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HappyHorse 1.0 shot up to the top ranks in the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. Read more: Alibaba leads $293m round in Chinese AI start-up after HappyHorse reveal
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Claude-creator Anthropic is considering designing its own chips, as advanced AI systems drive shortage, sources told Reuters. Read more: Anthropic reportedly mulls designing own chips amid shortage

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US enterprise marketing and content compliance startup Haast has raised $12m in Series A funding led by Peak XV Partners to scale its agentic flows, accelerate product development, and expand its global enterprise footprint. Haast, headquartered in New York, automates compliance reviews, reducing content review times by, it says, 80%. While AI has make…
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BearingPoint’s Karl Byrne, Holly Daly and Fiona Eguare discuss the effects of AI on software engineering and how it has affected graduates in particular. Read more: How are software engineering graduates adjusting to AI?

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The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said that it is has not been able to meet its commitments on the time it takes to review complaints against barristers due to a significant increase in the volume and complexity of reports, with AI-generated reports a “contributing factor.” In the introduction to the BSB’s annual business…
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Stargate UK will move forward when ‘right conditions’ enable ‘long-term infrastructure investment’, OpenAI said. Read more: OpenAI pauses Stargate UK over energy costs
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Liberty IT’s Sarah Whelan discusses the skills she uses daily and her reaction to her nomination as part of Liberty IT’s Culture Stars initiative. Read more: How does this principal software engineer organise her work day to day?

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Leading US employment and labour law firm Littler has appointed Stephanie Goutos as its first chief artificial intelligence officer, as firms continue to fill this new role. Littler says that the appointment reflects its conviction that AI is a defining force reshaping how employers operate, how legal services are delivered, and how workplace law…
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Apex B2B said it will hire 15 remote employees. It is unclear when the hiring process will begin. Read more: Dublin AI SaaS firm Apex B2B launches with €1.5m backing
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The partnership is aiming to deliver a quantum computer that can calibrate and run itself without the need for manual oversight. Read more: Equal1 partners with Q-Ctrl for quantum data centre deployment