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Gemma 4 gets stealth update: H100 speed gains and tool-calling fixes, no version bump

Gemma 4 update delivers Flash Attention 4 for Nvidia H100 users, fixes tool-calling bugs, and expands vision resolution — all ...
Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

How a UK-based company is using AI to help decode team dynamics

A UK-based company called Jenson8 is developing immersive team-training tools for employers. Its browser-based platform, ...
Mongabay

Chewing sounds can help decode an animal’s diet using AI, new study finds

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists have developed an AI model that can listen to the chewing sounds of predators and identify what they are eating. The tool was trained ...
Bleeping Computer

FFmpeg fixes PixelSmash flaw in widely used video decoder

A newly disclosed FFmpeg flaw dubbed 'PixelSmash' could be exploited for remote code execution on Jellyfin servers under certain conditions, and can also trigger a denial-of-service condition in ...
Android Authority

I spent hours testing Claude Opus 4.8 — these are the 5 biggest upgrades

Claude Opus 4.8 arrived about a week ago, promising quite a few upgrades over its predecessor. Of course, we heard the same things about Opus 4.7 when it arrived, and yet the reality wasn’t as simple ...
The Conversation

UN report warns AI could soon use 3% of world’s electricity and more water than we need to drink

One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centres is that artificial intelligence (AI) models will need less in the future as they improve and ...
Wall Street Journal

Space Force Awards SpaceX $4.16 Billion Contract For Airborne Threat Targeting

SpaceX was awarded a $4.16 billion contract as part of a U.S. Space Force program to track missiles and aircraft from orbit, a key part of President Trump’s proposed Golden Dome project. Elon Musk’s ...
VentureBeat

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment

On benchmarks, Opus 4.8 is a step up rather than a leap. It scores 88.6% on SWE-bench Verified (vs. 87.6% for Opus 4.7), 69.2% on the harder SWE-bench Pro (vs. 64.3%), and 74.6% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 ...
ZDNet

Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, with honesty as its killer feature

Claude Opus 4.8 promises more honest AI answers. Dynamic workflows can run hundreds of Claude subagents. Fast mode gets cheaper, while regular Opus pricing stays put. Diogenes was a fourth-century B.C ...
Sports Illustrated

RCR Suspends Use Of No. 8 In Wake of Busch's Death, Will Use No. 33

CONCORD, N.C. -- Following the shocking and tragic death of Kyle Busch, a NASCAR Cup Series legend, on Thursday at the age of 41, Richard Childress Racing has opted to suspend use of the No. 8 on the ...
Digital Trends

AI is turbocharging “wizards” on 4Chan who take orders to nudify images of women

4chan has become a staging ground for AI image abuse, with anonymous users asking editors to turn ordinary photos of women into synthetic sexual images without consent. The Institute for Strategic ...