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Investment in AI-resistant ‘Halo’ companies helps push UK and EU markets to record highs

Investors are shifting toward physical assets that are partially insulated from disruption, says Goldman SachsInvestors have a new mantra as they prepare for AI to shake up the global economy – the Halo trade.Interest in Halo – short for “heavy assets, low obsolescence” – has risen as investors seek out companies with tangible, productive assets, […]

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Instagram to alert parents if teens repeatedly search self-harm terms

Feature for supervised accounts rolls out as Meta platform faces US trials over alleged harms to childrenInstagram will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm.The announcement on Thursday comes as Instagram’s parent company, Meta, is in the midst of two trials over harms to children. Continue

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OpenAI to work with Pentagon after Anthropic dropped by Trump over company’s ethics concerns

CEO Sam Altman claims military will not use AI product for autonomous killing systems or mass surveillanceOpenAI said it had struck a deal with the Pentagon to supply AI to classified US military networks, hours after Donald Trump ordered the government to stop using the services of one of the company’s main competitors.Sam Altman, OpenAI’s

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Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.

Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbotOn 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A medical examiner said that her husband, Joe Ceccanti – who had been missing for several hours – had jumped from a

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Google DeepMind Introduces Unified Latents (UL): A Machine Learning Framework that Jointly Regularizes Latents Using a Diffusion Prior and Decoder

Generative AI’s current trajectory relies heavily on Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) to manage the computational cost of high-resolution synthesis. By compressing data into a lower-dimensional latent space, models can scale effectively. However, a fundamental trade-off persists: lower information density makes latents easier to learn but sacrifices reconstruction quality, while higher density enables near-perfect reconstruction but

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A Coding Implementation to Build a Hierarchical Planner AI Agent Using Open-Source LLMs with Tool Execution and Structured Multi-Agent Reasoning

In this tutorial, we build a hierarchical planner agent using an open-source instruct model. We design a structured multi-agent architecture comprising a planner agent, an executor agent, and an aggregator agent, where each component plays a specialized role in solving complex tasks. We use the planner agent to decompose high-level goals into actionable steps, the

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How to Build Interactive Geospatial Dashboards Using Folium with Heatmaps, Choropleths, Time Animation, Marker Clustering, and Advanced Interactive Plugins

In this Folium tutorial, we build a complete set of interactive maps that run in Colab or any local Python setup. We explore multiple basemap styles, design rich markers with HTML popups, and visualize spatial density using heatmaps. We also create region-level choropleth maps from GeoJSON, scale to thousands of points using marker clustering, and

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Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI

Department of Defense and artificial intelligence company were unable to reach agreement before deadlineSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxDonald Trump said Friday he will direct all federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE” all use of Anthropic technology.The Department of Defense and Anthropic have hit an impasse with

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OpenAI announces $110bn funding round that would value firm at $840bn

Deal signals feverish pace of AI investment with multibillion-dollar backings from Nvidia, Amazon and moreOpenAI said on Friday it is raising $110bn in a blockbuster funding round that would value the ChatGPT maker at $840bn, in a deal that signals the feverish pace of investment in artificial intelligence.It’s more than double the amount the company

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Questions loom over FBI raid of LA superintendent’s home and district office

Media outlets indicate connection to bankrupt educational technology company that created chatbot for districtTwo days after the FBI searched the headquarters of the Los Angeles unified school district and the home of its superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, questions remain and officials have said little publicly about the nature of the investigation.In an emergency meeting on Thursday,

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