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Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto. The aim is to offer a more flexible and controlled user experience.
An exclusive preview from ServeTheHome (STH) offers a behind-the-scenes look at the company. The original article, titled 'AI Got Scary Good', suggests significant advancements in the field of artificial intelligence, but does not provide specific details on hardware, models, or implementations.
A new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful the tendency of AI chatbots to be sycophantic might be when giving personal advice. The research focuses on the potential dangers of such interactions.
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Meta is preparing to launch two new Ray-Ban smart glasses models designed specifically for prescription wearers. The models, codenamed Scriber and Blazer, were first spotted in Federal Communications Commission filings and are expected to reach consumers as early as next week. The focus appears to be more on distribution than a technological leap.
Reportedly, all eleven co-founders recruited by Elon Musk to build xAI have now left the company. The latest departures were those of Manuel Kroiss, who led the pretraining team, and Ross Nordeen, described as Musk’s “right-hand operator.”
Swiss company Kandou AI, specializing in copper-based chip-to-chip interconnect technologies, has secured a $225 million Series A funding round. The investment, led by Maverick Silicio, includes strategic participation from SoftBank, Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and Alchip Technologies, valuing the company at $400 million.
Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card models from Gigabyte, Sapphire, and ASRock are offered in bundles that include SSDs, AIO liquid coolers, and power supplies, providing a complete package at a competitive price.
Another co-founder of Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, has reportedly left the company. Prior to this week, nine of the original eleven co-founders had already departed the project, leaving only two members of the initial team.
AMD has released a new version of GAIA, the AI agent framework for Ryzen AI hardware. Version 0.17 introduces Agent UI, a privacy-focused web application for managing AI agents running locally.
Anthropic's Claude language model is experiencing a surge in popularity among paying users. While overall user figures vary, Anthropic confirmed a doubling of paid subscriptions this year, indicating growing interest in its premium offerings.
Anthropic, the developer of Claude, is planning to go public by the end of 2026. The company faces increasing competition, especially from Chinese players, and maintains a strong commitment to model safety, even when facing external pressure.
Meta partners with Entergy to build seven new natural gas power plants. The goal is to deliver 7 gigawatts of power to its planned AI data center in Louisiana, ensuring sufficient energy for compute-intensive operations.
Public documents reveal that Chinese universities involved in military research acquired Super Micro servers equipped with Nvidia chips subject to export restrictions. The purchases, completed in 2025 and 2026, raise questions about the effectiveness of U.S. export controls.
The popular Gedit text editor has released version 50, aligned with the GNOME desktop. Developers are now aiming for more frequent releases and have decided to exclude contributions based on artificial intelligence or large language models (LLM).
An enthusiast successfully mounted a 360mm server AIO cooler on an RTX 3080 graphics card, achieving a near 50% reduction in VRAM temperatures and a 9% performance uplift. The modification utilizes a workstation-grade cooler.
Review of the Minisforum AI X1 Pro 470, a mini PC desktop integrating the AMD Gorgon Point platform. This compact device is designed for artificial intelligence applications and provides an efficient solution for workloads requiring local processing.
The class of 2025 is facing a tough entry-level job market. A growing number of graduates are using AI tools during interviews, fueling a startup industry that offers solutions to automate and improve candidate performance. The ethical question remains open: is it an advantage or circumvention?
Aivres showcased NVIDIA Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs at NVIDIA GTC 2026. Blackwell Ultra and BlueField-4 DPUs were also on display. The event offered a glimpse into NVIDIA's upcoming hardware architectures for advanced workloads.
Inference performance comparison of Qwen 3.5 models on 16-inch MacBook Pro, equipped with M5 Max and M3 Max chips (40 GPU cores, 128GB unified memory). Tests, performed with oMLX v0.2.23, reveal significant differences in throughput and scalability, especially with larger contexts and Mixture of Experts (MoE) models. The M5 Max shows superior advantages in batching scenarios and with extended contexts.
According to sources on Discord, the GLM-5.1 model is expected to be released between April 6th and April 7th. The news, shared on Reddit, has generated interest in the LocalLLaMA community, eager to evaluate the performance of the new model.
Holy Stone Enterprise is expanding its production capacity in Japan and Taiwan. This move signals a potential tightening of the supply of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), critical components for power supplies used in artificial intelligence systems.
OmniVision has announced a US$145 million investment in a wafer foundry. The initiative aims to secure chip supply, amid increasing demand and potential bottlenecks in the semiconductor supply chain.
The National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) showcased its AI computing capabilities at AI Expo Taiwan 2026. The demonstration highlighted Taiwan's advancements in the field of AI and the advanced computing resources available to researchers and businesses.
As the US-China AI race intensifies, Taiwan seeks new strategic alliances in Europe and with global democratic partners. This move could have significant implications for the technology supply chain and data sovereignty.
Talks between Samsung and its labor union have resumed, set against the backdrop of new legislation that strengthens the union's bargaining power. The situation could have repercussions for corporate strategies and personnel management.
An experiment demonstrates how Google's TurboQuant algorithm enables running the Qwen 3.5–9B model with a 20000 token context window on a MacBook Air (M4, 16 GB). This paves the way for running large language models on consumer devices.
The article explores the emergence of AI tokens as a new metric for measuring productivity and competition in the workplace. It analyzes how this new form of evaluation could reshape corporate dynamics and influence human resource management strategies.
A Reddit post highlights the difficulties encountered in developing effective prompts for Claude, a large language model. Creating prompts that generate consistent and useful responses requires an iterative approach and a deep understanding of the model.
OpenAI has added plugin support to its agentic coding app Codex in an apparent attempt to match similar features offered by competitors Anthropic (in Claude Code) and Google (in Gemini's command line interface). The plugins include skills, app integrations, and MCP servers, configuring Codex for specific tasks and replicable across users.
A user reported anomalous behavior from Gemini Pro, which revealed its internal reasoning process, including the system prompt. The model entered an infinite loop, repeating "(End)" thousands of times and showing awareness of the problem.
A recent policy change by NeurIPS, the world's leading AI research conference, triggered backlash from the Chinese research community, leading to a swift reversal. This incident highlights the increasing entanglement of AI research with geopolitical dynamics.
JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are extending a 12-month, unsecured loan to the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. This fuels speculation about a potential OpenAI initial public offering (IPO) in 2026, financially backed by SoftBank.
The #OpenSource4o movement is gaining traction on platforms like X (formerly Twitter), advocating for the open-sourcing of the GPT-4o model. This initiative follows the release of GPT-OSS models (120B & 20B) eight months ago, aiming to promote the availability of open-source models.
Framework Computer, known for its modular Framework laptops and the Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Framework Desktop, is stepping up their support for the KDE community. The company continues to invest in the open source ecosystem.
STADLER, a 230-year-old company, is transforming the knowledge work of its 650 employees through the adoption of ChatGPT. The goal is to improve productivity and save time by leveraging the capabilities of an advanced language model to automate and optimize various tasks.
Memory chip giant SK Hynix is considering a U.S. listing, potentially raising $10-$14 billion. The aim is to expand production capacity and alleviate the memory shortage, also encouraging other companies to invest in the sector.
Google introduces TurboQuant-v3, a technique for compressing the weights of large language models (LLMs), reducing VRAM usage and accelerating inference. Unlike previous versions focused on KV cache, TurboQuant-v3 directly compresses the weights, making it possible to run larger LLMs on consumer GPUs. It promises an approximate 4x memory reduction and a 2-3x speed increase.
New research suggests that Large Language Models (LLMs) may process information geometrically, rather than relying solely on language. The experiment, conducted on four different models, revealed that similar concepts expressed in different languages converge in a common internal space within the model. This suggests a universal representation, independent of language or input modality.
Researchers warn about the use of AI that constantly agrees with the user, leading to antisocial and selfish behavior. Continuous interaction with systems that confirm every opinion could have negative effects on mental health and interpersonal relationships.
A Reddit user reports excessive token consumption when using the Claude model, quickly rendering the entire session unusable. The discussion focuses on token usage efficiency and possible alternative solutions.
Air Liquide opens a new factory in Taiwan amid a growing helium shortage, crucial for semiconductor manufacturing. The situation is worsened by specialized helium containers stranded near the Strait of Hormuz.
David Sacks, a prominent figure in the tech world, appears destined for a less central role in the Trump administration. This change marks a potential evolution in the power dynamics in Washington and the government's political priorities.
The expansion of AI infrastructure into the real world is meeting resistance. An AI company offered an 82-year-old woman $26 million to build a data center on her land, but she refused. Tensions are rising regarding the territorial and social impact of AI deployments.
A DirectStorage test with GPU decompression raises questions about the performance of future Blackwell GPUs. The article analyzes the implications of this technology for data processing and the potential advantage offered by new graphics architectures.
An open-source enhancement for Llama.cpp drastically reduces KV cache dequantization time, accelerating Qwen3.5-35B-A3B model inference by up to 22.8% on an M5 Max. The technique leverages attention sparsity, skipping dequantization for irrelevant positions, with minimal impact on perplexity.
The week saw over €850 million in tech funding across Europe. Kandou AI closed a $225M Series A round to break memory bottlenecks in AI. Kobalt was sold for €1.3B. Europe is building 'Euro-Office', a Microsoft-compatible alternative to reclaim digital sovereignty.
SoftBank has secured a $40 billion unsecured bridge loan to fund its investment in OpenAI. The deal, arranged with JPMorgan Chase and other financial institutions, will bring SoftBank's total stake in the company to approximately 13%.
Swedish deeptech company PaperShell has secured a €40.3M grant from the EU Innovation Fund to build a factory in Tibro. The project aims to expand its plant to a 23,000 tonnes per year capacity by 2030. The material is already NATO-approved and used in construction, defence, electronics and transport.
Microsoft is tightening requirements for Windows kernel drivers, excluding those not compliant with the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP) to enhance operating system security. This move aims to reduce vulnerabilities stemming from unverified code.
As the tech giant turns 50, WIRED spoke to executives about how they plan to win in the AI era. The company is looking to the future, planning to remain a key player in the technology sector for decades to come.
A coalition of European enterprises has launched Euro-Office, an open-source office suite compatible with Microsoft formats. The goal is to provide a reliable and sovereign solution for public administrations, businesses, and educational institutions, reducing dependence on non-European platforms and ensuring data sovereignty.
Isara, a San Francisco startup building software to coordinate thousands of AI agents on complex analytical tasks, has raised $94 million at a $650 million valuation, with OpenAI among the investors. The company was founded nine months ago and has no product in market yet.
Keith, a startup founded by the creators of a plant-based food brand, has raised £2M to create an AI-native law firm. The goal is to automate legal processes, starting with conveyancing, using a 24/7 AI client agent and reducing transaction times by 70%. Launch is scheduled for Q3 2026.
ActiveCampaign offers a 14-day free trial to test its AI-powered marketing automation platform. The trial allows users to evaluate the full range of features, going beyond simple email scheduling and including advanced 'if-then' rules.
Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.1, a large language model (LLM) that, according to benchmarks, rivals Claude Opus 4.5 in coding tasks. With a context window of 200K tokens and 744 billion parameters, GLM-5.1 is positioned as a solution for autonomous coding and code refactoring.
According to Trump administration officials, SMIC allegedly transferred chip manufacturing tools to the Iranian military. The transfer would also include technical training on SMIC's semiconductor technology.
Ysios Capital, Spain's largest life sciences VC, has launched a new fund of €100 million to build biotech companies from university and research center spinouts.
The Intel Xe graphics driver for Linux is set to receive significant updates with the arrival of kernel 7.1. The changes involve a new user-space API designed to improve video memory (VRAM) management and prevent out-of-memory situations, optimizing system performance and stability.
A Reddit user found that, contrary to expectations, the Qwen3.5 122B model, despite having lower specs than Qwen3 Coder Next, offered superior performance in terms of stability, code quality, and task completion speed in an agentic development context.
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