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Kingdom is finally available to read digitally on the Shonen Jump app

Kingdom is the biggest manga that never got an English localization until now, as the first chapters are finally available on the Shonen Jump app.

Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)

Yuan Gao / Bloomberg:
Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips  —  Cambricon Technologies Corp. plans to more than triple its production of AI chips in 2026, aiming to wrest market share …

Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team details why it shifted from fully reverse-engineering neural nets to a focus on "pragmatic interpretability" (AI Alignment Forum)

AI Alignment Forum:
Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team details why it shifted from fully reverse-engineering neural nets to a focus on “pragmatic interpretability”  —  Executive Summary  — The Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team has made a strategic pivot over the past year …

BNP Paribas says it is joining nine other European banks including ING, UniCredit, and CaixaBank developing a euro-pegged stablecoin in a JV called Qivalis (CoinDesk)

CoinDesk:
BNP Paribas says it is joining nine other European banks including ING, UniCredit, and CaixaBank developing a euro-pegged stablecoin in a JV called Qivalis  —  The group of 10 banks plans to introduce its euro stablecoin next year under a new Dutch entity named Qivalis.  —  What to know:

Sources: SoftBank agrees to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi back to the Indian mobile ad company for ~$250M, reducing its holding to <10% from 30%+ (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: SoftBank agrees to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi back to the Indian mobile ad company for ~$250M, reducing its holding to <10% from 30%+  —  SoftBank Group Corp. has agreed to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi Pte back to the mobile advertising company …