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Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers on April 2, 2025, offering free AI access to verified K-12 educators in the US. The tool connects to curriculum frameworks and provides resources for lesson planning and classroom a…

South Korea's ICT exports hit a record high of $253.9 billion in the first half of the year, driven by surging global demand for AI technologies, the Ministry of Science and ICT reported. Semiconductor exports soared 162…

A researcher proposes a two-pronged scientific approach to solving the hard problem of phenomenological consciousness, emphasizing the need for novel, empirically verifiable predictions and experimental modulation of sub…

Researchers at the University of California San Diego successfully used two humanoid robots to perform live gallbladder removal surgeries on pigs, marking the first time general-purpose humanoid machines completed such p…

Byrne Hobart explores the concept of AI functioning as a 'conscientiousness prosthetic,' enhancing human productivity and decision-making. The article also covers topics such as payments, value capture, IBM, funding, and…

Canary ML, a new open-source Python library, provides lightweight drift and anomaly detection for production machine learning models built with scikit-learn, Keras, and TensorFlow. The tool wraps existing models to monit…

Groq founder Jonathan Ross revealed that a $20 billion deal with NVIDIA was conceived just three weeks before closing, after Jensen Huang converted a GPU purchase order into a platform partnership. The deal, one of the l…

Microsoft has rolled out updates to Windows Search that are receiving positive reviews for their improved performance and functionality. The updates aim to enhance the user experience by making file and app searches fast…

A solo student developer launched Souva, a free app that turns photos of fridge contents into recipes using AI, with a cap on scans and generations to cover hosting costs. The app, built on React Native and Cloudflare Wo…

A data scientist evaluated 10 AI coding models across 5 tasks, scoring each on a 1–10 rubric. The results showed no statistically significant correlation between price and quality, with cheaper models like DeepSeek V4 Fl…

A user reports intermittent HTTP 500 errors on a custom-handler Inference Endpoint for text embeddings, with ~70% of requests failing since early morning on 2026-07-14. The failures appear to occur at the gateway/router …

Hundreds of economists and AI researchers, including Nobel laureates and executives from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, warned Monday that institutions must prepare for potential large-scale job displacement caused by ar…

An engineer migrating from Claude Opus 4.5 to Opus 4.8 found that the fixed `budget_tokens` parameter for thinking has been replaced by adaptive thinking with an `effort` knob. The developer adapted by removing token bud…

Benchmark raised its price target for Hut 8 to $165, nearly doubling the previous $85 target, after the Bitcoin miner secured $16.8 billion in contracted lease value for two hyperscale AI data center projects. The analys…

Chamath Palihapitiya is returning to a full-time operating role as CEO of 8090 Labs, an AI coding company he founded, after raising $135 million in Series A funding led by Salesforce Ventures. The company's product, Soft…

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said AI investment is reshaping economic growth as high-tech spending surged nearly 25% in Q1 2026, driven by data center construction and demand for AI technologies. Major tech giants i…

IBM shares plunged 25% after the company warned that corporate spending is shifting from software to AI data-center infrastructure, causing it to miss earnings estimates. The decline dragged down other software stocks an…

A developer built a local LLM chatbot using Ollama and Python, enabling offline AI interactions with no API keys or privacy concerns. The project leverages Ollama's open-source tool to run models like Llama 3.2 locally, …

A developer released the Coding Agent Skill Library, an open-source tool that treats coding agent skills as governed, trusted assets via a knowledge graph and MCP server, aiming to make agentic coding easier, faster, and…

A guide details how to build and deploy a production-grade retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline, covering hybrid search, iterative retrieval, and evaluation, using U.S. federal copyright laws as an example.