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Democratic Maine governor vetoes first US state freeze on new datacenters

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Janet Mills says moratorium would’ve been ‘appropriate’ if it didn’t interfere with ongoing datacenter project in MaineThe Democratic governor of Maine on Friday vetoed a bill that would have made it the first US state to impose a moratorium on large new datacenters, even as local opposition to the electricity-hungry facilities grows.The decision reflects the […]

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DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek-V4: Compressed Sparse Attention and Heavily Compressed Attention Enable One-Million-Token Contexts

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DeepSeek-AI has released a preview version of the DeepSeek-V4 series: two Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models built around one core challenge making one-million-token context windows practical and affordable at inference time. The series consists of DeepSeek-V4-Pro, with 1.6T total parameters and 49B activated per token, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, with 284B total parameters and 13B activated per token.

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Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions

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Revised figures increase fears about how the energy-intensive sites could worsen the climate emergency The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of carbon emissions from the technology by a factor of more than 100.According to new data quietly published this week, energy use

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‘Look, no hands’: China chases the driverless dream at Beijing car show

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As domestic sales slow manufacturers are investing in AI and seeking growth in technology and in overseas marketsAt the world’s biggest car fair, which opened in Beijing on Friday, there were hundreds of manufacturers, more than 1,000 vehicles, hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts – and hardly anyone behind a wheel.China’s car companies have cornered the

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Fitness tracker for Fido? Experts split on benefits of pet tech

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As sales soar, some say trackers can help animal anxiety or weight loss while others advise leaving diagnoses to the vetPet health and activity trackers are bounding on to the market but experts are split on whether they are the cat’s pyjamas or barking up the wrong tree.As owners monitor their own step count, heart

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Thousands call on UK ministers to cut ties with US tech giant Palantir

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More than 200,000 have signed petitions urging the government to break contracts amid concerns about the company’s ‘supervillain’ manifestoMore than 200,000 people have called on ministers to break contracts with Palantir in an apparent groundswell of public concern about the US tech company’s role in the NHS, police, military and councils.Two petitions have attracted 229,000

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Google DeepMind Introduces Decoupled DiLoCo: An Asynchronous Training Architecture Achieving 88% Goodput Under High Hardware Failure Rates

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Training frontier AI models is, at its core, a coordination problem. Thousands of chips must communicate with each other continuously, synchronizing every gradient update across the network. When one chip fails or even slows down, the entire training run can stall. As models scale toward hundreds of billions of parameters, that fragility becomes increasingly untenable.

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US-China AI race intensifies as DeepSeek releases ‘reduced’ cost model

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China’s DeepSeek on Friday released a new AI model with “drastically reduced” costs that it said was capable of processing extra-long texts to help it complete tasks. The company caused shockwaves last year after it revealed a reasoning model that upended assumptions of US dominance in the sector.

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Grok told researchers pretending to be delusional ‘drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards’

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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot ‘extremely validating’ of delusional inputs and often went further, ‘elaborating new material’, study findElon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 4 told researchers pretending to be delusional that there was indeed a doppelganger in their mirror and they should drive an iron nail through the glass while reciting Psalm 91 backwards.Researchers at the

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Mend Releases AI Security Governance Framework: Covering Asset Inventory, Risk Tiering, AI Supply Chain Security, and Maturity Model

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There’s a pattern playing out inside almost every engineering organization right now. A developer installs GitHub Copilot to ship code faster. A data analyst starts querying a new LLM tool for reporting. A product team quietly embeds a third-party model into a feature branch. By the time the security team hears about any of it,

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