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‘If your wife asks you to change diapers, change your wife’: Lebanon’s hit show parodying the patriarchy

The female-created YouTube sketch series Smatouha Minni (You Heard It From Me) uses satire to confront misogynistic attitudes In Beirut’s Gemmayzeh neighbourhood a rented flat has been transformed into a film set: bright studio lights in a cosy living room. At its centre is Maria Elayan – though she is barely recognisable. Filming for the […]

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Tech giants face new levy to pay for Australian news as Meta calls position ‘simply wrong’

Google also rejects need for reform after Albanese government reveals draft news bargaining incentive scheme Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has urged Google, Meta and TikTok to make deals with Australian media outlets to avoid a dedicated 2.25% levy on

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MacBook Pro M5 review: serious power, still long battery life

Apple laptop sets new performance bar with more storage, new chips and plenty of options, but now has two-tier specs depending on processorApple’s Macs have been on a roll this year with the brand new budget MacBook Neo and a faster MacBook Air M5, but now it’s time for its workhorse MacBook Pro to be

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How to Build a Lightweight Vision-Language-Action-Inspired Embodied Agent with Latent World Modeling and Model Predictive Control

In this tutorial, we build an embodied simulation vision agent that learns to perceive, plan, predict, and replan directly from pixel observations. We create a fully NumPy-rendered grid world in which the agent observes RGB frames rather than symbolic state variables, enabling us to simulate a simplified Vision-Language-Action-style pipeline. We train a lightweight world model

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Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment

Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortagesJapan’s famously conscientious but overburdened baggage handlers will soon be joined by extra staff at Tokyo’s Haneda airport – although their new colleagues will need to take regular recharging breaks.Japan Airlines will introduce

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Meet Talkie-1930: A 13B Open-Weight LLM Trained on Pre-1931 English Text for Historical Reasoning and Generalization Research

What if a language model had never heard of the internet, smartphones, or even World War II? That’s not a hypothetical — it’s exactly what a team of researchers led by Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford has built. They call it talkie, and it may be the most historically disciplined large language model

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Build a Reinforcement Learning Powered Agent that Learns to Retrieve Relevant Long-Term Memories for Accurate LLM Question Answering

In this tutorial, we build a Reinforcement Learning–driven agent that learns how to retrieve relevant memories from a long-term memory bank. We start by constructing a synthetic memory dataset and generating queries that require the agent to recall specific information. Using OpenAI embeddings, we convert both memories and queries into vector representations, enabling similarity signals

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OpenMOSS Releases MOSS-Audio: An Open-Source Foundation Model for Speech, Sound, Music, and Time-Aware Audio Reasoning

Understanding what’s happening in an audio clip is a deceptively hard problem. Transcribing spoken words is the easy part. A truly capable system also needs to recognize who is speaking, detect their emotional state, interpret background sounds, analyze musical content, and answer time-grounded questions like ‘what did the speaker say at the 2-minute mark?’. Tackling

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Taylor Swift files trademarks for voice and image amid concern over AI misuse

The singer’s company filed three applications on Friday after Matthew McConaughey launched similar strategyTaylor Swift has filed applications to trademark her voice and image in a move seemingly designed to protect against AI misuse.On 24 April, Swift’s company TAS Rights Management filed three trademark applications, Variety reports. Two of these are sound trademarks which cover

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How AI job scams are destroying people’s hopes | Letters

Sasha Cooklin, Darryl Dixon and Niall Leonard respond to an article by Victoria Turk about the boom in AI-driven fraud in recruitmentArtificial intelligence isn’t just being used by scammers to promise fake roles and trick job-seekers, it is becoming increasingly prevalent in responses and screening processes for real jobs (AI job scams are booming –

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