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‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness

The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shopAfter the recent backlash against Meta’s so-called “pervert” smart glasses, this week Mark Zuckerberg launched a much cuter alternative: the Muse “charm” device.With a screen that shows a cutesy little avatar, it has drawn comparisons […]

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Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian library

University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPTThe University of Oxford has allowed the company behind ChatGPT to train its AI models on historical texts from its Bodleian library, as tech companies scour academic institutions for fresh data.The Bodleian material digitised by OpenAI has been used to “populate the OpenAI

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Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built in a tiny Indian village

Locals say Google’s $15bn project in Andhra Pradesh has resulted in smallholdings being taken back off them by the governmentWhen the government officials arrived in Tarluvada last year, they came with abundant promises.Google, one of the world’s richest and most powerful tech companies, would soon be bringing a “golden opportunity” to this tiny village in

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The AI debate is already shaping the 2028 election. Here’s where Democratic hopefuls stand

Debates over AI development, regulation and datacenters have become buzzy topics for US presidential candidatesThe debate over artificial intelligence development, how to regulate it and the construction of datacenters that power the technology has become a buzzy topic for potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates.Already, concerns were mounting over the environmental and energy impact of datacenters,

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Exa Launches Agent Ultra: A Subagent Swarm Deep Research API Built for Exhaustive List Building

Exa has released Agent Ultra, the highest effort level of its Exa Agent API. It is built for research that must run to exhaustion: large list building, entity enrichment, and questions that need thousands of sources. Exa team reports that Ultra beats Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, and Perplexity Agent, each at maximum effort, on 4

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End-to-End Multimodal Data Augmentation and Adversarial Robustness Benchmark with AugLy for Images, Text, Audio, and PyTorch

In this tutorial, we build a comprehensive multimodal augmentation and robustness workflow with AugLy for images, text, and audio. We start by addressing modern dependency compatibility issues and generating deterministic synthetic datasets so the experiments remain self-contained and reproducible. We then explore AugLy’s functional and class-based APIs, metadata, and intensity tracking, probabilistic composition, bounding-box-aware transformations,

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Drones could speed up getting defibrillators to people having cardiac arrests, study suggests

New research suggests the technology could be used to increase out-of-hospital access to life-saving devicesDrones could help cut the time it takes to get a defibrillator to people experiencing cardiac arrests when not in hospital, researchers have suggested.In the UK alone, there are more than 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests a year where emergency medical services

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Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark: Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models With Up to 3.13x Faster Decoding

Liquid AI has announced LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark, an experimental speculative-decoding draft model for its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model. The drafter adds about 280M parameters and speeds up decoding without changing the model’s output. Liquid AI team reports up to 3.13x faster decoding on Apple silicon and up to 2.66x on an NVIDIA H100. Is it deployable? Yes, Weights

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OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity

Disclosure reveals ⁠new area of privacy risk for the company and illustrates ​how difficult it is to inventory unauthorized activity tied to its agentsTwo ⁠months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still working to understand the full scope of its rogue agent activity, two people briefed on the

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Pope Leo warns AI could lead to losing ‘humanity amid a paradise of machines’ in Paris – video

Pontiff continues to decry the rise of AI on his visit to France, stressing the importance of retaining ‘ethical discernment’ in an age when rapidly advancing technology threatens to undermine humanityEurope livePope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit Continue reading…

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