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Alibaba released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate. It’s a multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 176B total parameters, including 51B N-gram embedding parameters, and ac

Alibaba released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate. It’s a multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with a 125B-parameter main model supplemented by an additional 51B N-gram emb

Proxmox rolled out version 9.2 of its virtualization platform at the start of this month, which adds official support for 64-bit ARM (arm64/aarch64). Previously, Proxmox VE was available only for x86-64 (amd64). With this release, arm64 builds share the same code base, package re

The News Not every book by a former “insider” is created equal. “Nothing Left” by Evan Barker is unusually rich and well-timed. Barker was a powerhouse fundraiser for the Democratic Party’s left, which meant she was in the room for crucial meetings between its biggest stars, befo

Markets want more info from the Fed Chairman and less intervention from the Treasury Secretary. That's the message from the special Jackson Hole edition of the CNBC Fed Survey. Among the 31 respondents, 80% say the Fed chairman should provide more insight into his economic views.

The FBI has seized a series of domains that were used by a large-scale botnet to coordinate and launch China-backed cyberattacks against American targets. According to the Justice Department’s statement on Wednesday, the seizures of the botnet’s domains deny the operators access

Barring the Indian stock market, Asian equities mostly ended Wednesday's session, August 26, higher, as a decline in crude oil prices, easing pressure on US bond yields and a revival in chip stocks ahead of Nvidia Corp.'s results supported gains across the region. Japan's benchma

Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the “female economy” — or the markets where women drive demand. That mainly falls into three buckets for the firm, Margaret Coblent

Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a new addition to the Gemini family that follows the launch of 3.5 Live Translate, and comes as we’re still waitin

For decades, console owners have faced a choice between the convenience of digital downloads and the permanence of physical game discs. Soon, Xbox owners will be able to get the best of both worlds for thousands of supported titles as part of a newly announced disc-to-digital pro

Funeral held for renowned Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour - Published The funeral has taken place at a packed church in Birzeit, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, for the celebrated Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour, who died this week at the age of 79. He was best known

For consumers, the actual amount paid at the cash register increasingly depends on the payment type used. Given the end of penny production last year by the U.S. Mint, many merchants have begun rounding cash payments up or down to the nearest nickel. States have passed laws gover

Apple announced on Wednesday that its next launch event is taking place on September 9, with a “Surprise and Shine” tagline. The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It’ll also be the first Apple event with John Te

Artificial Intelligence How GoDaddy transformed its analytics with Amazon Quick GoDaddy is one of the world’s largest domain registrar and web hosting companies, serving more than 20 million customers and managing approximately 82 million domain names. At that scale, access to ti

AI - AI and ML Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em looseEight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces -

Portrait of Ann Widdecombe put up in Parliament for MPs' return - Published A portrait of Ann Widdecombe has been erected in Parliament to remember the former MP, who was found dead with serious head injuries last month. The picture of the ex-Conservative minister was put up on T

Murder arrests after fire kills two including child - Published Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after two people died in a house fire including a child, police have confirmed. The blaze in Grangetown, near Middlesbrough, broke out just before 05:30 BST and also

Artificial Intelligence Natera’s intelligent appointment scheduling with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Booking a phlebotomy appointment shouldn’t be a hassle for oncology patients already managing treatment. Natera’s service, powered by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, allows a phlebotomist

Meta and a coalition of state attorneys general have settled a major federal case centering on allegations that the social media giant misrepresented the extent of child mental health harms caused by apps like Facebook and Instagram. The settlement was revealed in a court filing

Meta and a coalition of state attorneys general have settled a major federal case centering on allegations that the social media giant misrepresented the extent of child mental health harms caused by apps like Facebook and Instagram. The settlement was revealed in a court filing

Artificial Intelligence Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker AI: Script mode in SDK v3 In 2021, we published Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker script mode. That post showed how to use script mode on managed framework containers from AWS to write custom training and

Episode details Available for over a year Today, Prince Harry and Meghan have arrived back in the UK from California. Senior royal correspondent Daniela Relph joins Adam to discuss what life in the British countryside might look like for the couple. Where is the line between priv

Olympic champion Liu announces break from competition - Published Women's Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu has confirmed she will not compete during the 2026-27 season. Liu, 21, became the first American female since 2002 to win Olympic gold in women's singles in Februar

There is "no plan" for the "social, political, and economic upheaval" artificial intelligence is about to cause, Bill Gates has warned. The Microsoft co-founder said AI could become either the "greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice," but that he saw n

Artificial Intelligence Preparing data for supervised fine-tuning Part 2: Advanced data strategies Data preparation for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) doesn’t end when your dataset is clean and correctly formatted. The harder questions come next. How much data do you actually need?

Artificial Intelligence Preparing data for supervised fine-tuning Part 1: Formatting and quality Data preparation determines the ceiling of any supervised fine-tuning (SFT) project. You’ve evaluated your foundation model (FM), and out-of-the-box performance isn’t meeting your pro

Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia presents Groq 3 LPX architecture and unveils its first third-party inference benchmark — LP30-based rack already in production, company says The inference rack built from Nvidia's $20 billion Groq acquisition claims a four-times long-context decode lead. Th

Shares of Aastha Spintex, the Gujarat-based integrated cotton yarn manufacturer, were locked in a 10% upper circuit during Wednesday's trade, August 26, hitting ₹80 apiece. The rally came after the company announced that its Board of Directors would consider the declaration of a

AI - AI and ML Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em looseEight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces -

Agentic AI startup Runable has raised $21 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Together Fund and Array VC. The company plans to use the fresh capital to expand its growth c

Dive Brief: - Kohl’s Wednesday reported progress in its turnaround, as Q2 net sales fell less than 1% year on year to $3.3 billion, with comps also down less than 1%. Sephora at Kohl’s sales fell 4%, after dropping in Q1. - Gross margin expanded by 305 basis points to 43%, helped

VC firm Lightspeed Venture Partners has exited edtech major PhysicsWallah (PW), minting ₹549.7 Cr from the sale of 4.67 Cr shares via block and bulk deals today. According to market data, the firm, via its holding entity Lightspeed Opportunity Fund II sold the shares at weighted

The Scoop The Trump administration is unveiling a new proposal aimed at turning the nation’s highway and rail lines into “multi-use” utility corridors that could hold critical infrastructure like transmission wires, fiber optic lines, and water pipelines. The plan, dubbed “Americ

Under the terms of its $18 billion settlement to resolve claims brought by 29 U.S. states over children’s safety, Meta on Wednesday agreed to sweeping changes designed to restrict minors’ access to Instagram and Facebook. The changes include a daily time limit, a restrictive “Nig

This blog post is the second of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry. The first post set out the th