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AI could give us our lives back – if we don’t blow it

Could we be at the beginning of a change never before seen by humans – allowing us to escape the drudgery of work?The other day I pulled into the parking lot of a client’s offices and in the spot next to me was a woman sitting in her car blasting music. She caught me looking […]

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These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models

From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too highThere is an Israeli military strategy called the “fog procedure”. First used during the second intifada, it’s an unofficial rule that requires soldiers guarding military posts in conditions

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Nigeria’s online content creator market has boomed. Can the skit-makers and streamers make it pay?

As platforms make less from advertising, creators are struggling to monetise work – leading to calls for more government investment and tax breaksOn a humid afternoon in Lagos, a shoot for a comedy skit is under way on a set that looks more like a small film production.Dozens of people mill about: lighting assistants, a

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Can scientists really resurrect the dodo? Inside the company that says they can

Colossal Biosciences’ CEO says its work follows a ‘moral obligation’ while critics say it’s ‘tech bro’ hype that could undermine conservationCan and should we resurrect animal species that have been extinct for thousands of years? Such weighty, existential questions were once the preserve of science fiction but are now being played out within an unassuming

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LangChain Releases Deep Agents: A Structured Runtime for Planning, Memory, and Context Isolation in Multi-Step AI Agents

Most LLM agents work well for short tool-calling loops but start to break down when the task becomes multi-step, stateful, and artifact-heavy. LangChain’s Deep Agents is designed for that gap. The project is described by LangChain as an ‘agent harness‘: a standalone library built on top of LangChain’s agent building blocks and powered by the

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Zhipu AI Introduces GLM-OCR: A 0.9B Multimodal OCR Model for Document Parsing and Key Information Extraction (KIE)

Why Document OCR Still Remains a Hard Engineering Problem? What does it take to make OCR useful for real documents instead of clean demo images? And can a compact multimodal model handle parsing, tables, formulas, and structured extraction without turning inference into a resource bonfire? That is the problem targeted by GLM-OCR, introduced by researchers

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How to Build Type-Safe, Schema-Constrained, and Function-Driven LLM Pipelines Using Outlines and Pydantic

In this tutorial, we build a workflow using Outlines to generate structured and type-safe outputs from language models. We work with typed constraints like Literal, int, and bool, and design prompt templates using outlines.Template, and enforce strict schema validation with Pydantic models. We also implement robust JSON recovery and a function-calling style that generates validated

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This CEO warns that Democratic voters are most at risk from automation | Arwa Mahdawi

Palantir’s CEO says the platforms will have a vast effect on the electoral landscape … especially women. Is it a warning or a sales pitch?Don’t you just love AI? It has inundated the internet with slop, destabilized the concept of truth, and made it much easier to bomb people. And that’s just the beginning. As

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Meta and Google trial: are infinite scroll and autoplay creating addicts?

Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work?It was as “easy as ABC”, claimed the lawyer prosecuting a landmark social media harm case against Meta and Google which heard closing arguments this week. The defendants were guilty, said Mark Lanier, of

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New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking

First major study on ‘AI psychosis’ suggests chatbots can encourage delusions among vulnerable peopleA new scientific review raises concerns about how chatbots powered by artificial intelligence may encourage delusional thinking, especially in vulnerable people.A summary of existing evidence on artificial intelligence-induced psychosis was published last week in the Lancet Psychiatry, highlighting how chatbots can encourage

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