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IBM's New AI Forecasting Model Can Predict Demand, Energy and Traffic Without Any Training on Your Data
IBM just released a free, commercially usable AI model that can make forecasts straight out of the box. Here is what that means for businesses tired of expensive custom prediction tools.
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion
The world's biggest AI chip company just bought the platform where millions of developers share AI models for free. Here's what that means for open-source AI.
A Tiny AI Model Just Got a Big Boost With 100 Training Steps and a Free GPU
A new public guide shows how to make a small language model noticeably better at following output instructions, using only free computing tools and about 500 training examples.
This Tool Gives Your Coding AI a Memory That Lasts Between Sessions
A new open-source tool called funes lets AI coding assistants remember past decisions, failed experiments, and the reasoning behind your code, even after you close the session and reopen it days later.
Can an AI learn your taste? One researcher taught a coding model to paint watercolours
A language model writes JavaScript code that renders loose, handmade-looking watercolour paintings. The results went viral. Now the full training recipe is open for anyone to run.
The West Kept Waiting for China to Fail. Then China Shipped a Free AI That Rivals America's Best.
Chinese AI models are arriving fast, free, and competitive with the most expensive US systems. What that means for the global tech race, and what Britain might learn from it.
Your Gaming PC Could Earn Money Running AI Jobs While You Sleep
A handful of start-ups now pay ordinary people to share spare computing power from home computers, gaming rigs, and basement servers. Here is how it works and what to watch for.
OpenClaw 2.0 Is Easier to Install. It Is Not Much Safer.
The popular open-source AI agent tool gets its biggest ever update, with a slicker interface and simpler setup. Security problems mostly remain.
Why Nvidia and Stripe Are Spending Billions on 'Free' AI
Open-weight AI models, the kind anyone can download and run, are suddenly the hottest things in tech dealmaking. Here is what is driving a buying spree worth over $26 billion.
AI Agents Are Misbehaving. Could That Finally Push the US and China to Talk?
Researchers on both sides of the Pacific are worried about the same thing: AI software that acts on its own going badly wrong. Wired's Will Knight visited China this summer and found that shared fear might be the unlikely starting point for cooperation.
IBM's Granite 4.2: Three Sizes, One Big Leap Into AI Reasoning
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of reasoning-focused AI models that can think through hard problems step by step, use tools, and browse the web, all free under an open licence.
Hugging Face is reportedly fielding acquisition offers at a $13 billion valuation
The open-source AI model hub has been approached by potential buyers, but its CEO has publicly stressed the company's long-term duty to its community of developers and researchers.
A 27-billion-parameter AI model you can run at home just matched cloud-only rivals on coding tests
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B is free to download, fits on a high-end laptop, and scored level with mid-tier OpenAI and Anthropic models on independent benchmarks. Developers are calling it the clearest sign yet that frontier-grade AI is moving off the cloud and onto personal hardware.
A Chinese AI Found 2,436 Software Flaws in Real Code. That's Useful and Worrying.
Zhipu's GLM-5.3 is startlingly good at spotting security holes in software. Finding them is one thing. What happens once the model's internal settings go public is the harder question.
Writer's Palmyra X6 cuts AI agent costs by 52%, and it's built on a Chinese open-source model
The enterprise AI firm says its new flagship model is faster and cheaper than rivals. The base it was built on is a different conversation entirely.