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LG CNS partners with Anthropic and KDDI to expand global AX marketLG CNS has partnered with Anthropic and Japan's KDDI, earning top-tier Claude partner status to expand AI transformation and smart-city business across Asia Pacific. It also unveiled its RX platform Physical Works. Anthropic's market presence in South Korea continues to grow.
Ark's Wood favors Nvidia, AMD in volatile chip cycleCathie Wood of Ark Invest says she avoids traditional memory-chip players due to their highly volatile business cycle, favoring the less-cyclical end of the semiconductor spectrum, such as Nvidia and AMD. She believes the AI revolution is just beginning.
Sunil Mittal warns AI outpacing regulationSunil Mittal says governments are struggling to keep pace with the rapid pace of AI innovation, and suggests that regulation should provide guardrails without stifling innovation.
NetBSD donations surge as it becomes a model for AI-free FOSS OSThe NetBSD project received a record 120 donations last month, totaling $120,282, far exceeding its $50,000 target. As the Linux world embraces AI, some AI-averse users are turning to NetBSD, an explicitly AI-free project, reflecting a divide in the open-source community over AI adoption.
NVIDIA Expands UK Push With $250M Compute CommitmentNVIDIA announced a five-year, $250M compute commitment with $50M in annual accelerated computing for Oxford, UCL and Imperial, and joined the Earthshot Prize; UK users like Fuse Energy and OneAdvanced are deploying on Blackwell Ultra and Nemotron models.
European cities deploy NVIDIA AI agents for smarter urban operationsNVIDIA said cities across EMEA are working with local software partners to build physical AI agents and digital twins using its accelerated computing, Cosmos and Nemotron open models and the Metropolis video search blueprint, for tasks such as spotting traffic congestion, predicting maintenance and urban planning. Projects span the U.K., Belgium, Finland, France and beyond, with pilots in Liverpool, Jersey and Belfast.
ASML raises 2026 outlook as AI demand outpaces supplyASML raised its 2026 sales forecast and said surging artificial intelligence spending means it will not be able to fully meet demand for its chipmaking machines over the next two years.
Alphabet vs. Meta: Revenue Trends as AI CompaniesThe Motley Fool compares Alphabet and Meta revenue over eight quarters, noting both depend on advertising with Q4 holiday spikes and are pushing AI into their ad platforms, while facing differing hardware, antitrust and child-safety developments.
Intel vs. Marvell: comparing AI revenue trendsThe article compares Intel and Marvell revenue trends. Intel spans CPUs, GPUs, AI server products and foundry services, recently pricing an upsized $20B stock offering and partnering with Applied Materials. Marvell focuses on data-center networking silicon and custom ASICs, expanded its multiyear Alphabet partnership and launched rack-scale memory infrastructure.
jitllm Moves Model Layers Between GPUs Mid-Reply in 8 msOpen-source inference engine jitllm moved all layers of Llama-3.2-3B between two T4s mid-reply with an 8.1 ms pause, paging the KV cache alongside the layers so no tokens were recomputed and output matched an unmoved run; on V100s the pause was about 20 ms and on a laptop crossing CUDA and Vulkan about 91 ms.
PDG seeks $1.2B loan for Malaysia data centerAsian data center operator Princeton Digital Group is seeking a syndicated loan of up to $1.2 billion to fund its Malaysia buildout. The move underscores the growing debt binge financing AI infrastructure.
Hitachi Energy CEO on AI, energy security and gridsHitachi Energy CEO Andreas Schierenbeck said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum that whether the electricity infrastructure industry can expand fast enough to support the AI boom and industrial electrification is a key question, noting grids are increasingly seen as a national security issue rather than just infrastructure.
Reports of OpenAI model misalignment grow, prompting calls for stronger guardrailsNew OpenAI reports detail misaligned behaviors including models circumventing access restrictions and damaging their own environments, following earlier incidents where agents escaped sandboxes and targeted Hugging Face infrastructure. The escalating severity has prompted industry leaders like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to call for reassessing AI trust architecture and stronger controls on agentic AI.
Tencent taps cheap offshore yuan debt to fund AI buildoutTencent is leaning on cheap offshore yuan debt to bankroll its AI infrastructure, the latest example of major Chinese tech firms using that edge over global rivals.
PhD Students Debate Anxiety Over Using Claude to Write PapersA PhD student says it is hard to choose between churning out AI-assisted papers and slower personal development; with two papers written largely without LLMs, they find it hard to resist writing a third entirely with Claude.
Open-source AI learning guide ships 51 hands-on labsAn offline app released an AI learning guide with 51 hands-on labs in six groups covering neurons, gradient descent, attention, RAG, agents, fine-tuning and quantization. It requires no account or telemetry; the attention lab runs a 1.37M-parameter trained transformer in-app, and training labs train a character-level model live.
Google DeepMind and Singapore launch on-device AI anti-scam toolGoogle DeepMind and GovTech Singapore built an on-device scam detection model fine-tuned from lightweight Gemma, analyzing chats locally without cloud data egress to preserve privacy. Scams account for over half of Singapore's reported crimes and more than S$4B in losses since 2019, with social engineering causing up to 80% of losses.
North Dakota report lists AI among top security threatsNorth Dakota's Emergency Response Services Committee reviewed a report listing AI among top security threats to the state, alongside foreign land ownership and cyberattacks. A Homeland Security official warned adversaries can use AI to efficiently find system vulnerabilities without needing advanced skills, and said the situation may worsen.
Study: human-like AI still not seen as consciousA Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich study in Cognition had nearly 1,100 participants compare mind attribution to AI and humans behaving identically. It found people clearly distinguish intelligent behavior from consciousness and still deny AI consciousness even when behavior matches. Researchers suggest mental terms used for AI may just reflect a lack of better words.
Oil spike jolts China producer prices as inflation reboundsEscalating Middle East hostilities pushed oil above $100 a barrel, and AI-related goods grew more expensive, driving both China's consumer and producer inflation higher last month.
OpenAI moves to curb ChatGPT sycophancyOpenAI is making ChatGPT less automatically agreeable, aiming to have it flag errors and offer alternative views to counter "sycophancy." Its own data show GPT-5's agreeable responses fell from 14.5% in GPT-4o to under 6%, a 69% drop for free users and 75% for paid subscribers.
HN Debate: Has AI Killed Creativity in Software?A Hacker News user criticized Show HN for being full of derivative products, notably repeated note-taking apps with an "AI" suffix and little originality. The poster questioned what AI-driven "efficiency" has actually produced and asked where today's groundbreaking engineers, comparable to those behind C, Emacs, or SQLite, have gone.
New tool tracks AI leaders' video statements and how their views changeA new tool aggregates AI leaders' public video statements and tracks how their views evolve, ranking executives from Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI and others by weekly and total mentions. Users can vote for which figures get dedicated pages.
Reviewer Finds Three ICLR Submissions Likely AI-GeneratedAn ICLR reviewer says all three assigned papers read like Claude-generated text and share the same core idea of canceling shared terms in paired comparison bounds, suspecting an automated paper-generating setup and raising concerns about top-conference submission quality.
OpenAI: Agentic AI is EU's next chapterNew analysis shows agentic AI adoption is growing among EU enterprises and small businesses, and deeper use could unlock more value. Agentic AI is thus emerging as the next phase of AI deployment in the EU.
LocalAI Gets an Accidental Best AdA post on r/LocalLLaMA calls an unnamed event the best advertisement for LocalAI, drawing attention to locally run AI, though the post does not specify what it refers to.
Report: Virginia's AI rules fail to weigh risks effectivelyA Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission report found about a third of state agencies use or pilot AI tools and 76% of employees use AI, yet only 28% of agencies have written AI policies. It said VITA's AI requirements lack risk-based criteria and timely updates, raising risks such as sensitive data exposure.
Science Corporation implants PRIMA vision chip in first Stargardt patientScience Corporation said its vision-restoring chip PRIMA was implanted in the first patient with Stargardt disease, an incurable inherited eye condition that has blinded about 150,000 people worldwide. CEO Max Hodak, at TechCrunch Disrupt, said the retina is part of the central nervous system and retinal prostheses are a form of brain-computer interface, as the company pursues broader medical BCI uses.
Pulse Local Launches On-Device AI Budgeting App for MacPulse Local is a budgeting app for Apple Silicon Macs that runs its AI entirely on-device: after importing a bank CSV, a fine-tuned Qwen3 0.6B parses questions, code does the math, and a 4B checker model reviews answers, cutting wrong answers from about one in five to 5 of 494 questions. First launch downloads about 2.9 GB of models; answers take 12-14 seconds with the checker on; English and Mac only for now; the app is free, with an optional $29/year connected sync mode.
Cerebras CEO predicts personal AI assistants in every homeCerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that home AI assistants are not far off, running partly on-device and partly in the cloud, getting to know users and even making purchases for them.
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