Big Tech keeps $300bn of AI exposure off its balance sheets, FT reports
Guarantees issued in under a year back debt for data centres and chips while recording little of the exposure, and Nvidia's backing of an OpenAI site is the largest cited.
Guarantees issued in under a year back debt for data centres and chips while recording little of the exposure, and Nvidia's backing of an OpenAI site is the largest cited.
Qwen-Image-2.1 generates and edits in one model, takes up to ten reference images and outputs transparent layers, and ComfyUI and vLLM supported it within the hour.
The Chinese lab's flagship is a 600B-parameter mixture of experts activating 27B per token, with a million-token context and pricing of $1 per million input tokens.
A day after the president promised an AI czar and rejected guardrails, Politico says the industry is scratching its head and CNBC names Jensen Huang as his closest ally.
A day after President Trump said he would appoint an official responsible for artificial intelligence and form what he called an AI Force, nothing more has been said about either. Reuters and the Washington Post carried the Saturday announcement; Axios reported the force is modelled on Space Force. The Post said it rejected calls from lawmakers and industry leaders for new guardrails.
The complaint, reported by the AP, says Dario Amodei's 12 September essay amounted to an invitation to collude, and that a coordinated slowdown cuts the value of paid subscriptions.
The treasury secretary and China's vice premier meet on Sunday ahead of Xi Jinping's visit, with AI, trade and critical minerals on the agenda, Reuters reports.
Steve Weis says the model ported a decades-old sieve to GPUs and ran it for ten days, with no new mathematics and no threat to keys in use.
The Information cited a person with knowledge of the work. Elliot Glazer says progress on a special case is likely, and a full solution this month is not.
The benchmark group says the model rose from 18th to 4th in text-to-image, the highest outside OpenAI, at $60 per thousand images against $211 for GPT Image 2.5.