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Short films made from brain activity of mice aim to show how they see world

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Scientists hope results analysed after the mice watched video footage will help them understand their perceptionsScientists have reconstructed short movies from the brain activity of mice that watched videos for a project that aspires to lift the veil on how animals perceive the world.The brief movie clips are grainy and pixellated, but provide a glimpse […]

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Andrew Ng’s Team Releases Context Hub: An Open Source Tool that Gives Your Coding Agent the Up-to-Date API Documentation It Needs

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In the fast-moving world of agentic workflows, the most powerful AI model is still only as good as its documentation. Today, Andrew Ng and his team at DeepLearning.AI officially launched Context Hub, an open-source tool designed to bridge the gap between an agent’s static training data and the rapidly evolving reality of modern APIs. You

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Missing money, shipped chips and a 350,000% profit: key takeaways on AI ‘phantom investments’

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A Guardian investigation has put the UK government’s AI plans under the microscope. Here are the key details Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’The Essex ‘supercomputer’ that’s still a scaffolding yardA Guardian investigation has examined a series of massive AI investments announced by the government over the past two years, comparing

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AI firm Anthropic sues US defense department over blacklisting

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Lawsuits come after Pentagon labeled Anthropic a ‘supply chain risk’, a decision the company says is unlawfulSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxAnthropic filed two lawsuits against the Department of Defense on Monday, alleging that the government’s decision to label the artificial intelligence firm a “supply chain

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British AI datacentre firm Nscale raises $2bn as Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg join board

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London-based startup, which is vital to the government’s artificial intelligence ambitions, is now valued at $14.6bnBusiness live – latest updatesNscale, a UK company vital to the government’s AI ambitions, has raised $2bn (£1.5bn) in a funding round and appointed the former Meta executives Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board of directors.It brings the

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OpenAI delays ‘adult mode’ for ChatGPT to focus on work of higher priority

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Startup still believes in ‘principle of treating adults like adults, but getting experience right will take more time’OpenAI is delaying the launch of “adult mode” for ChatGPT after admitting it had more pressing priorities than introducing erotica on its signature artificial intelligence product.The startup’s chief executive, Sam Altman, had announced last year that OpenAI would

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Liverpool and Manchester United complain to X over ‘sickening’ Grok AI posts

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AI feature generated offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disastersLiverpool and Manchester United have complained to Elon Musk’s X after the Grok AI feature made offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disasters.The posts were generated when users asked the AI tool to make hateful posts about the

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How AI firm Anthropic wound up in the Pentagon’s crosshairs

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Standoff with DoD over Claude chatbot reignites debate over how AI will be used in war – and who will be held accountableUntil recently, Anthropic was one of the quieter names in the artificial intelligence boom. Despite being valued at about $350bn, it rarely generated the flashy headlines or public backlash associated with Sam Altman’s

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Congress must prevent AI surveillance. The Anthropic feud proves it | Ashley Gorski and Patrick Toomey

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The company’s clash with the Pentagon is a fight over the future of American privacyThe US military wants to use its state-of-the-art AI tools to supercharge surveillance against Americans, making it easier than ever to monitor our movements, our search history, and our private associations. That’s one of the major takeaways from a dramatic dispute

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The ‘Bayesian’ Upgrade: Why Google AI’s New Teaching Method is the Key to LLM Reasoning

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are the world’s best mimics, but when it comes to the cold, hard logic of updating beliefs based on new evidence, they are surprisingly stubborn. A team of researchers from Google argue that the current crop of AI agents falls far short of ‘probabilistic reasoning’—the ability to maintain and update a

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