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ICE reliance on Microsoft technology surged amid immigration crackdown, documents show

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Exclusive: ICE more than tripled the amount of data stored in Microsoft’s cloud at the same time that its arsenal of surveillance technology balloonedImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deepened its reliance on Microsoft’s cloud technology last year as the agency ramped up arrest and deportation operations, leaked documents reveal.ICE more than tripled the amount of […]

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Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert

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Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interestThe race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters global confidence in the technology, a leading researcher has warned.Michael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, said the

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How to Automate Data Validation and Find the Best Tools for Monitoring Research Integrity

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As artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) accelerate the pace of discovery, research teams are grappling with an unprecedented surge in data volume, velocity and complexity. What once could be validated through manual checks now spans millions of records, diverse sources and automated pipelines.  ” The risk is that systemic issues can propagate

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Spain to investigate social media firms over AI-generated child sexual abuse material

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PM says action is looking at potential criminal liability in order to protect children and end ‘impunity’ of online platformsThe Spanish government will ask prosecutors to investigate the social media companies X, Meta and TikTok to determine whether they have committed criminal offences by allegedly allowing their AI to generate and disseminate child sexual abuse

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12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us

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San Francisco’s AI startups are pushing workers to grind endlessly, hinting at pressures soon hitting other sectorsNot long after the terms “996” and “grindcore” entered the popular lexicon, people started telling me stories about what was happening at startups in San Francisco, ground zero for the artificial intelligence economy. There was the one about the

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Starmer vows to fast-track social media law but says under-16s ban not definite

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Prime minister says action will be taken on young people’s social media access in ‘months, not years’What social media restrictions has Keir Starmer announced?Keir Starmer has pledged action on young people’s access to social media in “months, not years”, while saying this did not necessarily mean a complete ban on access for under-16s.Speaking at an

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Agoda Open Sources APIAgent to Convert Any REST pr GraphQL API into an MCP Server with Zero Code

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Building AI agents is the new gold rush. But every developer knows the biggest bottleneck: getting the AI to actually communicate to your data. Today, travel giant Agoda is tackling this problem head-on. They have officially launched APIAgent, an open-source tool designed to turn any REST or GraphQL API into a Model Context Protocol (MCP)

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Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing

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Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferateTech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report.Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not

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Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan

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By trusting the US, we handed Trump a kill switch. Yet Europe’s digital sovereignty is an achievable goalThe French judge Nicolas Guillou knows exactly how deep Europe’s dependence on US tech is. Guillou and his colleagues at the international criminal court are under US sanctions. They can no longer use e-commerce, book hotels online or

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Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.5-397B MoE Model with 17B Active Parameters and 1M Token Context for AI agents

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Alibaba Cloud just updated the open-source landscape. Today, the Qwen team released Qwen3.5, the newest generation of their large language model (LLM) family. The most powerful version is Qwen3.5-397B-A17B. This model is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) system. It combines massive reasoning power with high efficiency. Qwen3.5 is a native vision-language model. It is designed specifically

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