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US summoned bank bosses to discuss cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model

Reports say Fed chair Jerome Powell among attenders at meeting in Washington The US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned major American bank chiefs to a meeting in Washington this week amid concerns over the cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model, according to reports.Bosses including the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, were said to

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Reform UK voters least likely to see social media posts from family and friends, study finds

Thinktank says algorithms are fuelling isolation and division after analysing posts shown to social media usersReform UK voters are the least likely to see posts from friends and family on social media and most likely to see content from brands and news organisations, a study has found.The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank said

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‘Irresponsible failure’: Google, Meta, Snap and Microsoft slam EU over child sexual abuse law lapse

Experts warn lapse could sharply reduce reports of abuse, echoing a 58% drop during a similar legal gap in 2021Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe European parliament has blocked the extension of a law that permits big tech firms to scan for child sexual exploitation on

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AI products are reaching further into our lives. Does it matter who controls the companies behind them? | Van Badham

Every organisation needs guardrails that channel them away from human fallibility and collectively minimise the harm they can doFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe joke on the internet asks: “What are the seven most terrifying words in the English language?” The answer:

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I baulked at the idea of ‘friction-maxxing’. But there’s more to it than meets the eye | Gaby Hinsliff

Self-help hacks such as ‘cooking from scratch’ or ‘meeting your friends’ may seem ridiculous. But there’s something deeply human at the heart of this trendDoes life, of late, feel just too easy? Are you keen to make it harder than it already is? If that sounds like a genuinely demented question in the week that

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Five AI Compute Architectures Every Engineer Should Know: CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, and LPUs Compared

Modern AI is no longer powered by a single type of processor—it runs on a diverse ecosystem of specialized compute architectures, each making deliberate tradeoffs between flexibility, parallelism, and memory efficiency. While traditional systems relied heavily on CPUs, today’s AI workloads are distributed across GPUs for massive parallel computation, NPUs for efficient on-device inference, and

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Malaysia’s 2024 PDPA overhaul: what social listening buyers must change now?

Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2024 represents the most significant overhaul of data privacy regulation in the country’s history. Implemented across three phases between January and June 2025, the amendments introduce mandatory Data Protection Officer appointments, 72-hour breach notification requirements, new sensitive data classifications for biometric information, and maximum penalties increased from RM 300,000

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An End-to-End Coding Guide to NVIDIA KVPress for Long-Context LLM Inference, KV Cache Compression, and Memory-Efficient Generation

In this tutorial, we take a detailed, practical approach to exploring NVIDIA’s KVPress and understanding how it can make long-context language model inference more efficient. We begin by setting up the full environment, installing the required libraries, loading a compact Instruct model, and preparing a simple workflow that runs in Colab while still demonstrating the

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Elon Musk’s xAI sues Colorado over new rules for artificial intelligence

Company claims law regulating AI systems, set to go into effect in June, infringes on its first amendment rightsElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado over a new AI law set to take effect in June.The suit seeks to block the state from enforcing the law, which

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Meta Superintelligence Lab Releases Muse Spark: A Multimodal Reasoning Model With Thought Compression and Parallel Agents

Meta Superintelligence Labs recently made a significant move by unveiling ‘Muse Spark’ — the first model in the Muse family. Muse Spark is a natively multimodal reasoning model with support for tool-use, visual chain of thought, and multi-agent orchestration. https://ai.meta.com/static-resource/muse-spark-eval-methodology What ‘Natively Multimodal’ Actually Means When Meta describes Muse Spark as ‘natively multimodal,’ it means

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