
The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens
Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.

Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.

Last month, more than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google’s military contracts and deals with ICE. Two organizers, Amanda Campos and Eva Jones, tell us why.

Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as a whole. So what happens when a company like SpaceX – a giant gamble, and, in my opinion, terribly overpriced – is fast-tracked into the Nasdaq-100? Does […]

Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley’s Hound Dog to Beyoncé’s Say My Name, and Harry Styles’ As It Was. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Monday, claims that this […]

Adobe’s Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app.

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.

X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.

Under the new system, the protocol will take a looser, “stateless” approach to session IDs on the server side, similar to how most ordinary websites already work.

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.

The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn’t resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.

Free tools are the most widely used by companies with focus on efficiency savings rather than developing new products

A new study from Kyndryl finds a drop in AI workforce readiness, highlighting a growing problem for HR. Kyndryl’s CHRO offers strategies to stay ahead and why the Human Systems Architect role could be key.
The post Kyndryl CHRO: 3 strategies to become an AI ‘Pacesetter’ appeared first on HR Executive.

As hiring accelerates, how do you keep trust when speed outpaces verification? AI may be improving efficiency, but is introducing new risks.
The post Faster hiring, weaker trust? AI is reshaping identity risk appeared first on HR Executive.
The groups, including the NAACP, estimate that sticking with the current rules will increase the number of uninsured people by 50%.
The post Coalition warns of ‘historic health coverage losses’ up to 43 million in U.S. appeared first on HR Executive.

CEO Maria Black, marking her 30th year at ADP, says that managing a workforce is only getting more complex, and so is HR’s role.
The post How ADP CEO Maria Black leads through uncertain times appeared first on HR Executive.

Ghost job fines are coming, ghosting is at record highs and research says discouraged candidates may not come back.
The post Ghost job postings are now in lawmakers’ crosshairs appeared first on HR Executive.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies. David Sacks, the president’s AI and crypto “czar” until…

Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same lineage. Flash targets real-time interaction. Plus targets high-quality generation. Both are delivered as hosted models through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, not as downloadable weights. The release focuses on four things developers hit in production: broader […]
The post Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a Hosted Text-to-Speech Model in Flash and Plus Tiers Across 16 Languages appeared first on MarkTechPost.

OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.

China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases suggest America’s lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight, just as the technology is becoming […]

Adobe’s experimental camera app has taken an unexpected turn. After Project Indigo was launched last year to provide a “more natural (SLR-like) look” for iPhone photography, the Indigo camera app is now being updated with a suite of generative AI tools. And the change doesn’t rely upon Adobe’s own Firefly AI models. Adobe describes the […]

YouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos that can’t earn ad revenue.

Wall Street bank has emerged as chief architect of financing structures behind build-out of data centres

Use of AI deepfake employees to infiltrate companies highlights wider risk of internal security breaches

Criminal groups are building deepfake personas on an industrial scale to trick people into divulging information

As AI supercharges cyber threats, organisations face multiple challenges: a new breed of reckless western hackers trying to impress their peers; fake remote workers attacking from the inside; and supply-chain weaknesses

It is becoming clear that the knowledge they require is currently locked inside employees’ heads

The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there’s good reason to question whether AI will judge you fairly. Researchers already know that LLMs pick up human biases from their training data. New research suggests that LLMs can also develop their own biases from…

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 open-weight model has been read almost entirely through its parameter count since it launchedon July 16. At 2.8 trillion parameters, it is the largest open-weight model released to date. Model sizes are usually grouped into rough brackets, and 2.8 trillion rounds into what the industry calls the 3T class. A tier no […]
The post Kimi K3 open-weight model: China’s biggest AI is a bet on memory, not compute appeared first on AI News.

Public health departments across the United States will test generative AI tools under a new programme involving the Coalition for Health AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Accenture. The Public Health Use Case and Learning Scaling Engine, known as PULSE, will support trials in 10 state, local, tribal, or territorial jurisdictions. The programme is intended to produce […]
The post US public health agencies to test OpenAI and Anthropic AI models appeared first on AI News.

A single 24GB GPU is the practical floor for serious local inference. This guide compares six open-weight models that fit one card at Q4_K_M. It covers Qwen3.6, Gemma 4, Mistral Small, gpt-oss-20b, and DeepSeek-R1-Distill. Each entry lists VRAM fit, licensing, and the job it does best.
The post Best Local LLMs You Can Run on a Single 24GB GPU in 2026: Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek Compared appeared first on MarkTechPost.

A community developer fine-tuned OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 traces into a 1B model that runs fully local — a 657MB smallest build, 128K context, and visible reasoning. We verify every spec against the Hugging Face cards, separate what a fine-tune actually inherits from real capability, and flag the licensing question the model card leaves open.
The post Someone Fine-Tuned OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 Traces to Ship a 657MB Local Thinking Model appeared first on MarkTechPost.

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple’s lawsuit will cast over OpenAi’s much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.

Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan’s entire tech ecosystem.

Alibaba’s Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal MoE model it calls “second only to Fable 5.” The preview is live on Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork at 10% of standard pricing. What is not live: any benchmark table, model card, license, per-token price, or active-parameter count. This breakdown separates what Alibaba confirmed from what it only claimed.
The post Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch appeared first on MarkTechPost.