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Fitness tracker for Fido? Experts split on benefits of pet tech

As sales soar, some say trackers can help animal anxiety or weight loss while others advise leaving diagnoses to the vetPet health and activity trackers are bounding on to the market but experts are split on whether they are the cat’s pyjamas or barking up the wrong tree.As owners monitor their own step count, heart […]

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AI-powered robot beats elite table tennis players

In feat hailed as milestone in robotics, Sony AI’s Ace wins three out of five matches played under official rulesAn AI-powered robot has beaten elite players at table tennis in a landmark achievement for a machine faced with a human athlete in a real-world competitive sport.Named Ace, the robotic system developed by Sony AI, won

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Emma the joke-telling robot cracks up the care home: Paula Hornickel’s best photograph

‘The first resident that Emma – a social robot – was introduced to was called Peter. After that, Emma assumed they were all called Peter, which everyone found hilarious. Then she broke down’One morning in July 2025, I arrived in the small, quiet town of Albershausen in south-west Germany. It has only around 4,000 inhabitants.

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Mythos: are fears over new AI model panic or PR? – podcast

Earlier this month the AI company Anthropic said it had created a model so powerful that, out of a sense of responsibility, it was not going to release it to the public. Anthropic says the model, Mythos Preview, excels at spotting and exploiting vulnerabilities in software, and could pose a severe risk to economies, public

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OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM

On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biology workflows. Called GPT-Rosalind after Rosalind Franklin, the model appears to differ from most science-focused models from major tech companies, which have generally taken a more generic approach that works for various fields. In a press briefing, Yunyun Wang, OpenAI’s

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The Guardian view on social science research: embracing uncertainty | Editorial

Science rarely produces identical outcomes. Mistaking this for failure turns caution into an excuse for inactionA new set of studies out this month suggests that as many as half of all results published in reputable journals in the social sciences can’t be replicated by independent analysis. This is part of a long-running problem across many

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Amazon to buy satellite firm Globalstar for $11.57bn in challenge to Musk’s Starlink

Deal, subject to regulatory approval, would give Bezos firm access to Globalstar’s network of two dozen satellitesAmazon said on Tuesday it would acquire a satellite company in an $11.57bn deal, bolstering its own fledgling space business as it looks to take on Elon Musk-led bigger rival Starlink.The deal gives Amazon access to Globalstar’s network of

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AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier

Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our ownBecause of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They’re trained on the written word, from textbooks to social media posts, and our speech as captured in movies and on

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To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

I’ve been teaching college Earth science courses as a part-time faculty member for a long time now, all while juggling other jobs. I started because it was enjoyable; no one gets into this line of work for the famously poor pay or complete lack of job security. Working with students is just one of those

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