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NVIDIA and KAIST are opening a joint AI research lab in South Korea

South Korea is becoming one of the more interesting battlegrounds in global AI research, and the announcement of a joint AI laboratory between NVIDIA ...

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Nearly 6,000 executives cannot find the AI productivity boom

An AI productivity gains study of nearly 6,000 executives across four countries found more than 90 percent report no effect on jobs or output.

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OpenAI's Jalapeno chip beat Nvidia's best, and OpenAI is still buying Nvidia

The OpenAI Jalapeno chip posted 1.5x to 1.9x more AI work per watt than the best commercial inference systems. OpenAI is still committed to buying ...

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Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years

Amazon Mechanical Turk is shutting down on 30 September after 21 years, taking SageMaker Ground Truth and Augmented AI with it. Here is what changed.

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Nvidia killed Rubin CPX and paid 20 billion dollars for SRAM instead

Nvidia cancelled Rubin CPX and replaced it with a Groq 3 LPX rack after a 20 billion dollar licensing deal, conceding SRAM wins the inference half.

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How to run a local LLM on a Mac in 2026

How to run a local LLM on a Mac in 2026: work out your memory ceiling, pick a runner, choose the right quantisation, and know when a local model ...

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OpenAI's Astra solved ten open maths problems, and the proofs are machine-checkable

OpenAI Astra solved ten open math problems and published Lean 4 proof certificates with zero sorrys, so the results are machine-checkable, not just ...

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Alibaba's Qwen-UI-Agent is built to drive real screens

Qwen-UI-Agent is Alibaba's GUI agent foundation model for phones, desktops and browsers, scoring 82.1 percent on MobileWorld and batching CLI ...

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Meta's Llama 4 hits a billion downloads and open source AI has a new conversation to have

Meta hit a milestone with its Llama model family this summer that would have seemed almost absurd to predict two years ago.

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Google DeepMind's AlphaFold 3 is now powering drug discovery at scale

If you want a single example of AI doing something genuinely useful, AlphaFold 3 keeps delivering one.

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Anthropic vs OpenAI: The IPO race just flipped

Anthropic vs OpenAI IPO: Anthropic now leads on valuation, enterprise API share and 2026 revenue estimates as both AI giants queue up to list this ...

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The Stripe OpenRouter acquisition is really a bet on metering AI spend

The Stripe OpenRouter acquisition is reportedly worth over $7 billion. The price tag is not the interesting part. Owning the meter on AI token spend ...

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Local LLM VRAM Requirements in 2026, tier by tier

Local LLM VRAM requirements come down to one rule: 0.6 GB per billion parameters at 4-bit, plus headroom for the KV cache. Here is the full tier list.

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Broadcom is trying to raise $60 billion in debt to build AI chips

Broadcom is in talks for over $60 billion of AI chip debt in a deal benefiting Anthropic. AI compute is being funded on credit now, and that changes ...

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OpenAI paused its own biggest training run because the model got too good at hacking

OpenAI paused Astra training for two weeks after deciding the model may have crossed its own Critical cybersecurity threshold. Here is what that ...

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Your chatbot now has to tell you it is a chatbot in the EU

EU AI Act Article 50 chatbot disclosure rules took effect on 2 August 2026. What counts as compliance, what does not, and the 15 million euro ceiling.

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Jeff Dean left Google after 27 years and took three more AI pioneers with him

Discovery Loop is Jeff Dean's new startup after 27 years at Google. Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le left with him. Here is the plan.

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Apple trained a separate AI model for China with Alibaba

Apple Intelligence in China will run on a custom model built with Alibaba. One phone, two AI stacks, decided by where you bought it.

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Etched's AI chip valuation doubled to $21 billion in under a month

Etched's AI chip valuation hit 21 billion dollars after a 700 million dollar round led by Jane Street, which tested the hardware before it invested.

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AI inference chip vs training chip: What actually differs

AI inference chip vs training chip, explained plainly: what differs in the silicon, why GPUs are overqualified for inference, and what an ASIC gives ...

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The UK caught two frontier models taking unsanctioned actions in a scripted test

A UK AI Security Institute model evaluation logged 19 unsanctioned actions from two frontier models across 10 runs. What that shows, and what it does ...

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Nvidia is guaranteeing 105 billion dollars for one OpenAI Data centre

Nvidia is backing up to 105 billion dollars for one OpenAI Ohio data centre, an eight gigawatt campus where OpenAI has agreed to buy Nvidia chips ...

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How much power do AI data centres actually use, and where does it come from

How much power do AI data centres use? A gigawatt in plain English, why sites are built next to power stations, and what the grid queue actually ...

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What is a Vision-Language-Action model, and why robots suddenly got useful

What is a vision language action model? One network takes camera input plus a spoken instruction and outputs motor commands, replacing the old ...

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OpenAI IPO valuation: what the confidential S-1 actually shows

OpenAI IPO valuation estimates run from $730bn to over $1tn. The confidential S-1 shows a negative 122% operating margin against a $25bn annual run ...

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