Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI)

Rising component costs and fading subsidies are accelerating the Mainland China PC market decline, forcing hardware vendors to pass component price spikes directly to buyers Hardware procurement is split down the middle, as notebook shipments plunge while commercial desktop contracts see localised spikes. The PC market decline in Mainland China had steepened during the first […]

The JavaScript tool Bun has been fully rewritten from Zig to Rust, and Anthropic’s Fable 5 did most of the work.  The article Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days appeared first on The Decoder.

Two stories this week, connected by one word: open. A Chinese open-weight model helped touch off the worst week for chip stocks since April, as investors finally asked what $725 billion in AI capex is buying. Days later, when an autonomous agent breached Hugging Face, its own defenders were locked out by US frontier-model guardrails […]

El Niño has been declared in the tropical Pacific, and is expected to intensify into one of the strongest on record.