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Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen 3.5 Medium Model Series: A Production Powerhouse Proving that Smaller AI Models are Smarter

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The development of large language models (LLMs) has been defined by the pursuit of raw scale. While increasing parameter counts into the trillions initially drove performance gains, it also introduced significant infrastructure overhead and diminishing marginal utility. The release of the Qwen 3.5 Medium Model Series signals a shift in Alibaba’s Qwen approach, prioritizing architectural […]

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‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report has rattled markets

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Scenario posted on Substack envisages a near-future in which autonomous systems upend the entire US economyUS stock markets have been hit by a further wave of AI jitters, this time from yet another viral – and completely speculative – warning about the impact of the technology on the world’s largest economy.The latest foreboding is from

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US datacenters face slew of problems amid grassroots protests against AI

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New constructions delayed or cancelled, raising questions about US’s ability to expand infrastructure to support boomCancellations and delays of new US datacenters have increased as the artificial intelligence boom runs up against a slate of issues, including supply chain snags, energy shortages and tariff-induced restraints.Grassroots opposition from local communities has also derailed some plans, and

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Tech’s politics push at home and abroad

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We report from California’s Silicon Valley, where billionaires pour money into midterms, and the AI Impact summit, where India pushes back on ‘AI monopoly’ held by US and ChinaHello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, we’re examining the tech industry’s push for influence in two places separated by a time difference of 13 hours and

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Amused by that AI video of a dancing raccoon? This is how the misery starts | Polly Hudson

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AI is already coming for our dignity – tricking us with amusing little online scenarios. How long before it comes for everything else?Moan all you like about technology, there’s no denying it’s made friendship easier. In an ideal world you would spend quality time together, have deep meaningful chats on the phone and swap well

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Reddit fined £14.5m in UK over use of under-13s’ data

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Information Commissioner’s Office imposes largest fine yet for a breach of children’s privacy The UK information regulator has fined the social news service Reddit £14.5m for using the data of children under the age of 13 unlawfully and potentially exposing them to inappropriate and harmful content.The hefty punishment from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is

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Meta agrees $60bn deal with chipmaker AMD despite AI bubble fears

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Facebook owner’s investment described by semiconductor company as ‘big bet’ on artificial intelligenceBusiness live – latest updatesThe owner of Facebook has agreed to buy $60bn (£44.5bn) of artificial intelligence chips from the US semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices despite fears over the vast sums being spent on the AI industry.Meta, which also owns Instagram and

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Court backlog will take decade to fall to pre-Covid levels despite overhaul, says MoJ

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Justice secretary says only his measures will stop backlog in England and Wales from increasing exponentiallyThe backlog in criminal courts in England and Wales will take a decade to fall to pre-Covid levels despite radical changes including curtailing jury trials, according to figures from the Ministry of Justice.The justice secretary, David Lammy, said the government

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The best massage guns in the UK to relieve sore, tired muscles

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Add percussive therapy to your post-workout routine with our expert picks, including mini and deep-tissue models. Plus, a brand new frontrunner now in top spot• The best running shoes, testedMassage guns are often pitched at the highly active. They can help you warm up for workouts, accelerate recovery and generally keep things loose and injury-free.

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Google DeepMind Researchers Apply Semantic Evolution to Create Non Intuitive VAD-CFR and SHOR-PSRO Variants for Superior Algorithmic Convergence

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In the competitive arena of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), progress has long been bottlenecked by human intuition. For years, researchers have manually refined algorithms like Counterfactual Regret Minimization (CFR) and Policy Space Response Oracles (PSRO), navigating a vast combinatorial space of update rules via trial-and-error. Google DeepMind research team has now shifted this paradigm with

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