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Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal

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Semi-conductor giant bets that support for open AI models could offset potential slowdown in demand for chipsNvidia will buy the popular developer platform Hugging Face for nearly $13bn, betting that support for ⁠open AI models could offset a potential slowdown in demand for the semiconductor giant’s chips.Shares ⁠in Nvidia were ⁠slightly lower ​after the $12.93bn […]

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Black Box: The Chatbots | 14 days | Ep 2 – podcast

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Virginia man Jon Ganz was rebuilding his life after spending more than two decades in prison for a horrific crime. Last year, he got a prompt on his phone that his wife, Rachel, believes changed their lives forever. It was from Google, inviting him to try the company’s AI chatbot, Gemini Continue reading…

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Black Box: The Chatbots | Spirals | Ep 1 – podcast

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Across the world, hundreds of people have come to believe they have made extraordinary scientific discoveries with AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Others say their AI has ‘awakened’, or is leading them to a higher spiritual realm. The Guardian journalist Michael Safi begins investigating a phenomenon labelled ‘AI psychosis’, travelling to the

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Apocalypse prep or pure pragmatism: what is behind Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina?

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Relocation coincides with proposed laws that opponents say would entrench power of US tech billionaires in countryDozens of protesters converged on Peter Thiel’s mansion in Buenos Aires this week after a congressional session raised questions about the billionaire’s presence in the country.In white masks, they held signs saying “Peter Thief” and “No to the Peter

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Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images

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Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced ‘any naked underage images’A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images that depict her.“Using real images of Plaintiff and class members, Grok generated child pornography depicting Plaintiff

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Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa’s nature reserves

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As graduates of an online training course gather from across the continent, the consensus is overwhelming: computers and saving animals go togetherOn a bitingly cold night in Lapalala Wilderness nature reserve in South Africa’s Limpopo province, Duncan Kanyakera watches as instructor Jacques Viljoen deploys a thermal drone in search of a lone cheetah. Once the

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China’s demise was gleefully predicted by the west – meanwhile, it built an AI revolution | Larry Elliott

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Free AI models that are as good as the investment-hungry US versions will disrupt global markets, and offer Britain a lessonAlmost from the moment it began, the end of the Chinese economic miracle has been much anticipated. Thick and fast, the books have come explaining how it will end badly. Overinvestment. A country wallowing in

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Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon

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Perplexity has open sourced Lily, the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer. It is a single-process runtime: a Rust layer loads the checkpoint and drives the generation loop, an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API streams tokens, and hand-written Metal kernels execute the model. Neither PyTorch nor MLX sits in the execution path. Lily is

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London’s first self-driving taxis for hire hit the streets

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Wayve robotaxis added to Uber app and will have human in front ready to take over if needed – but only 15 cars licensedLondoners are now able to hire self-driving taxis for the first time, after rides in Wayve’s autonomous vehicles were added to the Uber app on Thursday.The chances of landing a robotaxi on

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Qwen Developers Open-Sources zg (zvec-grep): A Local-First Search Layer Unifying ripgrep, BM25, and Vector Search

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Coding agents spend a large share of their tool budget on search. When the target is a known symbol, ripgrep answers it exactly. When the target is a behavior described in plain language, keyword matching often misses, and the agent falls back to guessing terms, reading whole files, and assembling context by hand. Each of

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