AI news flash: Terminal X’s Eval Agent is an evaluation mechanism for checking the quality of AI output. It scores each output item by item against a rubric of 54 criteria, with a focus on whether the output strays from the fund’s own investment mandate, meaning whether the AI-generated content violates the fund’s set investment scope and limits…
AI news flash: Anthropic is reportedly pitching Congress a draft AI safety bill that would allow blocking the release of an AI model in certain situations. The trigger is a ‘foreseeable imminent risk,’ meaning more than 50 people could die or over $1 billion in property damage could result, and the catastrophic risk must come from the creation or release of bioweapons, a model escaping its developer’s control, or cyberattacks. These thresholds are similar to…
AI news flash: Japan’s 20-year government bond auction on Tuesday drew strong demand, reflecting investors moving into relatively safe assets as uncertainty over France’s bond market grows and concerns about AI-related financial risks surface. The auction’s bid-to-cover ratio hit a record high, showing eager buying of ultra-long JGBs and easing worries about Japan’s fiscal health. In France, political turmoil, street unrest, and public finance concerns have pushed bond yields higher, sending money looking for a safe haven…
AI news flash: In this episode of the Tech Latest Podcast, host Brian Chapman talks with Japan tech correspondent Tsubasa Suruga about SoftBank’s high-stakes bet on AI infrastructure. The discussion focuses on SB Energy, SoftBank’s energy arm, turning to renewable energy to power large-scale data center projects with a ‘power first’ approach…
AI News Flash: OpenAI has been working on strengthening ChatGPT’s performance on low-resource programming languages, rolling out a new round of evaluations focused on software engineering tasks, SQLite-related operations, and COBOL code migration capabilities. Compared to mainstream languages like Python and JavaScript, these languages have long been a weak spot for large language models due to scarce training data. This update adds dedicated benchmarks to examine the model’s real-world accuracy and reliability when writing, debugging, and porting code in these languages, helping identify capability gaps for targeted improvement.
AI news flash: DeepSeek just rolled out an updated AI model, with the Chinese AI startup claiming the new version beats out US rivals from OpenAI and Anthropic on some benchmarks while still keeping costs low. This update builds on the model it released back in September, and DeepSeek says the improved version outperforms its American competitors across multiple performance metrics.
AI News Flash: Meta has launched what it calls its ‘most powerful open-weight model’ in the US, Muse Spark Open, specifically designed to pair with Macs. The new model has 816 billion parameters and a 1 million token context window, and evaluation results Meta published Thursday show it outperforming other leading open-weight models. Muse Spark Open has native multimodal support, mainly…
AI news flash: TSMC posted a record-high profit in Q3 2026, with net income up 68.7% year-over-year — the sixth straight quarter of record earnings. Demand driven by the AI wave keeps running strong, with orders for the most advanced process chips booming while demand for supporting chips rises right alongside, keeping TSMC’s growth momentum at full speed. See the original article for details.
AI News Flash: Gemini 4 Argon is now fully live, available to developers and enterprises via the API on AI Studio and the Gemini platform, to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, and to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers in the Gemini App and Search AI Mode. Ar…
AI News Flash: NTT Data Group is in final-stage negotiations with US AI company Anthropic to build a dedicated data center in western Japan (Osaka), according to multiple sources who spoke to Nikkei Asia. This would be Anthropic’s first dedicated data center in Japan, with processing capacity expected to rank among the largest in the country. The new facility could reportedly cost up to $6.3 billion to build, with partial operations expected to begin in 2028.