Tokenmaxxing is out. Real patterns for reducing costs without sacrificing AI effectiveness The post Tokenminning: How to Get More from Your Chatbot for Less appeared first on Towards Data Science.

It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials.

The EU went after Google for the practice of bundling its search engine and browser with Android.

Meta is reportedly exploring a cloud business to sell excess AI compute, potentially offsetting data center costs and challenging neocloud providers. The post Meta Could Sell AI Compute Capacity as Infrastructure Costs Rise appeared first on TechRepublic.

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised $2B at a $15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as $3B  —  China's Kling AI has raised an initial $2 billion in venture capital funding as the spinoff from Kuaishou Technology seeks to expand its video AI operations.

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Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity in the chaos—a structured way to bring order to messy, sprawling operations. Lean Six Sigma emphasized statistical rigor and quality control; BPM created end-to-end maps of how work should flow across departments. Both offered a repeatable way to…

Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.

But don't let the model check itself The post Design Loops, Not Prompts appeared first on Towards Data Science.

The company announced a new slate of executive hires meant to help turn things around, as Gravity SUV sales are not taking off as expected.

Anthropic Claude Science now integrates the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to accelerate computational life sciences research. Anthropic has launched the public beta of Claude Science, an AI workbench built for scientific research. The platform enables scientists to converse directly with digital agents using natural language to execute end-to-end research workflows. This system connects natively to […] The post NVIDIA BioNeMo accelerates Anthropic Claude Science appeared first on AI News.

A top Democrat on the Senate's Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network may risk national security.

Doctors find grey fluid and dead, metallic flesh inside poisoned woman's hip.

Compression on Arrival Tool outputs should be compressed after a call returns, not after the window fills.

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Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip  —  Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner …

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Global VC funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217B, or 43% of the total; in Q2, VCs put $205B into 5,000+ startups  —  Global venture funding reached a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, surpassing the $440 billion invested in all of 2025 …

t0-alpha is a decoder-style patch transformer for probabilistic time-series forecasting. Raw series are split into 32-step patches, embedded, processed through causal time-attention and group-attention layers, and decoded into future quantiles rather than a single point forecast. The post Time-Series LLMs, Explained with t0-alpha appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Apple’s reported plans include a redesigned MacBook Pro, a faster iPad Pro, and the first foldable iPhone, with price and supply risks. The post New MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Foldable iPhone Could Test Apple Buyers appeared first on TechRepublic.