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Ant Group’s Robbyant Unveils LingBot-VA 2.0: A Causal Video-Action Model Built Natively for Physical AI

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Robbyant, the embodied AI unit inside Ant Group, has released the LingBot-VA 2.0.The first embodied-native foundation model. It describes a video-action foundation model for generalist robot manipulation. The research team pretrains the whole stack for embodiment instead of fine-tuning a video generator. What is LingBot-VA 2.0? Most video-action models reuse two components built for digital […]

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Apple sues OpenAI, alleging artificial intelligence company stole trade secrets

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Suit claims OpenAI poached Apple workers, coaxing them to share confidential material in bid to create hardwareApple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday alleging the artificial intelligence firm stole company trade secrets in a move to create its own hardware device.The suit claims OpenAI poached Apple employees, coaxing them to hand over confidential material,

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Kyutai Releases MuScriptor: An Open-Weight Decoder-Only Transformer for Multi-Instrument Music Transcription to MIDI

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Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) converts an audio recording into symbolic notes, usually MIDI. Single-instrument transcription already works reasonably well. However, transcribing a full multi-instrument mix stays difficult. Kyutai and Mirelo team now release MuScriptor to close that gap. It is an open-weight model trained on real, multi-instrument recordings across many genres. This article explains how

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How to Build a T4-Friendly Autonomous Data Science Agent with DeepAnalyze-8B, Sandboxed Code Execution, and Iterative Analysis

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In this tutorial, we build an autonomous data science agent around DeepAnalyze-8B and run it. We begin by preparing a stable runtime, installing the required machine-learning dependencies, and loading the DeepAnalyze tokenizer and model in 4-bit mode to keep the workflow practical on limited GPU memory. We then create a sandboxed execution environment that allows

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Netflix reportedly among parties in talks to buy Letterboxd

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Sony Pictures and Paramount are said to also be among potential buyers for the film-focused social platformLetterboxd is reportedly in talks with potential buyers.The owners of the popular social platform for movies are discussing a sale with companies including Netflix, Sony Pictures and Paramount, according to the industry newsletter Puck. Continue reading…

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Bank of England handed powers to regulate key tech firms including Amazon and Google

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Direct oversight of ‘critical third parties’ such as Oracle and Microsoft given to ensure resilient cyber-defences and help safeguard UK economyThe Bank of England has been handed powers to regulate important tech firms including Amazon and Google from next week, amid fears that system failures could threaten financial stability and harm consumers.From Monday, the Bank

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Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police

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Civil liberties groups say Facewatch system in stores such as Sainsbury’s and B&M is ‘dangerous escalation’Facial recognition technology in shops will soon alert police in real time to the presence of serious offenders, with civil liberties groups warning of a “dangerous escalation” towards surveillance and criminalisation in the retail sector.Facewatch, a facial recognition system used

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EU accuses Meta of failing to tackle mental health risks of ‘addictive design’

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Regulators say Facebook and Instagram features such as autoplay and infinite scroll contribute to ‘compulsive use’EU regulators have accused Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, of failing to tackle the risks of its “addictive design” on the physical and mental health of users.In an official charge sheet against Meta released on Friday, the European

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‘AI accountability agenda’: US senator unveils package of bills to curb tech’s harms

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Exclusive: Senator Ed Markey on why he has proposed legislation aimed at curbing datacenters, automated hiring systems and harm to childrenUS senator Ed Markey is worried about the perils of unregulated artificial intelligence.What part? All of it: the costs associated with thirsty, energy-guzzling datacenters, intrusive workplace surveillance, bias in discriminatory algorithms, AI overriding workers’ judgments,

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Reeves to launch City ‘skills compact’ committing firms to retrain staff in AI

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Exclusive: Plan to improve skills of thousands of financial sector workers to keep pace with tech revolutionChancellor Rachel Reeves is to announce a new City “skills compact” that will commit firms such as Barclays and Lloyds to retraining thousands of financial sector workers for the AI revolution.The financial services skills compact will be launched on

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