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The return of Westworld is perfect timing for the flattery-oriented age of AI

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Now that real life has caught up with science fiction, the imminent danger isn’t malfunctioning cowboys, it’s the robots convincing us that we’re great and everything is totally fineAll the best science fiction movies eventually get overtaken by reality. Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report predicted personalised advertising and biometric identification. Spike Jonze’s Her correctly guessed that […]

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NVIDIA Introduces a 4-Bit Pretraining Methodology Using NVFP4, Validated on a 12B Hybrid Mamba-Transformer at 10T Token Horizon

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Pretraining frontier-scale LLMs in FP8 is now standard practice, but moving to 4-bit floating point has remained an open research problem because narrower formats compress dynamic range and amplify quantization error at long token horizons. A new research from NVIDIA describes a pretraining methodology built around NVFP4, a 4-bit microscaling format supported natively by Blackwell

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Nothing Phone 4a Pro review: premium aluminium meets quirky design

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Mid-range Android stands out with huge screen, slick software and dot-matrix display, but falls just short of greatnessNothing’s latest quirky smartphone is a huge aluminium Android with three cameras and a big LED matrix screen on the back that challenges the notion mid-range phones can’t be just a bit more fun.The Phone 4a Pro is

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More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity

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Requests for gas connections by operators amount to more than 15 terawatt hours per year, endangering climate targetsMore than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, some potentially doing so permanently.British officials say this is an inevitable consequence of a years-long wait to connect to the National Grid, and

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A Coding Implementation to Compress and Benchmark Instruction-Tuned LLMs with FP8, GPTQ, and SmoothQuant Quantization using llmcompressor

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In this tutorial, we explore how to apply post-training quantization to an instruction-tuned language model using llmcompressor. We start with an FP16 baseline and then compare multiple compression strategies, including FP8 dynamic quantization, GPTQ W4A16, and SmoothQuant with GPTQ W8A8. Along the way, we benchmark each model variant for disk size, generation latency, throughput, perplexity,

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The Guardian view on policing the internet: Ofcom must pusher harder on illegal content | Editorial

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Jess Phillips’ frustration about online safety highlights the alarming reluctance to confront big techThe £950,000 fine imposed by Ofcom on a US-based suicide forum that is implicated in over 160 UK deaths marks an intensification of the regulator’s efforts to make the internet safer. Campaigners against online harms, including relatives of people who have taken

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Rowing through the fog: how to increase your tolerance for uncertainty

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Journalist Simone Stolzoff in a new book explores why modern life makes not knowing harder – and how to learn to live with itSimone Stolzoff describes himself as “naturally an uncertain person” inclined to rumination and self-doubt. This tendency benefits him in his work as a journalist, but can otherwise be a double-edged sword.While working

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‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters

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Known for his ‘Manitowoc Minute’ skits and midwestern humor, the journalist turned comedian is speaking out against the AI datacenter boom in WisconsinLast summer, journalist turned comedian Charlie Berens started getting social media messages from concerned Wisconsin residents about plans for a massive datacenter campus in their state.The developer, Vantage Data Centers, claimed the $8

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Vercel Labs Introduces Zero, a Systems Programming Language Designed So AI Agents Can Read, Repair, and Ship Native Programs

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Most programming languages were designed for humans who read error messages, interpret warnings, and manually trace through stack output to fix bugs. AI agents do none of those things well. They work better with structured data: predictable tokens, stable codes, and machine-parseable repair hints. That gap is what Vercel Labs is trying to close by

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Tech founders use AI-generated images to poke fun at Anthony Albanese in protest against tax changes

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‘He’s having a great time with his new 47% equity,’ one entrepreneur jokes, warning that some startups may leave Australia behindGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTech entrepreneurs have mocked the government’s capital gains tax changes by posting AI-generated photos of Anthony Albanese as their “new founder” and warning that increased

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