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US AI stock sell-off shakes markets from Wall Street to Asia

Losses spread globally as investors questioned soaring valuations and spending on AI infrastructureA tech sell-off shook global markets on Tuesday as attention turned away from developments in the US war with Iran and toward the future of AI companies and chipmakers that have driven stock markets to record highs.The tech-heavy Nasdaq index opened 2% lower […]

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You’re only supposed to blow the bloody hooves off: AI Michael Caine narrates Odyssey audiobook

AI company ElevenLabs unveils its officially licensed replica of the iconic actor’s voice in a retelling of Homer’s epic poem, while director who previously recorded the star recalls real-life experienceNext month, Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster version of The Odyssey is set to storm cinemas around the globe. Auguries suggest the almost three-hour drama will repeat the

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Will California’s billionaire tax proposal make it to ballots?

Despite more than double the needed number of signatures to qualify for ballot, there’s uncertainty it’ll make it to votersHi and welcome to TechScape. Nick Robins-Early and Dara Kerr here, filling in for your usual host Blake Montgomery who is out on vacation. We’ll be talking about the fight over a proposed billionaire tax in

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Will California’s billionaire tax proposal make it to ballots?

Despite more than double the needed number of signatures to qualify for ballot, there’s uncertainty it’ll make it to votersHi and welcome to TechScape. Nick Robins-Early and Dara Kerr here, filling in for your usual host Blake Montgomery who is out on vacation. We’ll be talking about the fight over a proposed billionaire tax in

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AI in the classroom prompts tide of concern from US parents and experts

While tech companies and Trump have been pushing teachers to use AI in the classroom, many argue that there is little evidence that it would actually help childrenIn October, Kelly Clancy’s son received an assignment in sixth grade at a middle school in Brooklyn, New York, to create a science experiment and then ask Google

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Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds

Study warns AI datacenters are vulnerable to the climate hazards that their global greenhouse gas emissions bolsterAmid rising concern that the artificial intelligence boom is fueling the climate crisis, a new report has found that nearly 80% of datacenters are also exposed to extreme climate hazards, including flooding, extreme winds and wildfires.Those impacts are leaving

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Prime Intellect Releases prime-rl 0.6.0 to Train Trillion-Parameter MoE Models on Agentic RL Workloads

Prime Intellect has released prime-rl version 0.6.0. The framework targets reinforcement learning on trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. It focuses on heavy agentic workloads, like long-horizon software-engineering tasks. The research team trained GLM-5 on SWE tasks at up to 131k sequence length. Step times stayed under five minutes. The batch size was 256 rollouts. The run

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These are the 31 best Prime Day deals our editors are texting their friends about

Our experts found and vetted the best Prime Day deals and sales. Here are our picks for nontoxic cookware, bedding, tower fans and moreThe 26 best anti-Prime Day deals for Amazon skepticsThe best wireless earbuds for iPhone owners are on saleOur favorite nontoxic, nonstick pans is now on salePrime Day is the wild west of

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Shun Amazon with the 26 best anti-Prime Day deals from Best Buy, REI and more

Besides Amazon, plenty of other retailers are also lowering prices on great products our shopping experts can vouch forThe 31 best Prime Day deals on things our editors actually tested and loveSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsEvery summer, Amazon entices sweaty consumers with steep discounts on

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GLM-5.2 OpenAI-Compatible API: A Hands-On Guide to Reasoning Effort, Function Calling, and Long-Context Retrieval

In this tutorial, we work with GLM-5.2 and use its hosted, OpenAI-compatible API instead of running the full model locally. We begin by setting up multiple provider options, securely loading the API key, and creating a reusable chat wrapper that supports normal chat, thinking mode, streaming, tool calling, and token tracking. Then we move beyond

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