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Thursday 5 November

China blocks SoftBank’s $5.4 billion ABB robotics deal, FT says, in blow to Son’s AI push

AI-generated summary According to the Financial Times, Chinese regulators have reportedly told SoftBank Group they will not allow its $5.4 billion acquisition of ABB robotics division. This regulatory decision creates uncertainty for SoftBank Group and leaves the robotics unit on the books of ABB.

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Wednesday 4 November

Next British envoy to Japan calls for stronger cooperation on AI

AI-generated summary British Ambassador-designate to Japan Corin Robertson available for stronger cooperation between the two countries in artificial intelligence and semiconductors during a news conference in Tokyo. Robertson vows to focus on working together to develop future industries and drive economic growth while preparing to promote international cooperation on the safe use of artificial intelligence.

Ex-Googlers' new Apache 2.0 model Ripple-65B Preview claims the U.S. open coding lead on two major benchmarks

AI-generated summary Ricursive Intelligence previews the new Ripple-65B Preview model on Hugging Face, claiming it scores the highest on coding performance on two third-party benchmarks compared to any other open model from the U.S. The release gives outside developers a way to assess technology from a well-funded startup whose main business centers on accelerating semiconductor development.

After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming

AI-generated summary Following the midterm results, Democrats secured full control of Congress and made data center limitations available for discussion. Goldman Sachs predicts that data center construction delays will occur in states like Georgia and Texas due to these Democratic gains.

Also covered by The Japan Times thehill.com datacenterdynamics.com
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