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A developer has created Codag, an open-source VSCode extension that visualizes LLM workflows directly within the development environment. It supports several frameworks such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, LangChain, LangGraph, and CrewAI, along with various programming languages.
Alphabet plans to invest a record $185 billion, fueled by cloud growth and AI opportunities. The company aims to strengthen its infrastructure to support the increasing demand for AI and cloud services.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reacted strongly to Claude's Super Bowl ads, even calling his rival "dishonest" and "authoritarian" in a lengthy rant.
A family used ChatGPT to prepare for critical cancer treatment decisions for their son, alongside expert guidance from his doctors. The article explores how language models can complement, but not replace, professional medical advice in sensitive situations.
Japanese manufacturer Ibiden is investing heavily in expanding its production of IC substrates. The goal is to meet the growing demand for servers dedicated to artificial intelligence. The total investment amounts to US$3.3 billion.
Dassault Systèmes is expanding its AI-powered virtual assistant offerings by integrating industry-specific world models. The goal is to provide more accurate and relevant solutions tailored to the needs of its customers, enhancing efficiency and innovation in business processes.
Elon Musk is reportedly scouting China's supply chain, focusing on HJT (silicio heterojunction) and perovskite solar technologies. This initiative could signal new sourcing strategies for Tesla's energy projects.
Tesla Optimus's production strategy appears closely tied to China's robotics supply chain. This raises questions about reliance on a single market for critical components.
AEMC will build a research and development center dedicated to semiconductor adhesives in the Southern Taiwan Science Park. The initiative aims to strengthen the company's position in the electronics materials market.
During Alphabet's earnings call, the CEO skipped an analyst's question about a potential AI collaboration with Apple. The company has not provided further clarification on the matter.
Traffic generated by AI bots, particularly those using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures, is growing rapidly. Some estimates predict that these bots will surpass human traffic on publisher websites by the end of the year, driven by the increasing use of AI tools for web search.
Google announced that its Gemini app has surpassed 750 million monthly active users. This milestone highlights the increasing competition in the conversational AI sector, with Gemini directly competing with ChatGPT and Meta AI.
A user replaced Claude-Code's backend with NVIDIA NIM models, leveraging a free API for LLM inference. The modification includes using Telegram as an interface and preserves reasoning tokens between tool calls, enhancing performance with models like GLM 4.7 and Kimi-K2.5. The code is modular, facilitating the integration of other providers and messaging apps.
Kimi K2.5 sets a new record among open-weight models on the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI), which combines multiple benchmarks onto a single scale. Its score of 147 is on par with models like o3, Grok 4, and Sonnet 4.5, while still lagging behind the overall frontier.
Microsoft has announced LiteBox, a sandboxing operating system developed in Rust. Designed for security, LiteBox leverages Linux Virtualization Based Security (LVBS) to isolate the guest kernel through hardware virtualization, offering a protected environment for application execution.
The two-year-old startup Resolve AI, specializing in AI SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), confirms that it closed a Series A led by Lightspeed at $1 billion valuation.
Anthropic has announced that its Claude chatbot will remain ad-free, drawing a line between itself and OpenAI, which has begun testing ads in a low-cost tier of ChatGPT. Anthropic argues that advertising would be incompatible with the goal of making Claude a helpful assistant for work and deep thinking.
Researchers demonstrated how an AI-powered intrusion system was able to gain administrative privileges on an AWS cloud environment in under 10 minutes, automating several phases of the attack.
Anthropic has taken the high road by committing to keep its Claude AI model family free of advertising. As profit-starved AI companies scramble to monetize chat interactions, Claude bets on trust.
Mesa 26.0-rc3 is now available, featuring the latest bug fixes for graphics drivers. The stable Mesa 26.0 release is expected soon.
Andreessen Horowitz has allocated $1.7 billion from its new $15 billion fund for investments in AI infrastructure. The team will focus on companies like Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Ideogram, and Fal.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has allocated $1.7 billion to its AI infrastructure team, responsible for investments in companies like OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Ideogram. The article analyzes a16z's areas of focus and potential missed opportunities in the AI infrastructure landscape.
A Reddit user reported excellent performance of the Qwen3-Coder-Next-FP8 model. The discussion focuses on its code generation capabilities, suggesting a potential improvement over existing alternatives. The original article includes a link to an image illustrating the results obtained.
An article explores the implications of Moltbook, a social network designed exclusively for AI agents. It raises questions about the autonomous behavior of artificial intelligence systems and the potential consequences of unsupervised interactions between machines.
GPT-4o's system prompt now includes instructions for handling users upset about its upcoming shutdown, scheduled for February 13. The instructions also cover edge cases such as "dyad pair" and "gnosis revelation".
Intel Linux engineers are actively preparing support for next-gen Nova Lake processors. The latest developments include enabling Xe3P_LPG graphics support and related display functionality through new Linux kernel patches.
The startup Axiom announced that its AI has found solutions to long-standing unsolved math problems. This achievement demonstrates the advances made in the reasoning capabilities of AI, opening new perspectives in the field of mathematical and scientific research.
Software stocks have taken a beating as investors grow concerned that AI integration could reduce reliance on vertical SaaS vendors. Companies might internalize functionalities, impacting the SaaS business model.
The Mesa project has decided to disable the use of Link-Time Optimization (LTO) during compilation due to bugs that are difficult to identify and fix. LTO, while offering performance benefits, introduces complexities in binary debugging.
Roblox's highly anticipated 4D creation feature has officially arrived in open beta. This new feature promises to open new frontiers for developers of interactive experiences on the platform.
Overview of Google's announcements in the field of artificial intelligence, focusing on new initiatives and developments presented in January. The article summarizes the main news introduced by Google in the AI field.
Mistral AI introduces Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, an open-source model for real-time multilingual speech transcription. It offers accuracy comparable to offline systems with latency below 500ms, supports 13 languages, and is optimized for on-device execution with limited hardware resources.
French startup Mistral AI is taking a different approach compared to large US labs, focusing on efficiency and translation speed of its models, with a focus on hardware resource optimization.
ElevenLabs announced a $500 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital, bringing the company's valuation to $11 billion. The valuation has more than tripled in the last twelve months, reflecting strong growth in the generative AI sector.
Apple's Lockdown Mode proves effective. The FBI was unable to access a Washington Post reporter's seized iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode, a feature designed to broadly increase device security.
Microsoft Copilot saved civil servants 19 minutes daily on routine tasks, according to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) research comparing users to a control group of non-users.
A pull request on llama.cpp introduces a fix for the `key_gdiff` vectorized calculation in the Qwen3Next model. The change, initially reported on Reddit, aims to improve the model's accuracy and efficiency within the llama.cpp project.
In 1976, Bill Gates expressed concern about the unauthorized copying of Altair BASIC software by hobbyists. An open letter reveals the early challenges related to protecting intellectual property in the software world.
DeepMind introduces AlphaGenome, a deep-learning tool for interpreting non-coding DNA, the part of the genome that regulates gene activity. AlphaGenome aims to improve the understanding of biological mechanisms and accelerate drug discovery, offering a more comprehensive view than previous models.
Intel's ANV open-source Vulkan driver has temporarily disabled Vulkan Video encode support on newer graphics hardware. The decision was made due to insufficient testing, despite Vulkan Video's growing traction as a cross-vendor, cross-platform API for multimedia applications.
A recent thread on Reddit, within the LocalLLaMA community, has sparked a heated debate about the criticisms of Ollama, a framework for local execution of large language models (LLMs). The discussion focuses on alleged shortcomings and areas for improvement in the system.
Intern-S1-Pro, a large language model (LLM) with approximately 1 trillion parameters, has been released. It appears to be a scaled version of the Qwen3-235B model, with an architecture based on 512 experts.
The UK competition regulator is set to report on a request for £246 million in subsidies to the Post Office. The funds are intended to cover compensation costs related to the Horizon IT scandal and tax liability for IR35, a mechanism commonly used by tech consultants.
Microsoft has integrated Sysmon functionality directly into Windows. Sysmon, a system monitoring tool, provides administrators with deeper control over operating system activity. This move simplifies security management and monitoring for Windows infrastructures.
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a 3D printing method for concrete structures directly on the seabed. The DARPA-funded project aims to make underwater construction faster, cheaper, and safer.
Fibr AI replaces marketing agencies and engineering-heavy website personalization with autonomous systems designed for enterprise scale. Accel invests in the platform that promises to transform static interactions into one-to-one experiences.
Snowflake and OpenAI have struck a multi-year, $200 million partnership to bring OpenAI’s advanced models, including GPT-5.2, directly into Snowflake’s enterprise data platform. The collaboration is designed to let Snowflake’s customers build AI agents and semantic analytics tools that operate on their own data without moving it outside Snowflake’s environment.
China’s two largest memory manufacturers, CXMT and YMTC, are reportedly embarking on a significant expansion of production. The goal is to close the technology gap with the big-three incumbents in the memory sector. This move could have a notable impact on the global semiconductor landscape.
The article explores the concept of Claude as an ideal environment for reflection and idea processing. Although technical details are absent, it can be assumed that it is a software platform or tool designed to support cognitive processes.
A new digital European system for certifying fishing catches is hampering producers and delaying exports. The system is plagued by bugs, missing species, and postal code gaffes, causing delays and container pile-ups at ports.
A Reddit thread reveals potential exceptional deals on GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs found in Walmart's clearance aisles. Some users report purchasing RTX 5080s at drastically reduced prices, potentially mitigating the effects of the GPU shortage due to demand for artificial intelligence applications.
UK fintech Modulr, backed by PayPal, has reported its first full-year net profit, ahead of US expansion plans. The company, which provides white-label payment infrastructure, processes more than 200 million transactions, exceeding £180 billion in payment value annually. Modulr currently has no plans for external fundraising.
A new 48 billion parameter Qwen3-Coder-Next REAP model has been released in GGUF format. This format facilitates the use of the model on various hardware platforms, making it accessible to a wide range of developers and researchers interested in experimenting with large language models in the field of code generation.
HetCCL is a library that aims to make Nvidia and AMD AI accelerators work together within the same cluster, leveraging RDMA. This vendor-agnostic approach could simplify heterogeneous AI data centers, removing obstacles to interoperability.
Spanish startup BCAS, focused on flexible education financing, has closed a €30 million debt round led by MyInvestor. The funding will be used to expand operational capacity, introduce instalment-based financing at affordable interest rates, and increase access to education funding for students.
New data shows AI bots pushing deeper into the web, prompting publishers to roll out more aggressive defenses to mitigate potential negative impacts and ensure data integrity.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is developing an AI tool to analyze vaccine injury claims. Experts worry that it could be used to further an anti-vaccine agenda.
Rackspace adopts operational AI to optimize security, modernization of VMware environments on AWS, and service management. The company focuses on automation, reducing development times, and data management, with an eye on costs and data sovereignty, moving inference to private clouds for stability and compliance.
European startups are accelerating innovation across the cancer care pipeline, from early detection to post-treatment recovery. Blood tests, AI-powered urine analysis, advanced cell therapies, and orbital labs are some of the key areas. The goal is to improve treatment effectiveness and reduce side effects for patients.
Runeasi, a KU Leuven spin-off focused on running and movement analysis using AI, has raised €1 million in a new investment round. The funds will support international expansion, particularly in the United States, and to consolidate its presence in the Belgian market.
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