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Sebastian Mallaby discusses how DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and other AI leaders balance scientific curiosity, profit, and political ambition in shaping the AI arms race, questioning whether governments can keep pace with rapidly advancing systems.

Bloomberg Tech · 1 min read Community

Greg Brockman takes product strategy control at OpenAI as the company plans to merge ChatGPT and Codex into a unified offering.

TechCrunch · 3 min read Industry

Seagate and Western Digital are raising storage prices as AI data centers demand specialized high-capacity drives faster than they can supply, giving the disk makers rare pricing leverage in a historically commoditized market.

24/7 Wall St · 7 min read Market

Five major open models launched this month, but CAISI's evaluation finds a widening capability gap between open and American frontier models, with DeepSeek V4's Elo score 400+ points below closed competitors. The analysis reveals how benchmark selection and evaluation methodology heavily skew reported gaps.

Interconnects · 4 min read Research

BerriAI open-sourced LiteLLM Agent Platform, a Kubernetes-native system for running multiple AI agents in production with persistent session management and isolated sandboxes per team. Solves the hard problem of agent state persistence across pod restarts and multi-tenant isolation that local scripts can't handle.

MarkTechPost · 11 min read Tools

Nvidia's largest customers—hyperscalers like Meta, Google, and Amazon—are designing their own AI chips to reduce dependence on Nvidia and cut costs, intensifying competition in a market Nvidia currently dominates.

Thedailyupside · 8 min read Hardware

Hands-on test of Claude Code versus OpenAI Codex across three real applications reveals which agent works better for different user skill levels, from beginners to power users.

Tom's Guide · 1 min read Tools

Comprehensive SHAP tutorial comparing Tree, Exact, Permutation, and Kernel explainers on tree-based models, covering maskers, interaction values, drift monitoring, and black-box explanations—fully executable in Google Colab.

MarkTechPost · 7 min read Tools