The hint for altcoin season lies in Bitcoin’s dominant performance: Analyst

The recent volatility in Bitcoin’s dominance could indicate that altcoin season is approaching sooner than many traders expected, according to one cryptocurrency analyst. “The reason to be confident in altcoin price trends is because the Bitcoin dominance chart is looking bearish and has been for weeks,” crypto analyst Matthew Hyland said in an X post…

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Terminal-Bench 2.0 is released with Harbor, a new framework for testing agents inside containers

The developers of Terminal-Bench, a benchmark suite for evaluating the performance of autonomous AI agents in real-world terminal-based tasks, have released version 2.0 with Harbor, a new framework for testing, improving, and optimizing AI agents in containerized environments. This dual release aims to address long-standing pain points in testing and optimizing AI agents, especially those…

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MIT Energy Initiative launches Data Center Power Forum | Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

With global power demand from data centers expected to more than double by 2030, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) launched an effort in September to bring together MIT researchers and industry experts to explore innovative solutions that power a data-driven future. At its annual research conference, MITEI announced the Data Center Power Forum, a research…

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Ship fast, optimize later: Top AI engineers prioritize deployment, regardless of cost

Across industries, rising computing costs are often cited as a barrier to AI adoption, but leading companies are realizing that cost is no longer the real constraint. What are the tougher challenges (and the most important for many technology leaders)? Latency, flexibility, capacity. For example, at At Wonder, the AI ​​adds just a few centers…

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Moonshot’s Kim K2 Thinking outperforms GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key benchmarks, emerging as leading open source AI

While concerns and skepticism about U.S. AI startup OpenAI’s construction strategy and high-spending commitments grow, Chinese open source AI providers are increasing competition, with one provider even catching OpenAI’s flagship paid proprietary model GPT-5 on key third-party performance benchmarks with a new free model. Released today, Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI’s new Kim K2 Thinking…

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Teaching robots to map large-scale environments | Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

A robot searching for workers trapped in a partially collapsed mineshaft must quickly map and locate the site while navigating hazardous terrain. Researchers have recently begun building powerful machine learning models to perform this complex task using only images from the robot’s onboard camera, but even the best models can only process a few images…

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