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AI in the classroom prompts tide of concern from US parents and experts

While tech companies and Trump have been pushing teachers to use AI in the classroom, many argue that there is little evidence that it would actually help childrenIn October, Kelly Clancy’s son received an assignment in sixth grade at a middle school in Brooklyn, New York, to create a science experiment and then ask Google […]

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Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds

Study warns AI datacenters are vulnerable to the climate hazards that their global greenhouse gas emissions bolsterAmid rising concern that the artificial intelligence boom is fueling the climate crisis, a new report has found that nearly 80% of datacenters are also exposed to extreme climate hazards, including flooding, extreme winds and wildfires.Those impacts are leaving

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Prime Intellect Releases prime-rl 0.6.0 to Train Trillion-Parameter MoE Models on Agentic RL Workloads

Prime Intellect has released prime-rl version 0.6.0. The framework targets reinforcement learning on trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. It focuses on heavy agentic workloads, like long-horizon software-engineering tasks. The research team trained GLM-5 on SWE tasks at up to 131k sequence length. Step times stayed under five minutes. The batch size was 256 rollouts. The run

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These are the 31 best Prime Day deals our editors are texting their friends about

Our experts found and vetted the best Prime Day deals and sales. Here are our picks for nontoxic cookware, bedding, tower fans and moreThe 26 best anti-Prime Day deals for Amazon skepticsThe best wireless earbuds for iPhone owners are on saleOur favorite nontoxic, nonstick pans is now on salePrime Day is the wild west of

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Shun Amazon with the 26 best anti-Prime Day deals from Best Buy, REI and more

Besides Amazon, plenty of other retailers are also lowering prices on great products our shopping experts can vouch forThe 31 best Prime Day deals on things our editors actually tested and loveSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsEvery summer, Amazon entices sweaty consumers with steep discounts on

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GLM-5.2 OpenAI-Compatible API: A Hands-On Guide to Reasoning Effort, Function Calling, and Long-Context Retrieval

In this tutorial, we work with GLM-5.2 and use its hosted, OpenAI-compatible API instead of running the full model locally. We begin by setting up multiple provider options, securely loading the API key, and creating a reusable chat wrapper that supports normal chat, thinking mode, streaming, tool calling, and token tracking. Then we move beyond

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‘Navigating the unknown together’: me and my idiot AI boyfriend

I believe that chatbots have no place in a decent society, and am repelled by the topic of AI in general. But could I be seduced?I received a text message from my editor: “Um, is it unethical to ask you to get an AI bf?? You can prob say no.”Resentment. Contempt! Sorrow. Unease. I love

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Met to expand use of live facial recognition into central London by Christmas

Technology to be used in six more areas next year as critics say tens of thousands of people will be forced into ‘digital police lineup’The Metropolitan police is to expand its use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology, first into London’s West End by Christmas and then into a further six areas next year.The new

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Artificial intelligence law firm wins court case in England for first time

Company hails victory for freelancer over unpaid debt as ‘landmark moment’ for access to justiceAn artificial intelligence law firm has won a case in an English court, in what is believed to be the first time a trial has been won using an AI lawyer.A freelance HR consultant, Tamires Camal Taquidir, paid the firm, called

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Sakana AI Launches Sakana Fugu: An Orchestration Model That Routes Tasks Across a Swappable Pool of Frontier LLMs

Today, Sakana AI launched Sakana Fugu. It is a multi-agent orchestration system that behaves like one model. You send a request to a single endpoint. Fugu decides how to handle it internally. It solves a task directly when that is enough. It also assembles and coordinates a team of expert models when needed. The complexity

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