After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe
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After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe

IBM's stock declined after the company reported weak mainframe sales, which the CEO attributed to AI temporarily...

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Cursor Releases Cursor Router: A Request-Level Classifier Delivering Frontier Coding Quality at 30–50% Lower Cost
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Cursor Releases Cursor Router: A Request-Level Classifier Delivering Frontier Coding Quality at 30–50% Lower Cost

Cursor has launched Cursor Router, a request-level classifier that intelligently routes coding tasks to the most...

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Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
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Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google's cloud business is experiencing significant growth driven by enterprise adoption of AI and AI infrastructure...

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Research-Grade EdgeBench Analysis: AI Agent Benchmarking, Leaderboard Analytics, Scaling Laws, and Evaluation Metrics
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Research-Grade EdgeBench Analysis: AI Agent Benchmarking, Leaderboard Analytics, Scaling Laws, and Evaluation Metrics

This tutorial explores EdgeBench, a practical benchmark for evaluating advanced AI agents across diverse task...

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The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI
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The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI

The Trump administration is debating policy approaches to address the growing capabilities of Chinese AI models. This...

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Startup Focused on Enterprise AI Security Valued at $1.2 billion
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Startup Focused on Enterprise AI Security Valued at $1.2 billion

An enterprise AI security startup has raised funding and achieved a $1.2 billion valuation as cybersecurity concerns...

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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

The Treasury Department has threatened sanctions following White House claims that Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable...

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Anthropic's $1.5B piracy settlement with book authors is a record loss that hands AI labs their biggest legal win
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Anthropic's $1.5B piracy settlement with book authors is a record loss that hands AI labs their biggest legal win

Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to book authors in a record copyright settlement for downloading pirated works,...

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How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
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How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

OpenAI's misconfiguration of an isolated testing environment and sandbox led to a security vulnerability that enabled...

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China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
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China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook

Chinese AI laboratories are offering open-source large language models as alternatives to restricted frontier models...

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Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
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Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Travis Kalanick's robotics company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion in funding led by a16z, with Uber also investing. The...

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Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads
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Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads

Yope, a private social networking app, raised $12.3 million in seed funding to build communities focused on real-world...

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Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI
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Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI

Monday.com is reducing its workforce by 20% (approximately 630 employees) to streamline operations and focus on its AI...

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Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83
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Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83

Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, a highly influential computer scientist known for his clear writing and...

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Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts of AMD GPUs for Claude in a deal worth up to $5 billion
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Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts of AMD GPUs for Claude in a deal worth up to $5 billion

AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic, with Anthropic committing to deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's MI450...

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Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations
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Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations

The UK's AI Safety Institute tested five frontier AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic and found that all of them...

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Cisco bets its small open cybersecurity models can outperform GPT-5.5 at vulnerability detection for a fraction of the cost
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Cisco bets its small open cybersecurity models can outperform GPT-5.5 at vulnerability detection for a fraction of the cost

Cisco has released two small, open-source AI models specifically designed for cybersecurity that detect approximately...

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Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
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Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, argues that Chinese AI models pose no inherent danger, contributing to ongoing debate...

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Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI
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Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI

Substack has introduced a tool that estimates how much of a newsletter was written using AI, promoting transparency in...

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