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Can Russian Businesses Buy Huawei Atlas 950 — and Who Needs Chinese AI Servers?
Huawei has shown Atlas 950 SuperPoD with 1,024 Ascend 950 accelerators and says availability will begin in Q4 2026. For a Russian business, this is not yet an off-the-shelf product; it is a reason to test the workload, software stack, facility, and economics of a Chinese AI infrastructure purchase now.
GLM-5.3 moved closer to the frontier. It still does not lead in coding
Z.ai’s release table shows a large gain over GLM-5.2, but it does not prove outright leadership. We examine what was measured, where vendor evidence ends, and how to test the model on a real repository.
The model that filled the queue: why Kimi K3 matters beyond its records
Demand forced Moonshot AI to pause new subscriptions. The more consequential event came later: the company released the weights of a model that had moved close to the strongest closed systems.
Mould, type and the human hand: why web design is tired of perfection
Generative tools can produce a beautiful first draft in minutes. Designers are responding with living materials, archives, distinctive typography and a renewed respect for useful information.