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Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims

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Former xAI engineer Devin Kim alleges he was illegally fired for trying to implement safety mechanisms for the chatbotA former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI who now heads a thinktank focused on AI safety filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired from the SpaceX subsidiary for raising concerns about the risks artificial intelligence poses to […]

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Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange boxes have been gamified by fans

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Quaint and often overlooked, phone booths continue to provide an essential public service with millions of free calls being placed each yearGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA man I’ve never met stands at a payphone in Sydney’s CBD.“A serene small park directly to the right of the payphone,” he says

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AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’

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Employees at artificial intelligence companies are coming into gargantuan sums of money amid boom in IPOsHome prices in the San Francisco Bay Area’s already expensive market are skyrocketing as employees at leading artificial intelligence companies come into gargantuan sums of money thanks to a boom in initial public offerings.With San Francisco’s OpenAI and Anthropic, as

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AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable

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Nor is the dreamy promise that this tech will unlock boundless potential and productivityEverything we hear about artificial intelligence is conflicting, and hearing about it feels inescapable. AI is terrible. AI is wonderful. It will break the world. It will transform the future. It’s essential to embrace it. It’s a moral imperative to abstain from

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Those tedious errands, tasks and chores that AI wants to replace? They help keep you fit | Manoush Zomorodi and Keith Diaz

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There’s a downside to too much convenience: it harms our bodiesThere is a seductive fantasy being floated by AI executives that all the efficiency their products will bring us will lead to humans finally returning to their essential, best selves. Picture it: when this day arrives, we’ll spring from our chairs, push aside our keyboards

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The best robot vacuums in the UK to keep your home clean and dust free, tested

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Looking for hands-free cleaning? We trialled the most powerful robot vacuums – some of which even mop your floors – to find the best• The best vacuum cleaners, testedRobot vacuum cleaners take the drudge work out of cleaning your floors and carpets. No more tiresome weekly stints of vacuuming, and no more last-minute panic when

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Meet ‘North Mini Code’: Cohere’s 30B Open-Weight Mixture-of-Experts Model With 3B Active Parameters for Agentic Coding

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This week, Cohere AI team shipped its first developer-facing coding model named ‘North Mini Code‘. ‘North Mini Code’ is open-weight and focused at software engineers. It is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 30B total parameters. Only 3B of those parameters activate per token. The release is positioned around “sovereign” AI. The idea is simple: run

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Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom

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Assistant minister agrees concerns over resource usage are legitimate but argues Australia cannot ignore ‘consequential’ economic waveFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia should learn from the mistakes of the resources boom and set the terms for the AI and datacentres boom, the

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A Coding Implementation on Microsoft SkillOpt for Instrumented Prompt Optimization, Skill Evolution Analysis, and Baseline Comparison

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In this tutorial, we implement an instrumented workflow for Microsoft SkillOpt. We set up the SkillOpt repository, connect it to OpenAI-compatible model access, configure the optimizer and target models, and run the SearchQA optimization pipeline with a controlled sample limit to keep costs manageable. We first evaluate the original seed skill as a baseline, then

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Google AI Releases DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE Open Model Using Text Diffusion for Up to 4x Faster Generation

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Google AI team including the Google DeepMind researchers have just released DiffusionGemma, an experimental open model for text generation. It uses text diffusion instead of standard autoregressive decoding. The model ships under a permissive Apache 2.0 license. Google positions it for devs and researchers exploring speed-critical, interactive local workflows. Examples include in-line editing, rapid iteration,

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