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Our writer found a surprisingly effective way to cut down his smartphone use. Plus, what to eat while watching the World Cup – inspired by all 48 teams• Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereI recently learned through Apple’s Screen Time app that I was spending about eight hours a week […]
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In response to AI’s hyperrealism, artists and creatives are gravitating toward the homespun and imperfectEarlier this year, a group of film-makers, commercial directors and AI industry influencers gathered in New York City for the Runway AI Summit – a daylong hype-fest, trumping up the potential of this new technology. During one talk, Rob Wrubel, co-founder
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Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AIA record-shattering drought has racked much of the US. But the artificial intelligence industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned datacenters set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian analysis
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It’s decades since the former US first lady was an employee. The world of work she grew up in has long goneUh oh, Michelle Obama has been advising gen Z on navigating work. “One thing that’s important is to learn how to do something you don’t like to do and be good at it,” she
While we do not outright oppose the taking of AI company stock, or of a US a sovereign wealth fund, there are better ways to achieve the senator’s goalsLet no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: “Will the future of humanity
Last week Microsoft AI has announced MAI-Transcribe-1.5. It is the second iteration of the company’s in-house speech-to-text family. The model targets accuracy across 43 languages, accents, and noisy environments. The Microsoft team positions it for production transcription workloads. What is MAI-Transcribe-1.5 MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. It takes audio as input and
Companies such as Apple and Google have until September to install software or face legislation, says PMUK politics live – latest updatesApple and Google have been given until September to install software that blocks explicit images on children’s mobile phones or face legislation enforcing its requirement, Keir Starmer said on Monday.The prime minister said tech
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Google Research team has introduced a new agentic RAG framework. It is built into the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. It powers a feature called Cross-Corpus Retrieval, now in public preview. The target is a known failure mode in enterprise search. Standard single-step RAG was not built for multi-source, multi-hop queries. Ask “What are the specs
Meta’s former head of global affairs says executives pivoted right in some cases for ‘rather more self-interested’ reasonsSilicon Valley companies including Meta have decided to embrace Maga politics, some for “rather more self-interested” reasons, the former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said.Clegg, who spent nearly seven years at Meta as the head of
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In this tutorial, we use GEPA as a reflective prompt-evolution framework to improve the way a language model solves arithmetic word problems. We begin with a weak seed prompt, create a small deterministic benchmark, define a structured evaluator, and pass actionable feedback to GEPA so it can understand why a candidate prompt fails. We also
