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Anthropic surges as OpenAI struggles to keep up

Stock market filing illustrates AI company’s meteoric rise, while California’s tech billionaires pour cash into elections Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. This week in tech, we’re discussing Anthropic’s meteoric rise, both theological and financial, and California’s unprecedented infusion of political cash from Silicon Valley.‘Like […]

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AI won’t decimate the arts. We must interrogate it, but we can collaborate with it

Opera makers have always engaged with the latest inventions while also preserving historic crafts. I believe it’s possible to look both forwards and backwards in this fast-evolving landscapeThe disquiet and distrust surrounding artificial intelligence among artists and creatives remain real and consequential, and the language used by leading arts commentators is often apocalyptic: AI will

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How will AI sycophancy change us? Early signs are not encouraging | Arwa Mahdawi

Constant validation and flattery from AI chatbots poses a serious risk to society and our shared grasp of realityDo you ever get the feeling that the people running the world are delulu? That the 1% are living in a completely different universe from the rest of us? You’re not the only one. Even some tech

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Alibaba’s Qwen Team Launches Qwen3.7-Plus, Adding Vision, Deep Reasoning, Tool Invocation, and Autonomous Iteration on the Bailian Platform

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.7-Plus. The model is now available through Alibaba Cloud’s Bailian platform. Bailian is the console international users access as Model Studio. It offers API services to external developers. The release follows Alibaba’s May unveiling of the Qwen3.7 generation. Qwen3.7-Plus Qwen3.7-Plus is a multimodal large language model. The model understands images

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Google owner Alphabet to sell $80bn in stock to fund AI spending spree

One of largest equity fundraisings ever includes $10bn share sale to US investment group Berkshire HathawayBusiness live – latest updatesGoogle’s parent company Alphabet has said it plans to raise up to $80bn (£59bn) in equity to fund its vast artificial intelligence infrastructure investments, raising further questions over the economics of the AI boom.The move, one

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JetBrains Releases Mellum2: A 12B MoE Model for Fast, Specialized Tasks in Multi-Model AI Pipelines

JetBrains released Mellum2, open-sourcing the weights under the Apache 2.0 license. The first version of Mellum was a completion-focused 4B dense model. Mellum2 is its successor: a general-purpose model specialized in software engineering. It covers code generation and editing, debugging, multi-step reasoning, tool use and function calling, agentic coding, and conversational programming assistance. JetBrains team

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Tuesday briefing: Palantir’s rise – and why so many oppose its role in the British state

In today’s newsletter: Its software is used from health services to militaries. But controversies and criticism of the $375bn company are leading some to ask if Palantir is too powerfulGood morning. The Peter Mandelson story keeps unfolding. Peter Walker explains here what is in the latest release of documents, and Henry Dyer takes a look

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How to Speed Up Transformer Training Using NVIDIA Apex (FusedAdam, FusedLayerNorm) and Native torch.amp

In this tutorial, we work through an implementation of NVIDIA Apex, focusing on the components that still matter in modern GPU training workflows. Instead of treating Apex as a general mixed-precision library, we separate the older parts from the still-useful ones and test them directly. We begin by checking the CUDA runtime, building Apex with

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Hackers trick Meta AI support bot to infiltrate Obama White House Instagram account

Breach confirmed by Meta raises concerns about how safe it is to rely on AI for key security measures such as passwordsHackers used Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot to infiltrate high-profile Instagram accounts, the company confirmed on Monday, saying it had resolved the problem after researchers exposed it.The targets ranged from Barack Obama’s White House account

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Florida lawsuit accuses OpenAI of ignoring safety warnings and putting children at risk

State sues maker of ChatGPT and CEO Sam Altman, alleging company ‘allowed a dangerous product to reach millions’Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and its CEO, Sam Altman, on Monday alleging that the company concealed serious safety risks with its chatbot. Florida is the first state in the US to sue

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