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Anthropic Alleges That Alibaba Pilfered Claude Capabilities

The alleged distillation suggests that enterprises should conduct due diligence into how AI labs handle their data.

Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect

At the right point of the orbit and stellar cycle, the star's chromosphere brightens.

The Hot Path Belongs to GBDTs, Agents Own the Cold Path: A Payment-Fraud Benchmark

A reproducible benchmark on latency, cost, and reproducibility, and where agents actually earn their keep. The post The Hot Path Belongs to GBDTs, Agents Own the Cold Path: A Payment-Fraud Benchmark appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT

Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.

How AI Could Help Address the Energy Challenge it is Creating

Data center company executives say AI can support energy transition goals while managing the technology’s growing power demands.

General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x

Un0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.

Beyond the Straight Line: Choosing Between OLS, Interaction Terms, and Tweedie Regression

Whether you should stick to a classic Ordinary Least Squares regression, introduce interaction terms, or pivot to a Tweedie distribution depends entirely on how your data handles the messy reality of zeros and extreme outliers. The post Beyond the Straight Line: Choosing Between OLS, Interaction ...

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General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

3 Agents. 3 LLMs. 1 Aging GPU: Engineering Parallel Inference on Bare Metal

Beat the 8GB VRAM limit. Learn how to run three different LLMs on a single 8GB GPU using C++ layer multiplexing and admission control. The post 3 Agents. 3 LLMs. 1 Aging GPU: Engineering Parallel Inference on Bare Metal appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster

Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.

Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027

Unlike with Volvo, there will be no authorization for Polestar to sell its cars here.

Repositioning retail for the AI era

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping assistants, but in how decisions are made behind the scenes: how products surface in search results, how in...

Apple ratchets up prices, blames the cost of memory

Some Macs are hundreds of dollars more expensive today than yesterday.

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The "sad inevitability" of Europe's heat wave

Europeans are baking under their second heat wave of the summer.

Bodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting

We spoke to Darren Blanchard, the man arrested while speaking out against data centers at a community meeting. He's sharing the bodycam footage of his arrest for the first time with 404 Media.

New effort will get genome sequences for entire Endangered Species list

Colossal Biosciences will be biobanking tissues from all of them as well.

Adobe acquires image and video enhancement tool maker Topaz Labs

Adobe said that it will integrate Topaz Labs' tools across its apps.