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Mediahuis suspends senior journalist over AI-generated quotes

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Peter Vandermeersch says he ‘fell into trap of hallucinations’ after being investigated by NRC title where he had once been editor-in-chief The publisher of Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf and the Irish Independent has suspended one of its senior journalists after he admitted using AI to “wrongly put words into people’s mouths”.Peter Vandermeersch, former head of […]

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Fire experts ‘losing sleep’ over growing hazard of lithium-ion batteries

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Fire service warns ubiquity of batteries in everyday products is outpacing public understanding and safety regulationsLithium-ion batteries represent a new technological hazard that one fire science expert has said keeps him awake at night, as fire service chiefs warn the ubiquity of the batteries in everyday products is outpacing public understanding and safety regulations.The blaze

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LlamaIndex Releases LiteParse: A CLI and TypeScript-Native Library for Spatial PDF Parsing in AI Agent Workflows

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In the current landscape of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), the primary bottleneck for developers is no longer the large language model (LLM) itself, but the data ingestion pipeline. For software developers, converting complex PDFs into a format that an LLM can reason over remains a high-latency, often expensive task. LlamaIndex has recently introduced LiteParse, an open-source,

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Meta AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees

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Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internallyAn AI agent instructed an engineer to take actions that exposed a large amount of Meta’s sensitive data to some of its employees, in the latest example of AI causing upheaval in a large tech company.The leak, which Meta confirmed, happened

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‘It does feel like an intimidation campaign’: why is US tech giant Palantir suing a small Swiss magazine?

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An investigation by journalists working with Republik magazine may have struck a nerve by suggesting the company has failed in SwitzerlandIt was over beers on an autumn evening in Zurich in 2024 that a group of journalists with an independent Swiss research collective began to discuss investigating Palantir, one of the world’s biggest tech companies.Three

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Google Colab Now Has an Open-Source MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server: Use Colab Runtimes with GPUs from Any Local AI Agent

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Google has officially released the Colab MCP Server, an implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that enables AI agents to interact directly with the Google Colab environment. This integration moves beyond simple code generation by providing agents with programmatic access to create, modify, and execute Python code within cloud-hosted Jupyter notebooks. This represents a

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Lack of funding is stifling scientific research | Letter

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Dr Simon Williams says the UK is trying to build a quantum ecosystem while hollowing out the academic pipeline that produces the talentLiz Kendall is right to warn that the UK must not let quantum computing talent slip through its fingers (UK must learn lessons from AI race and retain its quantum computing talent, says

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Essex police pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias

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Academics discover black people ‘significantly more likely’ to be identified when compared with other ethnic groupsEssex police has paused its use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study found cameras were significantly more likely to target black people than people of other ethnicities.The move to suspend use of the AI-enabled systems was revealed

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The best pressure washers in the UK for cleaning garden furniture and patios – tested

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Our expert puts the best power washers through their paces on the toughest – and muckiest – outdoor chores, from grimy paving slabs to dirty decking• The best lawnmowers to keep your grass in checkThe trouble with the great outdoors is that it gets a bit untidy. Your garden tools might do a good job

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Prolonged high oil prices could ‘crimp’ AI boom, WTO warns

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Iran war and its impact on energy and fertiliser costs is the main risk to the global economy, report saysBusiness live – latest updatesAn extended period of high oil prices as a result of war in the Middle East could “crimp” the AI boom, the World Trade Organization’s chief economist has warned.The war and its

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