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As people grow used to AI chatbots, we’d like to hear your views about Google’s search engineGoogle has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from […]
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Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyondIn a village 21 miles north of Edinburgh, a real estate consultancy plans to build a datacentre larger than the village itself – 35 metres high, with an area larger than 100 football pitches.Billed as the second-biggest datacentre in the world, the
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More than 3,000 products were shown at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing as China showcased its rapidly growing robotics industry.The event, which ran from 19-23 August, showcased the latest advances across the robotics industry, from humanoid robots to embodied intelligence and cutting-edge components Continue reading…
Information extraction teams face a recurring choice. Small encoder models are cheap but rigid, and large language models are flexible but expensive per document. Fastino released GLiNER2.5 to narrow that gap. The release replaces span enumeration with boundary prediction: the model scores where an entity starts and ends instead of scoring every candidate span against
London and Kyiv in deal to help stop protesters and hostile states targeting military bases and critical infrastructureAI models trained on Ukrainian battlefield data will be used to stop protesters and foreign states targeting UK defence sites, railways and energy plants under a deal struck between London and Kyiv.Private companies will also be given access
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Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns a new physical task from a single demonstration. Drop 3–12 seconds of sensorimotor data into its 30-second context window, and the robot performs the task. No gradient updates, no fine-tuning, no task-specific programming. Across 10 diverse manipulation tasks, this one-shot in-context prompting averaged 59%
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
A team from Google Research and USC has released Mobility-Embedded POIs (ME-POIs), a framework that folds aggregate human movement into text-based place embeddings. The premise is that language models describe what a place is, but not how it is used. Two coffee shops can share a category, an address block, and a text vector, while
Dutch sustainable smartphone revamped with new chip and more RAM without sacrificing modular designFairphone’s top Android for 2026 is a little faster with more memory while maintaining full compatibility with its previous phone, including its repairable and ethical chops.The Fairphone 6+ continues the Dutch cooperative’s mission to make consumer electronics longer lasting and more sustainable,
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The ‘neocloud’ label now covers five companies with very different business models. CoreWeave and Nebius are public companies that publish quarterly results and file reports with the SEC (CoreWeave on Form 10-Q, Nebius as a foreign private issuer on Form 6-K). Lambda and Crusoe are private and heading toward IPOs. Groq has run GroqCloud on
