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Obama reportedly urges Democrats to prioritize safety plan for AI

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Ex-president urged party at closed-door fundraiser to create sweeping framework, from safety ‘slow-down’ to job lossesBarack Obama urged Democrats to prioritize a “public conversation” about AI management and safety in a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser last week.The comments by the former US president reportedly urged the party to create a sweeping framework for everything from a […]

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OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development

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Rare show of unity from rival developers after safety warnings from Anthropic boss and AI researchersThe Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survivalSam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to “slow the pace” of AI development after he warned that an AI swarm

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AI will transform capitalism – but how?

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Technology is going to drastically reshape the economy, and it’s within our power to decide what that looks likeThe idea that autonomous, thinking machines may one day destroy property, hierarchy and inequality is as old as western political thought. In Aristotle’s Politics, the philosopher cites a fantasy from the Iliad, in which machines begin to

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‘Really helpful’: the AI bootcamps aimed at addressing UK youth unemployment

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Pilot project in Preston comes with apprenticeship offer for Neets at end of three-week courseIn a youth centre opposite Preston bus station, the UK government is trying to address two of the greatest challenges facing the national economy: AI and youth unemployment.The hope is that one will solve – rather than cause – the other.

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AWS Introduces Pizza Bot: An Open Source Inbox for Background AI Agents

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AWS introduced Pizza Bot, as a self-hosted application for AI tasks that continue while users work elsewhere. It organizes completed results and pending decisions into an email-style inbox. Earlier versions served more than 2,000 people inside Amazon, supporting meeting preparation, email drafting, Slack summaries, CRM logging, and research. The public application was rebuilt as an

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The AfD won a shock election in Germany. Elon Musk was thrilled

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The billionaire and the party have developed a symbiotic relationship to spread their far-right views both in Germany and the USThe Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party rattled European politics this week after a convincing victory in a German state election, which placed it only a few seats away from forming the country’s first state-level far

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‘Cheap iPhone deal’: warning over scam sites selling latest Apple mobiles

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Criminals exploit demand for iPhone 18 Pro and foldable Duo to trick people eager to get their hands on oneApple has just launched a range of new iPhones, including a foldable handset, just as you decide it is time to replace your own ageing mobile. But you balk at the £1,199 price tag for the

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Context Engineering Inside the Harness: 4 Mechanisms That Beat Context Overflow and Goal Loss on Long-Horizon Tasks

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An agent, in its simplest form, is an LLM calling tools in a loop. That loop works for short jobs. Give it a task that runs for an hour and 200 tool calls, and it breaks in 2 predictable ways. The AWS Samples design guide for autonomous cloud coding agents names them directly: shallow agents

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Live episode: how AI is reshaping our minds – podcast

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In this episode of Science Weekly, recorded in front of an audience at the London podcast festival on 3 September, Ian Sample hears from Michael Safi, the host of the Guardian’s chart-topping podcast about artificial intelligence, Black Box. In series two, Black Box: the chatbots, Michael meets people who have become convinced they have made

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Implementation of Machine Learning Workflows with NVIDIA cuML, RAPIDS, GPU Benchmarking, Explainability, Clustering, and Model Inference

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In this tutorial, we implement NVIDIA cuML as a GPU-accelerated machine learning framework and build a practical workflow that demonstrates how RAPIDS can accelerate familiar data science and machine learning tasks. We begin by configuring the GPU environment and examining cuml.accel, which lets us accelerate existing scikit-learn workloads with minimal code changes, before moving to

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