ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic
ByteDance is training an AI model that could approach the size of Anthropic’s most cutting-edge Mythos system, as Chinese companies continue to narrow the gap
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The world’s biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun’s surface
Wherever two fluids slide past each other at different speeds, the boundary between them buckles, then curls, then rolls up into vortexes. It’s called the
Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead
Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told employees at a July Q&A that AI productivity gains should be used to build more products, not to
Hidden code in ChatGPT’s Android app suggests OpenAI is building a direct WhatsApp sticker export
Hidden code in ChatGPT’s latest Android app suggests OpenAI is building a feature that would let users generate stickers and export them directly to WhatsApp.
China’s new AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s running out of Chinese-language training data.
China’s AI race has a new constraint, and it is not chips. The country is running out of high-quality Chinese-language training data. While US export
South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.
South Africa has proposed banning corporate cross-border stablecoin transactions, in draft rules released jointly by the Reserve Bank and National Treasury. It is one of the
Mount Toba eruption doesn’t seem like it could nearly kill our species
Mount Toba was the biggest volcanic eruption in the last 2.6 million years, and some have suggested it nearly wiped out humanity. Around 74,000 years
Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says
A US-made pickup truck by 2030 is part of Volkswagen Group’s plan to revive its American business. According to a Reuters report, entering this competitive
X shuts down revenue sharing on September 7. The replacement only pays for original content.
X is shutting down its revenue-sharing programme on September 7 and replacing it with a new system called the Original Content Rewards Programme. The change
American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.
Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform
Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.
Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something
China just closed a gap in chipmaking that nobody talks about. The wafer size tells you how far it has to go.
Hwatsing Technology, China’s leading producer of chemical mechanical polishing equipment, announced a metrology system for six-inch wafers on Thursday that can be built directly into the polishing
Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.
Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company, opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended
Hong Kong educators want a social media ban for under-16s. The government says it has no plans to legislate.
Hong Kong educators and a lawmaker are urging the city to ban children under 16 from social media, calling addiction “the biggest problem facing education.”