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View More NewsIn brief HIVE’s BUZZ HPC subsidiary closed a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, deploying 2,304 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs at Bell’s Merritt, BC facility. The deal pushes HIVE’s contracted high-performance computing revenue past $100 million, adding an expected $70M in new annual recurring revenue once the deployment goes live. HIVE stock climbed more than 7% on the TSX Thursday, as the company advances its long-running pivot from Bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure. HIVE Digital Technologies stock climbed more than 7% on Thursday after the company announced a $220 million GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada…
In brief GLM-5.2 trails Claude Opus 4.8 by just 1% on FrontierSWE—a benchmark measuring multi-hour autonomous engineering projects—while beating GPT-5.5 on the same test. It ships under an MIT license with zero regional restrictions. The model was built entirely on Huawei Ascend chips with no NVIDIA hardware involved. Unsloth AI already released 2-bit GGUF quantizations that shrink the model from 1.51TB to 238GB. You’ll still need 256GB of RAM or VRAM—but at that point, you can run it. Z.ai dropped GLM-5.2 on June 16, promising top level performances, beating its already advanced GLM 5.1.The Beijing-based lab, which has been on…
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Last Wednesday, 3 June, was surely one of the most shameful days in the Knesset’s 77-year history. Michael Rabello, the personal attorney of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was elected the country’s next state comptroller—the official who inspects, reviews, and audits government policy and conduct, and whose broad powers of inspection include the use of hundreds of lawyers, accountants, and other professionals under his authority.Israeli law stipulates that the Knesset vote for this position must be carried out in secret, with MKs casting ballots alone behind a screen. Rabello’s rival for the post, former Supreme Court justice Yosef Elron, won…
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from the giving-up-rights-for-vengeance dept Here it is: the dumbest defense of automatic license plate readers I’ve ever read. While we can subtract some points…
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In brief Alibaba unveiled the Qwen-Robot Suite, a trio of AI models designed to handle robot navigation, manipulation, and physics-based world simulation through a…
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The market for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) continues to expand despite broader weakness in crypto markets, with the value of onchain financial assets climbing…
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from the techlash-on-demand dept UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is not having a particularly good time of being the UK’s leader. Basically everyone thinks…