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UK social media ban expansion for under-16s could cover YouTube Kids

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Regulations under consideration could affect up to 150 platforms, including LegoPlay, Spotify and eBay, sources sayA substantial expansion of the social media ban for under-16s could inadvertently lead to a ban on YouTube Kids and other sites that had been thought exempt, sources briefed on the government’s proposals have said.The ban could also see games

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Flying cars could launch in China next summer, maker of two-seat model says

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XPeng says its $300k low-altitude device will soon be ready for emergency services and recreational use in rural areasPeople could start taking trips in flying cars in China as soon as next summer, the manufacturer of a two-seater vehicle with autopilot model has said.Deli Zhao, the chief executive of the Chinese flying car company XPeng,

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Anthropic targets valuation of up to $1.4tn in stock market flotation

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Claude chatbot developer had been reported to be aiming for $2tn IPO on Wall Street before investors cooled on AIAnthropic is seeking a valuation of up to $1.4tn (£1.05tn) in its imminent stock market flotation, short of the $2tn that had been expected before investors started to question the durability of the AI boom.The developer

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Zyphra Releases ZONOS3-Mini: Open-Source TTS With 100M Active Parameters

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Zyphra has released ZONOS3-Mini, an open-source text-to-speech model built for real-time use on local devices. The ZONOS3-Mini text-to-speech model is a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) with 800M total and 100M active parameters. It supports zero-shot voice cloning and word-level delivery control. Weights ship under Apache 2.0. For AI devs, size is the key point.

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Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2: Same Model, Different Safeguards

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Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2. Claude Fable 5.2 is a frontier model from Anthropic for long-horizon coding, research and agentic work. Mythos 5.2 is the same underlying model with fewer cyber and biology safeguards. It beats Opus 5.5 on most evaluations and costs less than the 5.1 models. TL;DR Size:

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‘Without storyboards, I feel like I’m in Grand Central station in my underwear’: film’s fightback against AI

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As Hollywood begins to adopt the technology, the professionals in most direct jeopardy are the illustrators mapping out directors’ first visions. They sketch out what could be lostA film industry dominated by AI is a dystopian prospect: stories and dialogue generated by large language models, populated by reincarnated screen icons and uncanny humanoids. That is

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ChatGPT’s Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need | Robin Kirman

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What young students stand to lose is more than cognitive skill: it’s a reliable sense of their own mindsIn August, OpenAI launched Teen Mode – a version of ChatGPT in which every user under 18 will automatically be enrolled – a year after a lawsuit alleged that ChatGPT had contributed to the suicide of a

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Nvidia and Jensen Huang sued by shareholders over affair with alleged Chinese spy

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Legal action comes as Donald Trump says FBI is investigating tech company CEO’s links with Alice HuangBusiness live – latest updatesNvidia’s board needs to do some succession planning – sharpishNvidia and its chief executive, Jensen Huang, have been accused of defrauding shareholders in a lawsuit over the Chinese spying scandal engulfing the $4.3tn (£3.2tn) company.The

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Apple MacBook Pro review: lighter, thinner and a stunning OLED touchscreen

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Redesigned flagship laptop has a fantastic display, killer performance and the first touchscreen on a Mac, but comes with a serious price tagApple’s MacBook Pro has been redesigned for the first time in five years, getting slightly slimmer, significantly lighter and adding a fantastic new OLED display with the first touchscreen on a Mac.The new

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Meta Releases Muse Ember, a 1M-Context Model for High-Volume Agent Work

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Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient model. Meta Muse Ember is a hosted multimodal reasoning model built for the repetitive steps inside agents. Meta lists tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction and long document parsing as targets. It scores 36 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, level with Claude

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