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Meet Alyssa Yu, the 17-year-old Maryland student who built a mathematical model for what…

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A student from Maryland has developed an innovative model aimed at predicting the interactions of infectious diseases, effectively filling a critical gap in public health forecasting amid multiple outbreaks. Her groundbreaking research has garnered her recognition as a finalist in a national science competition. This mathematical framework could revolutionize the planning of focused vaccination campaigns […]

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Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture

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Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model built for cost per token. The checkpoint pairs a 125B backbone with a 51B N-gram embedding table and a 4B multi-token prediction module. Only 6B parameters activate per token. The team positions it as an early preview of the architecture that will underpin Qwen4,

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What will we get out of the AI boom? The data suggests lots of noisy, energy-hungry datacentres and not much else

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Booms in investment usually lead to economic growth. But this one looks unlikely to translate into better living standards for AustraliansGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe debate around AI and datacentres is such that, to paraphrase Paul Keating, if you walked into any pet shop in Australia, the resident galah

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AI Opportunity Canvas: How to Evaluate if an AI Project Is Worth Doing

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Most companies know they should be doing something with AI. The hard part is knowing where and how to start. The bottleneck we see, over and over, is almost never a lack of good ideas. It’s a lack of a shared, structured way to compare them and pick the best ones. Some processes sound exciting

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What Would Have to Be True for Agentic Coding to Replace Junior Engineers

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I read every major model release. Most of them ship a coding number. The number goes up. The conclusion everyone draws is that junior engineers are finished. I think that conclusion is being reached the wrong way. People are reasoning from a benchmark score to a labor market outcome, skipping every step in between. So

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With the end of physical media in sight, gamers have had enough

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An increasing tension between players and publishers about ownership of titles could lead to a divestment from the system the big companies are trying to enforceAt the time of press, there is a well-publicised protest taking place in the video games community. PlayStation 5 owners are being encouraged to log off from their consoles between

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