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Blackstone says AI debt fears are overblown
Blackstone is lending billions to AI data centers and neoclouds. Jas Khaira says current debt worries are exaggerated because major tech companies back the loans.
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Blackstone is lending billions to AI data centers and neoclouds. Jas Khaira says current debt worries are exaggerated because major tech companies back the loans.
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Cloudflare launched Clairic, a model that extracts typed values like numbers and dates in under half a second. It runs on Workers AI and costs less than half as much as previous all-LLM pipelines for similar tasks.
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NVIDIA released the full Run:ai platform as open source software under the Apache 2.0 license. Teams can now inspect, fork, and self-host the stack without a paid subscription.
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Mistral AI launched Timestral, a new family of time series forecasting models ranging from 5M to 209M parameters. The largest model outperforms Google's TimesFM-3 on key benchmarks while running on standard server CPUs.
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TypeSafe released Jev, a closed decision model, and 20 alternatives appeared within weeks. This guide compares their sizes, licenses and benchmarks.
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Liquid AI released d1-ultra, a model that answers questions with probabilities and generates zero output tokens. It scores 65 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index and costs $0.042 per million input tokens.
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Dell and Intel report that enterprise AI budgets are burning through cloud tokens too fast. Companies are moving toward on-premises infrastructure and open-weight models to save money.
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Perplexity launched two ColBERT-style embedding models on Hugging Face under an MIT license.
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South Korea plans to spend $3.49 billion on a domestic frontier AI model. The government also wants to encourage companies to use these models across the economy.
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Reka released a research preview of Rho-1, a 19B model that generates video and outputs robot actions. It replaces pipelines by handling all tasks within one context window.
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Researchers released JEPA-Anything to fix capacity issues in world models. It applies Orthogonal Predictive Factorization across seven different domains.
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Reflection AI released Beam, a 501B parameter MoE model with 23B active parameters. It targets coding and agentic workloads but is not yet available for self-hosting.
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Alibaba's Qwen went from an invite-only chatbot in April 2023 to a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model in August 2026. This is the full story, release by release: every major model, its key feature, and how its license changed. Each...
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Astra leads computer use, Argon leads legal and finance work, and Sol wins on price for coding agents. The post GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which Frontier Model Fits Which Job appeared first on MarkT...
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Google Research has unveiled a federated learning system that moves gradient computation from phones into attested server-side TEEs. Access policies are published to Sigstore's Rekor log and the binaries are reproducibly buildable, so ce...
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Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a 78.1B-parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts model that activates only 3.46B parameters per token. It has a 1M-token context and per-request reasoning effort, and its Apache 2.0 FP8 weights run on...
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DeepSeek has released official macOS and Windows desktop apps for DeepSeek Harness v0.2, its MIT-licensed agent harness. The preview adds a plugin manager, file and code-change review, and scheduled Automation Tasks. It also supports non...
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AWS CEO Matt Garman announced Amazon no longer uses nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) to speed up data center approvals. He also challenged claims about water use, electricity costs, and pollution.
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IBM has made its agentic software development platform Bob available for on-premises, private clouds, and air-gapped networks. Customers can bring their own models and run them locally.
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