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UK risks falling behind in AI race without faster telecoms upgrades, say executives

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Planning delays and slow 5G upgrades could leave the UK unable to cope with a surge in AI-related traffic The UK risks becoming a laggard in the global AI race as crucial telecoms upgrades to harness the technology fall behind rival nations, according to senior industry executives.The infrastructure AI race has centred on the need […]

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Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: A $399 Open-Source 25 cm Biped You Train with Reinforcement Learning

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Most robotics launches ask you to trust a demo video. Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux robotics team at Hugging Face, is instead shipping the training loop. This week it opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25 cm bipedal robot in which every movement — walking, sitting, kicking, roller-skating, standing back up after a fall — is a

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Faster, higher, funnier: what we learned from China’s robot games

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Five-day showcase reveals leaps Beijing has made in humanoid tech, but also its limitations as US rivals come up from the rearWith exploding pelvises, enough comic pratfalls for a Buster Keaton show reel and the odd moment of ruthless violence, the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing gripped the world this week with an unsettling

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GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture

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Two frontier open-weight models shipped within a day of each other this week. Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter multimodal MoE model with 18B active parameters. Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B model with 6B active parameters that previews the Qwen4 architecture. The two teams designed these systems independently. Yet their configs read like near-copies

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I dug through hundreds of Labor Day sales to find real deals on high-quality products that last

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Prepare for autumn with our favorite end-of-season deals on staples including leaf blowers, blankets and beddingCollege grads share the room essentials that weathered the dormSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsLabor Day offers one last hurrah for summer, a chance to reset for fall, and if you’re

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Vercel AI Open-Sources vgpu: A TypeScript WebGPU Library for AI Agent Shaders

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Shaders are still the hardest thing to ship on a normal web team. WebGPU gives you the hardware, then hands you adapters, bind group layouts, and pipeline descriptors before a single pixel moves. Vercel spent that cost internally building the shaders on vercel.com, and has now open-sourced the result. vgpu is a TypeScript library that

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Labour rejects Zack Polanski’s call to ‘slam brakes’ on building AI datacentres

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Government says Green leader’s proposed moratorium on ‘energy-guzzling’ AI projects would be disaster for economyLabour has rejected calls to pause construction of major AI infrastructure in Britain after the Green party leader, Zack Polanski, said it was time to “slam the brakes on these energy-guzzling, water-guzzling datacentres”.The government hit back at the opposition party’s proposal

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The tussle over Australian datacentres is just beginning – and it’s been far from easy so far | Tom McIlroy

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As he negotiates Australia’s AI future, the prime minister is under pressure from leaders of conservative states and territoriesAustralian Politics podcast: Who actually benefits from new datacentres in Australia?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTucked away at the end of a media release from the Australian Energy Market Operator this week

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Nicola Coughlan and Matt Lucas among stars backing campaign against AI voice cloning

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About 80 people sign open letter to Andy Burnham calling for legislation to protect voice ownershipNicola Coughlan, Hugh Bonneville and Matt Lucas are among a raft of actors backing a campaign against artificial intelligence (AI) voice cloning.Save Our Voices Now, which is also being supported by Luke Evans, Jen Brister, Siobhán McSweeney and Pearl Mackie,

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Google AI Releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: A Speech-to-Text Model Reporting 2.6% Average WER Across 85+ Languages

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Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model for real-time voice interfaces and recorded audio. It ships as two endpoints, not one. gemini-3.5-transcribe handles pre-recorded files through the Interactions API. gemini-3.5-transcribe-live handles bidirectional streaming through the Live API. Google reports average word error rates of 4.0% streaming and 2.6% non-streaming, as measured by Artificial

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