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Malaysia is taking on a bigger role in helping the U.S. prevent advanced AI chips from ending up in China. The Malaysian Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry announced new restrictions on export

Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination. The company announced Monday it would add a series of featured notebooks from

一家味精公司，卡住了全球AI芯片的咽喉？聊AI芯片的瓶颈，大家脑海中首先反应出的一般是这几个名字：英伟达的GPU、三星和SK海力士的HBM、台积电的CoWoS先进封装。这些确实是非常关键的一些生产环节。但你可能想不到：还有一个更隐蔽的卡脖子节点，藏在整条供应链的最深处。而掐住这个节点的，并不是什么半导体巨头，而是一家大众印象里「卖味精的」日本公司——味之素。一般人不知道的是，在半导体行业，它有另一

Cognition, the startup behind the viral AI coding agent Devin, announced in a blog post on Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf. The announcement come

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has pivoted from antisemitism to anime girl waifus. Musk wrote in an X post on Monday that AI companions are now available in the Grok app for “Super Grok” subscribers who

Nvidia announced Monday that it’s filing applications to restart sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China, capping a spasmodic few months that saw the Trump administration impose restri

资金回流AI赛道，芯片股集体走强，机构看好半导体中期前景。 4月14日周二，英伟达涨近4%，连续10个交易日上涨，创下2023年11月14日以来最长连涨纪录，累计涨幅达18.97%。 与此同时，AMD同日也完成连续10日上涨，为2005年5月以来最长连涨周期，期间累计涨幅高达30.11%。 分析认为芯片股的集体走强，标志着此前笼罩在AI交易上的不确定情绪正在消散，投资者信心重新聚拢。 （高盛一篮子

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model, reports The New York Times. S

Meta announced on Monday that it will take additional measures to crack down on accounts sharing “unoriginal” content to Facebook, meaning those that repeatedly reuse someone else’s text, photos, or v

Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while Zuckerberg announced on Monday that Meta is building a 5-gigawatt

Neighborhood social app Nextdoor is launching a redesigned version of its service that it’s calling the “new Nextdoor.” The app is adding local news, real-time alerts, and an AI-powered feature called

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When xAI launched Grok 4 last week, the company claimed the large language model outperformed several competitors on different benchmarks. But the Grok account on X that runs off the model immediately

Open source database management system Postgres is nearly 40 years old, but has recently started seeing explosive demand due to being very well-suited for AI applications. Despite this rise in popular

As AI systems become more capable, speech is fast becoming the default way we communicate with machines. French AI startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with its first open model, aiming to c