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1-0 to humankind? US midterms vote puts AI, datacentres and the broligarchy back in their box | Heather Stewart

Election results appear to have turbo-charged an already growing social, political and financial market rethink about AI‘AI clog’: UK battles onslaught of chatbot-generated complaintsEditorial: the AI backlash – Silicon Valley’s political power is crackingLast week’s midterms may not have cowed Donald Trump, but they should be a wake-up call for the grinning tech broligarchs who

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The efficiency trap: why optimising everything can backfire, badly

From roundabouts to the stock market, relentless streamlining could be making the world more dangerousWe have all been there: packed shoulder to shoulder on the train while the person beside us coughs and sneezes. A protective flu jab offers some reassurance, but so does the thought that there will be a hospital bed for you,

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Google AI Releases Elephant-Goldfish Model Plugin for Spec-First Coding

Google has open-sourced the Elephant-Goldfish Model (EGM) plugin, a design-and-review layer for AI coding agents. The Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin makes an agent write a specification before it writes code. Fresh subagents with no conversation history then attack that spec. Google says thousands of its engineers use it. It is quite simple: catch wrong assumptions in

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Which Routing Does Each MoE Model Use? DeepSeek, Qwen, Mixtral, Llama 4, gpt-oss Compared

Open Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models share one idea but disagree on almost every routing detail. Expert counts range from 8 to 384. Top-k ranges from 1 to 8. Some models keep an always-on shared expert; others drop it. TL;DR Size: 10 models, from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (35B total, 3B active) to DeepSeek-V4-Pro (1.6T total, 49B active). Runs on:

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‘AI clog’: UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints

MPs, local authorities, lawyers, schools and more are receiving floods of grievances, requests and legal challenges, often complex to read and respond to“It started as a trickle in 2024 and now it’s an onslaught.” Hollie Wickens, a senior caseworker in a Labour MP’s office, is explaining the daily reality of dealing with surging volumes of

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MoE Routing Strategies Explained: Top-K, Expert-Choice, Sigmoid Gating and Dynamic Routing (2026 Guide)

Every Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model repeats one decision for every token: which experts should process it. That decision belongs to the router. MoE routing strategies shape quality, load balance and serving cost in every major open model. This guide explains the 7 routing strategies used in production, and the models that use each one. TL;DR Size:

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Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6bn heist: are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic?

As AI exposes flaws in IT systems and geopolitics plays out on the cyber frontline, some experts say the events of recent weeks could soon be a common occurenceAlex Pearce was doing the morning rounds at his fruit and vegetable wholesale business in London on Monday last week when he noticed something odd.The defrost light

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Ukraine’s new frontier: how space has become critical to balance of the war

In a war driven by drones and battlefield sensors, access to space is essential. After Starlink speed restrictions and Russian Oreshnik missile strikes, Kyiv is racing to develop its own space capabilitiesFor people in the Russian industrial city of Samara on the banks of the Volga, the first they knew of the Ukrainian attack were

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Nous Research Releases Arete-27B that Cuts Qwen3.8-27B Propaganda From 22% to 0.9%

Nous Research has released Arete-27B, a supervised fine-tune of Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B. Arete-27B is a 27B open-weight model that strips Chinese state framing from Qwen’s answers. On Nous’s own 803-prompt eval, answers containing propaganda fell from 22% to 0.9%. Developers get Qwen-class agentic skill without state-aligned answers. The weights, eval and training data are all public.

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FAA announces first US digital air traffic control towers in Florida and Alaska

Systems provide 360-degree view of airport operations, but concerns have been raised about the technologyThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that the first digital air traffic control towers in the US are officially operational, bringing new technology first to smaller airports in Florida and Alaska as the Trump administration presses ahead with updating the

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