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Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and high-efficiency deployment. The release includes two models in "large" and "small" sizes: GLM-4.6V (106B), a larger 106-billion parameter model aimed at cloud-scale inferenceGLM-4.6V-Flash (9B), a smaller model of only 9 billion parameters designed for low-latency, local applicationsRecall that generally speaking, mo
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Paramount has launched a $108.4 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, calling Netflix’s $83 billion arrangement to purchase the entertainment giant’s studios and streaming service “inferior.” The Paramount proposal, unlike Netflix’s, would also include the linear networks owned by WBD. Paramount says its deal offers a “superior alternative to the Netflix transaction,” citing […] Read more ›
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“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers. Read more ›
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A Slovenian security researcher has published an analysis of Sipeed’s NanoKVM that raises far-reaching concerns about the €30-€60 remote management device. Read more ›
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Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the day's puzzle. Read more ›
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In seeking to buy Warner Brothers for $108 billion, Paramount is making one of the top ten largest hostile takeover bids in history. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said the US would allow Nvidia to sell its powerful H200 chips to China. Read more ›
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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Since online genealogy services began operating, millions of people have sent them saliva samples in hopes of learning about their family roots and discovering far-flung relatives. These services also appeal to law enforcement authorities, who have used them to solve cold case murders and to investigate crimes like the 2022 killing of four University of Idaho students. Crime-scene DNA... Read more ›
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ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron claims that the removal is a suppression of free speech Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1633 on December 9 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the U.S., the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis. The green groups, including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch and dozens of... Read more ›
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Google's new Extended Repair Program offers free display replacements for up to three years from the purchase date. Read more ›
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Katsuhiro Harada, has announced his departure from Bandai Namco having worked on the Tekken series for 30 years. Read more Read more ›
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Trump vows to sign AI executive order this week. Read more ›
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The late-night host has signed a one-year extension to stay on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" through May 2027. Read more ›
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Paramount's Larry and David Ellison are making a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Three of their partners are Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. Read more ›
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 has launched and landed a record 32 times following a successful mission on Monday night. The Falcon 9 first-stage booster — listed as B1067 — lifted off at 5:26 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Shortly after deploying 29 Starlink internet satellites to ... Read more ›
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The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure servicemembers’ ability to fix their own equipment. Read more ›
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Three years ago this week, Chat GPT was born. It amazed the world and ignited unprecedented investment and excitement in AI. Today, ChatGPT is still a toddler, but public sentiment around the AI boom has turned sharply negative. The shift began when OpenAI released GPT-5 this summer to mixed reviews, mostly from casual users who, unsurprisingly, judged the system by its surface flaws rather than its underlying capabilities.Since then, pundits... Read more ›
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Model providers want to prove the security and robustness of their models, releasing system cards and conducting red-team exercises with each new release. But it can be difficult for enterprises to parse through the results, which vary widely and can be misleading. Anthropic's 153-page system card for Claude Opus 4.5 versus OpenAI's 60-page GPT-5 system card reveals a fundamental split in how these labs approach security validation. Anthropic discloses in... Read more ›
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OpenAI researchers have introduced a novel method that acts as a "truth serum" for large language models (LLMs), compelling them to self-report their own misbehavior, hallucinations and policy violations. This technique, "confessions," addresses a growing concern in enterprise AI: Models can be dishonest, overstating their confidence or covering up the shortcuts they take to arrive at an answer. For real-world applications, this technique evolves the creation of more transparent and... Read more ›
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AWS is leveraging automated reasoning, which uses math-based verification, to build out new capabilities in its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform as the company digs deeper into the agentic AI ecosystem. Announced during its annual re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS is adding three new capabilities to AgentCore: "policy," "evaluations" and "episodic memory." The new features aim to give enterprises more control over agent behavior and performance. AWS also revealed... Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a new class of artificial intelligence systems called "frontier agents" that can work autonomously for hours or even days without human intervention, representing one of the most ambitious attempts yet to automate the full software development lifecycle.The announcement, made during AWS CEO Matt Garman's keynote address at the company's annual re:Invent conference, introduces three specialized AI agents designed to act as virtual team members:... Read more ›
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While artificial intelligence has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the global consulting industry—a $250 billion behemoth—has remained stubbornly analog. A London-based startup founded by former McKinsey consultants is betting $2 million that it can crack open this resistant market, one Excel spreadsheet at a time.Ascentra Labs announced Monday that it has closed a $2 million seed round led by NAP,... Read more ›
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Researchers at MiroMind AI and several Chinese universities have released OpenMMReasoner, a new training framework that improves the capabilities of language models in multimodal reasoning.The framework uses a two-stage process. It first refines a base model with a curated dataset in a supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage. Then, a reinforcement learning (RL) stage guides the model to reason more effectively in tasks that involve both text and visual data. Experiments show... Read more ›
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Vector databases emerged as a must-have technology foundation at the beginning of the modern gen AI era. What has changed over the last year, however, is that vectors, the numerical representations of data used by LLMs, have increasingly become just another data type in all manner of different databases. Now, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is taking the next leap forward in the ubiquity of vectors with the general availability of... Read more ›
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Presented by CelonisWhen tariff rates change overnight, companies have 48 hours to model alternatives and act before competitors secure the best options. At Celosphere 2025 in Munich, enterprises demonstrated how they’re turning that chaos into competitive advantage — with quantifiable results that separate winners from losers.Vinmar International: Theglobal plastics and chemicals distributor created a real-time digital twin of its $3B supply chain, cutting default expedites by more than 20% and... Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services on Wednesday introduced Kiro powers, a system that allows software developers to give their AI coding assistants instant, specialized expertise in specific tools and workflows — addressing what the company calls a fundamental bottleneck in how artificial intelligence agents operate today.AWS made the announcement at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The capability marks a departure from how most AI coding tools work today. Typically, these... Read more ›
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