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Robots, AI and drones: how the Dutch navy is using tech to transform its sea defences

Uncrewed systems are the future for armed forces and the Netherlands is leading the way ‘to keep people out of danger zones’On each side of the target ship, a black vessel keeps a watchful distance. Defender 1 and Defender 2 are the eyes and ears of the navy – but they have nobody onboard, and […]

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Anthony Albanese’s AI vision scores high on vibes but the devil will be in the detail. And there is one glaring omission … | David Pocock

When the PM talks about new laws applying to the ‘next generation of large-scale datacentres’ what does he mean?Albanese’s AI blueprint sparks calls for datacentre moratorium until new regulations in placeExpectations were high as the prime minister took the stage at the University of Sydney on Wednesday to outline a pivot in his government’s approach

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Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort

Thinking Machines Lab just released Inkling, their first model trained from scratch, weights are open, fine-tunable on Tinker. The lab pitches it as a base for customization. What is Inkling? Inkling is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975B total parameters and 41B active. It supports a context window of up to 1M tokens. Pretraining covered 45

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Soofi Consortium Releases Soofi S 30B-A3B: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE Foundation Model For German And English

A German research consortium has published the pretraining report for Soofi S 30B-A3B. It is an open base model for German and English. Training ran end to end on Deutsche Telekom’s Industrial AI Cloud in Munich. Preview weights are on Hugging Face. It is worth noting that among some of the fully open base models

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Trump rails against New York’s statewide datacenter moratorium

AI-friendly president shared a post saying governor Kathy Hochul should scrap the one-year policy ‘IMMEDIATELY’Donald Trump railed against the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, for pausing the construction of large new datacenters, the resource-intensive facilities that power artificial intelligence.New York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday, when

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Building a Gin Config Controlled PyTorch Pipeline with Configurable MLP Variants, Cosine Scheduling, and Runtime Parameter Overrides

In this tutorial, we implement a Gin Config–controlled PyTorch experiment pipeline in which the executable training code remains stable. At the same time, the experimental degrees of freedom are moved into declarative configuration files. We construct a nonlinear spiral binary classification task, define a configurable MLP with scoped architectural variants, and expose parameters for the

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‘What’s the point?’ Teenagers give their verdict on Britain’s social media curfew

All the young people the Guardian spoke to disagreed with aspects of the government’s proposed blockSixteen- and 17-year-olds in Britain are to be encouraged to observe a midnight to 6am social media curfew but will be able to opt out by changing their account settings.From next spring, they will be urged to refrain from using

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Albanese’s AI plan is admirable – but will face tech giants more powerful than most national governments

Challenges of regulating social media or stopping hate speech show these firms can set their own terms and prices for countries like AustraliaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese took a trip back in time during his much anticipated speech on artificial intelligence on Wednesday.Seeking to harness the momentous change

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‘Not up for grabs’: Albanese establishes AI office and vows to protect Australian creatives from copyright ‘theft’

PM lays out plan for datacentre development and rejects prospect tech companies will be given free use of Australian dataFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has promised “the strongest possible protection” for Australian creatives against misuse of their work by artificial

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Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts | Anil Seth

Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricaneFor centuries, humans have been fascinated by the prospect of creating artificial beings in our own image. Of developing synthetic minds and artificial bodies that not only think but also feel,

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