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US Appeals Court Lets Pentagon Ban on Anthropic Stand
US Appeals Court Lets Pentagon Ban on Anthropic Stand A U.S. appeals court is letting the Pentagon's ban on Anthropic remain in effect for now,...
14.09.2026AI data centers displace Bitcoin miners for power and upend Trump's mining plan
AI data centers displace Bitcoin miners for power and upend Trump's mining plan The expansion of AI data centers in the US competes directly with...
14.09.2026With Open Source, Xi Is Making China the AI Supplier for BRICS Nations
With Open Source, Xi Is Making China the AI Supplier for BRICS Nations Chinese President Xi Jinping announced at the 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi...
20.08.2026Block Releases its Agent Workbench Berd on GitHub Under Apache 2.0
Block Releases its Agent Workbench Berd on GitHub Under Apache 2.0 Block, the company founded by Jack Dorsey behind Square, Cash App, and Tidal, is...
14.08.2026German Researchers Find API Keys in Agent Logs
German Researchers Find API Keys in Agent Logs A research team from Germany has decoded 315,320 encrypted Reasoning Block s from 6,708 publicly...
13.08.2026Y Combinator releases its internal agent framework QM under MIT license
Y Combinator releases its internal agent framework QM under MIT license Y Combinator has released QM (short for Quartermaster) on GitHub, a frame...
12.08.2026Y Combinator open-sources its internal agent harness QM
Y Combinator open-sources its internal agent harness QM Y Combinator has released QM (short for Quartermaster) under the MIT license , a tool that...
21.07.2026Study: Only 11 Percent of S&P 500 Companies Have Deeply Integrated AI by 2025
Study: Only 11 Percent of S&P 500 Companies Have Deeply Integrated AI by 2025 A working paper on arXiv examines the AI adoption of S&P 500 companies...
24.06.2026Project-Level Rules Help with Code Generation in Teams
Project-Level Rules Help with Code Generation in Teams According to a recent IBM survey, 48% of code is now generated by AI, but the surrounding...
24.06.2026Mistral OCR 4 Now Reads 170 Languages
Mistral OCR 4 Now Reads 170 Languages Mistral has released OCR 4, a compact, focused model for extracting and structuring information from documents....
23.06.2026AI Code Generation: Standardization in the Development Team
AI Code Generation: Standardization in the Development Team According to a survey of 219 engineering leaders, 48 percent of code is now generated by...
23.06.2026Data Centers and Electricity Prices: A Causal Analysis for the USA
Data Centers and Electricity Prices: A Causal Analysis for the USA A new paper by John Bistline ( arXiv , June 2026) flips the common narrative: data...
12.06.2026Data Centers: China Bets on Large Reactors
Data Centers: China Bets on Large Reactors While the US has only brought two new reactors online in years (Units 3 and 4 at the Vogtle plant in...
11.06.2026Xiaomi Hits 1,000 Tokens per Second on Off-the-Shelf Hardware
Xiaomi Hits 1,000 Tokens per Second on Off-the-Shelf Hardware Xiaomi's MiMo team reports achieving over 1,000 tokens per second in decoding with...
15.05.2026The New Career Flex: Individual Contributor Instead of Manager
The New Career Flex: Individual Contributor Instead of Manager Elena Verna, former CMO at Amplitude and Miro, is leading the way: she forgoes direct...
04.05.2026Goodbye Retro-Fitting: Agent-Native Foundation Models are Here
Goodbye Retro-Fitting: Agent-Native Foundation Models are Here The GLM-V team from China has introduced AutoGLM, a foundation model designed from the...
03.05.2026Chinese Courts Halt AI-Related Terminations
Chinese Courts Halt AI-Related Terminations Chinese courts in Hangzhou and Beijing have ruled in two landmark decisions: companies cannot dismiss...
16.04.2026Workslop: The Productivity Paradox Strikes
Workslop: The Productivity Paradox Strikes A new study from Stanford coins a term that captures the reality in many offices: ' Workslop...
09.04.2026Neuro-Symbolic AI: The Next Breakthrough in Token Costs?
Neuro-Symbolic AI: The Next Breakthrough in Token Costs? Researchers at Tufts University have developed an AI system that reduces energy consumption...
26.03.2026Google: Honey, I Shrunk the Model
Google: Honey, I Shrunk the Model Google Research has introduced TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that drastically reduces the memory requirements...
14.03.2026Layoffs Disguised as an AI Pivot — When Layoffs Become Strategy
Layoffs Disguised as an AI Pivot — When Layoffs Become Strategy Companies are now packaging their job cuts in AI strategy papers. Atlassian laid off...
02.03.2026Laid-off Block employees: Here's how it went down
Laid-off Block employees: Here's how it went down Block CEO Jack Dorsey laid off 40% of the workforce, citing AI as the main reason—4,000 jobs were...
01.03.2026Jack Dorsey's Drastic Cuts
Jack Dorsey's Drastic Cuts Jack Dorsey announces the layoff of 4,000 employees at Block — 40 percent of the workforce. The fintech conglomerate,...