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Rays Place Garrett Cleavinger On 15-Day IL, Select Ty Johnson, DFA Oliver Dunn Latest On Nick Pivetta Attempts by European states to fuel Ukraine conflict will backfire — former US congressman Comedy is funnier when it is easier to process, new psychology study finds ‘Firewall’ breach? Germany is heading for potential upheaval in Saxony-Anhalt – here’s what you nee… Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft Cap Observations: Pelicans, Cavs, Raptors, Stretch Provision GitHub Introduces Project HydraFusion: Runtime Multi-Model Orchestration That Builds a Workflow Per… Rays Place Garrett Cleavinger On 15-Day IL, Select Ty Johnson, DFA Oliver Dunn Latest On Nick Pivetta Attempts by European states to fuel Ukraine conflict will backfire — former US congressman Comedy is funnier when it is easier to process, new psychology study finds ‘Firewall’ breach? Germany is heading for potential upheaval in Saxony-Anhalt – here’s what you nee… Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft Cap Observations: Pelicans, Cavs, Raptors, Stretch Provision GitHub Introduces Project HydraFusion: Runtime Multi-Model Orchestration That Builds a Workflow Per…

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How AI can benefit students learning in the classroom - Spectrum News

How AI can benefit students learning in the classroom  Spectrum News

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How AI can benefit students learning in the classroom - Spectrum News

How AI can benefit students learning in the classroom  Spectrum News

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Openness or Control? Assessing China’s AI Policy Landscape - The US-China Business Council

Openness or Control? Assessing China’s AI Policy Landscape  The US-China Business Council

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Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license

Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to outperform the larger Qw…

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OpenAI's Computer History turns your clicks and keystrokes into a searchable ChatGPT memory timeline

OpenAI's Computer History records clicks, keystrokes, and app switches on Mac and turns them into a searchable timeline for ChatGPT and Codex. The data is stored locally as unencr…

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UK Firms Face an AI Regulation Crunch, and Most Aren’t Ready - The European Business Review

UK Firms Face an AI Regulation Crunch, and Most Aren’t Ready  The European Business Review

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Study contradicts Anthropic and OpenAI claims that autonomous AI research is within reach

AI agents using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol were given six days, $3,000 in API credits, and GPU access to independently write AI research papers. The original authors of unpub…

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Greenfield School Committee votes against AI regulation - Franklin County Now

Greenfield School Committee votes against AI regulation  Franklin County Now

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Trump’s AI policy sparks fierce debate as lawmakers clash over open-weight models - The News International

Trump’s AI policy sparks fierce debate as lawmakers clash over open-weight models  The News International

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GPT-5.6 Sol goes 14x faster as OpenAI launches Ultrafast mode powered by Cerebras

OpenAI is launching "Ultrafast," a new inference mode that delivers GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second, powered by Cerebras hardware from their $10 billion partners…

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Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong 

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays…

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The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells

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. Flock is tightening its rules in response…

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Claude Code now runs daily maintenance on Anthropic's software with a 46 percent merge rate

Anthropic is testing whether Claude Code can handle daily maintenance of the company's own apps, from crash fuzzing to dead-code removal. In a few weeks, the AI created 388 pull r…

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Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.3, claims it's the strongest open-weights coding model

Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.3, a model that, according to its own benchmarks, is the most powerful open-weights coding model, with a 50 percent improvement over its predecessor th…

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Opinion | This Is One of the Most Important Policy Decisions of Our Lifetime - The New York Times

Opinion | This Is One of the Most Important Policy Decisions of Our Lifetime  The New York Times

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Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks”

This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female. They’ve developed a CRISPR-based approach to essentially cut out the Y chromosome. It allow…

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Job titles of the future: Space travel agent

Roman Chiporukha has long turned wild travel dreams into reality. Over two decades as co-owner of the luxury lifestyle firm Roman & Erica, he has orchestrated everything from the …

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This scientist is helping build a missing map of childhood

In 2017, Deanne Taylor attended a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania, just a short walk from her office. A researcher was there to unveil the Human Cell Atlas, an ambi…

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Why fragmented AI regulation makes governance a competitive advantage - Yahoo Tech

Why fragmented AI regulation makes governance a competitive advantage  Yahoo Tech

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Why fragmented AI regulation makes governance a competitive advantage - TechRadar

Why fragmented AI regulation makes governance a competitive advantage  TechRadar

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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. Every reported gain comes from scaled post-training: more long-horizon task environment…

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Meet Needle 2: An Open 45M-Parameter Tool-Calling Model That Ships as a 14MB Binary and Runs a Full Session in 28MB of RAM

Cactus Compute released Needle 2, an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. The full model is a single 14MB binary that runs a session i…

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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. By streaming the SupraLabs reasoning corpus from Hugging Face, we apply qualit…

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Spotify maintains growth amid AI policy controversy; focus on compensation model and feature expansion - 디지털투데이

Spotify maintains growth amid AI policy controversy; focus on compensation model and feature expansion  디지털투데이