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Court backlog will take decade to fall to pre-Covid levels despite overhaul, says MoJ

Justice secretary says only his measures will stop backlog in England and Wales from increasing exponentiallyThe backlog in criminal courts in England and Wales will take a decade to fall to pre-Covid levels despite radical changes including curtailing jury trials, according to figures from the Ministry of Justice.The justice secretary, David Lammy, said the government […]

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The best massage guns in the UK to relieve sore, tired muscles

Add percussive therapy to your post-workout routine with our expert picks, including mini and deep-tissue models. Plus, a brand new frontrunner now in top spot• The best running shoes, testedMassage guns are often pitched at the highly active. They can help you warm up for workouts, accelerate recovery and generally keep things loose and injury-free.

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Google DeepMind Researchers Apply Semantic Evolution to Create Non Intuitive VAD-CFR and SHOR-PSRO Variants for Superior Algorithmic Convergence

In the competitive arena of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), progress has long been bottlenecked by human intuition. For years, researchers have manually refined algorithms like Counterfactual Regret Minimization (CFR) and Policy Space Response Oracles (PSRO), navigating a vast combinatorial space of update rules via trial-and-error. Google DeepMind research team has now shifted this paradigm with

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RAG vs. Context Stuffing: Why selective retrieval is more efficient and reliable than dumping all data into the prompt

Large context windows have dramatically increased how much information modern language models can process in a single prompt. With models capable of handling hundreds of thousands—or even millions—of tokens, it’s easy to assume that Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is no longer necessary. If you can fit an entire codebase or documentation library into the context window,

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‘It’s not Robocop’: UK police embrace AI ‘efficiency’ in complex investigations

Detectives say tools supplied by Palantir were integral to convictions of a criminal gang that stole £800,000It was fraud on a grand scale. The “Fuck the Police” criminal gang based in Luton and Romania stole £800,000 in more than 3,000 withdrawals from cash machines in dozens of locations throughout 2024.The police investigation matched the crime

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Police AI chief admits crime-fighting tech will have bias but vows to tackle it

Exclusive: NCA’s Alex Murray says he hopes new £115m police AI centre can limit unfairness found in tools‘It’s not Robocop’: UK police embrace AI ‘efficiency’ in complex investigationsA police chief has admitted artificial intelligence used to boost crime fighting will contain bias but pledged to combat the risks.Labour wants a dramatic expansion of police use

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Composio Open Sources Agent Orchestrator to Help AI Developers Build Scalable Multi-Agent Workflows Beyond the Traditional ReAct Loops

For the past year, AI devs have relied on the ReAct (Reasoning + Acting) pattern—a simple loop where an LLM thinks, picks a tool, and executes. But as any software engineer who has tried to move these agents into production knows, simple loops are brittle. They hallucinate, they lose track of complex goals, and they

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Nine urges Albanese to prop up media in face of AI threat

Long-awaited news bargaining code with Google, Meta and TikTok at risk of further delay, chief executive saysSign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter hereThe head of Nine Entertainment has called on the prime minister to prioritise a policy to force global platforms to compensate local media as artificial intelligence-fuelled big tech disrupts the

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Beyond Simple API Requests: How OpenAI’s WebSocket Mode Changes the Game for Low Latency Voice Powered AI Experiences

In the world of Generative AI, latency is the ultimate killer of immersion. Until recently, building a voice-enabled AI agent felt like assembling a Rube Goldberg machine: you’d pipe audio to a Speech-to-Text (STT) model, send the transcript to a Large Language Model (LLM), and finally shuttle text to a Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine. Each hop

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As we enter the age of the AI-rranged marriage, here’s why I hate Fate | Van Badham

When the most profound human emotion becomes an automated transaction in an online shop, the techlords have wonThe Guardian reported on the arrival of “Fate” and, friends, I laughed. Or maybe I cried.It’s apparently the first “agentic AI dating app”. An AI personality named “Fate” interviews users, runs data matches on their hopes and dreams,

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