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Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen

Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a small model that picks between fixed answer options instead of writing text. Microsoft built it on Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.5-9B and then post-trained it, according to the Foundry model card. Achint Srivastava, a vice president of software engineering in Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, announced the model in a blog post […]

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China agrees to curb hybrid car exports to the EU after Beijing talks

China has agreed to moderate its exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars to the EU, which EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said could cut them by more than half. He announced it on Friday in press remarks in Beijing, after the second round of EU-China trade and investment consultations. “It is unsustainable and it […]

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US probes Foxconn, Luxshare and 18 others over AI server power patents

AUS trade body has opened a patent case against 20 companies over the power systems inside AI servers. Foxconn, Luxshare and Quanta are among them.The US International Trade Commission acted after a complaint by power-chip maker Vicor, it said on Friday. Vicor says their products infringe one of its patents. Twenty names on the list The case […]

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EIF’s incoming chief says Europe’s Tech Champions funds hold 15 unicorns

Europe must give its startups the capital to grow without leaving the continent, Jean-Christophe Laloux said. The incoming chief executive of the European Investment Fund spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. “It’s not enough to innovate in Europe. You also must be able to scale in Europe. And that is really important […]

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Cirrus Logic made rival bid for Synaptics, Bloomberg reports

Chipmaker Cirrus Logic made a surprise offer for Synaptics last month, trying to break up its agreed sale to Onsemi, Liana Baker and Yiqin Shen reported for Bloomberg. Cirrus Logic is the ‘Party A’ named in an updated Synaptics filing on Thursday, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. It is unclear whether Cirrus is still […]

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SAP’s Sean Kask: software firms must become AI companies or perish

Established software companies have to rebuild their products around AI, not add it as one more feature, SAP’s chief AI strategy officer Sean Kask said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. “Like the famous quip that every company is becoming a software company, every software company has to become an AI […]

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Odyssey-3 drives a car in India and runs humanoids from one world model

Odyssey has launched Odyssey-3, a world model that the Palo Alto AI lab says can control robot arms and humanoids, drive a car, fly drones and play video games. A research preview is available now, the company said on Thursday. World models learn from large amounts of visual data to predict how a scene will […]

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Pentagon offers PsiQuantum a conditional loan of up to $150m

PsiQuantum has received a conditional commitment for a loan of up to $150 million from the US Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital. The quantum computing company announced the commitment on Thursday. It is the second conditional loan from the same Pentagon office in two days. On Wednesday, the Office of Strategic Capital offered […]

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VEIR raises $110M to swap copper for superconductors in AI data centres

VEIR has raised $110 million in a Series C round. The Massachusetts company makes superconducting power cables for AI data centres. Matter Venture Partners and Tyche Partners co-led the round, which VEIR called oversubscribed. LG Technology Ventures, Gates Frontier, Sabanci Climate Ventures and Hui Capital joined as new investors. Existing backers also took part, including […]

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Oratomic reportedly hits $5.4bn as Gartner sees quantum revenue top $1bn

Quantum computing startup Oratomic has raised $475 million at a $5.4bn valuation, Isabelle Bousquette reported for The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The round came three months after its Series A and lifted its valuation from $1.5bn. The same day, British startup Universal Quantum announced a Series A of more than $100 million. Gartner then […]

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