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Cohere Releases North Small Translate for 50+ Languages
Cohere's North Small Translate is an open-weight 218B MoE for 50+ languages, with a non-commercial license and vendor-reported WMT26 results.
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Apple iPhone 18 Pro Brings 2nm A20 Pro and Siri AI
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro arrives September 18 with a 2nm A20 Pro chip, more memory bandwidth, a dual Neural Engine, and beta Siri AI.
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Adds Native Vision and Agent Gains
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash adds native vision, a 1M context window, agent-facing APIs, and lower published input prices for developers.
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Arm Opens AI Portal for Optimized Models and Tools
Arm's new AI Portal lets developers and coding agents discover optimized models, performance data, and deployment workflows across cloud, edge, and physical AI.
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Qualcomm and Amazon Team Up on AI Data Center Silicon
Qualcomm and Amazon will develop custom silicon for AWS AI inference while testing optical links that can reach 1.6 terabits per second.
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Google Puts AI Contrail Forecasts Into Cathay Pacific Flights
Google and Cathay Pacific are expanding an AI trial that helps ultra-long-haul flights avoid warming contrails using satellite and weather data.
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AMD Shows Threadripper Halo Station for Local AI
AMD's Threadripper Halo Station is a 2027 prototype with up to 2.6TB of memory and 576GB of HBM3e for local AI workloads.
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Databricks Proteus Specializes GPU Kernels for AI Inference
Databricks says its Proteus system generates and validates GPU kernels for specific inference shapes, with speedups reported on Qwen 3.5 122B.
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Extropic Adapts Transformers for Its Probabilistic Z1 Chip
Extropic describes Z1T, a sparse transformer research model built for probabilistic Z1 hardware, with early energy and latency estimates.
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Nvidia Brings RTX Spark PCs and Faster Local AI
Nvidia's IFA 2026 package pairs faster local inference with PAIR network routing and RTX Spark Windows PCs arriving in October.