Russian strikes kill two in Kherson overnight, Ukraine retaliates
Overnight Russian drones killed two in Kherson region while Ukraine strikes back killing two in Russia, including an 8-year-old child.
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Booking's CEO says AI will have a 'human cost' — and he wants every employee to be 'AI literate' in case their job goes away
Glenn Fogel said he told Booking's head of HR that he wants "every single employee" to become "AI literate" and able to use the tools.
Colombia quake rescuers save woman after 36 hours trapped in rubble
A 32-year-old woman has been rescued alive in Pereira after spending 36 hours trapped beneath a collapsed building. Rescuers located her 10 hours before reaching her.
Die neue Weltordnung der AfD
Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler widmen sich in dieser Folge gemeinsam mit Jacob Ross, Research Fellow bei der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik , der Außenpolitik der AfD. Sie analysieren gemeinsam mit ihm, wie sich die Partei von einer reinen Protestbewegung zu einer gestaltenden Kraft mit einem eigenen Gegenentwurf zur Außenpolitik der Bundesregierung entwickeln […]
독파모 4개사, '벤치맥싱' 의혹 일축..."평가 보완책으로 영향 미미"
독자 AI 파운데이션 모델(독파모) 프로젝트 2차 평가 결과 발표를 앞두고 제기된 \'벤치맥싱(benchmaxxing)\' 의혹에 대해 4개사 모두 사실이 아니라는 입장을 밝혔다.SKT는 12일 \"이번에 A.X K2를 개발하면서 AI 모델의 성능을 객관적으로 평가하기 위해 벤치마크 오염 방지를 가장 중요하게 고려했다\"며 선을 그었다.LG AI연구원과 업스테이지, 모티프테크놀로지스도 관련설을 모두 부인했다.이는 지난달 서울에서 열린 \'국제머신러닝학회(ICML 2026)\'에서 애프터쿼리와 스케일AI, 머코어(Mercor) 등 미국 AI 학
😺 OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini's reasoning got cracked
PLUS: Grokbot, LTX 2.5 (new open video model) and more.
You’re Thinking About Online Trends All Wrong
From pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putting too much stock into things that go viral.
Tencent capex jumps 176% on AI push as revenue beats estimates
Tencent Holdings nearly tripled its capital spending in the second quarter to supercharge its AI push, as accelerating investments in computing power and models helped drive better-than-expected revenue. Revenue for the quarter ending in June reached 204.8 billion yuan (US$30.4 billion), up 11 per cent year on year from 184.5 billion yuan, the Chinese tech giant reported on Wednesday. The figure beat average analyst estimates of 202.8 billion yuan compiled by Bloomberg. Adjusted net income...
Zuckerberg cites China threat to US lead in AI manifesto
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay outlining his vision for artificial intelligence (AI), backing development of open-weight models and arguing that overregulation risks surrendering US leadership to China. “American communities will have greater prosperity and security if America and its allies lead in AI compared to geopolitical rivals,” the Facebook billionaire wrote in the essay, which was published on Monday. Still, the US faces a “significant disadvantage” as...
Spotify to label AI-generated artist personas with new ‘AI Persona’ badges
Spotify's move comes as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms, with Deezer recently reporting that AI tracks accounted for more than half of all new daily uploads in June.
How I use Google Magnifier to see very small print (when I can't find my glasses)
If you regularly find yourself in a situation where you've left your glasses behind and you need to read fine print or something far away, Google has an app right up your alley.
HCLTech finds no evidence of system breach, says the leaked data is years old
A HCLTech investigation found that the employee data leak claim by a hacker group "may be limited and dated to a few years back" and there's no evidence of breach in its own or client's systems. The post HCLTech finds no evidence of system breach, says the leaked data is years old appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
GPT-Image - General AI Gallery: A Place for Images with AI created by Users
Solar eclipse Today solar eclipse will occur in most part of the Europe and in some other continents too. The absolute best place to see total solar eclipse, is in Iceland and Greenland, so if you’re there, then lucky you (well if it is sunny and no clouds that is).
I was a consultant at BCG who struggled to land a project. Here's how I turned it around.
Jonathan Chan joined Boston Consulting Group in 2011 and immediately found himself on the bench. So he decided to do something about it.
8 Great Deals From Patagonia’s Past-Season Sale
Summer’s not over yet; pick up some new gear for that last Labor Day trip. Save up to 40 percent on some of our favorite Patagonia items at the company’s past-season sale.
How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers
Next month, on September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young people from around the world who are doing groundbreaking scientific work and building clever technical fixes for sticky problems. By finding the top young innovators globally and learning what they’re focused on in their work,…
Europe readies for total solar eclipse- So, what will happen in the once-in-a-generation stellar spectacle?
Maximum totality will occur off Iceland’s west coast. By the time it reaches a small patch of Portugal and then Spain with its massive crowds, totality will have dwindled to a minute or so. The spectacle will end in the Mediterranean.
how random initialization works on t-SNE
I am trying to make the clone of t-SNE. and when i worked on the initialization part. i encountered a problem. how do i make the random initialization part. so i need to understand how does random initialization on t-SNE work. could anyone explains to me how it works untechnicly?
Burnham chairs crisis meeting as UK swelters in extreme heat
The prime minister will discuss how to "safeguard the environment" after record-breaking weather conditions.
Germany’s best viewpoints from above: Scenic walks, mountain peaks and sky-high bridges
Some of Germany’s best places to take in the views are from above, including at the country’s highest mountain standing next to a statue of mythological hero Hercules.
UK puts £14B cloud framework in place with SMEs promised a bigger slice
Global players dominate the market. Will public sector buyers give local suppliers a look-in?
A Candidate Named ‘Count Binface’ Is the Most Normal Part of This Pivotal UK Election
Clacton's parliamentary race has it all: Nigel Farage, a man dressed as a trash can, a Union Jack bikini, white nationalist conspiracy theories, and 34 candidates on the ballot.
Nvidia's next moat is something chip rivals can't copy: its giant pile of money
Nvidia is turning its massive cash pile into a competitive moat, and now it's bringing Wall Street capital into its AI ecosystem.
Forget chatbot training. AI's next big data grab is about learning how humans work.
Google's Mechanize talks and Meta's moves reveal the next AI race: training agents to do real jobs, not just answer questions.
Inflation is expected to cool again in today's July CPI report
The BLS releases the July CPI report today at 8:30 a.m. ET. Economists expect inflation to cool to 3.4%, with energy prices being a key area to watch.
Tokenmaxxing: The strangest developer productivity metric of all time
I wonder these days. How did we ever write software without AI? I mean, I know we did. It was possible. But with AI it’s like wearing roller skates and a rocket pack. Naturally, we want to encourage developers to embrace this wondrous power. But just as naturally, our industry has found a way to convolute the whole thing. Instead of a sensible game plan, we have a blanket metric that, by embracing raw token usage as a measure of excellence, gamifies AI use in the worst possible way. Welcome to the bewildering world of tokenmaxxing. Worse than lines of code The more lines of code (LOC) you write, the more productive you are as a coder. Right? Wrong. Terribly wrong. It’s tough to imagine a more wrong-headed measure of software success than the amount of code produced. LOC is actually a measure of how sprawling a system is, an indicator of the breakable surface area. Well-considered designs often aim to reduce the LOC. Streamlined systems often reveal a lot more thinking and refining than actual coding. But the amount of tokens you consume when using AI? That is a worse measure than LOC. Not only does it imply that you are working without a plan, just racing to spew forth unmediated code, but also may suggest that you are stuffing the prompts with fluff, running up the meter without any intention of creating working software. Predictably, tokenmaxxing gives us both shoddy software and poor productivity. Surprisingly, it can even menace the infrastructure. Although the downsides…
When code no longer matters
I think we all understand what a huge step it was to build the first compiler. Being able to write code that humans can read and understand and turn that into something that a computer can execute was a foundational step in computer science. It enabled the explosion of software that is, as Marc Andreessen said, “eating the world.” The next step was an interpreter for languages like the JVM’s bytecode and .NET’s Common Intermediate Language (CIL). These took the human languages and converted them to a language that can be run or executed anywhere. As I’ve argued before, the abstractions never end . But only a chosen few bother to actually learn bytecode or CIL. No one chooses that as a development language. It’s meant to be written by a compiler and read by an interpreter. Today, with AI, we code in Markdown and plain old English . The “intermediate language” now is the actual code — TypeScript , Python , Rust , etc. — and the human-readable part of the equation is our everyday conversation with the coding agent. We’ve added a layer that makes it even easier to communicate our requirements directly to the metal of our computers. And just as no one actually writes IL, it won’t be long before none of us is writing TypeScript, Python, or Rust. Coding by hand will be a thing of the past. And at that point, it will become moot whether our “intermediate language” is TypeScript or whatever. It won’t matter. So my question then becomes, if it doesn’t matter, why would we even use a h…
The IT leadership rules have changed: 3 things you need to architect now
Here is the statistic that should frame every IT leadership conversation this year. In CIO.com’s 2026 State of the CIO , fewer than one in five leaders say their AI initiatives have met or exceeded business goals. After three years of investment, that is not the number anyone expected. And the window to fix it is closing: The boards that once funded experimentation are now asking where the return is, and the agents arriving this year act on the business rather than merely advise it. The easy explanation is that the technology isn’t ready. In the organizations I advise, that’s rarely what I see. The models work. What’s missing is the operating system they plug into, the way the enterprise decides, the way work gets done and supervised, and the way trust is engineered. AI amplifies the operating system you already have. Point it at a strong one and value compounds. Point it at a fragmented one, and you simply industrialize the fragmentation. That reframes the job. The 2026 IT leader isn’t measured on how much AI they deployed. They’re measured on three things they now have to architect: How the organization decides, who does the work and what makes it safe to let go. Vipin Jain Does the output have anywhere to land? Start with where AI programs actually stall. In the banks I advise, pilots rarely fail in the lab. They fail at the handoff — the moment a working capability meets an organization that has no place to put it. There is no owner accountable for the outcome, no decisi…
Space42, Leonardo DRS sign MoU to advance national security mission systems
Space42, Leonardo DRS sign MoU to advance national security mission systems
Rechenzentren: Kritik an Umgang der Bundesregierung mit Ausbauplänen
Die Bundesregierung hat keinen vollständigen Überblick über neue Rechenzentren und will ihre Ausbauziele erst 2029 überprüfen. Dafür wird sie kritisiert.
Iran knew Trump’s hotel floor during July Nato summit in Turkey as missile threat emerged
Iran knew Trump’s hotel floor as missile threat emerg
영국·웨일스 법원, 메타 스마트 안경 반입·착용 전면 금지..."몰래 촬영 우려"
영국과 웨일스의 법원이 몰래 법정 영상을 촬영할 수 있다는 우려가 커진 메타의 스마트 안경 사용을 금지했다. 스마트폰은 법정에서 녹화에 사용하지 않는다는 조건으로 소지가 허용되지만, 메타 안경은 입장 과정에서 압수하도록 해 사생활 침해와 법정 절차의 은밀한 촬영 가능성을 차단하기로 했다.더 가디언에 따르면, 영국과 웨일스의 형사·민사·가사 법원을 관할하는 영국 법원·재판소 서비스(HMCTS)는 11일(현지시간) 법원 건물에 메타 스마트 안경을 착용하고 들어오는 사람의 안경을 압수할 방침이라고 밝혔다.HMCTS는 법정과 재판소에서 이
Fewer rules: Europe was built on coal and steel, not paperwork
The EU keeps churning out new rules, writes Gitta Connemann, head of Germany's CDU's influential business association, MIT. Small and medium-sized businesses bear the brunt of EU bureaucracy, she argues, calling for a halt to new regulation and for rules that add no value to be scrapped.
Astrotalk turns unicorn at $1 Bn valuation via ESOP buyback
Online astrology and spiritual tech platform Astrotalk has turned unicorn at a valuation of $1 billion through an ESOP buyback for more than 100 employees, according to the company. The Noida based startup said the buyback will provide eligible employees with an opportunity to realise liquidity while retaining their participation in the company’s future growth. Founded in 2017 by Puneet Gupta and Anmol Jain, Astrotalk has expanded from astrology consultations into spiritual and commerce categories. The company currently has a revenue run rate of more than Rs 2,500 crore and recorded Rs 1,176 crore in revenue with Rs 285 crore in PBT in FY25. The ESOP buyback is being funded through profits generated by the business. The startup is backed by investors including Left Lane Capital and Elev8 Venture Partners. The startup has also expanded into spiritual commerce through Astrotalk Store. The e-commerce arm has reached a daily GMV run rate of around Rs 1 crore and processed 1.6 million orders in 2025, according to the company. Astrotalk has also launched a standalone platform for gemstones, offering precious and semi precious stones with lab certification, astrology consultations and a replacement policy. The platform is aimed at addressing sourcing and certification concerns in the fragmented gemstone market. Astrotalk's valuation has jumped 3.3X from $300 million in June 2024 to $1 billion. With just $34 million in total funding, such a steep valuation jump through an ESOP buyba…
Monzo and Lovable backer Accel raises enlarged $800M early-stage fund
The VC giant, which has backed Lovable, Synthesia and other current prominent European startups, has raised an enlarged $800m fund to invest in early-stage startups across Europe and Israel as part of...
유럽 독자 인프라 확장 나선 미스트랄, AI 플랫폼 사업자로 도약
미스트랄 AI가 오픈 모델 호스팅 서비스를 시작하고 컴퓨팅 인프라를 대폭 늘리며 플랫폼 사업자 전환과 \'소버린 AI\' 구축에 속도를 낸다.미스트랄 AI는 11일(현지시각) 유럽의 AI 주권 확보와 서비스 확장을 위한 \'3대 전략\'을 공식 발표했다.첫 번째 전략으로 기업 고객이 AI 연산 처리 지역을 유럽이나 미국 중 직접 선택할 수 있는 ‘지역별 추론 엔드포인트(Regional Endpoints)’를 정식 출시했다. 데이터 주권과 유럽 내 규제 준수 요구에 맞춰 데이터가 역외로 유출되는 것을 차단하겠다는 취지다.또 다운되거나 에러가