News
Anthropic Signs $11.6 Billion, Seven-Year Cloud Deal With Akamai
Anthropic committed to spending $11.6 billion over seven years on Akamai’s cloud infrastructure to handle growing CPU workloads, in what…
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Google’s Project Suncatcher: TPU-Carrying Satellite Set to Launch October 1
Google announced Project Suncatcher, an initiative exploring whether AI compute can run on solar-powered satellite constellations carrying its custom TPU…
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White House Asks OpenAI and Anthropic to Delay New Models for UK Safety Testers
The White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic to delay sharing new AI models with the UK’s AI Security Institute testers…
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UCLA Health Gets $25 Million Grant to Lead National AI Testing Program for Alzheimer’s and Dementia
UCLA Health received a five-year, $25 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to lead APEX-ADRD, a national program…
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Danske Bank and Mastercard Complete Denmark’s First AI-Agent Payment
Danske Bank and Mastercard announced the completion of Denmark’s first payment initiated entirely by an AI agent, which independently selected…
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Agility Robotics Unveils Digit 5 Humanoid Robot With New Safety Architecture
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, the fifth generation of its general-purpose humanoid robot built for collaborative work alongside humans without…
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Alibaba’s Qwen Team Launches Qwen-Audio-3.1, Cuts Voice API Prices Up to 95%
Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a five-model voice AI stack covering automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and real-time conversational…
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PayPal Cuts 251 Jobs at San Jose HQ in Latest Round of AI-Driven Restructuring
PayPal laid off 251 employees at its San Jose headquarters as part of CEO Enrique Lores’s multiyear restructuring plan. The…
Opinions
AI and the Nuclear Balance of Terror
Arms Control Association executive director Daryl G. Kimball examines how major powers’ integration of AI into nuclear command-and-control systems is…
Opinions
AI Is Devastating Local News. Who Will Hold City Hall Accountable?
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Mary Ellen Klas argues that AI-driven disruption of local news outlets is eliminating the reporters who traditionally…
Opinions
The Gig Economy Faces Its AI Apocalypse
Labour-markets columnist Sarah O’Connor argues that AI and automation are eroding the gig economy’s role as an informal safety net…
Engineering
Rufus-Air: An Open LLM Post-Training Recipe
Rufus-Air is an open, reproducible post-training recipe applied to GLM-4.5-Air-Base (106B-A12B), structured as an eight-stage pipeline spanning SFT, reasoning/coding/instruction-following RL,…