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Alibaba says its next AI accelerator can deliver three times the performance of its predecessor, while its Qwen team prepares much larger models and the cloud division targets more than 20 gigawatts of data-centre capacity by 2032.
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Dassault Aviation says two sovereign AI functions have reached flight-test maturity for possible future Rafale upgrades, but it has not disclosed their tasks, performance or test conditions.
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Fourteen research teams will test whether gene editing, RNA treatments and engineered microbes can help threatened species withstand disease and climate stress — under a contained-research rule that bars releases into the wild during the programme.
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The Eurosystem has opened a live connection between distributed-ledger markets and its core payment infrastructure, giving banks a way to settle tokenised transactions in risk-free central bank money rather than private stablecoins.
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A proposed class action alleges that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google crossed an antitrust line by coordinating calls to slow frontier-AI development. The companies had not responded publicly when the suit was reported.
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The Chinese memory-chip maker says a denser process and new 24-gigabit LPDDR5X products will increase output per wafer, adding a new variable to the global DRAM market.
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The company is considering another model release while balancing enterprise momentum, safety commitments and preparations for a potential public listing.
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A senior central-bank adviser says automation may expand productive capacity faster than household demand unless policy evolves with it.
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The fund sees a productivity opportunity, but cautions that labour disruption, inequality and infrastructure constraints require an active response.
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