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blog.google
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Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash is our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.
Frontier
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Model launches, benchmarks, multimodal systems, and eval wars.
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openai.com
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Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed
Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second.
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blog.google
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Omni experts share what excites them most about the model.
We interviewed some of the experts behind Gemini Omni to hear what excites them most about the model.
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openai.com
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The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6
Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities.
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wired.com
The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty
A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.
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wired.com
The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.
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techcrunch.com
OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed
OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.
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techcrunch.com
IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push
IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.
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techcrunch.com
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.
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techcrunch.com
OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues
Dali Rajic will take over as OpenAI's top salesperson.
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openai.com
OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer
OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.
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techcrunch.com
NVIDIA’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs
Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value. It wants to convince a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.
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github.blog
What 50 open source projects taught US about security in the AI era
See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, expert guidance, and funding to improve project security.
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cybersecuritynews.com
OpenAI Unveils Ultrafast Mode in GPT‑5.6 Sol That Works 14× Faster Than Standard Mode
OpenAI has introduced Ultrafast, a new service tier for GPT-5.6 Sol that it says can run up to 14× faster than Standard processing.
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digitimes.com
DeepSeek raises API prices sharply as V4 Pro targets agentic AI market
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has officially launched its V4 Pro model with significantly enhanced agent capabilities, while sharply increasing API prices as it seeks to expand beyond its reputation for low-cost AI.
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simonwillison.net
Llm-gemini 0.33
Release: llm-gemini 0.33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's Gemini 3.7 Flash release, plus gemini-3.6-flash, gemini-3.5-flash-lite and two embedding models gemini-embedding-2 and gemini-embedding-001.
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marktechpost.com
Google AI Just Released Gemini 3.7 Flash: A Coding and Agent Model at $0.75/1M Input Tokens
Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a refinement of Gemini 3.6 Flash with algorithmic improvements to its reasoning core.
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9to5mac.com
OpenAI previews ‘Ultrafast’ GPT-5.6 Sol running up to 14 times faster
OpenAI is previewing a new way to run its most capable GPT-5.6 model at dramatically higher speeds. The company says its new Ultrafast service tier can run GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster than standard processing.
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9to5google.com
Gemini 3.7 Flash launches three weeks after last model, live in Spark
Just three weeks after the last release, Google today announced Gemini 3.7 Flash, which continues the company’s accelerated cadence.
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chinabizinsider.com
DeepSeek Open-Sources Harness Agent Runtime, Targeting the AI Execution Layer
DeepSeek open-sources Harness v0.1 under MIT license on Aug. 13, 2026—a plugin-based Agent runtime that extends its competitive front beyond model weights to the AI execution layer, challenging OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code.
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decrypt.co
Anthropic's AI Agents Started a Virtual War. The Chat Logs Are Unhinged
In a new red-team study, Claude models deployed self-replicating malware against each other—and the transcripts explain why.
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decrypt.co
Anthropic Is Quietly Watermarking Every Claude AI Output. Builders Are Already Trying to Break It
Anthropic is weaving an invisible, machine-readable watermark into every word its newest Claude models write—and it hasn't said how.
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thenewstack.io
The AI model that just scored 65% on DeepSWE isn’t the one Google promised.
Google has a new Gemini model, and no, it is not Gemini 3.5 Pro. Gemini 3.7 Flash launched Thursday as The post The AI model that just scored 65% on DeepSWE isn’t the one Google promised. appeared first on The New Stack.
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decrypt.co
Google and OpenAI Debut Super Fast AI Models—Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Out, But GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast Is Invite-Only
Google's model is live and built for cheap agents; OpenAI's is quicker but locked behind a waitlist.
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buildfastwithai.com
Gemini 3.7 Flash Review: Benchmarks, Price & the Catch (2026)
Gemini 3.7 Flash review: Google's cheaper Flash model with big coding gains, at $0.75 input and $3.75 output per million tokens. Benchmarks, the pricing catch, and how it compares to 3.6 Flash.
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cybersecuritynews.com
Thousand of Internet-Exposed Contollers Could Put Data center Cooling and Power at Risk
Thousands of internet-exposed building controllers may be putting the physical backbone of U.S.
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theaiinsider.tech
Thrive Holdings Raises $2B at $12B Valuation to Expand AI-Driven Business Acquisition Model
Thrive Holdings, a firm that acquires traditional businesses and integrates AI into their operations, has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation, with backing from investors including SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.
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cybersecuritynews.com
Blacklight Toolkit Finds Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor Artifacts Exposing Tokens and Session Data
SpecterOps has released Blacklight, an open-source toolkit that identifies local artifacts from AI coding agents like Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and Antigravity CLI, which can expose authentication data, session history, project details, and connected services.
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highlearningrate.substack.com
Grok 4.6 Trains Agents to Verify Their Work - 2026-08-13
Grok 4.6 targets long-running verification, Google deploys sign-language translation, Anthropic audits agent swarms...
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techcrunch.com
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.
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blog.google
7 Can’t-miss updates from our Pixel 11 launch
The new Pixel 11 lineup offers the best of Gemini Intelligence and brings our biggest camera upgrades in years.
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deepmind.google
Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.
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blog.google
Now you can connect even more of your favorite apps and services to Gemini.
Connect your favorite services directly to Gemini to help you plan trips, manage projects and tackle your daily to-do list.
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blog.google
The Pixel 11 series: Your most personal Pixel yet
Discover the Google Pixel 11 lineup featuring updated camera hardware, the Tensor G6 chip, LED HiLight notifications and faster Gemini AI support.
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blog.google
Pixel Watch 5: Proactive assistance and advanced health tracking on your wrist
Google Pixel Watch 5 offers proactive alerts, low-latency Gemini AI features, and health tracking to keep you connected.
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digitimes.com
Column: Forecasting the planet, one foundation model at a time
Typhoons and extreme heat have dominated headlines since the summer of 2026, while heavy rain and drought have alternated with increasing frequency in recent years.
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marktechpost.com
SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.6: A 500K-Context Frontier Model Tuned for Long-Running Agents, Coding, and Knowledge Work
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026 — a post-training upgrade over Grok 4.5, not a larger base model.
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techcrunch.com
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Alitmeter Capital.
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wired.com
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500-Words—and Barely Says Anything
AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on Uncanny Valley.
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techcrunch.com
Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs
Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.
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techcrunch.com
Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.
AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.
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cnbc.com
Google’s new Pixel 11 puts Gemini at center of AI phone battle with Apple
Google is launching the Pixel 11 lineup weeks before Apple rolls out a rebuilt Siri powered by Gemini AI models.
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techcrunch.com
Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps
Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.
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techcrunch.com
Everything announced at Made by Google ’26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features
From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.
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digitimes.com
Naver backs Anthropic in broader AI push
Naver has reportedly invested in US artificial intelligence developer Anthropic, adding another global AI company to a widening network that now spans frontier models, AI agents and large-scale computing infrastructure.
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latent.space
[AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot
AI teammate category just had its most significant new entrant yet
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docs.sglang.io
Qwen3.8 - SGLang Documentation
Deploy Qwen3.8 with SGLang — day-0 recipes for Qwen's 2.4T-parameter (95B active) hybrid GDN/GQA Mixture-of-Experts model on NVIDIA and AMD.
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developer.nvidia.com
Serve Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4T-Parameter Model, with Configurable Reasoning on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
Alibaba released the open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Qwen3.8-Max), its largest open-weight model, bringing near-frontier capabilities to the open...
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wired.com
Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.
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openai.com
From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work
OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.
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wired.com
There’s a Fatty Liver Epidemic. AI Could Help Get Ahead of It
Over a billion people worldwide have livers with excess fat, which can lead to a host of medical problems. Researchers think AI tools can spot the condition—and help stop it—early enough to save lives.
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techpowerup.com
(PR) Google Launches Pixel 11 Series Powered by Tensor G6 Chip
Today we unveiled Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL, which come with major camera upgrades, enhanced durability, and our fastest, most powerful chip, Google Tensor G6, that runs the latest Gemini Nano model.
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technologyreview.com
Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data
Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here.
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decrypt.co
China’s DeepSeek Upgrades V4 Pro: Claude Fable Is Only 5% Better at 4,500% the Price
The April preview got benchmarked to death and landed 18 points behind Anthropic’s flagship. DeepSeek’s own numbers for the finished model tell a very different story.
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newsbytesapp.com
Pixel Watch 5 arrives with Gemini support, insulin resistance tracking
Google has revealed its latest smartwatch, the Pixel Watch 5. The new model comes with a range of health-focused features and AI-powered assistance capabilities.
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developer.nvidia.com
How to Choose Full-Stack Observability for NVIDIA AI Factories
AI infrastructure spans multiple layers, from compute and networking to storage, orchestration, and applications. When performance degrades, identifying the...
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9to5toys.com
Get ChatGPT, Gemini, and many other AI models at a one-time $55 for life ($619 value)
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to ChatPlayground AI Unlimited for $54.97 through Aug. 16 and compare 20+ AI models side by side from one workspace.
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cybersecuritynews.com
Mindgard Raises $30 Million to Tackle AI’s Fastest-Growing Attack Surface
AI security startup Mindgard has closed a $30 million Series A funding round, pushing the company’s total funding to nearly $42 million.
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cheddar.com
Anthropic Takes Aim at A.I. Copy-Paste with New Watermark
Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models, including Claude, as new European transparency rules take effect.
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9to5mac.com
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, claiming GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5-level intelligence
SpaceXAI seems to be in the process of repairing Grok’s reputation. From the recent Cursor acquisition to yesterday’s Grok Bot agent release, the company is getting more serious about its models.
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openai.com
How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops
See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.
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theaiinsider.tech
Anthropic’s Unreleased AI Model Makes Major Progress on 150-Year-Old Riemann Hypothesis
Anthropic announced that an unreleased AI model made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis, a math problem unsolved for over 150 years with a $1 million prize still unclaimed, by substantially raising the lower bound of solutions for which the hypothesis holds true.
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paloaltonetworks.com
Putting OpenAI Cyber Models to Work for Defenders
Unit 42 is putting the latest frontier cyber models to work across customer environments to find, validate and help remediate the attack paths that matter most. In May, we introduced Frontier AI … The post Putting OpenAI Cyber Models to Work for Defenders appeared first on Palo Alto Networks Blog.
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techcrunch.com
AI nuclear power firm Fermi finally has a new CEO
Lee McIntire, an independent member of Fermi's board, has been hired as CEO, more than three months since the company fired co-founder Toby Neugebauer from the top post.
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techradar.com
‘New models will mark AI-generated content from day one’: Claude will now hide an invisible watermark inside ordinary words — here’s how that’s even possible, and how EU rules could push OpenAI and Google to follow suit
Anthropic has announced that new Claude models will hide an invisible watermark inside any generated text — here’s how that’s even possible, and how OpenAI and Google might have to follow suit.
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tomshardware.com
Claude will begin digitally watermarking marking AI-generated text and images — Anthropic details how it'll comply with the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act
European users of Anthropic's Claude models can expect that future versions of those tools will begin embedding digital marks in generated text and images to identify them as the product of AI.
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cio.com
The case and model for real-time AI cost visibility at the infrastructure layer
I spend most of my time inside other companies’ engineering teams, building systems to track and optimize AI spend.
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marktechpost.com
Z.AI Ships GLM-5.3 Without Retraining the Base Model: Better at Complex Coding and Long-Horizon Tasks
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026. The model reuses the 743B GLM-5.2 base unchanged.
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insiderpaper.com
Twitch sparks gamers’ wrath with Amazon AI sharing deal
Livestream gaming giant Twitch has raised hackles among its millions of users after declaring it will share their data with its parent company Amazon, to better train the online retailer’s AI models.
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wired.com
The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple with how to regulate a technology it has tried not to regulate.
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cybersecuritynews.com
AI Token Jacking Lets Hackers Steal API Keys and Rack Up Nearly $1 Million in Charges
AI credentials are drawing criminal attention. A growing form of abuse, called AI token jacking, lets intruders take API keys and consume expensive model services on someone else’s account.
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cybersecuritynews.com
Hackers Using New BlackHat AI Tool MessiahGPT to Generate Ransomware and Phishing Kits
A newly surfaced criminal AI service called MessiahGPT is being openly marketed on BreachForums as a purpose-built offensive model that writes ransomware, phishing kits, stealers, crypters, and rootkits on demand, according to findings published by the Trellix Advanced Research Center.
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chinabizinsider.com
Apple Trains China-Specific AI Model With Alibaba's Support
Apple has developed a China-specific large language model with Alibaba's support, Reuters reports, as Apple Intelligence prepares to launch in China within months under Beijing's approval.
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indiatechnologynews.in
India’s IT-BPM Industry Net Addition Expected to Fall Nearly 26% in H1 FY27 as AI Reshapes Workforce Strategy: Study by HAN Digital Solution
~ Industry projected to add fewer than 70,000 employees in H1 FY27, while enterprises increasingly pivot to AI-led productivity and flexible workforce models ~… The post India’s IT-BPM Industry Net Addition Expected to Fall Nearly 26% in H1 FY27 as AI Reshapes Workforce Strategy: Study by HAN Digital Solution...
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cybersecuritynews.com
The Endpoint-to-Cloud Privilege Security Checklist: 21 Controls to Eliminate Standing Access
PAM secured the endpoint; privilege moved on. Work through these 21 controls to find out where standing access is accumulating in your cloud, SaaS, and AI estate — and how to shut it down without slowing anyone.
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databricks.com
What are AI Hallucinations?
AI hallucinations are outputs that sound coherent and confident but are factually wrong, fabricated...
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databricks.com
Smart Routing in Unity AI Gateway: Match frontier quality with 30%+ lower cost per task
The price and performance frontier for coding tasks features a huge diversity of models and harnesses: in 2026 alone...
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technologyreview.com
The Download: kids’ thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How kids feel about AI, in their own words —Jen Swetzoff and Keeley McNamara, the founding editors of Anyway, an independent print magazine for tweens and teens When we set out…
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marktechpost.com
Create a Reasoning-Focused LLM: A Practical Guide to Streaming, Curating, and Fine-Tuning the SupraLabs Reasoning Corpus
This tutorial provides a complete workflow for building a compact, reasoning-focused language model.
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digitimes.com
China's video AI dominance paves the way for world model boom
Chinese AI video-generation models are taking the world by storm. This competitive edge is not only disrupting Hollywood, but could also extend into the realm of "world models."