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The best fans to keep you cool: 14 tried and tested favourites to beat the heat

As temperatures soar across the UK, chill your space – and avoid energy-guzzling aircon – with our pick of the best fans, from tower to desk to bladeless• The best portable neck and handheld fansvOur world is getting hotter. Summer heatwaves are so frequent, they’re stretching the bounds of what we think of as summer. […]

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Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after £50m contract with Met police blocked

London mayor accused of ‘putting politics above public safety’ for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysisPalantir has accused Sadiq Khan of “putting politics above public safety” after the London mayor blocked its £50m contract with the Metropolitan police in a move that has also led to tensions inside Labour over its involvement with

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Trump postpones executive order on AI over China concerns – US politics live

The US president said he doesn’t ‘want to do anything to get in the way’ of tech firms competing with ChinaHouse Republicans canceled a scheduled Thursday vote on a war powers resolution aimed at ending the US war with Iran, a measure that likely would have advanced had the vote been held.Donald Trump has announced

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Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors

IPO filing from Elon Musk’s company reveals closer look at finances, cosmic ambitions and tech empire’s quirksSpaceX publicly released an investor prospectus on Wednesday as part of its plan for a $1.75tn debut on the US stock market next month, revealing unseen details about the finances and future plans of Elon Musk’s flagship company. In

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Microsoft Releases Fara1.5: A Family of Browser Computer-Use Agents (4B/9B/27B) That Outperform OpenAI Operator and Gemini 2.5 Computer Use on Online-Mind2Web

Microsoft Research’s AI Frontiers lab released Fara1.5. It is a family of computer-use agent (CUA) models for the browser. The release ships three sizes: Fara1.5-4B, Fara1.5-9B, and Fara1.5-27B. The models are integrated with MagenticLite, Microsoft’s sandboxed browser interface for these agents. Computer-use agents are pixel-to-action models that drive a real browser. They read screenshots and

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Build Recurrent-Depth Transformers with OpenMythos for MLA, GQA, Sparse MoE, and Loop-Scaled Reasoning

In this tutorial, we explore OpenMythos by building an advanced recurrent-depth transformer workflow that runs end-to-end in Google Colab. We create both MLA and GQA model variants, compare their parameter counts, and check the stability of the recurrent injection matrix through its spectral radius. We then move from simple forward and generation tests into a

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Qwen Introduces Qwen3.7-Max: A Reasoning Agent Model With a 1M-Token Context Window

Most AI models today are not designed for sustained, multi-step autonomous execution. Tasks like running hundreds of iterative code modifications, or chaining tool calls across hours without human intervention, require a different kind of model architecture and training focus. Alibaba’s Qwen team formally announced Qwen3.7-Max at the 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit on May 20. Although,

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Cohere Releases Command A+: A 218B Sparse MoE Model for Agentic Workflows That Runs on as Few as Two H100 GPUs

Cohere just released Command A+, as an open-source model targeting enterprise agentic workflows. Available under an Apache 2.0 license, Command A+ is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model built for high-performance agentic tasks with minimal compute overhead. The model is optimized for reasoning, agentic workflows, RAG, multilingual, and multimodal document processing. It unifies capabilities from four prior

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Spotify and Universal Music agree deal to let subscribers create AI remixes

Licensing agreement will allow listeners to use AI to create content on streaming platform for first timeSpotify and Universal Music Group have agreed on a deal that will allow subscribers to generate song covers and remixes using artificial intelligence.The licensing agreement is the first time the Swedish streaming company will allow listeners to use AI

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A musical Turing test for AI consciousness | Letters

Stephen Ladyman suggests a question to ask artificial intelligence systems, while John van Someren is suspicious of advice he got from the AI assistant ClaudeThere is a test that Prof Richard Dawkins might use to determine if artificial intelligence systems are conscious (Letters, 15 May). Ask them to name the best song.AI systems will tell

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