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Sakana AI Introduces Doc-to-LoRA and Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetworks that Instantly Internalize Long Contexts and Adapt LLMs via Zero-Shot Natural Language

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Customizing Large Language Models (LLMs) currently presents a significant engineering trade-off between the flexibility of In-Context Learning (ICL) and the efficiency of Context Distillation (CD) or Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). Tokyo-based Sakana AI has proposed a new approach to bypass these constraints through cost amortization. In two of their recent papers, they introduced Text-to-LoRA (T2L) and […]

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Square parent company Block cuts nearly half of workforce as AI takes jobs

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CEO Jack Dorsey said 4,000 employees would be laid off as the fintech company, which owns Cash App, embraces AISign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxFintech company Block announced that it would be laying off 4,000 of its 10,000 employees because of gains in AI productivity.“Intelligence tools

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Perplexity Just Released pplx-embed: New SOTA Qwen3 Bidirectional Embedding Models for Web-Scale Retrieval Tasks

Perplexity has released pplx-embed, a collection of multilingual embedding models optimized for large-scale retrieval tasks. These models are designed to handle the noise and complexity of web-scale data, providing a production-ready alternative to proprietary embedding APIs. Architectural Innovations: Bidirectional Attention and Diffusion Most Large Language Models (LLMs) utilize causal, decoder-only architectures. However, for embedding tasks,

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Microsoft Research Introduces CORPGEN To Manage Multi Horizon Tasks For Autonomous AI Agents Using Hierarchical Planning and Memory

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Microsoft researchers have introduced CORPGEN, an architecture-agnostic framework designed to manage the complexities of realistic organizational work through autonomous digital employees. While existing benchmarks evaluate AI agents on isolated, single tasks, real-world corporate environments require managing dozens of concurrent, interleaved tasks with complex dependencies. The research team identifies this distinct problem class as Multi-Horizon Task

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Burger King cooks up AI chatbot to spot if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

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OpenAI-powered assistant will help to ‘understand overall service patterns’, company says, as move sparks backlashFrom hospitality workers to retail employees, the exaggerated “customer service voice”, often mocked in internet memes as wildly different from someone’s real voice, has long been a cultural trope. Fast-food giant Burger King is now taking that voice one step further,

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Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks

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Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude modelAnthropic said Thursday it “cannot in good conscience” comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities.The Department of Defense had

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Google AI Just Released Nano-Banana 2: The New AI Model Featuring Advanced Subject Consistency and Sub-Second 4K Image Synthesis Performance

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In the escalating ‘race of “smaller, faster, cheaper’ AI, Google just dropped a heavy-hitting payload. The tech giant officially unveiled Nano-Banana 2 (technically designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). Google is making a definitive pivot toward the edge: high-fidelity, sub-second image synthesis that stays entirely on your device. The Technical Leap: Efficiency over Scale The

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Met police to pilot facial recognition identity checks, mayor confirms

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Sadiq Khan reveals 100 officers will use roaming technology for six months but opponents call its use ‘alarming’Metropolitan police officers are to start scanning citizens’ faces using automated facial recognition technology to check their identities, in a move backed by the mayor Sadiq Khan but branded “alarming” by opponents.The pilot was revealed on Thursday when

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Tell us: how will the UK’s landline switch-off affect you or your family?

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The UK will phase out traditional home phones by 2027, but the switchover has been stressful for some. How do you feel about the change?UK telecoms companies are retiring traditional landline services and replacing them with internet-based home phone connections.The industry has set a deadline of January 2027 to complete this switch with roughly 3.2

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Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

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A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternativesThere’s not much to love about big tech these days. So many ills can be laid at its door: social media harms, misinformation, polarisation, mining and misuse of personal data,

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