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How the true story of a drunk raccoon was turned into a fake AI video

Social media users have been sharing footage said to come from the surveillance camera in a liquor store that shows a masked bandit who ransacked the place, drank his fill and was then discovered passed out in the store restroom: a raccoon. While the remarkable story did actually take place, the surveillance camera video is […]

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OpenAI has Released the ‘circuit-sparsity’: A Set of Open Tools for Connecting Weight Sparse Models and Dense Baselines through Activation Bridges

OpenAI team has released their openai/circuit-sparsity model on Hugging Face and the openai/circuit_sparsity toolkit on GitHub. The release packages the models and circuits from the paper ‘Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits‘. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.13653 What is a weight sparse transformer? The models are GPT-2 style decoder only transformers trained on Python code. Sparsity is not added after

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Disney, OpenAI strike landmark deal to let fans create AI-generated videos

Walt Disney and OpenAI agreed a three-year licensing deal on Thursday allowing users to generate short videos featuring Disney characters with artificial intelligence. It is the first time a major studio has permitted such broad generative-AI use of its protected characters, from Mickey Mouse to Marvel heroes and Star Wars icons.

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3 Actionable AI Recommendations for Businesses in 2026

TL;DR In 2026, the businesses that win with AI will do three things differently: redesign core workflows around AI agents, treat AI as an operating system rather than a toolset, and deliberately restructure human work to compound AI advantages instead of fighting them.By 2026, AI will no longer be a differentiator by itself. Nearly every

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Mistral AI Ships Devstral 2 Coding Models And Mistral Vibe CLI For Agentic, Terminal Native Development

Mistral AI has introduced Devstral 2, a next generation coding model family for software engineering agents, together with Mistral Vibe CLI, an open source command line coding assistant that runs inside the terminal or IDEs that support the Agent Communication Protocol. https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli Devstral 2 and Devstral Small 2, model sizes, context and benchmarks Devstral 2

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Google LiteRT NeuroPilot Stack Turns MediaTek Dimensity NPUs into First Class Targets for on Device LLMs

The new LiteRT NeuroPilot Accelerator from Google and MediaTek is a concrete step toward running real generative models on phones, laptops, and IoT hardware without shipping every request to a data center. It takes the existing LiteRT runtime and wires it directly into MediaTek’s NeuroPilot NPU stack, so developers can deploy LLMs and embedding models

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AI researchers are to blame for serving up slop | Letter

They have unleashed irresponsible innovations on the world and their slop generators have flooded academia, says Dr Craig ReevesI’m not surprised to read that the field of artificial intelligence research is being overwhelmed by the very slop that it has pioneered (Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’, 6 December). But

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Moonpig’s use of AI to design and personalise cards drives up sales

About half of purchases involve shoppers using online retailer’s artificial intelligence-led featuresThe online card service Moonpig has reported a bump in sales thanks in part to its increased use of AI to help design cards, personalise customers’ messages and answer queries.The company said sales rose 6.7% to £169m in the six months to 31 October

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Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins

Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under banHow is Australia’s social media ban affecting you and your family?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia has enacted a world-first ban on social media for

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EU opens investigation into Google’s use of online content for AI models

European Commission to assess whether Gemini owner is putting rival companies at a disadvantageBusiness live – latest updatesThe EU has opened an investigation to assess whether Google is breaching European competition rules in its use of online content from web publishers and YouTube for artificial intelligence.The European Commission said on Tuesday it will examine whether

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