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Running AI models is turning into a memory game
When we talk about the cost of AI infrastructure, the focus is usually on Nvidia and GPUs — but memory is an increasingly important part of the picture.
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SpaceX vets raise $50M Series A for data center links
Travis Brashears, Cameron Ramos, and Serena Grown-Haeberli began collaborating at SpaceX, developing optical communications links that keep thousands of Starlink internet satellites in constant contact. Now, the three engineers are co-founders of Mesh Optical Technologies, a Los Angeles startup tha
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Mistral AI buys Koyeb in first acquisition to back its cloud ambitions
Mistral AI, the French company last valued at $13.8 billion, has made its first acquisition. The OpenAI competitor has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it. Mistral has been primarily known for developing large
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Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic has released a new version of its midsized Sonnet model, keeping pace with the company’s four-month update cycle.
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Meta and Other Tech Companies Ban OpenClaw Over Cybersecurity Concerns
Grad issued a late-night warning to the 20 employees at his tech startup. “You've likely seen Clawdbot trending on X/LinkedIn. While cool, it is currently unvetted and high-risk for our environment," he wrote in a Slack message with a red siren emoji.
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Apple is reportedly cooking up a trio of AI wearables
Late last month, The Information reported that Apple was developing an AI wearable — an AirTag-sized pendant with cameras that could be pinned to a user’s shirt.
SGLang-Diffusion: Advanced Optimizations for Production-Ready Video Generation
SGLang-Diffusion: Advanced Optimizations for Production-Ready Video GenerationThe SGLang-Diffusion TeamFebruary 16, 2026Following our two-month progress update, we're excited to share a deeper dive into the advanced optimizations that make SGLang-Diffusion a production-ready framework for video gene
MLCommons Lays the Foundation for Defensible Jailbreak Benchmarking
MLCommons introduces a taxonomy-based methodology for benchmarking single-turn jailbreak attacks on large language models, establishing a defensible and reproducible evaluation framework that prioritizes structural coverage over scale.
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The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race
from London, the town of Potters Bar is separated from the village of South Mimms by 85 acres of rolling farmland segmented by a scribble of hedgerows. In one of the fields, a lone oak serves as a rest stop along a public footpath. Lately, the tree has become a site of protest, too.
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Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models
Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit.
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AI Digital Twins Are Helping People Manage Diabetes and Obesity
lost 100 pounds in less than a year, not by using a GLP-1 drug but with the help of a digital twin. Last March, the 55-year-old retired firefighter turned village mayor of Third Lake, Illinois, was 376 pounds.
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The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis
When Sam Zahr first saw the gray Rolls-Royce Dawn convertible with orange interior and orange roof, he knew he’d found a perfect addition to his fleet. “It was very appealing to our clientele,” he told me.
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Goldman Sachs deploys Anthropic systems with success
Goldman Sachs plans to deploy Anthropic’s Claude model in trade accounting and client onboarding, and, according to an article in American Banker, presents this as part of a broader push among large banks to use generative artificial intelligence to improve efficiency.
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As AI jitters rattle IT stocks, Infosys partners with Anthropic to build ‘enterprise-grade’ AI agents
Indian IT giant Infosys said on Tuesday it has partnered with Anthropic to develop enterprise-grade AI agents, as automation driven by large language models reshapes the global IT services industry. Under the partnership, Infosys plans to integrate Anthropic’s Claude models into its Topaz AI platfor
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Adani pledges $100B to build AI data centers as India seeks bigger role in the global AI race
Indian conglomerate Adani Group said on Monday it would invest $100 billion over the next decade to build data centers specialized for AI across the country, a move that underscores India’s ambition to play a larger role in the global AI race. The investment, which will run through 2035, is aimed at
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Tuning into the future of collaboration
SponsoredIn partnership withShure When work went remote, the sound of business changed. What began as a scramble to make home offices functional has evolved into a revolution in how people hear and are heard.
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How Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation in 4 months
The co-founders of startup Ricursive Intelligence seemed destined to be co-founders. Anna Goldie, CEO, and Azalia Mirhoseini, CTO, are so well-known in the AI community that they were among those AI engineers who “got those weird emails from Zuckerberg making crazy offers to us,” Goldie told TechCru
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ByteDance backpedals after Seedance 2.0 turned Hollywood icons into AI “clip art”
ByteDance says that it’s rushing to add safeguards to block Seedance 2.0 from generating iconic characters and deepfaking celebrities, after substantial Hollywood backlash after launching the latest version of its AI video tool. The changes come after Disney and Paramount Skydance sent cease-and-des
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Have money, will travel: a16z’s hunt for the next European unicorn
Gabriel Vasquez, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, recently revealed he took nine flights from NYC to Stockholm in one year.
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URBN tests agentic AI to automate retail reporting
Basware has introduced a AI agents in its invoice lifecycle management platform to extend the existing InvoiceAI abilities of the platform. The company positions the agents as a step towards what it calls “Agentic Finance,” a model in which AI systems undertake finance tasks under preset controls.