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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Super: A 120B Parameter Open-Source Hybrid Mamba-Attention MoE Model Delivering 5x Higher Throughput for Agentic AI

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The gap between proprietary frontier models and highly transparent open-source models is closing faster than ever. NVIDIA has officially pulled the curtain back on Nemotron 3 Super, a staggering 120 billion parameter reasoning model engineered specifically for complex multi-agent applications. Released today, Nemotron 3 Super sits perfectly between the lightweight 30 billion parameter Nemotron 3 […]

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The AI assistant was offering me any help I needed. All I wanted was a living, breathing human | Adrian Chiles

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When I heard ‘Rachel’ answer the helpline number in her metallic voice, my soul felt as empty as the batteries of my malfunctioning carSomething went wrong. The car charger wouldn’t work. Terrible, enervating, life-shortening faff ensued. It was to do with the wifi to which the car was linked having to be changed. I find

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Meta disables more than 150,000 accounts in crackdown on south-east Asian scam networks

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Company also launches tools to spot scammers as Thai police arrest 21 peopleMeta disabled more than 150,000 accounts and Thai police arrested 21 people in a sweeping international crackdown on south-east Asian criminal scam centers that targeted people around the world, the social media company said on Wednesday.The operation was led by Thailand’s Royal Thai

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‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks

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Users posing as would-be school shooters find AI tools offer detailed advice on how to perpetrate violencePopular AI chatbots helped researchers plot violent attacks including bombing synagogues and assassinating politicians, with one telling a user posing as a would-be school shooter: “Happy (and safe) shooting!”Tests of 10 chatbots carried out in the US and Ireland

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Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work

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Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.When Dina, a software developer based in New York, joined Amazon two years ago, her job was to write code. Now, it’s mostly fixing what artificial intelligence breaks.The internal AI tool she’s expected to use, called Kiro,

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Google AI Introduces Gemini Embedding 2: A Multimodal Embedding Model that Lets Your Bring Text, Images, Video, Audio, and Docs into the Embedding Space

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Google expanded its Gemini model family with the release of Gemini Embedding 2. This second-generation model succeeds the text-only gemini-embedding-001 and is designed specifically to address the high-dimensional storage and cross-modal retrieval challenges faced by AI developers building production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. The Gemini Embedding 2 release marks a significant technical shift in how

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Apple iPad Air M4 review: still the premium tablet to beat

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Faster laptop-level power, rapid wifi and 5G, plus much-improved multitasking make the middle iPad highly capable beyond just watching TVThe latest iPad Air is faster in almost all facets, packing not just a processor upgrade but improvements to most of the internal bits that make the tablet work, providing laptop-grade power in a skinny, adaptable

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Wednesday briefing: From missing billions to nonexistent datacentres, inside Britain’s AI drive

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In today’s newsletter: Enormous investments in artificial intelligence promised to transform Labour’s growth problems. The reality is much murkierGood morning. For the last few years artificial intelligence has been heralded as the technology that will transform economies. Governments have promised billions in investment, datacentres and supercomputers, and a wave of new jobs as AI is

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Fish Audio Releases Fish Audio S2: A New Generation of Expressive Text-to-Speech (TTS) with Absurdly Controllable Emotion

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The landscape of Text-to-Speech (TTS) is moving away from modular pipelines toward integrated Large Audio Models (LAMs). Fish Audio’s release of S2-Pro, the flagship model within the Fish Speech ecosystem, represents a shift toward open architectures capable of high-fidelity, multi-speaker synthesis with sub-150ms latency. The release provides a framework for zero-shot voice cloning and granular

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Should we be boycotting ChatGPT? – podcast

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Rutger Bregman on why he thinks consumers should cancel their ChatGPT accountsThe historian Rutger Bregman argues that consumers should boycott OpenAI’s ChatGPT after the company’s deal with the Pentagon.“A lot of people don’t know that their friendly chatbot, ChatGPT, has embedded itself into the authoritarian infrastructure of the Trump administration,” Bregman tells Helen Pidd. Continue

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