Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one
Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one

Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few days, The Information reported. Juro Osawa wrote that it is one of the co…

Prevalent AI secures $22M growth investment to scale enterprise AI platform

Enterprise AI company Prevalent AI has secured a $22million growth investment from Los Angeles-based Integrity Growth Partners(IGP), marking the first primary capital raised by the company since itsfo…

DeepL strikes deal with US legal AI startup Harvey

DeepL has struck a deal with US AI startup Harvey to carry out legal document translation, as it looks to push further into heavily regulated industries. DeepL, valued at $2bn in 2024, said the deal w…

Beijing AI bar that offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with $1.50 drink haemorrhaging cash — ‘the bar is completely losing money, ‘ owner admits

An AI-themed bar in Beijing’s Zhongguancun tech hub hands out free, unlimited DeepSeek tokens with its drinks, running inference locally on two Nvidia DGX Spark mini-PCs.

A Turing Award winner says the industry’s fix for running out of data is ‘a big mistake’
A Turing Award winner says the industry’s fix for running out of data is ‘a big mistake’

Richard Sutton thinks the AI industry’s answer to running out of training data is a mistake, and he has picked a blunt word for it. “ That’s just a big mistake,” he said of the turn to synthetic data on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast, publishe…

Dev uses Claude AI to create native macOS driver for ‘obscure’ Windows-only printer — Linux container hack enables system-wide Cmd-P printing, driver now available on Github

A developer has revealed that they used Claude Code to create a macOS laser printer driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a machine designed for Windows users.

Beyond AI scribes: Aisel raises €1.7M to tackle psychiatry’s capacity crisis

Aisel Health, the Danish HealthTech company building an Operating System (OS) purpose-built for psychiatry and mental health, today announced it has closed a €1.7 million pre-seed round. The round was…

China’s AI alliance keeps growing, just as Washington tells countries to choose
China’s AI alliance keeps growing, just as Washington tells countries to choose

China’s World AI Cooperation Organisation has added nine members in the month since it was founded, taking it from 29 signatories to 38, according to the South China Morning Post. It is growing at precisely the moment Washington is drafting a letter te…

Cerebras launches the CS-4, its first multi-wafer system, though the chip inside is not new
Cerebras launches the CS-4, its first multi-wafer system, though the chip inside is not new

Cerebras has put three of its dinner-plate-sized processors into a single rack for the first time. The CS-4, unveiled on Tuesday at the company’s Supernova event and shipping this quarter, is pitched as an inference machine for frontier models, and Cer…

Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in
Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in

Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Tuesday that makes Pennsylvania one of the harder places in America to build an AI data centre. The order strips data centres from the state’s permit fast-track programme, blocks environmental review u…