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Meet WebBrain: An Open-Source, Local-First AI Browser Agent That Reads Pages and Automates Tasks in Chrome and Firefox

WebBrain is a free, open-source browser agent for Chrome and Firefox. It reads pages, extracts data, and automates multi-step tasks. Unlike most browser AI plugins, it can also run entirely on a local model. It is built by Emre Sokullu and licensed under MIT. The full source lives on GitHub.  Run the agent against a […]

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Interfaze Ships diffusion-gemma-asr-small, an Open-Source Diffusion ASR Model Transcribing Six Languages via DiffusionGemma’s Parallel Denoising Decoder

Interfaze, a young YC’s startup, has open-sourced a new speech recognition model. It is called diffusion-gemma-asr-small. The model transcribes audio through a diffusion decoder, not an autoregressive one. It is described as the first multilingual audio diffusion ASR model. One adapter handles six languages. The research team trained only about 42M parameters on top of

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3,000% bonuses but a growing wealth divide: South Korea grapples with its AI chip boom

Powered by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, South Korea is seeing a surge in wealth, but there are questions over who gets to share in the profitsWhen South Korea’s most high-profile divorce case returned to court last month, the lawyers were arguing not just about the breakdown of a relationship, but also the exact

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‘Don’t kill music’: Anthony Albanese’s favourite bands beg PM to stop AI companies from stealing their work

A potential deal with the government would allow international tech companies to mine the creative work of Australian musicians. Some of the prime minister’s favourite artists told the Guardian how they feel about itCreatives sound alarm on copyright as Pocock calls $50bn datacentre proposal ‘ultimate dirty deal’Big tech companies are asking for Australian copyright laws

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RAG-Anything Tutorial: Build a Multimodal Retrieval Pipeline for Text, Tables, Equations, and Images in Colab

In this tutorial, we build a RAG-Anything workflow and use it to explore how multimodal retrieval works across text, tables, equations, and images. We start by preparing the Colab environment, installing the required packages, and securely entering our OpenAI API key at runtime to keep the notebook practical and safe to run. We then create

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Lisa Nandy quits X over fears Musk-owned site pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’

Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concerns over far-right content fuelling violence and divisionThe UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”, Lisa Nandy has announced.The culture secretary’s department is the UK’s second to quit the Elon Musk-owned platform

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Tesla sales surpass expectations for second quarter as Musk backlash seems to cool

Strong figures suggest Tesla’s auto business is regaining momentum after two straight annual sales declinesTesla blew past ​Wall Street estimates for second-quarter deliveries on Thursday, posting a record for the period as recovering demand in Europe outweighed persistent weakness in North America.The strong figures suggest Tesla’s ⁠mainstay auto business is regaining momentum after two straight

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Bitcoin firm advertised by Nigel Farage loses 15% of asset value

Exclusive: Finance experts warn against investing in bitcoin treasury companies after Stack BTC assets plungeA bitcoin company that Nigel Farage has advertised lost more than 15% of its asset value, prompting finance experts to warn investors against those types of firms.The Reform UK leader has invested £215,000 in a bitcoin treasury company named Stack BTC.

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The Google Health API Got a CLI: ghealth is an Open-Source Tool for Your Fitbit Air Data

The Google Health API is the official successor to the Fitbit Web API. It targets the Google Health API v4 and moves developers onto Google OAuth 2.0. Now an open-source CLI command-line tool called ghealth wraps that API for terminals and AI agents. The tool is a single Go binary under the Apache 2.0 license.

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OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’

CEO Sam Altman argued move would share benefits of AI and it would involve other firms doing similar, report saysBusiness live – latest updatesOpenAI is reportedly in early stage talks to give a 5% stake in the ChatGPT developer to the US government as artificial intelligence companies attempt to smooth relations with Donald Trump’s administration.The

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