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The 19th-century French novelist Honore de Balzac is believed to have said that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. That’s even more true today than it was 200 years ago. just look at how Big AI, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and others have built their trillion-dollar fortunes.

Federal-state stoush comes as rating agency warns that electricity bills could skyrocket Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Queensland and the Northern Territory have rejected the federal government’s plans to mandate…

XRC Ventures Founder & Managing Partner Pano Anthos understands the scale of the issue of AI governance with the insurance industry dropping or excluding AI risk, as companies struggle to manage their internal architectures against outside programs.

Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises TechCrunch

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while placing stricter safeguards around frontier systems, including mandatory testing and limits on China’s access to advanced computing and model capabilities.

Nvidia Corp. has committed to invest $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever’s artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, marking one of the chipmaker’s largest funding deals of the AI boom.

A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.

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OpenAI Close to Landing $500 Billion Data Center With Backing From Nvidia The New York Times

In this tutorial, we deploy the 1-bit Bonsai-27B language model using the PrismML fork of llama.cpp, which provides the specialized CUDA kernels required to decode the model’s Q1_0_g128 GGUF quantization format The post Deploying a 1-Bit Bonsai-27B Model with PrismML llama.cpp and OpenAI-Compatible…

Moonshot AI's Kimi team and kvcache-ai open-sourced AgentENV (AENV) under MIT, as part of Kimi K3 Open Day. It runs agent sandboxes as Firecracker microVMs with millisecond snapshot, resume, and 16-way fork, behind an E2B-compatible API.

For more than a decade, AI has advanced by training ever-larger models on ever-larger datasets. But as high-quality training data becomes harder to find and pretraining grows increasingly expensive, researchers are looking for new ways to keep foundation models improving.

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Reports of wide-scale replacement of workers by AI are overblown. Small businesses use it to help workers I recently met the owner of a company that sells windows and doors. He told me he invested about $10,000 in an AI application that is used by his salespeople in his showroom.

The company said earlier this year it expected to spend as much as $190bn on AI investments.

The vendor has attracted notable funding as AI-related cybersecurity concerns rise.

Organizations across the Internet need to move quickly to patch vulnerabilities.

Google and Samsung have revealed the Gemini-powered AI tools coming to the new Galaxy foldables and smartwatches.

It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.

Meta says its AI chatbot is going beyond just answering questions and generating images. | Image: Meta Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude.

Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability.

Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T open weights model.. and this is just the beginning.