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Esports World Cup 2026 Opens in Paris with Record Prize Pool & Global Spotlight

The Esports World Cup 2026 has officially opened in Paris, bringing together more than 2,000 players and 200 esports clubs from over 100 countries to compete across 25 tournaments in 24 games for a record-breaking $75 million (~INR 716 crore) prize pool. The seven-week event, held at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles through August 23, marks the first international edition of the competition.

Organised by the Esports Foundation, the tournament introduces a format that combines individual game titles with an overarching Club Championship, where results across competitions contribute to a broader ranking. Ralf Reichert, CEO of the Esports Foundation, said: “Competitive gaming has always had great players, great games and unforgettable champions. The Esports World Cup brings them together in one defining annual stage. For seven weeks in Paris, every title crowns its own winner, but every result also contributes to a bigger race: the Club Championship. That is what...

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IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value

CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing' IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory instead, knocking Big Blue's flagship Z business off course.

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If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic

AI and ML Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages Aware that AI models exhibit different values in different languages, Anthropic researchers have taken steps to map out how Claude expresses itself in different languages. The results identify four key axes that capture 15 percent of the variation in

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OpenAI says it is “not aware of any evidence” that Apple's lawsuit alleging trade-secret theft has merit, adding that it believes in fair competition

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Helping AI models to meet the real world

Systems using artificial intelligence to enhance forecasting, planning, and decision-making in businesses have been proliferating in recent years, but in many cases, they lack the detailed, specific information about the organization itself, limiting the usefulness of those tools. Devavrat Shah, a principal investigator at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and

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IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value

If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic

OpenAI says it is “not aware of any evidence” that Apple's lawsuit alleging trade-secret theft has merit, adding that it believes in fair competition

Helping AI models to meet the real world