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The death of ‘hello’: how gen Z – and scammers – put paid to the greeting

If you’re called by an unidentified number, the advice is to remain silent until you’re sure there’s a human being on the line. Is this the end of an era?Name: Hello.Age: 200 years old. Continue reading…

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Pixel 11 review: Google sets the bar for standard flagship phones

Longer battery life, faster chip, actually useful AI tools and better cameras keep quality Android ahead of competitionGoogle’s Pixel 11 continues to set the standard for what you should expect from the base model of a flagship phone with class-leading cameras, long software support and almost all the bells and whistles of its most expensive

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IFM Releases K2 Horizon: Six Apache 2.0 Models From 0.9B to 375B

Most open model launches release one checkpoint and a benchmark table. The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) released something wider last week. IFM is the frontier lab launched by MBZUAI in May 2025. K2 Horizon is a fleet of six models: 375B-A23B, 36B-A4B, 32B, 7B, 3.7B and 0.9B. Shipping alongside them are the pre-training corpus,

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Designers should not fear being replaced by AI, industry leaders say

Firms are more likely to use technology as ‘the intern in the office’ than as a replacement for skilled staffProfessional designers should not feel “threatened” by the rapid growth of generative AI, according to business leaders, despite fears over job losses in the sector.With design and film production companies and manufacturers all adopting AI at

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Why Meta started losing in court – podcast

Katy McQue, who has spent years reporting on Meta and the potential harms its platforms pose to children, explains the tactics being used by prosecutorsFor years, the investigative journalist Katy McQue has been reporting on the potential harms Meta’s platforms pose to children.Yet, as she explains to Annie Kelly, despite the mountain of evidence compiled

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H Company Releases NeoMME: A Family of 260M and 800M Single-Tower Multimodal Encoders That Drop the Vision Tower and Causal Decoder

Most visual document retrievers in production today are hand-me-downs. ColPali and the models that followed it take a generative vision-language model and repurpose it as an encoder. The result still carries a separately pretrained vision tower and a causal decoder that never generates a token. That is parameter and compute overhead for a task that

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Meta FAIR Introduces AI Research Preference Models (RPMs): Ranking ML Experiments Before Spending GPU Hours

AI research agents can already propose, implement and score their own machine learning experiments. Idea generation is cheap; verification is not. Training one candidate can consume hours to days of GPU time, so an agent proposes far more candidates than it can afford to run. Which ones get run is the real lever on research

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Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus

Consumers are increasingly encountering AI-generated images on food menus such as leathery meat and bread resembling reptile skinDuring a recent lunch break, Jill Sennett saw something so unappetizing she had to share it with her 26,000 X followers: Artificial intelligence-generated menu images from a Jamaican barbecue pop-up restaurant in which the meats looked like leather

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Ninja Artisan electric pizza oven review: so good it might even convert the purists

Affordable, fast-heating and with a clever air fryer function, this versatile model is a winner for outdoor cooks who are willing to give up the traditional flame• The best pizza ovens – tested• Gozney Dome Gen 2 pizza oven reviewAn electric pizza oven with no flame and no need to rotate the pizza may seem

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I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI

A Dr Seuss-style story written in seconds alerted me to the power – and perils – of the technology. But how can children embrace it without forgetting core skills?When I was growing up, my dad and I often talked about a story we wanted to write together. It was called “The Day Nobody Went to

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