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Bitcoin firm advertised by Nigel Farage loses 15% of asset value

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Exclusive: Finance experts warn against investing in bitcoin treasury companies after Stack BTC assets plungeA bitcoin company that Nigel Farage has advertised lost more than 15% of its asset value, prompting finance experts to warn investors against those types of firms.The Reform UK leader has invested £215,000 in a bitcoin treasury company named Stack BTC.

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The Google Health API Got a CLI: ghealth is an Open-Source Tool for Your Fitbit Air Data

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The Google Health API is the official successor to the Fitbit Web API. It targets the Google Health API v4 and moves developers onto Google OAuth 2.0. Now an open-source CLI command-line tool called ghealth wraps that API for terminals and AI agents. The tool is a single Go binary under the Apache 2.0 license.

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OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’

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CEO Sam Altman argued move would share benefits of AI and it would involve other firms doing similar, report saysBusiness live – latest updatesOpenAI is reportedly in early stage talks to give a 5% stake in the ChatGPT developer to the US government as artificial intelligence companies attempt to smooth relations with Donald Trump’s administration.The

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AI summaries of Tripadvisor hotel reviews downplay serious complaints, investigation finds

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AI-generated overview found to gloss over allegations of sexual harassment and describes hotel being sued over hygiene as ‘spotless’A hotel being sued for mass food poisonings was described as “spotless” and a resort where guests complained of sexual harassment by staff was praised for “friendly” service by an AI intended to summarise millions of Tripadvisor

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Using Lift to Turn Research PDFs into Structured JSON with Controlled, Schema-Guided Field-Level Evaluation

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In this tutorial, we build a complete PDF-to-structured-data extraction workflow around Lift, with a focus on controlled evaluation rather than a simple demo run. We begin by preparing a Colab-compatible GPU environment, selecting the appropriate precision mode for the available hardware, and patching model loading to ensure the Lift backend runs reliably even on constrained

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Anthropic Redeploys Claude Fable 5 on July 1 After US Export Controls Lift, Adds New Cybersecurity Classifier

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Anthropic is redeploying Claude Fable 5, its most capable generally available model. On June 30, it announced that US export controls had lifted. The controls had covered Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. Fable 5 returned to users globally on Wednesday, July 1. Mythos 5 access is restored to a set of US organizations.

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Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only

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With the much-anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI only available as download, Sony is following suiteSony said on Wednesday that it would stop releasing new video games for the PlayStation console on disc in January 2028 following a shift in consumer preferences.“Following this date, new games will be available on PlayStation Store and at

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We can live without AI, but can we live without clean water? | Letters

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Readers respond to an article about Erin Brockovich’s battle against datacentres and voice their fears for the environment What are the benefits obtained from AI’s massive use of electricity and water (‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres, 29 June)? Analysis shows

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No console-flation: how the thirst for AI chips is sending games console prices soaring

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AI datacentres, memory scarcity and factory capacity are costing consumers –and console makers• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt was once a truth universally acknowledged that an ageing console in possession of good revenue must be in line for a price reduction. Those days may be over. In March, Sony

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Rapid spread of AI may worsen global inequality, UN warns

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Panel proses shared framework for responsible AI development as adoption grows unevenly across worldA new United Nations report warns that the development of artificial intelligence may exacerbate global inequality and proposes a shared framework for how to responsibly develop AI, as adoption and investment into the technology accelerates unevenly across the world.“Access to AI tools

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