Technology

Auto Added by WPeMatico

Driverless cars are taking us on a road to nowhere | Adrian Chiles

Some inventions, like the dishwasher, improve our lives. But driverless cars will lobotomise usI’ve found a hill to die on. Driverless cars. Why? Really, why? If driverless cars are the answer, then what is the question? Who asked for them? Oh yes, they’re fine for the novelty value, for the lols, for the clicks. We […]

Driverless cars are taking us on a road to nowhere | Adrian Chiles Read More »

DeepSeek AI Released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with 1M Context, FP4 KV Cache, and Cross-Layer Attention Reuse

Long-horizon agents have turned LLM serving into an input-heavy workload. Repeated prefills and million-token contexts leave KV caches that strain HBM, SSD capacity, and bandwidth. DeepSeek AI built its newest release around that exact bottleneck. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 552B backbone parameters, 196B additional Engram parameters, and a 1M-token context window. It

DeepSeek AI Released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with 1M Context, FP4 KV Cache, and Cross-Layer Attention Reuse Read More »

Pixel 11 Pro review: Google’s best pocket camera goes customisable

Solid battery life, snappy performance and quality software make for a great smaller phone with a killer cameraGoogle’s latest Pro phone is out to prove it has the best camera on a smartphone while embracing customisation, allowing you to change the look and feel of your photos far beyond simple filters even if that means

Pixel 11 Pro review: Google’s best pocket camera goes customisable Read More »

LandingAI Releases Agentic Document Extraction Gen2 with DPT-3 Pro and DPT-3 Verity

LandingAI has shipped Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) Gen2, a rebuild of its document intelligence stack around a new model family called DPT-3. Gen1 treated a document as a flat list of chunks. Gen2 treats it as a tree, prices it by the characters it returns rather than by the page, and grounds every answer back

LandingAI Releases Agentic Document Extraction Gen2 with DPT-3 Pro and DPT-3 Verity Read More »

Instagram boss says users will be ‘overwhelmed’ with brand content in algorithm-free world

Adam Mosseri says platform’s algorithm ‘feels like a black box’ but company trying to give users more control after Labor announces opt-out planFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastInstagram’s chief executive has said users will have a worse experience in an algorithm-free world,

Instagram boss says users will be ‘overwhelmed’ with brand content in algorithm-free world Read More »

Lawmakers blast AI companies after researcher warns of human extinction by 2030

Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon said AI will become ‘superhuman systems’ that can cause human extinction by the end of the decadeJust a day after three Anthropic researchers warned that artificial intelligence could kill off humanity within the decade, lawmakers have begun lashing out about the risks of the burgeoning technology.Ted Cruz, a republican senator

Lawmakers blast AI companies after researcher warns of human extinction by 2030 Read More »

Google Open-Sources Mantis: A Modular Skills Toolkit That Lets Coding Agents Find, Reproduce and Patch Vulnerabilities

Google has open-sourced Mantis, a stack-agnostic toolkit of security review skills that lets an AI coding agent run the whole vulnerability lifecycle. It finds a suspected flaw, strips the false positives, reproduces the bug inside a sandbox, writes a minimal patch, re-attacks that patch, and scores the residual risk. Mantis is not a scanner you

Google Open-Sources Mantis: A Modular Skills Toolkit That Lets Coding Agents Find, Reproduce and Patch Vulnerabilities Read More »

Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030

One researcher who resigned said many in industry believe that without regulation AI could kill off humanityArtificial intelligence could kill off humanity within the decade, according to three researchers with the industry giant Anthropic, one of whom has quit his job in protest.The latest doom-laden predictions came in posts on social media on Tuesday by

Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030 Read More »

Will it kill off humanity? Computer scientists and politicians wrestle with risks of AI

Alarming warnings from industry insiders increase pressure for curbs on artificial superintelligenceDoes artificial superintelligence really pose a risk greater than nuclear weapons? Is there a significant chance of “a Chornobyl-sized catastrophe”. Might there even be a greater than 10% chance that AI could “kill all humans” in the next decade?These warnings were issued over the

Will it kill off humanity? Computer scientists and politicians wrestle with risks of AI Read More »

US allies lack resources to keep pace on AI, top Pentagon official says

Cameron Stanley talks up ‘revolutionary’ AI capabilities and says Washington working with Nato and Five Eyes partnersThe Pentagon’s top artificial intelligence official said on Tuesday that America’s closest allies lack the resources to keep pace with the US military’s adoption of AI, and that Washington is working to steer them away from mistakes it made

US allies lack resources to keep pace on AI, top Pentagon official says Read More »