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Meta AI Training: New Terms Could Let Meta Use News Websites for Free

Meta AI training is at the centre of a new dispute over whether technology companies can collect online news content and use it to develop artificial intelligence products without negotiating separate licensing agreements. Updated commercial terms from Meta are raising concerns among publishers and legal experts because they appear to grant the company broad permission […]

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Grok 4.8 to Feature 2.5T Parameters and New C++ Software Stack

Elon Musk says Grok 4.8 is a 2.5-trillion-parameter model trained with xAI’s new C++ software stack and will start reinforcement learning this week. We check the claim against every parameter count and stack post Musk has made, the delayed Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6’s published benchmarks, and what a 2.5T model means for memory, speed and price.

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