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If it’s only AI that’s keeping you up at night, maybe you’re doing OK | Letters

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Poverty is far more pressing for many people, writes Lynsey Hanley. Plus letters from Martin Pitt and Michael BulleyReading Alexander Hurst’s column on the frictionless experience of life promised – or threatened – by AI algorithms, I was struck by how little I recognised the picture he painted of daily experience being stripped of the […]

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Sadiq Khan may try to stop Scotland Yard signing Palantir contract

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Exclusive: Mayor raises concerns about using public money to support firms who act ‘contrary to London’s values’The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan may oppose Scotland Yard using Palantir’s AI systems to process criminal intelligence because of his “concerns about using public money to support firms who act contrary to London’s values”.The mayor of London’s office

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China blocks $2bn Meta takeover of AI agent developer Manus

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Beijing says domestic tech companies must seek explicit government approval for accepting US investmentBusiness live – latest updatesChina has blocked Meta’s $2bn (£1.5bn) acquisition of an AI startup as it cracks down on US investments in domestic tech companies.Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced the acquisition of Manus, a developer

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The one change that worked: I swapped doomscrolling for reading comic books

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After Donald Trump’s second election, I realised the insidious hold my phone had over my life. So I turned to something I’d loved in childhood to better occupy my attentionAfter a long day of looking at screens for work, I used to go to bed and stare at my phone until I fell asleep. When

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Meta AI Releases Sapiens2: A High-Resolution Human-Centric Vision Model for Pose, Segmentation, Normals, Pointmap, and Albedo

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If you’ve ever watched a motion capture system struggle with a person’s fingers, or seen a segmentation model fail to distinguish teeth from gums, you already understand why human-centric computer vision is hard. Humans are not just objects, they come with articulated structure, fine surface details, and enormous variation in pose, clothing, lighting, and ethnicity.

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in court over OpenAI’s founding mission

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Musk’s lawsuit accuses Altman of fraud, while OpenAI says that Musk is ‘motivated by jealousy’A lawsuit between two of Silicon Valley’s biggest tycoons goes to trial Monday in California, the culmination of a years-long bitter feud. Elon Musk has accused Sam Altman of betraying the founding agreement of the non-profit they started together, OpenAI, by

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The LoRA Assumption That Breaks in Production 

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LoRA is widely used for fine-tuning large models because it’s efficient, but it quietly assumes that all updates to a model are similar. In reality, they’re not. When you fine-tune for style (like tone, format, or persona), the changes are simple and concentrated in just a few dimensions — which LoRA handles well with low-rank

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How to Build a Fully Searchable AI Knowledge Base with OpenKB, OpenRouter, and Llama

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In this tutorial, we explore how to build and query a local knowledge base with OpenKB using a free, open model via OpenRouter. We securely retrieve the API key with getpass, set up the environment without hardcoding secrets, and initialize a structured, wiki-style knowledge base from scratch. As we move through the workflow, we add

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How to Build Smarter Multilingual Text Wrapping with BudouX Through Parsing, HTML Rendering, Model Introspection, and Toy Training

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In this tutorial, we explore how we use BudouX to bring intelligent, phrase-aware line breaking to languages where whitespace is not naturally present, such as Japanese, Chinese, and Thai. We begin by setting up the library and working with its default parsers to understand how raw text is segmented into meaningful chunks. We then move

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