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The truth about the Dancing Cossacks ad
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- June 28, 2026
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When the storyboards were first shared with Muldoon, there was something missing. There were cartoons on the six o’clock news last Sunday. TVNZ and Three both festooned their bulletins with the Dancing Cossacks, stars of a notorious 1975 National Party election ad which decried the then Labour government’s “dangerous” compulsory superannuation scheme, warning that it […]
Microsoft to deploy AMD Helios AI systems on Azure
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- July 21, 2026
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Microsoft will deploy AMD Helios on Azure. Azure will add AMD EPYC VMs and Pensando networking. Microsoft plans to deploy AMD’s Helios rack-scale computing platform on Azure under an expanded infrastructure partnership covering processors, graphics chips, networking hardware, and software. The systems will support AI inference for Microsoft, Azure customers, and Azure AI services. […]
GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Fable 5 on aggregated benchmarks at one-third the cost
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- July 10, 2026
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol scores 59 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, just one point behind Claude Fable 5. At $1.04 per task, it costs a third of what Anthropic’s top model charges. In agentic coding, Sol beats every competitor, adding even more pricing pressure on Anthropic. The article GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Fable 5 […]
Komprise Targets AI’s Unstructured Data Challenge with Transparent File Tables
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- July 2, 2026
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Data lakehouses have become central to enterprise analytics. But they still have a blind spot: unstructured file data. Most organizations have done a decent job getting structured data into platforms like Snowflake and Databricks. The same can’t be said for the billions of files spread across NAS systems and hybrid cloud storage, many of which […]