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Die Rechenzentren erwirtschaften vielleicht nie die Einnahmen, um die KI-Investitionen zu amortisieren, aber sie erm�glichen neue Produkte und Dienstleistungen, die dies laut Gartner schaffen werden. Ein Interview von Achim Sawall ( Gartner , KI )

Key Senate Democrats are balking at the latest version of a cryptocurrency regulation bill over a White House-approved ethics provision that they argue falls short, complicating the bill's chances of passing in the narrow window before lawmakers leave town next month. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), who leads the Senate Banking digital assets subcommittee, unveiled an...

A leading environmental economics journal is looking into claims that a 2025 study linking national innovation to lower carbon emissions contains data that does not match its source, after an expert in the field requested the paper be retracted. The article appeared in Ecological Economics, the journal for the International Society for Ecological Economics and … Continue reading Journal investigating apparent data mismatch in climate study

The acquisition formalises a relationship that began in 2021 when Zedcrest participated in Leatherback’s $10 million pre-seed funding.

The Trinity Legal Term ends on Friday 31 July 2026. The summer legal vacation will run until Thursday 1 October 2026 when the Michaelmas Legal Term will begin. On 23 July 2026, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (Lady Carmichael, Chamberlain J and Mr Shaw KC) handed down judgment in Kearney and BBC v Chief Constable of the Police […]

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s largest DRAM maker, raised RMB57.92 billion ($8.6 billion) in its Shanghai STAR Market IPO on July 27, in what became the largest mainland semiconductor offering on record. By the midday break, its shares had risen 531% from the IPO price, pushing its market value to RMB3.66 trillion and making it […]

Tech group becomes China’s most valuable listed company in mainland’s biggest IPO since 2010

Process could test investors’ willingness to back business software groups with market roiled by AI disruption

arXiv:2604.27618v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding the impact of large language models (LLMs) on mathematics education requires data on LLMs' mathematical performance and biases. To this end, we introduce Math Education Digital Shadows (MEDS), a dataset mapping how LLMs reason about mathematics across human- and AI-like personifications. MEDS comprises 28,000 runs from 14 LLMs (i.e., Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek, IBM Granite, Microsoft Phi, and xAI Grok) generated under human-sha

Shares of Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT have soared as the company began trading in Shanghai in mainland China’s biggest IPO in recent years.

The Hefei-based company raised 57.92 billion yuan ($8.6 billion) after pricing its IPO at 8.66 yuan per share.

Brandtech’s chief executive says AI is transforming industry but his company faces doubts over valuation

Shares of ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s leading maker of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, rose 472 per cent on their Shanghai trading debut, giving the company a market capitalisation of 3.31 trillion yuan (US$489 billion). The Hefei-based company opened at 49.50 yuan on the Star Market on Monday morning, compared with its initial public offering (IPO) price of 8.66 yuan. CXMT has become the most valuable company listed on the mainland Chinese market. The size of the...

Corgi, an AI-powered full-stack insurance platform, has reportedly hit a $4 billion valuation after raising money from investors for the fourth time this year.

Forecasting corporate earnings growth is fundamental to investment, credit, and regulatory decision-making. Existing forecasting approaches either rely on restrictive linear assumptions or provide limited interpretability, making them less suitable for high-stakes financial applications. This study proposes a transparent and causally informed framework for predicting future corporate earnings growth from financial statement data. We present TRuE-XAI (Transparent, Rule-based, and Explainable Arti

Corporate boards increasingly bear formal fiduciary responsibility for overseeing AI-driven strategic and sustainability decisions, yet their practical capacity to exercise such oversight substantively remains poorly documented. This study investigates whether a measurable AI governance capability gap exists between board-level and executive-level AI competence and examines the implications of this gap for the integrity of AI-driven ESG reporting. A pilot study (n = 26) of board members and seni

Face recognition systems are widely used in surveillance, biometric authentication, access control, and digital identity verification; however, supervision sensitivity, evaluation stability, and performance consistency across datasets remain insufficiently understood. This study investigates the behavior of convolutional, transformer-based, and hybrid face recognition architectures under both Softmax and ArcFace supervision using five-fold subject-disjoint cross-validation on the Labeled Faces i

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Reliable visual document understanding requires a model to attribute each answer to the evidence regions that support it. Recent benchmarks and systems express this step through a coordinate interface: the model outputs the coordinates of bounding boxes that mark the evidence regions in the document. Under this interface, vision-language models often fail to identify the right regions even when the answer is correct, a failure known as Attribution Hallucination. We present a study that investiga

The alignment of Small Language Models (SLMs) in the 70--500M parameter range using reinforcement learning is often considered unstable, though the underlying failure mechanisms have not been systematically investigated. In the State-of-the-Art (SOTA) research, fifteen (model, corpus) configurations were trained using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO). The experiments included Pythia-70M, 160M, 410M and SmolLM2-135M, 360M on the TinyStories, CNN/DailyMail, and Wikitext-103 corpora. Three reprod

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard into the market that has grown up around reselling LLM tokens at a discount by pooling API keys from various sources. This looks to be mostly a thing in China. Resellers sell access to an LLM proxy that offers significant discounts on regular API pricing, which they achieve by abusing free trials, proxying through unprotected support bots, or sometimes through stolen credit cards or ch

CME Group Inc. will launch single-stock futures Monday, allowing investors to hedge or speculate on more than 50 of the largest US companies.

Long before the Tesla revolution, Sony Pictures Classics' ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’ investigated why GM discontinued the beloved EV1.

The Exploration Company in talks to raise $300mn for reusable space capsules

Differential privacy provides formal privacy guarantees for training neural networks on sensitive data, while Bayesian deep learning offers a principled framework for uncertainty-aware prediction. Combining these two objectives remains challenging, as privacy noise can interact with the stochasticity introduced by Bayesian posterior sampling. In this work, we investigate differentially private variational Bayesian learning through the Improved Variational Online Newton (IVON) optimizer. We intro

Reports of wide-scale replacement of workers by AI are overblown. Small businesses use it to help workers I recently met the owner of a company that sells windows and doors. He told me he invested about $10,000 in an AI application that is used by his salespeople in his showroom. The application listens to the conversations between the salesperson and the prospective customer and then automatically creates a quote for the salesperson to review and send. “It allows my salespeople to talk to more

In an era dominated by aggressive tech founders who chase billion-dollar valuations and maximal profits while curating loud public profiles, Liang Wenfeng stands out for his insistence on staying in the background. With only a couple of photographs of him circulating online, the founder of Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek and quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Quant has long been a reclusive figure. But last week, a leaked transcript of a closed-door meeting with potential...

The Trump administration’s equity stakes—from Intel to quantum startups—appear in no budget document and are subject to no watchdog.

DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after comments made by founder Liang Wenfeng during private investor meetings were leaked and went viral on Chinese social media, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Liang verbally informed prospective backers to hold off on the round, which had been targeting a pre-money valuation of roughly 480 billion yuan, equivalent […] This story continues at The Next Web

As AI agents take on higher-stakes decisions, Lean programming language makes it possible to mathematically prove they will behave safely.

A wobbly U.S. stock market will take its cues in the coming week from a Federal Reserve meeting set to shed light on the path for interest rates, and from ​a packed slate of corporate earnings led by ...

Anthropic's engineering team recently published a notable admission: they stripped more than 80% of...

Belgium's Federal Prosecutor's Office said it launched an espionage investigation after NATO’s security services tipped off Belgium’s military intelligence.

When Apple set its sights on India as its next promising market, CEO Tim Cook planned to take a leaf out of the company’s China playbook – a retail and manufacturing strategy that had paid hefty dividends to the US tech giant. “We are, in essence, taking what we learned in China years ago and how we scale to China and bringing that to bear,” Cook told investors in February 2023. The company had just seen record quarterly sales in the Indian market, and was just weeks ahead of the opening of...

Ned Davis Research’s Trump Trade Index has slumped about 16% since May after clobbering the S&P 500 Index at the beginning of the year.

Investors navigated everything from escalating tensions in the Middle East to key tech earnings reports to healthcare developments.

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. When students return to school this fall in the Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York, a new kind of teacher will be ready to greet them. The small, rural […]

Nvidia will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, the chipmaker announced late Friday. The funding will allow Naver to more than triple the size of the facility from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts, with US private equity firm Brookfield agreeing […] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex on Saturday, marking the fourth service disruption in four days for the company. Users encountered 503 errors with the internal label “biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open,” which prevented requests from reaching OpenAI’s servers. The company moved from investigating to monitoring within an hour, saying it had […] This story continues at The Next Web

Uno de los grandes temas de la ciencia ficción se ha convertido hoy en objeto de debate en el sector de la robótica. Que las máquinas tengan consciencia aumentaría su utilidad en ciertas circunstancias y algunos investigadores trabajan para lograr esta meta. Aunque el concepto no se aplica en los robots como se aplica en las personas. Ricardo Sanz, profesor de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), acude a congresos de consciencia en las máquinas desde hace más de dos décadas. Recuerda su p