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Tech Competition is Helping Americans. Here's How.
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Monday • August 3, 2026
Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use
Chinese E-Commerce and Cloud Giant Alibaba’s Famed Qwen Team of AI Researchers Last Night Unveiled Qwen3.8-Max
If the company’s published benchmarks hold up under broader independent testing, Qwen3.8-Max doesn’t merely compete with today’s leading proprietary models — it surpasses several of them on some key benchmarks in agentic computing.
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Thursday • July 30, 2026
The Million-Dollar Talent Wars for 20-Something Math Geniuses
Flush with Cash, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are Vying to Hire the Same Tiny Pool of Genius Graduates
There has never been a better time to be a math nerd. New college graduates and Ph.D.s are now securing million-dollar pay deals from elite trading firms seeking to secure the best and brightest amid fierce competition from artificial-intelligence companies.
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Thursday • July 30, 2026
AI price wars: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% as model competition shifts toward cost
OpenAI is Sharply Reducing the Prices of Two Models
The cuts place Luna much closer to the lowest-cost commercial models in the market and arrive just a few days after Anthropic released its highly performant Claude Opus 5 at the same price as Opus 4.8, and Google introduced Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, two rival models built around lower inference costs, faster execution and more efficient agent workloads.
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Wednesday • March 11, 2026
NVIDIA and Nebius Partner to Scale Full-Stack AI Cloud
Deep Engineering Collaboration on AI Factories, Powering Inference & Agentic AI, Enables Nebius to Deploy More Than 5 GWs of NVIDIA Systems by 2030
NVIDIA and Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ: NBIS) today announced a strategic partnership to develop and deploy the next generation of hyperscale cloud for the AI market, from AI natives to enterprises. NVIDIA will invest $2 billion in Nebius, reflecting NVIDIA’s confidence in Nebius’s business and unique depth of engineering expertise across the full AI technology stack.
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Monday • March 9, 2026
Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6 billion valuation
The Company is Building AI Infrastructure, including Data Centers and Cloud Access to Compute
AI data center startup Nscale has raised $2 billion at a $14.6 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday, as the AI infrastructure boom continues. The Series C featured Nvidia and was led by Aker ASA and 8090 Industries. Founded in 2024, Nscale has emerged as a key player in the AI infrastructure buildout, developing data centers and operating cloud computing services.
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Friday • March 6, 2026
Netflix acquires Ben Affleck’s AI company
Netflix is Acquiring Ben Affleck’s AI-Powered Filmmaking Tool Company, InterPositive, for an Undisclosed Sum
In a video accompanying the company’s announcement on Thursday, Ben Affleck said InterPositive’s technology helps filmmakers to build their own, proprietary AI models based on the scenes they’ve already shot, and then use that data to help solve otherwise laborious details.
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