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Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released its latest flagship AI model, with performance claims putting it alongside global leaders like Anthropic's Fable.
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| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI and Anthropic models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and lack of meaningful supervision — If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had …
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| New York Times: |
An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more — An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:NEW |
Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 — A version of Chinese startup DeepSeek's flagship AI model is by far the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among …
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| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
A profile of Nanit, a maker of AI-equipped baby cameras for hyper-detailed tracking, which says it has 1M daily users and $100M+ in annual revenue — Young parents are increasingly willing to embrace tracking and analytics for their children — part of a broader cultural obsession … | Irina Anghel / Bloomberg: |
Indeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior staff in software engineering and IT, where AI enhances the value of experience, while cutting back elsewhere — UK employers are creating jobs for experienced staff with artificial intelligence skills and cutting back elsewhere …
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| Washington Post: |
An analysis of US police and court records finds 50+ officers were charged or accused of misusing license-plate readers like Flock's, including for stalking — JEFFERSON, Ga. — Marci Bakely couldn't understand how her ex-boyfriend always seemed to know where she was.
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| Francesca Perry / Financial Times: |
A look at the growing tensions over AI data centers in London, Europe's biggest data center hub, as housing, power, and water come under increasing strain — The city has become the largest hub for AI power centres across Europe, competing with homes for energy, space and water.
Bluesky: @frankpasquale, @foxglovelegal, and @eicathomefinn
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February — British entrepreneur behind Olix raises $312mn from investors including Arm in effort to take on Nvidia
More: Tech.eu, UKTN, Startup.eu, GOV.UK, and Tech Funding News
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Ofcom Chair Ian Cheshire says he is overseeing a “wide-ranging” review aimed at refitting the regulator to new duties overseeing Big Tech and enforcing the OSA — Ian Cheshire tells FT that watchdog will need ‘more resources’ to enforce online safety rules as it takes on wider brief| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage “is not healthy for me or good for the world” — Hank Green, a novelist, comedian, and YouTuber with 3.2 million subscribers, recently apologized to his audience for his growing reliance on AI chatbots.
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| Mitsuru Obe / Nikkei Asia: |
Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as Tokyo seeks to cut reliance on Chinese industrial drones, which control 91% of Japan's market — TOKYO — Japanese startups are entering defense drone production as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi seeks to reduce dependence on China and expand domestic manufacturing.| Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: |
LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create — We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. “create an svg of pelican on a bicycle”.
X: @zeroxkyle, @pimdewitte, @kimmonismus, @karankendre, @dannylimanseta, @izkimar, @tekbog, @filicroval, @aidanshandle, @davidpattersonx, @zeeg, @fakepsyho, @elonmusk, @bengeskin, and @xrarchitect. Forums: Hacker News
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six years — Lightspeed's Last Sentinel burnt through six years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars — Hi everyone.
More: GamesIndustry.biz, GamingBolt, Polygon.com, and GamesRadar
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