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Maple-Preview 20B: DeepGrove's Ternary Reasoning Model Explained

Maple-Preview ternary reasoning model is DeepGrove's open-source 20B-A1B language model designed for efficient inference. Its model card describes ternary weights, 24 layers, 256 experts with 8 active...

Maple-Preview Open Source AI Ternary Models

10-Aug-2026

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Japan Food Tax Cut: Cabinet Approves 8% to 1% Rate for Two Years

Japan food tax cut plans advanced on August 5, 2026, when the Cabinet approved Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's proposal to reduce the consumption tax on food from 8% to 1% for two years from April 202...

BoJ ETF Japan Tax Policy

10-Aug-2026

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Shieldstral 1.0 3B: How to Run Mistral's New AI Safety Classifier Locally

Shieldstral 1.0 3B local safety classifier is Mistral AI's compact multimodal guardrail for text, images and text-plus-image moderation. Its policy-adaptive design accepts natural-language evaluation ...

AI Safety Mistral AI Open Source AI vLLM

09-Aug-2026

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LFM2.5-2.6B: How to Run Liquid AI's On-Device Agent Locally

LFM2.5-2.6B on-device agent is Liquid AI's 2.6B-parameter model for local planning, tool calls and multi-step tasks. Liquid AI says the model is designed to run on-device and publishes base and post-t...

Liquid AI On-Device AI Open-Source Models

09-Aug-2026

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Qatar Airways Resumes Gulf Flights: Bahrain, Kuwait, Erbil Reconnected

The Qatar Airways resumes Gulf flights update covers the airline's August 8, 2026 return to Bahrain, Kuwait and Erbil after temporary suspensions linked to regional conflict. It also explains why Emir...

Gulf Aviation Qatar Airways UAE Flights

09-Aug-2026

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Strait of Hormuz Reopening: Iran Sets New Conditions for the US

Strait of Hormuz Reopening remained unconfirmed on August 8, 2026 as Iran described conditions for restoring maritime traffic and reports detailed an Iran-Oman shipping proposal. The United States' po...

Iran US Conflict Oil Prices Strait of Hormuz

09-Aug-2026

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Japan, South Korea Chip Stocks Slide: SoftBank Falls Despite Earnings Beat

Japan South Korea chip stocks fell on August 6, 2026 as investors questioned AI spending. CNBC reported declines in SoftBank, SK Hynix and Kioxia. SoftBank’s official Q1 FY2026 results showed net inco...

AI Stocks Japan Stocks KOSPI Semiconductor Stocks

07-Aug-2026

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UAE Excise Tax: Dh1 per ml Minimum Price for E-Cigarette Liquids from September 2026

UAE excise tax on liquids used in electronic smoking devices will use a minimum excise price of Dh1 per millilitre from September 1, 2026. The Ministry of Finance says the decision changes the calcula...

E-Cigarettes UAE Excise Tax UAE Tax Vaping

07-Aug-2026

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Coldcard Hack Drains $130M in Bitcoin: Hardware Wallet Flaw Explained

Coldcard hack reporting describes a firmware seed-generation defect, not a failure of Bitcoin’s cryptography. Galaxy Research tracked losses near $130 million by August 4, 2026. Coinkite’s fix protect...

Bitcoin Bitcoin Security Coldcard Crypto Security Firmware Hardware Wallets

07-Aug-2026

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Deepfake Detection: How to Spot AI-Generated Videos, Voice Clones and Video Call Scams in 2026

Deepfake detection is not a single visual trick. AI-generated video, cloned voices and manipulated images can look convincing, so the safer method combines artifact checks with independent identity ve...

Artificial Intelligence Deepfake EU AI Act Technology

06-Aug-2026

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EU AI Act Article 50: What Counts as a Compliant AI Watermark in 2026

EU AI Act Article 50 watermarking compliance applies from 2 August 2026. Providers must add machine-readable marks that help identify AI-generated or manipulated content, while deployers have separate...

AI Compliance AI Governance AI Regulation EU AI Act 2026

06-Aug-2026

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Why the US Government Blocked GPT 5.6: The Full True Story

GPT-5.6 government restriction was reported in June 2026 as a request for a staggered rollout, not as a verified permanent legal ban. Axios later reported a broad launch after additional testing, whil...

AI Regulation AI Security OpenAI

06-Aug-2026

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