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The AI industry is running out of compute, with outages, rationing, and rising GPU prices

Surging demand for agentic AI is creating a massive capacity crisis. According to the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic's API availability sits at just 98.95 percent, well below the industry standard of ...
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Claude now works across all three major Office apps

Anthropic brings Claude directly into Microsoft Word. Anthropic already offered Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint. Now the company is rounding out its Microsoft Office integration with a Word ...
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Apple is building smart glasses without a display to serve as an AI wearable

According to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, Apple is developing smart glasses that skip the display entirely and instead function as an AI wearable. The glasses are part of a three-device strategy - ...
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Anthropic signs multi-gigawatt TPU deal with Google and Broadcom

Anthropic has signed a deal with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of TPU computing capacity, set to come online starting in 2027. Most of the infrastructure will be built in the United ...
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Alibaba's Qwen team makes AI models think deeper with new algorithm

Alibaba's Qwen team has developed a new training algorithm for reasoning models that assigns different weights to individual tokens based on how much each step influences the subsequent chain of ...
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AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds

A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Google Chrome's new "Skills" feature lets you save AI prompts and reuse them with a single click Google is rolling out "Skills," a new Chrome feature that lets users save ...
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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...
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A printed sign can hijack a self-driving car and steer it toward pedestrians, study shows

A sign with the right text is enough to make a drone land on an unsafe roof or steer an autonomous vehicle into pedestrians. A self-driving car reads road signs to navigate safely, but that ability ...
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Disney pulls out of OpenAI partnership after Sora app and API gets killed just months after launch

OpenAI is shutting down its Sora AI video app and API, with the Sora team thanking the community and promising more details on timelines and how users can save their created work. Disney is pulling ...
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Claude now available directly in PowerPoint for Pro users

Anthropic brings Claude's PowerPoint integration to Pro subscribers. Max, Team, and Enterprise customers get access too. The feature is currently in beta as a Research Preview. Claude can create, edit ...