United Rugby Championship: Glasgow stay top of URC despite Lions thrashing

Lions: Q. Horn, A. Davids, Van Wyk, Kriel, Cronje, Smith, Van den Berg; Kotze, Botha, Ntlabakanye, Oosthuizen, Landsberg, Mahashe, Venter, F. Horn. Replacements: Marais, E. Davids, Lombard, Nothnagel, Hlekani, Pretorius, Steyn, Mpeku. Glasgow: McKay, Rowe, Jones, McDowall, Watson, Lancaster, Oliver; Sutherland, Sebastian, Richardson, Oguntibeju, Samuel, Ferrie, Vailanu, Demspey. Replacements: Hiddleston, McBeth, Z Fagerson, Cockburn, Burke,…

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US Government Says China’s Best AI Models Lag Behind. Experts Aren’t So Sure

In brief CAISI’s evaluation ranked DeepSeek V4 Pro eight months behind the U.S. frontier, using an IRT-based scoring system across nine benchmarks including two private, unverifiable datasets. The cost comparison excluded all U.S. models deemed too expensive or too weak—leaving only GPT-5.4 mini, against which DeepSeek was still cheaper on five out of seven benchmarks….

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AI and blockchain infrastructure company Gency AI today announced it has raised $20 million in a new funding round

San Francisco, U.S.A., March 17, 2026 — AI and blockchain infrastructure company Gency AI today announced it has raised $20 million in a new funding round. The round saw participation from several institutions, including Y&ZC Capital, MTmetaworld Holdings, Riverpark, ArkStream, MH Ventures, ViaBTC and Basics Capital. The fresh capital is earmarked for scaling Gency AI’s…

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