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2026-08-03

Alibaba launched its biggest AI model yet, claiming it rivals Anthropic's best

The 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max is now available via API, with open weights set to follow next week [...]

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2026-08-03

Nissan swings to its first quarterly profit in two years as cost cuts take hold

The Japanese automaker posted a ¥3.8 billion net profit for the April–June quarter, reversing a ¥115.8 billion loss from a year earlier [...]

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2026-08-03

New AirPods set to arrive before the end of the year, but don't hold your breath on cameras in Apple earbuds just yet

A fresh report points to new AirPods set to be unveiled this year, but not Apple's much-touted camera-enhanced models (yet). [...]

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2026-08-03

Microsoft acknowledges how dire the RAM crisis is by promising to reduce Windows 11's 'memory footprint' on 8GB laptops — but it should have been this way from the start

'There needs to be a mechanism to prevent this from happening': Microsoft vows to make Windows 11 run better on 8GB, but users complain something else needs fixing — rogue software installs. [...]

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2026-08-03

The Dow is up 500 points on Iran de-escalation. Investors remain skeptical it'll last

Brent crude fell more than 5% after President Trump said Sunday he canceled a planned attack and that talks would resume Monday [...]

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2026-08-03

DeepSeek's latest AI model is by far the cheapest of major models to run

Research firm Artificial Analysis found V4-Flash costs 3 cents per test run, versus $3.15 for Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 [...]

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2026-08-03

Congress is spending nearly of its AI budget on ChatGPT

House disbursement records show at least $100,580 spent on ChatGPT in a year, with Anthropic's Claude a distant second at $13,160 [...]

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2026-08-03

Agentic Trading Is Coming. The Hugging Face Breach Shows What Has to Sit Underneath It

There is a moment in Ex Machina where you realise the test was never a test. A programmer, Nathan, is flown to a compound to interview a machine through a wall of glass and decide whether it thinks. He spends the film reading her. He does not notice that she – Ava – is reading him, and that the interview is the only door out of the building. She never breaks the glass. She walks out through th [...]

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2026-08-03

How headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark

Automotive lights are better than they've ever been, but there's a trade-off. [...]