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Meet A-Evolve: The PyTorch Moment For Agentic AI Systems Replacing Manual Tuning With Automated State Mutation And Self-Correction

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A team of researchers associated with Amazon has released A-Evolve, a universal infrastructure designed to automate the development of autonomous AI agents. The framework aims to replace the ‘manual harness engineering’ that currently defines agent development with a systematic, automated evolution process. The project is being described as a potential ‘PyTorch moment’ for agentic AI.

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The kindness of strangers: An online forum user shipped me a car radiator, saving me from financial ruin

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Other commenters helped me diagnose the problem. When I couldn’t afford the solution, someone I knew only by his handle offered to payRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesAs a pensioner, money is always tight, so I was distraught when the secondhand car I’d recently bought began overheating. I took it to three or

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How Meta’s victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial

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Aggressive strategy and loss in the trial highlight a problem for tech firms: a widespread distrust of social media companiesWhen Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, sought to defend itself in the landmark social media addiction lawsuit alleging its products caused personal injury to a young user, it went on the offensive. The

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‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books

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US release of horror novel Shy Girl cancelled and UK book discontinued after suspected AI use, as publishers feel ‘cold shiver’Recently, the literary agent Kate Nash started noticing that the submission letters she was receiving from authors were becoming more thorough – albeit also more formulaic.“I took it as a rise in diligence,” she said.

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Chroma Releases Context-1: A 20B Agentic Search Model for Multi-Hop Retrieval, Context Management, and Scalable Synthetic Task Generation

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In the current AI landscape, the ‘context window’ has become a blunt instrument. We’ve been told that if we simply expand the memory of a frontier model, the retrieval problem disappears. But as any AI professionals building RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems knows, stuffing a million tokens into a prompt often leads to higher latency, astronomical

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The OnlyFans inheritance: how its owner’s death could reshape the porn money-making machine

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Leonid Radvinsky’s widow has been left with a crucial role in deciding what happens to the business that made her husband a billionaireYekaterina Chudnovsky, online biographies say, is a mother-of-four who “enjoys spending time with her family and teaching them the importance of giving back and helping others”. They add that Ukrainian-born Chudnovsky, known as

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Mistral AI Releases Voxtral TTS: A 4B Open-Weight Streaming Speech Model for Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Generation

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Mistral AI has released Voxtral TTS, an open-weight text-to-speech model that marks the company’s first major move into audio generation. Following the release of its transcription and language models, Mistral is now providing the final ‘output layer’ of the audio stack, positioning itself as a direct competitor to proprietary voice APIs in the developer ecosystem.

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Two in five Australian GPs use AI scribes to record patient notes – but do they trade care for convenience?

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Some doctors argue it allows them to better connect with patients, but advocates warn the AI technology risks the oppositeGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen a patient walks into a GP’s office in Australia today, the doctor may begin with a question: “Do you give consent to use an AI

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‘Our assumptions are broken’: how fraudulent church data revealed AI’s threat to polling

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Experts say paid participants are using automated tools to generate unreliable survey responses at scaleIf you had been keeping tabs on the news about church attendance in Britain lately, you would be forgiven for thinking the country was in the midst of a Christian revival.Stories of swelling congregations, filled with young people returning to the

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‘They feel true’: political deepfakes are growing in influence – even if people know they aren’t real

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AI images of people – such as women in military contexts – are making money and serving as propaganda, researchers sayOnline content creators are not just building fake images and videos of prominent public figures, they are also fabricating people and using them in military contexts, which can make them money and even serve as

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