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How flat is replacing fat in AWS data center networks
“Quasi-random” network topologies and new passive optical components called ShuffleBoxes make more-efficient flat networks as practical as traditional “fat-tree” networks.
RT Noam Brown: After AlphaGo, the skill of human Go players noticeably improved. I suspect we will see a similar pattern in math.
RT Noam BrownAfter AlphaGo, the skill of human Go players noticeably improved. I suspect we will see a similar pattern in math.Timothy Gowers @wtgowers: Another major…
📢Qwen3.7-Max just hit #3 on ITbench-AA — a fresh benchmark testing how well models handle real-world enterprise IT tasks, agentic-style. 🔧Agent…
📢Qwen3.7-Max just hit #3 on ITbench-AA — a fresh benchmark testing how well models handle real-world enterprise IT tasks, agentic-style.🔧Agentic era, go with Qwen.🏃🏃Artificial Analysis: Artificial…
Anthropic raises $65B in Series H at a $965B post-money valuation, releases Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Workflows
**Anthropic** announced a massive **$65B Series H financing** at a **$965B valuation**, led by **Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia**, with run-rate revenue surpassing **$47B**. They launched…
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
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Leveling up Weaviate Cloud security: Expanding role-based access control for Cloud console
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LFM2.5-8B-A1B: An Even Better On-Device Mixture of Experts | Liquid AI
Today, we’re releasing LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a high-throughput edge model optimized for fast, reliable tool calling and complex instruction following on consumer hardware, delivering compressed performance competitive with…
Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
OpenJarvis: a local-first personal AI is now available to run with Ollama
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AI Daily Brief — 27 May 2026
Microsoft Research: Extending Human Intelligence; Sakana DiffusionBlocks; Qwen 3.5 hits 580 tps record; Google Research zero-trust aggregation.
Amazon Research Awards recipients announced
Awardees represent more than 49 universities in 11 countries. Recipients have access to Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools.
Private analytics via zero-trust aggregation
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Private analytics via zero-trust aggregation
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AI should dramatically increase quality of life and individual freedoms for people around the world. The OpenAI Foundation is making an initial $250M …
AI should dramatically increase quality of life and individual freedoms for people around the world.The OpenAI Foundation is making an initial $250M commitment to measurement, transition…
Fast, faster, Qwen. 🚀 Thrilled to see Qwen3.5 reaching a record-breaking 580 tps for agentic workloads on the TokenSpeed engine! This milestone wou…
Fast, faster, Qwen. 🚀Thrilled to see Qwen3.5 reaching a record-breaking 580 tps for agentic workloads on the TokenSpeed engine! This milestone wouldn't be possible without our…
Extending Human Intelligence Through AI
Understanding AI as an extension of human intelligence—not a replacement for it—offers a more grounded path for building trustworthy AI systems. The post Extending Human Intelligence…
The MiniMax M2 series was one of the most widely used open-weight LLM series earlier this year. Now, we got a technical report with some interesting t…
The MiniMax M2 series was one of the most widely used open-weight LLM series earlier this year. Now, we got a technical report with some interesting…
DiffusionBlocks: Training Neural Networks One Block at a Time
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South Africa Has AI Leverage. Its Draft Policy Leaves It Unused
This article is adapted by the author with permission from Tech Policy Press. Read the original article.South Africa is not just another developing country struggling to…
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🚀🚀Nous Research: Qwen 3.7 Max is now supported in Hermes Agent
RT Pushmeet Kohli: When I was asked by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to write an essay on my thoughts on how AI will accelerate Science, I…
RT Pushmeet KohliWhen I was asked by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to write an essay on my thoughts on how AI will accelerate…
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Last Week in AI #341 – Musk loses to OpenAI, Google's IO updates, OpenAI solves Erdős
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