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Americans echo Pope Leo’s concerns about AI: ‘It threatens workers, privacy and human life’

Guardian readers in the US spoke of fears about unregulated AI in response to the pope’s encyclical warning about the risks of the technologyIn his first major papal text since assuming leadership of the Catholic church last year, Pope Leo issued a stark warning about the rise of artificial intelligence this week, denouncing the “culture […]

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Genesis AI Releases Nyx, Quadrants, and Genesis World 1.0 Physics Platform for Scalable Robotics Foundation Model Evaluation

Genesis AI released Genesis World 1.0. The platform consists of four components: the Genesis World physics engine, Nyx (a real-time path-traced renderer), Quadrants (a Python-to-GPU compiler), and a simulation interface. It is designed to accelerate robotics foundation model development through simulation-based evaluation. Robotics model development has two bottlenecks: data and iteration speed. The field has

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Hermes Agent Ships Tool Search for MCP: Anthropic Evals Show 49% to 74% Accuracy Gain on Opus 4

Nous Research’s open-source Hermes Agent now ships a Tool Search feature. It directly addresses a growing bottleneck in AI agent systems: too many MCP tools filling up the context window. In this explainer article, we will breaks down what Tool Search does, how it works, and when to use it. The Problem: MCP Tools Are

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NVIDIA Introduces X-Token: Projection-Guided Cross-Tokenizer KD That Outperforms GOLD by +3.82 Average Points on Llama-3.2-1B

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers “dark knowledge” from a large teacher model to a smaller student. The student learns from the teacher’s full output probability distribution over tokens, not just correct answers. This is done via per-position Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence over next-token probability distributions. This formulation requires a shared tokenizer. A practitioner committed to Llama-3.2-1B cannot

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StepFun Releases Step 3.7 Flash: A 198B MoE Vision-Language Model for Coding Agents and Search Workflows

StepFun today released Step 3.7 Flash, a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model targeting agentic use cases. It adds native vision input and improved tool-use reliability over Step 3.5 Flash. What is Step 3.7 Flash? Step 3.7 Flash is a 198B-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) vision-language model. It pairs a 196B-parameter language backbone with a 1.8B-parameter vision encoder (ViT)

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‘Like a billionaire on acid’: Star Wars director Gareth Edwards comes out in favour of AI

Speaking at Amazon’s AI on the Lot event, the Rogue One film-maker Gareth Edwards said ‘it’ll do anything you ask’ and ‘it’s going to be better than CGI’Jurassic World Rebirth and Rogue One director Gareth Edwards has enthusiastically endorsed the use of generative AI in film-making, saying “it is a fucking genius at helping you”

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Why I’m grateful to the Pope for his encyclical on AI | Francine Prose

The intelligent and thoughtful encyclical is an important warning of the uses and misuses of a rapidly developing technology. Silicon Valley is wrong to dismiss itOften I’m asked if I think that the novels of the future will all be written by AI. It’s not so much a question as a provocation. Do I worry

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Meet mKernel: A Multi-GPU, Multi-Node Fused Kernel Library for GPU-Driven Communication

GPU communication overhead is a measurable bottleneck in production AI workloads. According to data cited by the mKernel project, communication can consume 43.6% of the forward pass and 32% of end-to-end training time. Across popular Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, inter-device communication can account for up to 47% of total execution time. Researchers from UC Berkeley’s UCCL

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Hexo Labs Open-Sources SIA: A Self-Improving Agent That Updates Both the Harness and the Model Weights

Most AI agents stop improving once a human stops tuning them. The model is fixed. The scaffold around it is fixed. Hexo Labs wants to move both at once. It released SIA (Self-Improving AI) this week as an open-source framework under an MIT license. The core claim of this research is narrow but concrete. SIA

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Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-8B-A1B: An On-Device MoE Model With 8.3B Total and 1.5B Active Parameters

Liquid AI just shipped LFM2.5-8B-A1B. It is an on-device Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model built for tool calling. The model holds 8.3B total parameters but activates only 1.5B per token. That sparsity is what lets it run on consumer hardware. The release follows LFM2-8B-A1B, which Liquid AI team published earlier. LFM2.5 is a new family of hybrid

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