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BlackRock and Meta Form $14 Billion AI Data Center Venture in El Paso
BlackRock and Meta announced a partnership to build a $14 billion AI data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with…
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Anthropic in Talks to Lease $10 Billion in Compute From Meta
Anthropic is in early talks with Meta to lease roughly $10 billion in computing capacity over two years, covering chips,…
Opinions
AI Has Already Entered The ‘Loss Of Control’ Transition
Nathan Gardels reports on AI scientist Stuart Russell’s warning that artificial intelligence has entered a “loss-of-control transition,” in which systems…
Opinions
Mark Zuckerberg Articulates the Brilliant AI Future Ahead
John Tamny responds to Mark Zuckerberg’s Wall Street Journal op-ed on the future of superintelligent AI, endorsing Zuckerberg’s argument that…
Opinions
August 2026: Where AI Is Headed in the Next 5 Years
Jim Shimabukuro examines six converging technological developments he argues are shaping AI’s trajectory through 2031, including the shift from AI…
Opinions
Autonomous Weapons Are Outrunning the Law That Governs Them
Professor Elliot Winter of Newcastle University examines the gap between rapidly advancing autonomous weapons systems and the international legal frameworks…
Engineering
Training a 2.7B MoE from scratch for $200, one GPU at a time
A community project trained NanoColibri-Instruct, a 2.7-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, for a total cost of roughly $180-260 using a “relay pretraining”…
Engineering
Bekko Embedding: how small can a multilingual retrieval model be?
Bekko Embedding is a family of compact multilingual retrieval models built through layer pruning and contrastive learning. Its smaller variant,…
Engineering
LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU
Liquid AI released two encoder models, LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and -350M, built for efficient long-context processing on CPU by converting decoder architectures…
Engineering
Building abundant intelligence
OpenAI described engineering work, partly performed autonomously by its GPT-5.6 “Sol” model, to optimize the production software that serves its…
Engineering
The Fast Gemma Challenge: our verified-SOTA recipe, in full
The VIDRAFT team documented its winning entry to the Fast Gemma Challenge, reaching 510.58 tokens per second at a perplexity…
News
Trump Administration Bans Imports of New Chinese Humanoid and Quadruped Robots
The FCC announced on July 28, 2026 that it will bar imports of new Chinese-made humanoid and quadruped robots, along…