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Young men report more ‘sextortion’ than any other age group, Australia’s online safety watchdog says

In six months last year, more than 2,000 such complaints were made to eSafetyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA new report by Australia’s online safety regulator has found “significant gaps” in how major tech platforms tackle online sexual extortion and child sexual exploitation, as “reports of this abuse continue to […]

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Stanford Researchers Introduce TRACE: A Capability-Targeted Agentic Training System That Turns Recurrent Agent Failures Into Synthetic RL Environment

Agentic LLMs often fail the same way, again and again. A Stanford research team traced this to missing, reusable capabilities. Their system, TRACE, diagnoses those gaps and trains for them directly. TRACE stands for Turning Recurrent Agent failures into Capability-targeted training Environments. It was released open-source under an MIT license. What problem does TRACE solve?

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Prime Intellect Releases Verifiers v1: Composable Tasksets, Harnesses, and Runtimes for Agentic RL Training and Evaluations

Prime Intellect launched verifiers 0.2.0. It previews a rewritten core, shipped under the new verifiers.v1 namespace. Modern evaluations now run coding agents with tools, compaction, and subagents. Accordingly, v1 rebuilds environments to run these agentic workloads at scale. What is verifiers v1? First, consider what verifiers is: Prime Intellect’s environment stack for agentic reinforcement learning

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Is the most popular song played on Australian radio stations the product of generative AI?

Josh Fawaz’s song, a cover of Like a Prayer, has raised questions over how generative AI is being used in music and whether it should be declaredAn Australian producer has gone from a little-known artist to a viral sensation in a matter of months, with his hit song catapulting onto global charts and receiving thousands

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China’s massive AI rollout – podcast

Senior China correspondent Amy Hawkins on China’s embrace of AI, from medical avatars to food delivery drones and state surveillanceWhile the spread of AI has been met perhaps with a lot of scepticism in the west, China has fully embraced the technology, explains Amy Hawkins, from millions of users talking to AI doctors, to the

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Christopher Nolan says people ‘disdain’ AI and the idea it will replace humans is ‘nonsense’

Odyssey director addresses industry fears over artificial intelligence and says rightwing criticism of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy is ‘irrelevant’The Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan believes the kind of movies he makes – big-budget action films shot mostly on location – would survive the spread of artificial intelligence, a technology he says many people “disdain”.The

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Meet NeuroVFM: A New Neuroimaging Foundation Model Trained With Vol-JEPA on Uncurated Clinical MRI and CT Volumes

Frontier models learn mostly from public internet data. However, clinical neuroimaging rarely appears there, because MRI and CT scans contain identifiable facial features. Consequently, general models underperform on brain-imaging tasks. A University of Michigan research team addresses this gap with NeuroVFM, published in Nature Medicine. What is NeuroVFM? At its core, NeuroVFM is a generalist

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Guide to Loop Engineering: How ‘autoresearch’ and ‘Bilevel Autoresearch’ Turn AI Agents Into Autonomous Machine Learning ML Research Loops

Most people still use AI like a 2015 search box. You type, you read, you type again. A newer pattern replaces that manual back-and-forth with a loop. This guide explains loop engineering using two verified artifacts. The sources are Andrej Karpathy’s autoresearch repository and the Bilevel Autoresearch paper. The framing follows a write-up by @0xCodila.

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‘These are some of the most complex structures ever created’: how tech reporting moved into the physical world

The Guardian’s global tech reporting team are investigating the impact of the vast datacentres being built to power the AI revolution. We spoke to them about how their beat has become increasingly offlineJournalists often use the term “shoe-leather reporting” to refer to the on-the-ground legwork that goes into covering certain stories. As the tech industry’s

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CurrentBody Multi Light Therapy LED mask review: hands down the best I’ve tested

With five light modes targeting everything from fine lines to blemishes and pigmentation, CurrentBody’s latest mask promises a lot – and so does its price tag• The best LED face masksI’ve been testing LED masks for a couple of years now, and the CurrentBody Series 2 red-light face mask has long been my favourite option

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