Google AI has released TranslateGemma, a suite of open machine translation models built on Gemma 3 and targeted at 55 languages. The family comes in 4B, 12B and 27B parameter sizes. It is designed to run across devices from mobile…
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AI journalism startup Symbolic.ai signs deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp
Newsrooms have been experimenting with AI for several years now but, for the most part, those efforts have been just that: experiments. A relatively unknown startup, Symbolic.ai, wants to change that, and it just signed a major deal with News…
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The AI lab revolving door spins ever faster
AI labs just can’t get their employees to stay put. Yesterday’s big AI news was the abrupt and seemingly acrimonious departure of three top executives at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines lab.
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Forget god AI panic, Nvidia CEO says real AI progress should help workers, businesses, and human efficiency daily
- Exaggerated fear of AI has been extremely harmful to industry and society
- Practical AI can enhance human productivity without replacing workers entirely
- AI and robots could address labor shortages as digital workforce supplements
Nvidia CEO Jensen…
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Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab
If someone ever makes an HBO Max series about the AI industry, the events of this week will make quite the episode.
On Wednesday, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, announced the company had rehired Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, cofounders…
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NVIDIA AI Open-Sourced KVzap: A SOTA KV Cache Pruning Method that Delivers near-Lossless 2x-4x Compression
As context lengths move into tens and hundreds of thousands of tokens, the key value cache in transformer decoders becomes a primary deployment bottleneck. The cache stores keys and values for every layer and head with shape (2, L,…
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Taiwan to invest $250B in US semiconductor manufacturing
The Trump administration signed a notable multi-billion-dollar trade deal with Taiwan that’s designed to help the United States boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
Under the deal announced by the U.S. Department of Commerce on…
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Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed
Elon Musk’s X has introduced new restrictions stopping people from editing and generating images of real people in bikinis or other “revealing clothing.” The change in policy on Wednesday night follows global outrage at Grok being used to
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ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself
Eventually, Gordon got ChatGPT to acknowledge that the suicide cases were real by sharing evidence that he’d found online. But the chatbot rejected Gordon’s concern that he might be at similar risk, during “a…
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Hands On With Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, an AI Agent That Actually Works
As a software reporter at WIRED, I’ve tested a lot of shitty agents over the past couple of years. These experiences expose a consistent pattern of generative AI startups overpromising and underdelivering when it comes to these “agentic”…
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