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AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper

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Exclusive: Foreign secretary warns of combined risks of AI, climate crisis, irregular migration and foreign interferenceArtificial intelligence poses a “Hiroshima”-style risk to humanity if governments do not agree to curb how it is developed, the foreign secretary has warned.Yvette Cooper urged countries, including the US and China, to agree international rules for AI, telling the […]

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What’s Kylie’s favourite masking tape? How does Lena Dunham train pigs? It’s all out there – and I’m loving it | Emma Beddington

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The more I learn about celebrities and their odd passions, the more encouraged I am. So much for AI drowning us in a flood of bland ‘tasteslop’The internet, as we know, is now a depressing hellhole where everything is a terrifying shot of cortisol straight into the eyeballs or AI slop, interspersed with adverts for

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LlamaIndex ‘legal-kb’: Agentic Retrieval over Index v2 with retrieve, find, read, and grep Tools

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LlamaIndex has published legal-kb, a public reference application on GitHub. It is described as a knowledge base for legal documents, powered by LlamaIndex Index v2 (the LlamaParse Platform). The project demonstrates a pattern the team calls a Retrieval Harness for agentic retrieval. The approach differs from single-shot retrieval. Instead of one embedding search per query,

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From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars heat up

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Cooling down has become political amid record highs, as experts say row is distracting from work of protecting livesAs the afternoon heat rose to a dizzying 41.7C (107F) in eastern Brandenburg on Sunday, taking German temperatures to unprecedented highs, Mario, 65, took precautions but did not panic. Two years ago, a fierce heatwave had prompted

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Structured PDF-to-JSON: A Guide to Open-Source Extraction Models in 2026

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Most enterprise data still sits inside PDFs, scans, and slide decks. Large language models and agents cannot use that data until it becomes structured JSON. Open-source document extraction has become the standard way to do that conversion on your own hardware. Two different problems hide under the phrase ‘PDF to JSON.’ The first is schema-driven

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NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services

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Update in England expected to reach about 200,000 patients over the next year as part of £10bn package to overhaul NHS systemsThe NHS will begin using AI on its app to direct patients to the appropriate services, it has been announced.The tool will be used to triage patients and to ascertain if they should be

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Doctors’ soaring use of AI scribes prompts Australian government warning over privacy

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Exclusive: With the technology fast becoming popular in GP surgeries, regulators are monitoring its implementation and potential pitfallsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal health department has raised concerns about the use of AI scribes by doctors as the health regulator considers the need for safeguards around the technology.AI scribe

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NVIDIA HORIZON: A Hands-Free Agent that Evolves Git Worktrees and Hits 100% RTL Benchmark Completion

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NVIDIA Research introduced HORIZON, a hands-free agent framework for hardware design. It treats hardware design as repository-level code evolution. This research team exercises the register-transfer level (RTL) instantiation. A structured Markdown harness becomes a project pack. A self-contained agent loop then evolves an isolated git worktree. It commits a version only when an executable acceptance

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OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over Stargate UK project

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Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypotheticalIt was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK – a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project – would represent “a major step forward in the US-UK technology partnership”.But the plans were paused in

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As auto costs rise, will the US miss the golden age of electric vehicles?

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Shifting demands and political ideology have left the industry vulnerable to global competition from cheap Chinese carsEarlier this month, an intriguing new Detroit-based electric vehicle startup hit the market – Slate Auto, a Jeff Bezos-backed venture offering something US buyers rarely see these days – a pick up truck billed as “affordable”.Its base price is

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