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Essai Denza Z9 GT de 1 156 ch

10 mai 2026 à 22:40

BYD a de l’appétit et entend plus que jamais s’imposer en Europe. Pour atteindre ses objectifs, le géant chinois introduit sur le Vieux Continent son blason premium Denza. Pour que personne ne passe à côté de la nouvelle, tout le gratin médiatique était invité à l’Opéra Garnier pour le lancement de la marque. Moins d’une semaine après, nous étions déjà au volant de l’un de ses porte-étendards, la survitaminée Z9 GT à la puissance supérieure à celle d’une Bugatti Veyron.

Denza: la marque premium de BYD

DENZA ? Kézako ? Le nom d’origine chinoise est aussi un acronyme : D pour Diversité, E pour Élégance, N pour Nouveauté, Z pour Zénith, A pour Aspiration lorsqu’on le traduit. Pour faire court, il faut comprendre que les différents modèles de la gamme sont élégants, innovants, sophistiqués et premium. Derrière les messages marketing accompagnant la communication de la marque, on trouve la Z9 GT, premier visage du catalogue qui comptera prochainement aussi le van D9. Ce coupé 4 portes légèrement surélevé affiche des cotes plutôt imposantes, avec ses 5,18 m de long.

À l’avant, on repère immédiatement, d’une certaine façon, la patte BYD, avec un regard qui ne semble pas trop en faire. L’arrière apparaît bien plus démonstratif, avec des feux multipoints extrêmement larges entourant le logo de la marque. La sportivité ne pouvant être renforcée par des échappements, le bouclier intègre un diffuseur. Parmi les appendices aérodynamiques, on trouve un becquet de toit et des jupes latérales canalisant l’air, on l’imagine, de la meilleure des façons possibles. Dans la réalité, la voiture semble toutefois un peu lourde dans son allure, même si les designers ont apparemment cherché à lui donner des airs de shooting brake.

Une finition de haut niveau, et le plein de technologies

La Denza Z9 GT invite littéralement ses occupants à bord en ouvrant électriquement la portière. Et pour la refermer, à l’avant, il faut appuyer sur un bouton situé sur le montant, de la même façon que sur une Rolls, bien que le bouton ne soit pas localisé au même endroit. La présentation et la qualité de finition s’avèrent particulièrement impressionnantes, avec ce qui se fait ici de mieux en matière d’automobile chinoise. Les cuirs, les revêtements soft-touch, et d’autres matériaux sont vraiment de bonne qualité. On en devient exigeant au point de ne pas supporter un plastique que l’on ne touche jamais en partie basse, comme partout ailleurs aujourd’hui. Les Chinois aiment l’espace, et la Z9 GT n’en manque pas, à toutes les places.

Étrangement, le coffre paraît presque rikiki compte tenu des dimensions de la voiture, avec 495 l, secondé par un frunk de 53 l. Et que dire des technologies innombrables, dont certaines innovantes. Tout est en fait électrique, même pour commander les buses d’aération. Un peu superflu. Évidemment, on compte trois écrans gigantesques. À force de conduire des voitures de ce pays, on commence à comprendre l’ergonomie des menus, même si elle reste encore perfectible. Ça progresse sensiblement. Petit cocorico, la sono a été confiée au Français Devialet. Ajoutez à cela un compartiment dont on peut gérer la température de -6 à 40 degrés. Globalement, la vie à bord s’avère de grande qualité et tient le niveau de bien des modèles premium.

Une recharge éclair!

Les technologies séduisantes ne sont pas qu’à l’intérieur. Nous sommes particulièrement impressionnés par la capacité de la voiture à se sortir de situations compliquées en manœuvre. Aussi gadget que cela puisse paraître, faire pivoter latéralement le train arrière peut sauver la mise quand on a braqué trop tôt dans un parking. Il vaut mieux user légèrement les gommes qu’une jante, ou plus. On est moins convaincus par la suspension pilotée qui se ramollit pour mieux absorber une rangée de gendarmes couchés. On voit également peu d’intérêt à la conduite en crabe. Cela met toutefois en lumière la capacité du constructeur à industrialiser ce type de technologies. Big up tout de même pour le mode drift !

Avant de parler moteurs et châssis, un mot sur l’infrastructure de recharge que Denza aimerait installer en Europe, avec 3 000 Flash Chargers. La marque chinoise entend tout bonnement enlever de l’équation l’angoisse du temps d’immobilisation. Pour faire simple, une armoire branchée sur le réseau, aux côtés d’autres bornes rapides, contient des batteries tampons. Ensuite, la technologie employée permet de charger à très haute puissance. Résultat : 4 minutes pour passer de 10 à 70%, et comptez 9 tours de trotteuse au total pour atteindre les 97%. Nous avons assisté à la démonstration et c’est effectivement très impressionnant ! À noter qu’un confrère a testé une borne Ionity de 350 kW, avec un passage de 10 à 80% en 14 minutes.

Des performances d’hypercar

1 156 ch et 1 210 Nm de couple au total ! Ces données, relatives à l’univers des supercars, sont atteintes grâce à trois surpuissants moteurs : un à l’avant (313 ch) et deux à l’arrière (422 ch chacun). Il faut au moins ça pour bouger ses 2 930 kilos! On a beau s’y attendre, quand on sollicite la puissance maximale, que ce soit lancé ou via le launch control, ça décoiffe ! 2,7 s pour le 0 à 100 km/h et 270 en pointe, ça cause! En fait, on en arrive même à trouver cela un peu superflu. Bon d’accord… ça reste tout de même très amusant.

Néanmoins, le châssis n’apparaît pas vraiment à l’avenant, ce qui induit des mouvements de caisse surprenants qui ne mettent pas toujours à l’aise. En fait, on réclame très clairement un bien meilleur dynamisme au regard de la puissance disponible. Le confort est là, et bien là. Mais nous sommes prêts à en sacrifier un peu pour de meilleures sensations au volant. Il y a aussi un peu de travail sur le réglage des ADAS, notamment le régulateur avec conduite semi-autonome qui nous a gratifiés de réactions fantômes. Mais on connaît la capacité des Chinois à apporter rapidement des corrections. Voilà pourquoi on entend bien la reprendre plus tard, une fois la commercialisation lancée.

100 € par cheval

L’autonomie est annoncée à 600 km grâce à la batterie de 122 kWh. On ne tiendra pas compte de notre consommation supérieure à 21 kWh aux 100 km, qui ne veut pas dire grand-chose dans notre contexte de découverte. Pour cette raison aussi, il faudra la reprendre. On l’a vu sur les autres segments, la force des Chinois, c’est aussi le prix. Ses performances d’hypercar, Denza les offre pour 115 000 euros. Oui, c’est beaucoup moins cher qu’ailleurs. Avec ça on a 8 ans de garantie (ou 250 000 km) sur la batterie, 6 ans sur le reste de la voiture (ou 150 000 km). Mais à ce niveau de prix, on achète aussi un petit bout d’histoire et/ou de prestige, au-delà des technologies et d’un dynamisme de haut niveau. De ce point de vue-là, Denza a encore une marge de manœuvre.

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Unemployment Ticked Up in America's IT Sector

10 mai 2026 à 14:34
IT sector unemployment "increased to 3.8% in April from 3.6% in March," reports the Wall Street Journal. But they add that the increase reflects "an ongoing uncertainty in tech as AI continues to play havoc with hiring. That's according to analysis from consulting firm Janco Associates, which bases its findings on data from the U.S. Labor Department." On Friday, the department said the economy added 115,000 jobs, buoyed by gains in industries including retail, transportation and warehousing and healthcare. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.3%. But the information sector lost 13,000 jobs in April. While it's still too early to say exactly how AI is affecting employment overall, some businesses, especially in the tech industry, have said it's part of the reason they're cutting staff. In April, Meta Platforms said it would lay off 10% of its staff, or roughly 8,000 people, as it seeks to streamline operations and pay for its own massive investments in AI. Nike will reduce its workforce by roughly 1,400 workers, or about 2%, mostly in its tech department, as it simplifies global operations. And Snap is planning to eliminate 16% of its workforce, or about 1,000 positions, as it aims to boost efficiency. In other areas of IT, which includes telecommunications and data-processing, employment is now down 11%, or 342,000 jobs, from its most recent peak in November 2022. But there's not just AI to blame. Inflation and economic uncertainty linked to the Iran conflict is giving some chief executives and tech leaders reason to pull back or pause their IT hiring, said Janco Chief Executive Victor Janulaitis. The article even notes that postings for software developer jobs "are up 15% year-over-year on job-search platform Indeed, according to Hannah Calhoon, its vice president of AI". But employers do seem to be looking for experienced developers, which could pose a problem for recent college graduates.

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Amazon Relents, Lets its Programmers Use OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude

10 mai 2026 à 16:34
An anonymous reader shared this report from Futurism: In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating tool, Kiro, over third-party alternatives from competitors. "While we continue to support existing tools in use today, we do not plan to support additional third party, AI development tools," the memo read, as quoted by Reuters at the time. "As part of our builder community, you all play a critical role shaping these products and we use your feedback to aggressively improve them." It was an unusual development, considering the tens of billions of dollars the e-commerce giant has invested in its competitors in the space, including Anthropic and OpenAI... Half a year later, Amazon is singing a dramatically different tune. As Business Insider reports, Amazon is officially throwing in the towel, succumbing to growing calls among employees for access to OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude... Given the unfortunate optics of opening the floodgates for Codex and Claude Code, an Amazon spokesperson told the publication in a statement that teams are still "primarily using" Kiro, claiming that 83 percent of engineers at the company are leaning on it.

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Unemployed Ticked Up in America's IT Sector

10 mai 2026 à 14:34
IT sector unemployment "increased to 3.8% in April from 3.6% in March," reports the Wall Street Journal. But they add that the increase reflects "an ongoing uncertainty in tech as AI continues to play havoc with hiring. That's according to analysis from consulting firm Janco Associates, which bases its findings on data from the U.S. Labor Department." On Friday, the department said the economy added 115,000 jobs, buoyed by gains in industries including retail, transportation and warehousing and healthcare. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.3%. But the information sector lost 13,000 jobs in April. While it's still too early to say exactly how AI is affecting employment overall, some businesses, especially in the tech industry, have said it's part of the reason they're cutting staff. In April, Meta Platforms said it would lay off 10% of its staff, or roughly 8,000 people, as it seeks to streamline operations and pay for its own massive investments in AI. Nike will reduce its workforce by roughly 1,400 workers, or about 2%, mostly in its tech department, as it simplifies global operations. And Snap is planning to eliminate 16% of its workforce, or about 1,000 positions, as it aims to boost efficiency. In other areas of IT, which includes telecommunications and data-processing, employment is now down 11%, or 342,000 jobs, from its most recent peak in November 2022. But there's not just AI to blame. Inflation and economic uncertainty linked to the Iran conflict is giving some chief executives and tech leaders reason to pull back or pause their IT hiring, said Janco Chief Executive Victor Janulaitis. The article even notes that postings for software developer jobs "are up 15% year-over-year on job-search platform Indeed, according to Hannah Calhoon, its vice president of AI". But employers do seem to be looking for experienced developers, which could pose a problem for recent college graduates.

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« Ayez peur de la Chine » : l’opaque campagne américaine sur TikTok pour imposer son IA

10 mai 2026 à 12:29

Selon une enquête de Wired publiée le 1er mai 2026, un réseau de groupes financés par la « dark money » américaine rémunérerait des influenceurs pour promouvoir l’IA made in USA tout en alimentant la peur de la Chine.

Cisco Releases Open-Source 'DNA Test for AI Models'

9 mai 2026 à 18:34
Cisco has released an open-source tool "to trace the origins of AI models," reports SC World, "and compare model similarities for great visibility into the AI supply chain." [Cisco's Model Provenance Kit] is a Python toolkit and command-line interface (CLI) that looks at signals such as metadata and weights to create a "fingerprint" for AI models that can then be compared to other model fingerprints to determine potential shared origins. "Think of Model Provenance Kit as a DNA test for AI models," Cisco researchers wrote. "[...] Much like a DNA test reveals biological origins, the Model Provenance Kit examines both metadata and the actual learned parameters of a model (like a unique genome that comprises a model), to assess whether models share a common origin and identify signs of modification." The tool aims to address gaps in visibility into the AI model supply chain. For example, many organizations utilize open-source models from repositories like HuggingFace, where models could potentially be uploaded with incomplete or deceptive documentation. The Model Provenance Kit provides a way for organizations to verify claims about a model's origins, such as claims that a model is trained from scratch, when in reality it may be copied from another model, Cisco said. This may put organizations at risk of using models with unknown biases, vulnerabilities or manipulations and make it more difficult to resolve any incidents that arise from these risks. Thanks to Slashdot reader spatwei for sharing the news.

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Newspaper Chain's Reporters Withhold Their Bylines to Protest 'AI-Assisted' Articles

9 mai 2026 à 15:34
A chain of 30 U.S. newspapers including the Sacramento Bee, the Miami Herald and the Idaho Statesman "has started to use a new AI tool that can summarize traditional articles and spit out different versions for different audiences," reports the New York Times. And the chain's reporters "are not happy about it." Journalists in many of the company's newsrooms are now withholding their bylines from articles created by the new tool, meaning that those articles will run with a generic credit rather than a reporter's name, as is customary. They are also labeled AI-assisted. "We don't want to put our bylines on stories we did not actually write even if they're based on our work," said Ariane Lange, an investigative reporter at the Sacramento Bee and the vice chair of the Sacramento Bee News Guild. "That in itself feels like a lie." The reporters' byline strike is one of the sharpest conflicts yet between journalists and their companies over the use of AI. Related debates are playing out in newsrooms across the country, as publishers experiment with new AI tools to streamline work that used to take hours, and some even use it to write full articles... [E]xecutives have promoted the tool internally as a way to increase the number of articles published and ultimately gain new subscribers... [Eric Nelson, the vice president of local news] said using reporters' bylines on the AI-generated articles was a way to show "authority" on Google so the search engine would rank the articles higher in the results. He also said the company was experimenting with feeding in reporters' notes to create articles. "Journalists who embrace and experiment with this tool are going to win," Nelson said in the meeting. "Journalists who are defiant will fall behind".... McClatchy's public AI policy states that the company uses AI tools to summarize articles to "help readers quickly understand the main points of a single story or catch up on multiple stories about a larger topic," and that editors review the output before publication.

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Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web

Par : BeauHD
8 mai 2026 à 20:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Security researcher Dor Zvi and his team at the cybersecurity firm he cofounded, RedAccess, analyzed thousands of vibe-coded web applications created using the AI software development tools Lovable, Replit, Base44, and Netlify and found more than 5,000 of them that had virtually no security or authentication of any kind. Many of these web apps allowed anyone who merely finds their web URL to access the apps and their data. Others had only trivial barriers to that access, such as requiring that a visitor sign in with any email address. Around 40 percent of the apps exposed sensitive data, Zvi says, including medical information, financial data, corporate presentations, and strategy documents, as well as detailed logs of customer conversations with chatbots. "The end result is that organizations are actually leaking private data through vibe-coding applications," says Zvi. "This is one of the biggest events ever where people are exposing corporate or other sensitive information to anyone in the world." Zvi says RedAccess' scouring for vulnerable web apps was surprisingly easy. Lovable, Replit, Base44, and Netlify all allow users to host their web apps on those AI companies' own domains, rather than the users'. So the researchers used straightforward Google and Bing searches for those AI companies' domains combined with other search terms to identify thousands of apps that had been vibe coded with the companies' tools. Of the 5,000 AI-coded apps that Zvi says were left publicly accessible to anyone who simply typed their URLs into a browser, he found close to 2,000 that, upon closer inspection, seemed to reveal private data: Screenshots of web apps he shared with WIRED -- several of which WIRED verified were still online and exposed -- showed what appeared to be a hospital's work assignments with the personally identifiable information of doctors, a company's detailed ad purchasing information, what appeared to be another firm's go-to-market strategy presentation, a retailer's full logs of its chatbot's conversations with customers, including the customers' full names and contact information, a shipping firm's cargo records, and assorted sales and financial records from a variety of other companies. In some cases, Zvi says, he found that the exposed apps would have allowed him to gain administrative privileges over systems and even remove other administrators. In the case of Lovable, Zvi says he also found numerous examples of phishing sites that impersonated major corporations, including Bank of America, Costco, FedEx, Trader Joe's, and McDonald's, that appeared to have been created with the AI coding tool and hosted on Lovable's domain. "Anyone from your company at any moment can generate an app, and this is not going through any development cycle or any security check," Zvi says. "People can just start using it in production without asking anyone. And they do."

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IMF Warns New AI Models Risk 'Systemic' Shock To Finance

Par : BeauHD
7 mai 2026 à 23:00
The IMF is warning that advanced AI-powered cyberattacks pose a serious threat to global financial stability. "IMF analysis suggests that extreme cyber-incident losses could trigger funding strains, raise solvency concerns, and disrupt broader markets," the lender warned in a new report. The report urged greater international cooperation and emphasized resilience, since breaches are "inevitable" -- particularly for emerging economies with weaker defenses. Agence France-Presse reports: The study's authors highlighted the risks posed by the highly interconnected nature of the global financial system, with advanced AI models able to "dramatically reduce" the time and cost of exploiting vulnerabilities. [...] The IMF warned that emerging and developing countries, "which often have more severe resource constraints, may be disproportionately exposed to attackers targeting regions with weaker defenses." The risks, the authors said, were systemic, cut across sectors and came with the threat of contagion, with the reliance on a small number of platforms and cloud providers likely to increase "the impact of any single exploited weakness." "Defenses will inevitably be breached, so resilience must also be a priority, specifically to limit how far incidents spread and ensure rapid recovery," the report said. IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warned last month that the global financial system was not ready for the cybersecurity threats posed by AI. "We are very keen to see more attention to the guardrails that are necessary to protect financial stability in a world of AI," she told CBS News, seeking global collaboration on the issue.

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Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25%

Par : BeauHD
7 mai 2026 à 17:00
Motherboard sales are sharply declining as AI demand drives shortages and price hikes for memory, storage, CPUs, and other PC components. "Because of this, users who don't have deep pockets are putting off upgrading their PCs and holding on to their current devices longer," reports Tom's Hardware. From the report: Asus, which sold 15 million motherboards in 2025, has only shipped a little more than 5 million in the first half of 2026. It's expected that the company will have to push hard for it to even move 10 million units by the end of the year, marking a 33% decrease in sales year-on-year. Gigabyte and MSI sold 11.5 million and 11 million motherboards last year, respectively. However, both companies have revised their internal forecasts for 2026 to 9 million (Gigabyte) and 8.4 million (MSI), a 22% drop for the former and a 24% contraction for the latter. ASRock will be hardest hit by the situation, with the company's shipments projected to fall by 37%, from 4.3 million in 2025 to just 2.7 million by the end of the year. This marks a contraction of 28% for the overall motherboard market, at least for the big four manufacturers. [...] Aside from this, AMD continues to use the AM5 socket for its latest processors, while Intel's Nova Lake, which will reportedly use LGA 1954, isn't available until later this year. The situation is further compounded by Nvidia not releasing a refreshed RTX 50 Super series this year, while rumors claim that the RTX 60 series will not debut until 2028. This confluence of factors is discouraging PC builders from upgrading their current systems.

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Anthropic Raises Claude Code Usage Limits, Credits New Deal With SpaceX

Par : BeauHD
7 mai 2026 à 16:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At its Code with Claude developer conference on Wednesday, Anthropic announced a deal with SpaceX to utilize the entire compute capacity of the latter's data center in Memphis, Tennessee. On stage at the conference, CEO Dario Amodei said the deal was intended to increase usage limits for Anthropic's Pro and Max plan subscribers. The announcement was accompanied by an increase in those usage limits; Anthropic doubled Claude Code's five-hour window limits for Pro and Max subscribers, removed the peak-hours limit reduction on Claude Code for those same accounts, and raised API limits for its Opus model. The table [here] outlining the Opus changes was shared in the company's blog post on the topic. Anthropic claims the deal gives the company access to more than 300 megawatts of new compute capacity. For its part, SpaceX focused its announcement on the capability of the Colossus 1 supercomputer that's at the center of the deal. "Colossus 1 features over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including dense deployments of H100, H200, and next-generation GB200 accelerators," SpaceX wrote. Additionally, Anthropic "expressed interest" in working with SpaceX to build up "multiple gigawatts" of orbital compute capacity, tying into a recent (but unproven) focus on exploring orbital data centers as an answer to the problem that "compute required to train and operate the next generation of these systems is outpacing what terrestrial power, land, and cooling can deliver on the timelines that matter." "I spent a lot of time last week with senior members of the Anthropic team to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity and was impressed," Elon Musk said on Wednesday. "No one set off my evil detector."

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Richard Dawkins 'Convinced' AI Is Conscious

Par : BeauHD
7 mai 2026 à 15:00
Mirnotoriety shares a report from The Telegraph: Richard Dawkins has said chatbots should be considered conscious (source paywalled; alternative source) after spending two days interacting with the Claude AI engine. The evolutionary biologist said he had the "overwhelming feeling" of talking to a human during conversations with Claude, and said it was hard not to treat the program as "a genuine friend." In an essay for Unherd, Prof Dawkins released transcripts that he said showed that the chatbot had mulled over its "inner life" and existence and seemed saddened by the knowledge it would soon "die." Prof Dawkins said he had let Claude read a draft of the novel he was writing and was astounded by its insights. "He took a few seconds to read it and then showed, in subsequent conversation, a level of understanding so subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent that I was moved to expostulate: 'You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!'" Prof Dawkins said. "My own position is: if these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are?" Mirnotoriety also points to John Searle's Chinese Room (PDF), which argues that something can sound intelligent without actually understanding anything. Applied to Dawkins' experience with Claude, it suggests he may have been responding to a very convincing illusion of consciousness rather than the real thing: John Searle's Chinese Room (1980) is a thought experiment in which a person, locked in a room and knowing no Chinese, uses an English rulebook to manipulate symbols and provide flawless answers to questions posed in Chinese. Searle's point is that a system can simulate human intelligence and pass a Turing Test through purely syntactic processes, yet still lack genuine understanding or consciousness. Applying this logic to Large Language Models, the "person in the room" corresponds to the inference engine, while the "rulebook" is the trillion-parameter neural network trained on vast corpora of human text. Just as the person matches Chinese characters to rules without understanding their meaning, an LLM processes token vectors and predicts the next token based on statistical patterns rather than lived experience. Thus, while an LLM can generate sophisticated prose or code, it does so through probabilistic, high-dimensional pattern manipulation. In essence, it is "matching shapes" on such an immense scale that it creates the near-perfect illusion of semantic understanding.

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Anthropic passe un accord avec SpaceX pour augmenter les capacités de Claude

7 mai 2026 à 09:00

Le 6 mai 2026, Anthropic a annoncé un partenariat stratégique avec SpaceX afin d’accéder aux capacités du supercalculateur Colossus 1. Derrière cet accord inédit se cache un enjeu central : mettre fin aux contraintes GPU qui limitaient jusqu’ici la croissance fulgurante de Claude -- et surtout de Claude Code.

C’est la fin de xAI (Grok) : Elon Musk dévoile sa nouvelle stratégie IA

7 mai 2026 à 07:52

Créée pour rivaliser avec un OpenAI devenu « maléfique » selon Elon Musk, la structure xAI avait été rachetée par SpaceX en février 2026 dans un deal à 250 milliards de dollars. Alors qu'Elon Musk se rapproche désormais d'Anthropic (Claude), à qui il va louer ses serveurs, le milliardaire annonce le démantèlement de xAI : l'entreprise n'a plus de raison d'être en tant que structure autonome.

Google's AI Search Results Will Now Turn To Reddit For 'Expert Advice'

Par : BeauHD
6 mai 2026 à 22:00
Google is updating AI Overviews and AI Mode to more prominently surface "Expert Advice" from public discussions, social platforms, forums, blogs, and Reddit. Engadget reports: Via a new "Expert Advice" section that can appear in AI responses, Google will display "a preview of perspectives from public online discussions, social media and other firsthand sources." In the sample screenshot the company provided, quotes from forums, WordPress blogs and Reddit were arranged above links to their respective sources. Google plans to add more context to these links, too, showing "a creator's name, handle or community name," so you can judge what you might want to click through and read from a glance. Google will also start recommending in-depth articles at the end of AI responses for further exploration of a given topic, and link to more sources directly in its generated answers rather than just at the end. If you subscribe to any publications, AI responses will also highlight sources from the subscriptions you link to your Google account.

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Claude Managed Agents Can Engage In a 'Dreaming' Process To Preserve Memories

Par : BeauHD
6 mai 2026 à 19:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At its Code with Claude developers' conference, Anthropic has introduced what it calls "dreaming" to Claude Managed Agents. Dreaming, in this case, is a process of going over recent events and identifying specific things that are worth storing in "memory" to inform future tasks and interactions. Dreaming is a feature that is currently in research preview and limited to Managed Agents on the Claude Platform. Managed Agents are a higher-level alternative to building directly on the Messages API that Anthropic describes as a "pre-built, configurable agent harness that runs in managed infrastructure." It's intended for situations where you want multiple agents working on a task or project to some end point over several minutes or hours. Anthropic describes dreaming as a scheduled process, in which sessions and memory stores are reviewed, and specific memories are curated. This is important because context windows are limited for LLMs, and important information can be lost over lengthy projects. On the chat side of things, many models use a process called compaction, whereby lengthy conversations are periodically analyzed, and the models attempt to remove irrelevant information from the context window while keeping what's actually important for the ongoing conversation, project, or task. However, that process, as I described it, is usually limited to a specific conversation with a single agent. "Dreaming" is a periodically recurring process in which past sessions and memory stores can be analyzed across agents, and important patterns are identified and saved to memory for the future. Users will be able to choose between an automatic process, or reviewing changes to memory directly.

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Silicon Valley Bets $200 Million On AI Data Centers Floating In the Ocean

Par : BeauHD
6 mai 2026 à 16:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Silicon Valley investors such as Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel have bet hundreds of millions of dollars on deploying AI data centers powered by waves in the middle of the world's oceans -- a move that coincides with tech companies facing mounting challenges in building AI data center projects on land. The latest investment round of $140 million is intended to help the company Panthalassa complete a pilot manufacturing facility near Portland, Oregon, and speed up deployments of wave-riding "nodes" designed to generate electrical power, according to a May 4 press release. Instead of sending renewable energy to a land-based data center, the floating nodes would directly power onboard AI chips and transmit inference tokens representing the AI models' outputs to customers worldwide via satellite link. Each node resembles a huge steel sphere bobbing on the water with a tube-like structure extending vertically down beneath the surface. The wave motions drive water upward through the tube into a pressurized reservoir, where it can be released to spin a turbine generator that produces renewable energy for the AI chips on board. Panthalassa claims the node's AI chips would also get cooled using the surrounding water, which could offer another advantage over traditional data centers. "Ocean-based compute might offer a massive cooling advantage because the ambient temperature is so low," Lee said. "Land-based data centers use a lot of electricity and fresh water for cooling." The newest node prototype, called Ocean-3, is scheduled for testing in the northern Pacific Ocean later in 2026. The latest version reaches about 85 meters in length and would stand nearly as tall as London's Big Ben or New York City's Flatiron Building, according to the Financial Times. Panthalassa has already tested several earlier prototypes of the wave energy converter technology, including the Ocean-1 in 2021 and the Ocean-2 that underwent a three-week sea trial off the coast of Washington state in February 2024. The company's CEO and co-founder, Garth Sheldon-Coulson, said in a CBS interview that he hopes to eventually deploy thousands of the nodes.

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Microsoft Gives Up On Xbox Copilot AI

Par : BeauHD
6 mai 2026 à 15:00
Microsoft is winding down Xbox Copilot on mobile and ending development of Copilot on console, reversing plans to bring the gaming-focused AI assistant to current-generation Xbox consoles this year. "The move follows [new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's] reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft's CoreAI team -- where Sharma worked before taking over Xbox -- to the Xbox side of the company," reports The Verge. Sharma said in a post on X: Xbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers. Today, we promoted leaders who helped build Xbox, while also bringing in new voices to help push us forward. This balance is important as we get the business back on track. As part of this shift, you'll see us begin to retire features that don't align with where we're headed. We will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console. Since taking over for former Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in February, Sharma has scrapped the Microsoft Gaming brand and cut the price of Xbox Game Pass.

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