not much happened today

**Geoffrey Hinton** and **John Hopfield** won the **Nobel Prize in Physics** for foundational work on neural networks linking AI and physics. **Meta AI** introduced a **13B parameter audio generation model** as part of Meta Movie Gen for video-synced audio. **Anthropic** launched the **Message Batches API** enabling asynchronous processing of up to 10,000 queries at half the cost. **Together Compute** released **Flux Schnell**, a free model for 3 months. New techniques like **PrefixQuant** quantization and **Prompt Caching** for low-latency inference were highlighted by **rohanpaul_ai**. **LangGraph** added long-term memory support for persistent document storage. **Hex-LLM** framework was introduced for TPU-based low-cost, high-throughput LLM serving from Hugging Face models. Discussions on AI safety emphasized gender equality in science, and concerns about premature AI regulation by media and Hollywood were raised.