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Cohere to absorb Aleph Alpha, with no price disclosed
Aleph Alpha, Germany’s best-known model developer, is merging into Cohere under the Cohere brand, with no price, valuation or ownership split disclosed.
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Anthropic used Claude to speed up 30 open biology models
Anthropic reports roughly 4x average speed-ups after Claude spent four weeks optimising more than 30 open-source biology models. All figures are its own.
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OpenAI launches Astra for Law, with its own benchmark numbers
OpenAI’s new legal configuration of GPT-6 Astra passed 54.0% of a research benchmark it ran itself, against 38.7% for the same model with plain…
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Anthropic puts a number on how much AI research Claude leads
Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its own AI research work, up from under 1% in February, and wants rival labs to publish…
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Google open-sources a way to fake the freight data nobody will share
MilleMiglia generates synthetic freight networks so researchers can benchmark middle-mile logistics without the proprietary data carriers keep private.
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EU AI Board meets for the ninth time as transparency rules bed in
The EU body that coordinates national AI Act enforcement met on 17 September; the published readout lists priorities and dates but no decisions.
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NVIDIA puts megawatt figures behind running AI clusters below full power
NVIDIA has published operating figures for capping GPU power across a cluster, including a megawatt shed in under a minute. Vendor numbers, but unusually…
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A children’s hospital moves cardiac device simulation from overnight to near real time
CHOP says open-source cardiac simulation now runs fast enough for routine planning, though the timings come from a vendor write-up and no outcome data…
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A proof about what shallow transformers cannot compute
An IBM Research team has proved that constant-depth transformers and diffusion language models cannot match shallow quantum circuits on two specific tasks.
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Nineteen EU states move to fund a shared AI stack under state aid rules
Nineteen member states have begun assembling the EU’s first Important Project of Common European Interest in AI, though no funding figure has yet been…