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Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent | Rafael Behr

We need an enlightened US president to make the case for global AI regulation. Donald Trump is the exact opposite of what is neededWhen I am woken by the sound of my dog whining, I understand that she is hungry and wants me to get up. When my alarm clock goes off, I don’t consider […]

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Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union bossThe software group Palantir paid just £2m in corporation tax in the UK in 2024, despite holding public sector contracts worth hundreds of millions, thanks to tax breaks that are likely to reduce its contributions to governments around

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CopilotKit Open Sources Channels SDK: An MIT Licensed Library That Runs Any AG-UI Agent Inside Slack And Microsoft Teams

CopilotKit has just released the Channels SDK. It is an open source library that puts an existing agent inside a messaging platform. The core assumption is focused and verifiable. You already have an agent. It already has a model, tools and business logic. Channels gives it a place to work with people, without a rewrite

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OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle claims it discriminated against US workers

Company and subsidiary Statsig alleged by US justice department to have favored foreign workers in hiringOpenAI and a subsidiary will pay $3.2m to settle US government claims that they ⁠favored foreign workers with temporary employment visas and discriminated against US job applicants in recruiting and hiring, the justice department said ⁠on Tuesday.The justice ⁠department in

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AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds

Researcher says simpler writing by AI is easier to read and digest, but this does not mean human authors are obsoleteFrom Homer’s Odyssey to Agatha Christie’s crime fiction, humans have produced plenty of tales to grace the bookshelf. But research suggests artificial intelligence may now be providing some competition.In a study published in the journal

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Pixel-Native RAG: A Practical Guide to Visual Document Indexing

In this tutorial, we build a complete pixel-native retrieval-augmented generation pipeline from scratch and examine how document retrieval works without relying on conventional HTML parsing, text extraction, or fixed chunking strategies. We render web pages and PDF documents as images, divide them into overlapping tiles, generate multimodal embeddings with SigLIP, CLIP, or an optional Qwen3-VL

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US stock market hits record highs as AI profits pile and oil prices ease

S&P 500 shot up 1.8% and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a few months agoThe US stock market rallied to records on Tuesday as profits kept piling up for companies and as oil prices eased.The S&P 500 shot up 1.8%, and the main measure of Wall Street’s

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Cursor Open-Sources Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK): A Deterministic MoE Training Megakernel for GB300 NVL72 Racks

Cursor Research has open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK), the mixture-of-experts training megakernel behind its Composer models. MoK fuses every MoE communication and computation step into a single deterministic kernel. Cursor team reports up to 2.37x higher throughput than the strongest public baseline. It already powers Composer training across tens of thousands of GPUs. Is it deployable Yes,

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Trump administration reportedly drafting ban on Chinese datacenter components

Trump’s FCC is developing a measure to bar US imports of new models of Chinese datacenter devices, sources sayThe Trump administration is reportedly drafting a ban on US imports of new models of Chinese datacenter components, in the latest sign US authorities are scrambling to respond to the rapid development of AI technology in China.Four

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The best microwaves in the UK for every kitchen and budget – tested

They’re perfect for time-poor cooks, but which deserves your counter space? From combi models to smart designs, here’s what our expert recommends• The best air fryers If you’re at a restaurant and hear a ping a couple of minutes before your meal arrives at your table, it’s unlikely to be a good sign. But microwave

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