Anthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all foreign nationals, including users inside the US and its own employees, forcing Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone. “To my…
On Sunday, a team of nine researchers at Sina Weibo — the Chinese social media giant better known for its microblogging platform than for cutting-edge artificial intelligence — quietly posted a 14-page technical report to arXiv that sent shockwaves through the AI research community. Their claim: a language model with just 3 billion parameters can…
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For sophisticated crypto desks, the bottleneck has rarely been finding liquidity, but rather moving capital fast enough to use it. A fund running active books across the largest CEXs operates multiple separate balance sheets that don’t talk to each other. Every account must be funded to meet worst-case requirements. Collateral can’t be netted across venues….
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When I landed in Seoul after a grueling 12-hour flight from San Francisco, I walked through an unmanned immigration checkpoint, where a machine scanned my face and passport. On the subway home,…
When people talk about artificial intelligence and language, the focus usually defaults to English, a handful of European languages and perhaps a few from Asia. African languages – thousands of them, often tonal, hyper-local and deeply contextual – rarely make the roadmap. That blind spot is exactly where Nkenne is building a business and a…