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Fastino released GLiNER2.5, replacing span enumeration with boundary prediction so entity width no longer costs compute. Three Apache 2.0 checkpoints ship at 74M, 194M, and 287M parameters, all CPU-runnable. The release adds joint entity-relation decoding, constrained classification, span attributes...

The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit's role in developing it.

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones t...

Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child.  Now there are two.  Four short years after the release of ChatGPT,…

Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.

In this tutorial, we explore how to design production-grade safety for LLM-based applications using the NeMo Guardrails framework. We move beyond simple prompt filtering to implement a layered architecture, featuring deterministic PII redaction, retrieval filtering, output masking, and policy-based ...

In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.

OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.

The five largest GPU neoclouds now run on very different models. CoreWeave and Nebius report to the SEC; Lambda and Crusoe are private and heading toward IPOs; Groq rebuilt itself as an inference cloud after licensing its LPU technology to NVIDIA. This comparison checks each provider's live rate car...

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

An impressionistic celebration of late August across the Northern Hemisphere — where the golden light of summer’s end unites diverse landscapes and cultures. From wheat fields and lotus ponds to Mediterranean evenings and ocean sunsets, this artwork captures humanity’s shared pause before autumn’s a...

There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.

Abnormal will expand its use of OpenAI across its products and business, while the companies collaborate on new capabilities that improve security outcomes and help enterprises accelerate the safe adoption of AI. Abnormal AI, the AI-native behavior security company trusted by more than 25% of the Fo...

Connection Earns Recognition for Driving Tailored Customer Outcomes Through HPE Solutions Connection (PC Connection, Inc.; NASDAQ: CNXN), a leading provider of information technology solutions to business, government, healthcare, and education markets, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded...

S1-mini is a 462 MB open-weights normalizer that sits after ASR, removing fillers and resolving self-corrections locally. The post Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights Text Normalizer That Turns Raw ASR Transcripts Into Clean Written Text appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water -- his suggestion is not completely ludicrous.

Affected users told TechCrunch say they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.

ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.

Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of ten hurdles the company must overcome to make a profitable power plant.

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.

As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.