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Coinbase joins the rush to Chinese AI models as Western labs face a pricing stress test
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is switching his company to Chinese AI models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7. An automated routing system picks the best model for each request based on task and price, and better caching pushed the hit rate from 5 to 60 percent. Coinbase has cut its AI spending in half even as token usage keeps climbing. The article Coinbase joins the rush to Chinese AI models as Western labs face a pricing stress test appeared first on The Decoder .
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국내 AI 업계, 마누스 외면… "중국산 거부감보다 대체재 풍부"
AI 에이전트 서비스 마누스(Manus)가 최근 국내 진출을 검토 중인 것으로 알려졌다. 마누스는 지난해 출시 직후 뛰어난 성능으로 주목받았으며, 최근에는 메타의 인수 추진 과정에서 중국 정부가 이례적으로 \'거래 철회 명령\'을 내리며 미국과의 기술 갈등의 중심에 선 바 있다. 이 때문에 시장에서는 이를 ‘중국계 AI’로 인식하는 분위기가 짙다. 마누스도 국내 진출에 가장 큰 걸림돌로 이런 점을 꼽은 것으로 알려졌다.이에 따라 국내 AI 기업 10여 곳을 대상으로 마누스와 중국산 AI 이미지에 대한 시각과 실제 도입 여부를 조사했다.
France: 11 killed in civilian plane crash near Nancy
Police urged the public to stay away from the area around Tomblaine airport. The aircraft was reportedly carrying skydivers.
Nest’s quest to fix your thermostat
The founding story of Nest is pretty much a perfect tech myth. A legendary product maker (in this case, Tony Fadell) helps create one of the most successful products ever (the iPhone) and then rides off into the sunset to enjoy the rest of his life, only to have an experience that drags him back […]
I looked into OBD2 fuel savers, and found a much safer solution to save car gas instead
No, there's no cheap dongle that you can plug into your car to save you money. Here's the truth.
Ad-free streaming is a luxury now
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about the streaming industry, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Streaming was once a reprieve from cable. Not only could […]
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I've worked in restaurants for 35 years. There's one food I avoid ordering on Mondays.
Brian "Rusty" Russino of The Cheesecake Factory shares restaurant insights, explaining his "Monday bun" rule for ordering fresh food.
I took an unpaid internship at 31. I learned more valuable lessons from my Gen Z fellow interns than from my bosses.
When I became an intern at 31, my fellow interns were a decade younger. They taught me about work-life balance and the power of asking 'why.'
I'm a career coach. Here's the 4-hour burnout-proof job-search strategy I recommend.
A career coach advises job seekers against spending all day applying to jobs. She says a four-hour routine is burnout-proof and more effective.
You can travel all around the Netherlands by train for €49 a month this summer
This summer rail deal makes exploring the Netherlands easier and less hefty on our wallets. Here’s how to make the most of it and where else in Europe you can save on rail travel
US Supreme Court is building its own massive police force
America's high court is spending millions to beef up security. At what cost?
UV face masks, cooling ties: how cultures outside Europe deal with heat
Countries on other continents, far from Europe, have long devised ways of coping with sweltering heat. Here are a few examples – some unusual, others inspiring.
UV face masks, cooling ties: how cultures outside Europe cope with heat
Countries on other continents, far from Europe, have long devised ways to cope with blistering heat. Here are some examples, both unusual and inspiring.
I graduated debt-free, but my husband had $20K in student loans. Here's what we want our kids to know about taking out loans for college.
My husband had $20,000 in student loan debt, while I graduated debt-free. I care more about my kids avoiding debt than where they go to college.
I left Google after making nearly $1M in a year. Fears about layoffs and missing out on the AI boom gave me the push.
A former Google employee says AI equity, job security concerns, and years of side projects convinced him to leave and build his own company.
Power Laws in NNs: A Possible Mechanism for Inductive Bias towards Sparse Representations
This post was produced as part of the Iliad Fellowship under the mentorship of Dmitry Vaintrob. Tl;dr: Power-law ("heavy-tailed") distributions have universality theorems similar to those which make Gaussians common. We observe many things in ML are power-law distributed, most robustly and interestingly, the spectra of weight matrices. I explain how we can think of power-laws as being a natural generalization of the idea of 'sparsity', interpolating between true sparsity and Gaussianity according to the 'tail-index' of the distribution. I share some hypotheses about how this might relate to the 'sparse'/'discrete'/'factored' representations that neural networks seem to learn. I promise this is not a Santa-Fe-Institute encomium for power laws or "black swans"; different genre. Contents 1. The generalized central limit theorem proves power-law distributions are universality classes 2. Power laws observed in NNs might help us understand representation learning 2.A. HTSR: phase changes in weight-matrix spectra and data-free prediction of generalization 2.B. BBP transition as a quantum of learning 2.C. HTSR as an extended BBP transition 2.D. Training evidence for heavy tails is mixed, and I'm not sure if they're important 3. The tail exponent α is a smooth proxy for sparsity and compressibility 3.A. α captures compressibility across heavy tails 3.B. α-stable noise can make discrete codebooks optimal 3.C. Heavy-tailed noise can convert analog inputs into discrete codebooks 4. Summ…
Refusal Is Complicated As Hell: An Update
TL;DR It would make sense to briefly skim through our previous post that introduces our experiments on refusal in LLMs . There we explain how it started, here we’ll tell how it’s going. The primary goal of this text is to try and structure the list of whack-a-mole research questions. The secondary goal is to get some outside perspective, so if you run a similar research or have seen a similar research, please lend us a hand. Feel free to jump straight to the section that looks most appealing. We recommend skimming through “The Main Question” as this section provides a broader perspective. Then we listed all other questions that arose during research. You’ll find them under headers “Another Question: …” and “Wording Also Matters”. The first one discusses how refusal is represented in different layers and what it might mean. The second one is dedicated to two parts of refusal – its wording and actual detection of a potentially harmful request. “The Main Question” is split into two parts: in “Our suggestion” we outline our main hypothesis and proofs we found during our experiments; in “An Alternative Suggestion” we highlight the opposing point of view and proofs behind it. The Main Question (MQ) We experiment on open-weight small (~9B) instruct models trying to understand what exactly happens when they refuse to provide an answer given different contexts. One of the core observations is, refusal looks different for different categories of potential harm (for example, a request…
My 2 sons moved back in with me, so my expenses have gone up. I'm forced to put off the financial freedom of an empty nest.
My two sons still live with me so they can save on housing costs. That means my expenses have gone up, like electricity and grocery budgets.
I tested two of the best location-sharing apps for a month - this one was most accurate
Surfshark's HeyPolo is taking on the popular Life360. Here's how this latest contender in the location-sharing space competes.
Faster AI, lower costs: DSpark eases inference bottlenecks and chip strain, says DeepSeek
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has rolled out a major upgrade to its flagship V4 model aimed at sharply accelerating AI response generation, as competition among Chinese developers increasingly shifts to reducing serving costs and enhancing user experience. DeepSeek, by adopting what it called a speculative decoding framework, DSpark, said it increased per-user response speeds by up to 85 per cent, an efficiency gain that could reduce AI systems’ reliance on larger, more...
The ‘Almost Homeless’ Subreddit Is a Stark Glimpse at Soaring Wealth Inequality
As the billionaire class gets richer, the growing online community is offering tips on how to survive with very little.
heise-Angebot: Agentic AI: Konferenz zu Legacy-Migration und den Herausforderungen fürs Team
Die betterCode() Agentic AI widmet sich aktuellen Themen zu KI-gestützter Softwareentwicklung. Im Oktober stehen Legacy-Modernisierung und Teamarbeit im Fokus.
US-Iran truce faces toughest test after fresh strikes: Why it matters
Truce tested by fresh escalation as Trump warns Iran
Slate's new affordable EV truck has our newsroom divided
In this Sunday edition of Business Insider Today, we're talking about the ungainly quality of Slate's new EV truck and why some people would buy it anyway.
저커버그, '예측 시장' 앱 개발 이어 선두주자와 협력 지시
메타가 최근 폭발적으로 성장 중인 ‘예측 시장’에 도전하기 위해 자체 앱 개발에 나섰다는 소식에 이어, 이 분야 선두주자들과의 협력에 나선 것으로 알려졌다.26일(현지시간) 뉴욕타임스에 따르면, 마크 저커버그 CEO는 최근 참모진에게 폴리마켓(Polymarket)과 칼시(Kalshi) 등 대표 플랫폼과의 제휴 방안을 모색하라고 지시했다.이에 앞서 저커버그 CEO가 사내 소규모 팀을 통해 예측 시장 플랫폼을 모델로 한 독립형 모바일 앱 ‘아레나(Arena)’를 비밀리에 개발해 왔다는 소식이 전해졌다. 구체적인 협력 형태는 알려지지 않
After 49 years of struggle, Spain leads LGBTIQ+ inclusion: inside the first Pride march
It was 1977, two years after Franco’s death, when a group of people made history for Spain’s LGTBIQ+ community by marching on Barcelona’s Ramblas after years in the shadows.
The British restaurants are coming
From fish and chips to fine dining, New York City is in the middle of a British restaurant boom.
Only three AI models finished above starting capital in a 500-day startup survival test
Researchers at Princeton University built CEO-Bench, a test where AI agents have to run a fictional software company for 500 simulated days. Most current models go broke, and a simple rule-based heuristic with no AI beats nearly all of them. The article Only three AI models finished above starting capital in a 500-day startup survival test appeared first on The Decoder .
I moved to rural Japan for work. The reality of office culture pushed me back to London.
Moving to Japan presented challenges in practices like gift-giving and limited sick leave, and reshaped what I expected from work.
Why Wear Anything Other Than a Sun Hoodie This Summer? Our Picks for the Best
Sun hoodies are the greatest new garment since the original hoodie.
Latest news bulletin | June 28th, 2026 – Midday
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this June 28th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out
Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM
Spain removes Gibraltar from its tax haven list after 35 years, adds Russia
The Spanish Ministry of Finance has updated its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions, removing Gibraltar after 35 years and adding Russia, in line with the European Union's position
A financial influencer called the FIRE movement a 'sham.' People who have made it work say she's missing the point.
"I don't live in a van, eat rice and beans, and I've never given up traveling," said one early retiree. "That's not what the movement is about."
I love scuba diving and coding. So I figured out a way to make a living doing both.
Eliana Jordan left office life, became a scuba instructor, and later taught herself to code to build something of her own.
Ukraine strikes two oil refineries in Russia as it continues to target Moscow's energy industry
Ukraine's air force said local air defences had shot down six Russian ballistic missiles, one anti-ship missile and 125 drones overnight.
Algerians celebrate as dramatic draw seals World Cup knockout spot
"We wanted to take our revenge against Austria": Algeria fans react in Algiers after the draw against Austria secured the Fennecs' place in the World Cup round of 32.
Chinese cybersecurity firm builds AI tools to rival Mythos and frames the race as cyber-nuclear deterrence
360 founder Zhou Hongyi presents two AI security tools designed to compete with Anthropic's Mythos. One has already flagged 3,432 vulnerabilities. Zhou admits Chinese models trail Western ones by 20 to 30 percent, but compares Mythos to "cyber nuclear weapons" and calls for China to build its own strategic deterrent. The article Chinese cybersecurity firm builds AI tools to rival Mythos and frames the race as cyber-nuclear deterrence appeared first on The Decoder .
This Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way's Center
The Euclid space telescope's stunning photo of our galaxy's “crowded heart” captures more than 60 million stars.
3 quick recipes to boost your energy and focus, from a cookbook for exhausted execs
Eating nutritious food can get relegated to the bottom of your to-do list when you're busy, but this can be counterproductive. Try these tasty recipes, instead.