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Alibaba’s New V900 Chip Reveals a Bigger AI Ambition Than a 10-Trillion-Parameter Qwen
Alibaba has unveiled its Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator and plans a Qwen model with up to 10 trillion parameters. The bigger story…
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Microsoft Gave AI to 200,000 Employees — Then Discovered Adoption Wasn’t Enough
Microsoft says giving AI tools to more than 200,000 employees wasn't enough to transform work. Its internal results reveal what happened when…
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Google Backs Near-Zero Emissions Steel Plant as AI Data Centres Drive a New Carbon Problem
oogle is backing Stegra's near-zero-emissions steel project as the enormous construction demands of AI data centres create a new carbon challenge for…
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Google Signs Its Biggest Carbon Removal Deal Yet as AI Data Centres Drive Up Energy Demand
Google has signed its largest carbon-removal purchase to date with Terradot, combining methane cuts from Brazilian rice farms with permanent CO2 removal…
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Microsoft Sets October 7 Windows and Surface Event as Local AI Takes Centre Stage
Microsoft will hold a major Windows and Surface event on October 7 with Satya Nadella and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, putting local…
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Europe Backs Slowing Frontier AI as Zuckerberg Pushes Back
Europe has entered the escalating debate over whether frontier AI development should slow, as Ursula von der Leyen backs efforts to pace…
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Anthropic Picks Queensland for Major AI Data Centre as Australia’s Compute Boom Accelerates
Anthropic has signed its first Australian data-centre lease for capacity at a proposed Western Downs AI campus near Dalby that could reach…
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Google Pixel Scam Detection Expands to Australia in September Pixel Drop
Google is expanding Pixel Scam Detection in Australia as part of its September Pixel Drop, bringing new warnings for suspicious messages alongside…
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Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Live With Extended Thinking — Voice AI Can Now Reason While You Talk
Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, bringing faster dialogue, visual grounding and deeper reasoning to voice…
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AI Stocks Slide After Industry Leaders Call for Slower Development — SoftBank Takes the Biggest Hit
SoftBank and Asian AI stocks fell sharply after Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI leaders backed calls to slow frontier AI development.