Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race with open models
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said China is winning the artificial intelligence race with open-weight models and could…
Google Earth’s AI makeover survives one trip around the Sun
AI AND ML Turns out letting anyone rewrite the planet with a prompt had drawbacks Google performed a…
Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac | Opera
Unveiled the same week in which tech company Anthropic admitted that its AI model Claude had gone rogue…
The Future, Made in China
The Chinese establishment has abandoned that view in stages. When Brexit was approved, in 2016, the West seemed…
Crossword editor’s desk: what would be the point of an AI puzzle? | Crosswords
The world of crosswords is generally a happy and sensible place. The human mind being what it is,…
Alibaba shares rally after unveiling Qwen3.8-Max AI model
Alibaba debuts Qwen3-Max, its trillion-parameter AI model trained on 36T tokens. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)…
As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK
AI AND ML Use it to debug and review, says Big Red, but don’t submit its output Oracle…
Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI’s dystopian impact on their craft
Two prominent science fiction authors have decried the impact of AI on their craft. “I do not want…
China acknowledges ‘temperature gap’ between tech boom and traditional slump
A top theoretical journal of the Communist Party has acknowledged that a stark economic divide exists between China’s…
AI is creating a two-speed jobs market in the UK, Indeed says
UK employers are creating jobs for experienced staff with artificial intelligence skills and cutting back elsewhere, according to…
Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: ‘no such service was ever brought to life’
Remember the story about AI companies destroying millions of copies of books while scanning them to use as…
The utter utopian unwisdom of AI bros
In my belated quest to develop a faint sense of what AI is doing, I have just read…