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Alibaba Tongyi Lab Releases MAI-UI: A Foundation GUI Agent Family that Surpasses Gemini 2.5 Pro, Seed1.8 and UI-Tars-2 on AndroidWorld

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Alibaba Tongyi Lab have released MAI-UI—a family of foundation GUI agents. It natively integrates MCP tool use, agent user interaction, device–cloud collaboration, and online RL, establishing state-of-the-art results in general GUI grounding and mobile GUI navigation, surpassing Gemini-2.5-Pro, Seed1.8, and UI-Tars-2 on AndroidWorld. The system targets three specific gaps that early GUI agents often ignore, […]

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The office block where AI ‘doomers’ gather to predict the apocalypse

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Safety researchers feel excessive financial rewards and an irresponsible work culture have led some to ignore a catastrophic risk to human lifeOn the other side of San Francisco bay from Silicon Valley, where the world’s biggest technology companies tear towards superhuman artificial intelligence, looms a tower from which fearful warnings emerge.At 2150 Shattuck Avenue, in

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AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer

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Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technologyA pioneer of AI has criticised calls to grant the technology rights, warning that it was showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be prepared to pull the plug if needed.Yoshua Bengio said giving legal status to cutting-edge AIs would be akin to

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We still don’t really know what Elon Musk’s Doge actually did

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Calculating the actual savings and impact of the bulldozing US department that vowed to cut $1tn in waste is difficultElon Musk, AI and the antichrist: the biggest tech stories of 2025When Elon Musk vowed late last year to lead a “department of government efficiency” (Doge), he claimed it would operate with “maximum transparency” as it

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‘Data is control’: what we learned from a year investigating the Israeli military’s ties to big tech

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Our reporting revealed a symbiotic relationship between the IDF and Silicon Valley – with implications for the future of warfareIn January this year, Harry Davies and Yuval Abraham first reported that Microsoft had deepened its ties to Israel alongside other major tech firms. Since then, the Guardian has published an award-winning series of investigations –

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Cryptocurrency slump erases 2025 financial gains and Trump-inspired optimism

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Last few months of the year have seen $1tn in value wiped from the market, despite all-time-high price of bitcoinAs 2025 comes to a close, Donald Trump’s favorable approach to cryptocurrency has not proven to be enough to sustain the industry’s gains, once the source of market-wide optimism and enthusiasm. The last few months of

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‘Move fast, break stuff’: how tech bros became Hollywood’s go-to baddie in 2025

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From Stanley Tucci’s imperious tech titan to Lex Luthor’s distractingly hot CEO and Elon Musk-esque blowhards, films this year took us inside the billionaire mindsetBetween the slash-and-burn US government reboot led by a dank meme fan and the relentless pushing of AI by venture capital-backed blowhards, 2025 has felt like peak obnoxious tech bro. Fittingly,

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Meet LLMRouter: An Intelligent Routing System designed to Optimize LLM Inference by Dynamically Selecting the most Suitable Model for Each Query

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LLMRouter is an open source routing library from the U Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign that treats model selection as a first class system problem. It sits between applications and a pool of LLMs and chooses a model for each query based on task complexity, quality targets, and cost, all exposed through

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We must take control of AI now, before it’s too late | Letters

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Anja Cradden proposes ways of managing tech companies before we reach crisis point. Plus letters from Mike Scott and Gerry Rees “When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control”, says the headline on Rafael Behr’s article (23 December). I think it’s more likely that when the AI bubble

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SoftBank to acquire DigitalBridge for $4bn in move to deepen ties to AI

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Acquisition would further expand SoftBank’s investments in artificial intelligence as it tries to center itself in the boomSoftBank Group will acquire digital infrastructure investor DigitalBridge Group in a deal valued at $4bn, the companies said on Monday, as the Japanese investment firm looks to deepen its AI-related portfolio.The acquisition would expand SoftBank’s exposure to digital

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