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More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US data centers

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial intelligence (AI), Energy, Environment, Technology, US news, World news

Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisisA coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new data centers in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity […]

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Scores of UK parliamentarians join call to regulate most powerful AI systems

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial intelligence (AI), Computing, Politics, Regulators, Technology, UK news

Exclusive: Campaign urges PM to show independence from US and push to rein in development of superintelligenceMore than 100 UK parliamentarians are calling on the government to introduce binding regulations on the most powerful AI systems as concern grows that ministers are moving too slowly to create safeguards in the face of lobbying from the

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From Transformers to Associative Memory, How Titans and MIRAS Rethink Long Context Modeling

Artificial Intelligence, Editors Pick, Machine Learning, Staff, Technology

What comes after Transformers? Google Research is proposing a new way to give sequence models usable long term memory with Titans and MIRAS, while keeping training parallel and inference close to linear. Titans is a concrete architecture that adds a deep neural memory to a Transformer style backbone. MIRAS is a general framework that views

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Is AI a bubble that’s about to pop? – podcast

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial intelligence (AI), Business, Stock markets, Technology, US economy

Should we be worried about the vast amounts of money pouring into AI? And what will happen if the bubble bursts? Blake Montgomery reportsFor months there have been fears that artificial intelligence is a bubble and that it is about to burst.As the Guardian US tech editor Blake Montgomery explains, the magnificent seven – Alphabet,

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Cisco Released Cisco Time Series Model: Their First Open-Weights Foundation Model based on Decoder-only Transformer Architecture

Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Editors Pick, Machine Learning, New Releases, Open Source, Staff, Technology

Cisco and Splunk have introduced the Cisco Time Series Model, a univariate zero shot time series foundation model designed for observability and security metrics. It is released as an open weight checkpoint on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, and it targets forecasting workloads without task specific fine tuning. The model extends TimesFM 2.0

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Google Colab Integrates KaggleHub for One Click Access to Kaggle Datasets, Models and Competitions

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Google is closing an old gap between Kaggle and Colab. Colab now has a built in Data Explorer that lets you search Kaggle datasets, models and competitions directly inside a notebook, then pull them in through KaggleHub without leaving the editor. What Colab Data Explorer actually ships? Kaggle announced the feature recently where they describe

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A Coding Implementation of a Complete Hierarchical Bayesian Regression Workflow in NumPyro Using JAX-Powered Inference and Posterior Predictive Analysis

Artificial Intelligence, Editors Pick, Staff, Technology, Tutorials

In this tutorial, we explore hierarchical Bayesian regression with NumPyro and walk through the entire workflow in a structured manner. We start by generating synthetic data, then we define a probabilistic model that captures both global patterns and group-level variations. Through each snippet, we set up inference using NUTS, analyze posterior distributions, and perform posterior

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How Australia became the testing ground for a social media ban for young people

Artificial Intelligence, Australia news, Digital media, Meta, Social media, Social media ban, Technology

From nascent policy idea in one state to passing federal parliament in just days, it’s been a whirlwind journey for the world-first legislation that will take effect from 10 DecemberIn late 2023, the South Australian premier’s wife put down a book she had been reading. It was Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation.“[She] said to me

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Don’t use ‘admin’: UK’s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar

Artificial Intelligence, Computing, Consumer affairs, Cybercrime, Internet, Money, Scams, Technology, UK news

Easy-to-guess words and figures still dominate, alarming cysbersecurity experts and delighting hackersIt is a hacker’s dream. Even in the face of repeated warnings to protect online accounts, a new study reveals that “admin” is the most commonly used password in the UK.The second most popular, “123456”, is also unlikely to keep hackers at bay. Continue

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Microsoft AI Releases VibeVoice-Realtime: A Lightweight Real‑Time Text-to-Speech Model Supporting Streaming Text Input and Robust Long-Form Speech Generation

Artificial Intelligence, Editors Pick, New Releases, Staff, Technology, TTS, Voice AI

Microsoft has released VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B, a real time text to speech model that works with streaming text input and long form speech output, aimed at agent style applications and live data narration. The model can start producing audible speech in about 300 ms, which is critical when a language model is still generating the rest of

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