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Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a Hosted Text-to-Speech Model in Flash and Plus Tiers Across 16 Languages

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Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same lineage. Flash targets real-time interaction. Plus targets high-quality generation. Both are delivered as hosted models through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, not as downloadable weights. The release focuses on four things developers hit in production: broader […]

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Inside the horrifying online network where children extort others to commit violence and self-harm

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The 764 network is just one part of a growing online ecosystem that pushes young members into brutal and degrading acts. It has perpetrators and victims in dozens of countriesIn late 2024, in a quiet suburb of Stockholm, a 14-year-old boy approached a man in his 80s who was using a walker. He stabbed the

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Experts warn of rise in sadistic online exploitation of vulnerable children

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Global increase in cases of predators coercing children to harm themselves or produce child sexual abuse materialCases of predators coercing children into producing sexual photos and videos of themselves have surged globally in the past year, a cruel phenomenon known as “sadistic online exploitation”, child safety experts and law enforcement officials warn.In cases of sadistic

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Someone Fine-Tuned OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 Traces to Ship a 657MB Local Thinking Model

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A community developer, GnLOLot, has published a 1B model that runs fully on local hardware. The model is MiniCPM5-1B-Claude-Opus-Fable5-Thinking, with GGUF builds for llama.cpp-compatible runtimes. It needs no API key and makes no cloud calls. The Proposed Model The model is built on openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B. That base is a real, documented release from OpenBMB. It is

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Best Local LLMs You Can Run on a Single 24GB GPU in 2026: Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek Compared

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A single 24GB card is the practical floor for serious local inference. It is enough for genuinely capable models, and small enough to sit on one GPU. An RTX 3090 or RTX 4090 both land in this tier. The card you own matters less than the models you pick for it. The old hobbyist move

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Feyn AI Releases SQRL, a Text-to-SQL Model Family That Inspects the Database Before Writing a Query

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Most text-to-SQL systems treat the task as translation. Feyn AI (YC-backed startup) reframes it around inspection. The Feyn team has released SQRL, a family of models that turn natural language questions into SQL. Instead of generating a query immediately, SQRL can inspect the database first. This lets it resolve ambiguity and write only queries the

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Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch

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On July 19, Alibaba’s Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, the next flagship in the Qwen family. The research team describes it as a 2.4 trillion-parameter model, ‘second only to Fable 5’ among the systems it benchmarked. The preview is live now. The benchmark table, model card, and license are not. The July 19th 2026 announcement landed

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AI job worries grow. But some human skills can’t be replaced by machines | Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough

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The fear of becoming obsolete is a rising source of anxiety as artificial intelligence emerges in the workplace. Staying strongly connected with others will helpThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workEarlier this year Paul* discovered via a flurry of media stories that his business

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Government use of automated AI decision-making to be curbed under new Australian rules

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New national plan accompanied by Labor push for digital duty of care legislationGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe use of AI in automated decision-making by government departments and agencies will be subject to tough rules under a new national plan, expected to extend to consumer protections, workplace safety and privacy.As

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Corded vacuums are supposed to be outdated – so why is the Shark Detect Lift-Away XL so good?

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Surprisingly easy to manoeuvre and skilled at cleaning carpet and hard floor, Shark’s upright bagless model is one of the best corded vacuums I’ve tested• The best vacuum cleanersCorded vacuum cleaners aren’t as glamorous as their cordless cousins, but swapping battery power for a plug socket has its advantages. The device will never be short

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