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

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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These CEOs want a starring role in our lives – and there’s not much we can do about it | Larry Ryan

Do we really need a McDonald’s CEO fronting ads or a Gianni Infantino Panini sticker? No. But in the age of Trump, the boss class feels emboldenedA few weeks ago, the CEO of McDonald’s appeared in a video sampling the chain’s new “Big Arch burger”. In the clip, Chris Kempczinski, or “Chris K” as he

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‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel

Ruling that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products marks possible watershed moment for social mediaThe young woman at the heart of what has been called the tech industry’s “big tobacco” moment was on YouTube at six and Instagram by nine. More than a decade later, she says, she still can’t live without the social

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NVIDIA AI Unveils ProRL Agent: A Decoupled Rollout-as-a-Service Infrastructure for Reinforcement Learning of Multi-Turn LLM Agents at Scale

NVIDIA researchers introduced ProRL AGENT, a scalable infrastructure designed for reinforcement learning (RL) training of multi-turn LLM agents. By adopting a ‘Rollout-as-a-Service’ philosophy, the system decouples agentic rollout orchestration from the training loop. This architectural shift addresses the inherent resource conflicts between I/O-intensive environment interactions and GPU-intensive policy updates that currently bottleneck agent development. The

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An Implementation of IWE’s Context Bridge as an AI-Powered Knowledge Graph with Agentic RAG, OpenAI Function Calling, and Graph Traversal

In this tutorial, we implement IWE: an open-source, Rust-powered personal knowledge management system that treats markdown notes as a navigable knowledge graph. Since IWE is a CLI/LSP tool designed for local editors. We build a realistic developer knowledge base from scratch, wire up wiki-links and markdown links into a directed graph, and then walk through

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Sony to hike PS5 prices by $100 as AI and Iran war push up memory chip costs

Updated prices of PlayStation 5 consoles to go into effect on 2 April as electronics makers face rising cost pressuresSony is raising global prices of its PlayStation 5 consoles, including a $100 increase in the US, marking its second hike in less than a year as the entertainment giant grapples with rising costs of key

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At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder | Jonathan Freedland

The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightbackGood news is so rare these days, you don’t quite know how to take it. You want to celebrate, but a rival instinct tells you it’ll be pulled back somehow, the same feeling

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openJiuwen Community Releases ‘JiuwenClaw’: A Self Evolving AI Agent for Task Management

Over the past year, AI agents have evolved from merely answering questions to attempting to get real tasks done. However, a significant bottleneck has emerged: while most agents may appear intelligent during a conversation, they often ‘drop the ball’ when it comes to executing real-world tasks. Whether it’s an office workflow that breaks when requirements

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What does new guidance in the UK say about screen time for children?

Experts recommend extremely limited use for children under-two amid ‘mounting evidence’ of harmful impactThe government has issued new guidance on how much time children below the age of five should spend on screens.Children’s relationships with screens have become one of the key struggles of 21st-century parenting, along with the impact of the content that appears

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Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia

Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy editsWikipedia has banned the use of artificial intelligence in the generation or rewriting of content for its voluminous online encyclopedia.In a recent policy change, Wikipedia said that the use of large language models (or LLMs) “often violates” its core

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