6 rocket successfully launched for the first time, delivering 32 spacecraft to low-Earth orbit for Amazon's satellite broadband constellation, Ars Technica reported. The Ariane 64 configuration, using all four boosters, generated over 3.4 million pounds of thrust. The launch occurred on Thursday from the Guiana Space Center.
OpenAI introduced its new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark coding model on chips from Cerebras, marking its first production AI model to run on non-Nvidia hardware, Ars Technica also noted. The model delivers code at over 1,000 tokens per second, approximately 15 times faster than its predecessor. "Cerebras has been a great engineering partner, and we're excited about adding fast inference as a new platform capability," said Sachin Katti, head of OpenAI.
Nvidia researchers developed a technique called dynamic memory sparsification (DMS) that can reduce the memory costs of large language model reasoning by up to eight times, VentureBeat reported. This technique compresses the key value (KV) cache, which is the temporary memory LLMs generate. Experiments showed that DMS enables LLMs to "think" longer and explore more solutions.
Finally, a website publishing articles about paranormal activities experienced a surge in bot traffic from China and Singapore, according to Wired. The website owner, Alejandro Quintero, initially thought he had found a new audience. The traffic from these two countries now accounts for over half of the site's total visits over the past 12 months.
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