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OpenAI turns to Oracle in historic $300 billion cloud partnership

TechSpot News | Sept. 11, 2025, 11:20 a.m. | Original

OpenAI has struck a landmark deal with Oracle to buy $300 billion in computing power over five years, highlighting both the explosive rise of AI and the growing financial risks around it. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that the contract – one of the largest...

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Web publishers roll out licensing protocol, pressuring AI companies to pay for scraped data

TechSpot News | Sept. 10, 2025, 2:36 p.m. | Original

Announced earlier today, Really Simple Licensing, or RSL, is an open, decentralized protocol developed by the non-profit RSL Collective. Built on the widely used RSS (Really Simple Syndication) standard, it can handle any digital content – web pages, books, videos, and datasets – across millions of websites. Unlike traditional licensing...

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LLVM 21.1.1 Ships A Variety Of Compiler Fixes

Phoronix | Sept. 10, 2025, 5:42 a.m. | Original
For those preferring for the first point release to major new compiler releases before upgrading, LLVM 21.1.1 is out today along with the likes of Clang 21.1.1 for this widely-used open-source compiler stack.

LLVM 21.1 released in late August with many significant improvements and other enhancements as the newest half-year feature release to LLVM. In going off their typical bi-weekly point release regiment, LLVM 21.1.1 is now available.

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Alibaba’s Qwen3 and Moonshot’s Kimi-K2 storm into global AI rankings

SCMP | Sept. 9, 2025, 8 p.m. | Original
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Alibaba’s Qwen logo seen next to a humanoid robot. Photo: Shutterstock Images

Two new Chinese artificial intelligence models have broken into a top 10 leaderboard for both open- and closed-source models, highlighting China’s progress in closing the gap with leading US developers.

Alibaba Group Holding’s 1 trillion-parameter Qwen3-max-preview model debuted in sixth place in the latest “text arena” ranking by LMArena – an AI model evaluation platform started by University of California, Berkeley researchers – making it
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‘Brain-like’ AI uses Chinese chips to run 100 times faster on ultra-long tasks

SCMP | Sept. 9, 2025, 6 p.m. | Original
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SpikingBrain 1.0 can learn from less than 2 per cent of the training data needed by other systems while staying fast and efficient, according to its developers. Photo: Handout

A Chinese team has unveiled what it calls the world’s first “brain-like” large language model – an artificial intelligence system designed to use less energy, perform better and operate without Nvidia chips .

Developed by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Automation in Beijing, SpikingBrain 1.0 mimics how the human brain fires only the neurons it

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Xcode 26 RC beta now available for developers

9to5mac | Sept. 9, 2025, 2:52 p.m. | Original

Following today’s event, Apple is now rolling out the first Release Candidate version of the operating systems announced during WWDC25, as well as for Xcode 26. Here are the details.

This year, Xcode’s highlight feature is its built-in integration with large language models, including native support for OpenAI and Anthropic. Users can also integrate with local LLMs and third-party services via API keys.

Anthropic’s support was added late in the beta cycle . The intelligence feature, originally announced

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NotebookLM’s huge update comes with a surprising downgrade

XDA developers | Sept. 9, 2025, 9:48 a.m. | Original
NotebookLM's update added powerful new learning tools, but at what cost?
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Google hints it may "soon" make AI Mode the default in Search

TechSpot News | Sept. 9, 2025, 8:09 a.m. | Original

With AI Mode, Google uses its Gemini LLM to produce conversational answers to users' search queries, rather than the expected list of links. Google is also adding agentic features to this mode, such as helping book dinner reservations, tickets, and other appointments.

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Gemini app finally expands to audio files

The Verge | Sept. 8, 2025, 3:14 p.m. | Original
Google made three major updates to its Gemini-powered products on Monday: The Gemini app now accepts audio files; Search can handle five new languages; and NotebookLM creates reports in the form of blog posts, study guides, quizzes, and more.  According to a Monday post on X by Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs and […]
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OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film

The Verge | Sept. 8, 2025, 6:56 a.m. | Original
OpenAI is on a mission to show Hollywood that generative artificial intelligence can deliver results and is throwing its weight behind an animated feature film it hopes will stand toe-to-toe with much costlier productions, according to the Wall Street Journal. The film, called “Critterz,” is expected to hit theaters worldwide in 2026 after a planned […]
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