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Google Open-Sources TorchTPU, a Native PyTorch Backend for Cloud TPUs

Google and Meta open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for Cloud TPUs. It runs eager by default, compiles through torch.compile and XLA, and replaces PyTorch/XLA for new …

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The new economics of enterprise AI

Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency — consumption is low and the value is obvious. But on…

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Tech industry leader raises concerns about NYC AI regulation | PIX on Politics Daily - PIX11

Tech industry leader raises concerns about NYC AI regulation | PIX on Politics Daily  PIX11

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DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, the Inference Framework Behind DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the Apache 2.0 inference framework that serves DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in production. It targets NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs, and…

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Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving

Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.

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Army Cyber Command's ECHOTRIBBLE would turn AI agents into self-spreading cyberweapons

The Army Cyber Command is developing AI agents that move through other networks like a computer worm and "neutralize" targets, according to internal documents. The program, codena…

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The Download: the claim shaking up AI and the internet’s agent problem

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. “We were looking at it wrong”: The explos…

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Cloudflare's Clairic pulls data from documents faster and cheaper than LLMs

Cloudflare has released an AI model it says pulls data from documents faster and more cheaply than large language models. The article Cloudflare's Clairic pulls data from document…

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AI adoption by industry shows what other sectors can learn

The current narrative around artificial intelligence in the workplace is largely driven by Silicon Valley. But treating the tech sector as an island misses the actual trends in te…

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US bans Deepseek technology across federal civilian agencies

The US Department of Homeland Security has banned federal civilian agencies from using AI technology from Chinese lab Deepseek. The article US bans Deepseek technology across fede…

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How to study a swiftly melting climate disaster

Andrew Haverdink, a tall grad student in a rain bib and rubber boots, wrenched a double-handed drill from the frozen soil that underlies much of Alaska’s Denali National Park and …

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These startups hope “blended” food will cut our appetite for red meat 

In the fall of 2025, Jeff Dodge set up a six-foot folding table in the cafeteria of Cane Bay High School in Summerville, South Carolina, to conduct a taste test. When the first ru…

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A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub

Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memory, Samsun…

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Opinion: What AI regulation can learn from a pint of milk - Coventry University

Opinion: What AI regulation can learn from a pint of milk  Coventry University

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Exa 3.0 Search API Tops Perplexity, Brave and Parallel on 8 Benchmarks

Exa 3.0 is a search API upgrade from Exa. It adds a larger embedding model, Exa Lite at $4 per 1,000 requests, and Dynamic Highlights, and leads 8 benchmarks Exa ran itself. The p…

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Cloudflare Releases Clairic, a System One Extraction Model on Workers AI

Cloudflare has previewed Clairic, a System One extraction model on Workers AI that returns typed values with confidence scores in one forward pass. It costs $0.10 per million inpu…

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AI & Tech Brief: Anthropic’s leaked bill - The Washington Post

AI & Tech Brief: Anthropic’s leaked bill  The Washington Post

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Advisory practices lacking in AI policy - SMS Magazine

Advisory practices lacking in AI policy  SMS Magazine

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Tennessee sued over ‘secrecy’ surrounding classroom AI policy meetings - WKRN News 2

Tennessee sued over ‘secrecy’ surrounding classroom AI policy meetings  WKRN News 2

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Inception Releases Mercury 3 Diffusion LLM at 1,068 Tokens per Second

Inception released Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM it says runs at 1,068 tokens per second with a 1M-token context. On Inception’s own table it leads GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on…

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Leaders debate how Toledo's new AI policy should apply to Flock technology - wtol.com

Leaders debate how Toledo's new AI policy should apply to Flock technology  wtol.com

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Should Flock cameras be subject to Toledo's new AI policy? Here's what officials say - wtol.com

Should Flock cameras be subject to Toledo's new AI policy? Here's what officials say  wtol.com

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Meet Drex Max: Nace AI’s Multimodal Decision Model for Computer-Use Agents with a Score 67.59

Nace AI released Drex Max, a multimodal decision model that reads text and screenshots and returns calibrated probabilities. Nace reports 67.59 on Decision Index 0.3.2 at $0.06 pe…

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Americans still on the fence on AI regulation ahead of midterm elections: 'not the end of the world' - NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts

Americans still on the fence on AI regulation ahead of midterm elections: 'not the end of the world'  NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts