California enacts AI safety law targeting tech giants

California enacts AI safety law targeting tech giants

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law groundbreaking legislation requiring the world’s largest artificial intelligence companies to publicly disclose their safety protocols and report critical incidents, state lawmakers announced Monday. Senate Bill 53 marks California’s most significant move yet to regulate Silicon Valley’s rapidly advancing AI industry while also maintaining its position as a…

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DeepSeek debuts new AI model as ‘intermediate step’ towards next generation

DeepSeek debuts new AI model as ‘intermediate step’ towards next generation

China’s DeepSeek has launched a new AI model called DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp. The new model comes with the new DeepSeek Sparse Attention technology, which the company says is “designed to explore and validate optimizations for training and inference efficiency in long-context scenarios.” ​DeepSeek says that the new model is an “intermediate step toward our next-generation architecture.” ​The…

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Amazon is pulling the plug on 16-year old Prime feature this week: here’s what’s changing

Amazon is pulling the plug on 16-year old Prime feature this week: here’s what’s changing

Amazon is ending a 16-year-old program which allowed family members to share free shipping benefits. The program, called Prime Invitee, will end on October 1st, after which point, the enrolled users will lose access to free delivery. ​Launched in 2009, the feature allowed Prime members to share free two-day shipping benefits with another adult, even…

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AI is transforming how software engineers do their jobs. Just dont call it vibe-coding

AI is transforming how software engineers do their jobs. Just dont call it vibe-coding

One of the hottest markets in the artificial intelligence industry is selling chatbots that write computer code. Some call it “vibe-coding” because it encourages an AI coding assistant to do the grunt work as human software developers work through big ideas. Others dislike that term. But there’s no question that these tools are transforming the…

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