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Chinese food delivery giant Meituan has released LongCat two point zero, an open source large language model with one point six trillion parameters and a one million token context window — and here's what makes it remarkable: the entire model was trained on more than fifty thousand domestic AI accelerators, with no Nvidia hardware involved whatsoever. That's a significant signal that China's AI ecosystem is maturing faster than many Western observers expected.
Staying on the AI beat, Anthropic is expanding its footprint in Manhattan, part of a broader wave of artificial intelligence companies planting deeper roots in New York City. The move reflects a growing recognition that AI development isn't just a West Coast story anymore — New York's concentration of finance, media, and talent is pulling major players eastward.
And if you were a YouTube TV or DirecTV Stream subscriber between certain years, Disney may owe you money. The entertainment giant has agreed to pay fifty million dollars to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it used its control over channels like ESPN to push cable bundle prices artificially higher. Claims are open now, so it's worth checking whether you qualify.
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