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Claude Code developers can build custom mods in JavaScript or TypeScript to observe, rewrite or respond to session events. A new guide walks through making one that forecasts context-window use, turning a sprawling coding session into something a little less mysterious.
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Researchers inside major AI companies are helping shape policy and challenge executive decisions, according to Axios. Its account points to a practical shift: the people building frontier AI systems may have more sway over what their companies do, and say, than their job titles suggest.
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NVIDIA has released its full Run:ai platform as open-source software, giving AI infrastructure teams access to tools for scheduling and sharing GPUs across Kubernetes clusters. Four components can also be adopted separately, making this a substantial shift in how teams can use the platform, not just a new…
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Meta’s AI infrastructure push runs from custom chips to data centres planned at gigawatt scale. Data Centre Magazine says the company has 33 data centres supporting its apps and Llama models, with major projects under way in Louisiana, Ohio and Texas.
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Wikipedia page views fell 8% in 2025 as more people turn to AI for information, Wikimedia Foundation chief executive Bernadette Meehan tells Axios. She says some companies benefiting from Wikipedia’s data have declined to pay for enterprise access, putting pressure on a resource that AI services also rely…
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The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project have launched zkAPI on Ethereum Mainnet, a protocol for paying in advance for AI models and other metered APIs without tying a user’s billing identity to individual requests. It uses zero-knowledge proofs to authorise bounded usage, though it does not…
DeepSeek Watch
DeepSeek and Huawei have released open-source programming tools for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, including a language called TileLang. The move gives developers a new route to build for Ascend hardware, part of a broader effort to make China’s AI software stack less dependent on Nvidia’s CUDA.
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Cloudflare has released two open-weight decision models, Clef and Clef-flash, which handle structured choices and can also process images and video, according to a report carried by news.lavx.hu citing The Register. The launch gives developers another option beyond hosted decision APIs, although running the models locally comes with…
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The Philippines’ Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has partnered with Amazon Web Services to add free cloud and AI courses to its online learning platform. The reported offer has no prerequisites, giving learners a direct route into foundational training without an upfront fee.
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arXiv says it will limit each submitter to two preprint submissions a month, as the repository faces a record volume of papers. The change puts a practical limit on a major route for sharing research, while raising a hard question about how scholarly publishing should adapt to AI-assisted…
Meta AI Watch
Meta disabled a Toronto woman’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, and her paid support attempts led only to AI chatbots, CBC reports. The case puts a practical question about automated customer service into sharp focus: when an appeal concerns losing years of personal or business records, can a person…
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AI coding tools are letting people without programming experience build websites and simple apps, but a working prototype is not the same as dependable software. A report by The Federal describes both the new opportunities and the bugs, false information and security concerns that can follow.
AMD Watch
AMD’s ROCm AITER v0.1.24.post1 release adds tuned GPU kernels and attention improvements for AI workloads, with the release notes reporting up to 1.69× faster performance on a long-context indexing test. For teams serving models on AMD accelerators, the changes could improve throughput without changing the model itself.
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Tacit, an iPhone app for people who cannot rely on speech, is built around a simple rule: get a message ready to show or speak in two taps. Its AI features have several fallbacks, so a failed model should not leave someone without a way to communicate.
