Alibaba Approves Qwen Lead Lin Junyang's Resignation; CTO Zhou Jingren Assumes Control, DeepMind's Zhou Hao Joins
pandaily - Alibaba Group CEO Eddie Wu approved the resignation of Qwen lead Lin Junyang on March 5, 2026, following his sudden departure announcement, with DeepMind's Zhou Hao joining to lead post-training efforts as the company restructures its AI team toward horiz…
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Alibaba’s Qwen Tech Lead Steps Down After Major Model Push
eWEEK Staff / eweek - Alibaba is dealing with the kind of AI headline no model team wants right after a release: a key technical leader behind Qwen says he’s stepping down. Junyang Lin posted a brief goodbye message on X and said he was leaving his role on the project without …
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Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
Simon Willison / simonwillison - Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AIReally interesting case-study from Andreas Kling on advanced, sophisticated use of coding agents for ambitious coding projects with critical code. After a few years hoping Swift's platform support outside of the Appl…
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Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘more competent who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens’ will take over Linux one day
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musings Linus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…
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Anthropic debuts Sonnet 4.6, a highly capable creative and coding AI model
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Anthropic PBC upgraded its Claude Sonnet model to version 4.6 today, adding stronger computer-use skills, long-context reasoning, agent planning and improved performance for knowledge work and design. The company said it brings the coveted 1 million token…
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Intel Unveils Annual GPU Cadence For Xeon & Client Segments: Xe3P In 2026, Xe-Next In 2027
Hassan Mujtaba / wccftech - Intel has reaffirmed its annual GPU cadence, which will see yearly roadmap and product updates on the client and data center segments. Intel Xe3P GPUs Coming This Year, Followed By Xe Next In 2027 As Part of Annual Client & Xeon Cadence Intel's GPU roadma…
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Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
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China’s Zhipu AI launches new major model GLM-5 in challenge to its rivals
scmp - Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company Zhipu AI has launched its latest flagship model, the GLM-5, with a leap in coding capabilities amid a heated race among Chinese tech firms to roll out major new models ahead of the Spring Festival holiday.Zhipu…
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Linux 7.0 Kernel Confirmed By Linus Torvalds, Expected In Mid-April 2026
msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader writes: Linus Torvalds has confirmed the next major kernel series as Linux 7.0, reports Linux news website 9to5Linux.com: "So there you have it, the Linux 6.x era has ended with today's Linux 6.19 kernel release, and a new one will beg…
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Apple Opens Submissions for 2026 Swift Student Challenge
iclarified - Apple has opened submissions for the 2026 Swift Student Challenge, inviting student developers from around the globe to showcase their coding skills and creativity. The competition tasks participants with creating an interactive scene in an app playground…
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OpenAI's new coding model GPT-5.3-Codex helped build itself during training and deployment
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex sets new highs on agentic coding benchmarks, and according to the company, it helped build itself.The article OpenAI's new coding model GPT-5.3-Codex helped build itself during training and deployment appeared first on The Decod…
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Meta Ships Superintelligence. Calls It 'Very Good.'
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Meta ships first superintelligence models, calls them "very good." OpenAI profiles users for adult mode. Anthropic CEO likens chip exports to nukes.
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GPT-5.2 Pro for solving another open Erdős problem. Going to be a wild year for mathematical and scientific advancement!
@gdb / x - GPT-5.2 Pro for solving another open Erdős problem. Going to be a wild year for mathematical and scientific advancement!Neel Somani (@neelsomani)I've solved a second Erdos problem (#281) using only GPT 5.2 Pro - no prior solutions found.Terence Tao calls …
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Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 9 mobile CPU outperforms most desktop counterparts in new benchmark — Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus nearly matches flagship Core Ultra 9 285K in single-threaded performance
tomshardware - Intel's mainstream Arrow Lake lineup is due for a refresh later this year, and while we've already seen a lot about the desktop parts, the first mobile SKU has just appeared on PassMark with some impressive scores to boot. It beats every x86 laptop proces…
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Stewart Cheifet, Host of TV’s ‘Computer Chronicles,’ Dies at 87
Trip Gabriel / nytimes - He spent two decades hosting the PBS series, during the formative years of personal computing. It was seen in more than 300 cities at its peak.
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DeepSeek Kicks Off the Year With New Paper Introducing the mHC Architecture
pandaily - DeepSeek has unveiled a new research paper proposing mHC, a novel architecture designed to stabilize large-scale model training while preserving performance gains.
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Cursor's $29 Billion Bet on a Bottleneck It May Be Creating
Robert Brown / implicator - Cursor just paid a premium for a code review startup to fix what it calls the new bottleneck in software development. But a July 2025 study using Cursor's own tools found AI made experienced developers 19% slower. The math gets uncomfortable from there.
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'Free Software Awards' Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory
EditorDavid / slashdot - This week the Free Software Foundation honored Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory with this year's annual Free Software Awards (given to community members and groups making"significant" contributions to software freedom):Andy Wingo is one of the co-main…
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David Lerner, Co-Founder of Tekserve, Dies at 72
John Gruber / nytimes - Sam Roberts, reporting for The New York Times: David Lerner, a high school dropout and self-taught computer geekwhose funky foothold in New York’s Flatiron district, Tekserve,was for decades a beloved discount mecca for Apple customersdesperate to retriev…
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The Willow chip marks a new milestone in Google’s quantum race
Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - Google researchers announced the first verifiable quantum advantage, using their Willow processor to map a molecule’s features 13,000 times faster than a modern supercomputer by employing a technique called “quantum echoes.” The experiment utilized Google…
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