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Ox Alpha Emerged as a Powerful OpenAI Rival—Then China’s Z.ai Was Revealed as Its Creator
Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on 20 August as an anonymous AI model, initially leaving developers without a clear indication of who had created it. The model was listed...
Nepal-Tibet Flood Toll Rises to 750 as Rain Stops Rescue for Trapped Workers
The death toll from last week's catastrophic glacier collapse and flood along the Nepal-Tibet border climbed to at least 750 on Sunday — 734 confirmed in Nepal and 16...
NVIDIA’s Record Quarter Confirms Chipmakers Are Winning the AI Boom
Three days after NVIDIA posted $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue — the largest single-quarter result in semiconductor history — the company's vice president of hyperscale computing hand-delivered its first...
Iceland Votes No on EU Accession Talks in Knife-Edge Referendum, Dealing Blow to Brussels
Iceland's voters delivered a narrow but unambiguous verdict Saturday, rejecting by a margin of 52.5 percent to 47.5 percent a government proposal to resume European Union accession negotiations that...
Intel Says 14A Chip Defect Reduction Is Its Best Progress Since 22nm
Intel's next-generation 14A manufacturing process is reducing chip defects faster than any node the company has developed since its highly regarded 22-nanometer technology from the early 2010s, Chief Financial...
Minnesota Supreme Court Kills Lindell Recount: He Asked for Wrong Legal Remedy
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Saturday rejected MyPillow founder Mike Lindell's bid to force a sweeping recount of the Republican gubernatorial primary — not just because he missed the...
Musk’s X Loses First Amendment Lawsuit Over New York’s Controversial ‘Stop Hiding Hate Act’
Elon Musk's X Corp. has suffered a legal setback after US District Judge John Cronan dismissed X Corp.'s challenge to New York's "Stop Hiding Hate Act," which requires covered...
Nepal Flash Floods: Death Toll Rises to 626 as Kathmandu Rejects General International Rescue Help
The devastating Nepal Flash Floods have claimed at least 626 lives this week across the Himalayan nation. Nepal has prioritized targeted technical rescue assistance over general aid, with Foreign...
AI Agents Are Buying Things Online. Those Setting The Rules Aren’t Govt. Regulators.
Last month, the Linux Foundation announced the operational launch of the x402 Foundation, a body that governs the open standard that AI agents use to make payments over the...
Microsoft Is Significantly Behind Its Own Targets For AI Chip Deployment: Report
A Guardian investigation published this week has cast fresh doubt on the pact of enterprise AI adoption, finding that Microsoft is significantly behind its own targets for AI chip...
