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Developing an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with docTR for OCR, Layout Analysis, KIE, Benchmarking, and Searchable PDFs

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In this tutorial, we develop an end-to-end OCR workflow with docTR and explore how modern document understanding pipelines combine text detection, recognition, geometry, layout analysis, structured extraction, and export. We generate realistic synthetic invoice documents, load images and PDFs through DocumentFile, construct GPU-aware OCR predictors, and benchmark different detection–recognition architecture combinations for speed and accuracy. […]

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Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?

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Anthropic says it will change way chatbot makes small, random choices, to comply with EU regulationThe world is familiar by now with the usual tropes of machine-generated text: overuse of the word “delve”, an excess of em dashes, and the chirpy, relentless construction of “it’s not X but Y”.But is it about to get even

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Sainsbury’s store pauses AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation

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Supermarket chain says ‘human error’, not its Facewatch technology, to blame for ejecting a customerSainsbury’s has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected from the shop.“I was embarrassed, mortified even, and felt quite humiliated and powerless,” Matt Arnold, 46,

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DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek Harness in Developer Preview: An MIT-Licensed Agent Harness Where Everything is a Plugin

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DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.1 in developer preview and published the full source code under the MIT license. The project ships as dsh at deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness. A harness is the layer between a model and the environment it acts in — the tools, files, sandboxes, and control loop that let an agent keep working. DeepSeek frames

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Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips?

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Guardian investigation finds apparent discrepancy between what tech company has said about its AI capacity – and the number of advanced chips it has in operationThe chips are quite small and some can be held in the palm of a hand. They are fundamental to the development of artificial intelligence models – and the world’s

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The Guardian view on the changed world of job interviews: missing the human factor | Editorial

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Andy Burnham’s doubts about Zoom interviews apply more widely to a hiring process being transformed by AIAlmost half of UK jobseekers have found themselves pitching to an AI bot, according to recent research, leading many to give up in frustration. As one despairing applicant lamented in the pages of the Guardian a few months ago:

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‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech

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Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them bypass studio giants and take more creative risksNear the collonaded entrance to Sony Pictures’ historic Culver City film studio, a tech-powered rival has sprung up this summer. The artists at Promise, a new studio feeding off the potential of AI, can glimpse the lots

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The first anti-AI protester to be jailed has a message for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta: ‘Regain your humanity’

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Wynd Kaufman, 69, chained and locked the front doors of OpenAI’s headquarters last year with members of StopAIAn activist who blocked the entrance to one of the world’s biggest AI companies is believed to have become the first person jailed for protesting against artificial intelligence as supporters dub her the “Rosa Parks of AI risk”.Wynd

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‘Our children are less cognitively capable,’ says neuroscientist who wants to cut screen use in schools

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Jared Cooney Horvath argues that educational technology undermines how children learn and developJared Cooney Horvath is on a mission. In the wake of global campaigns for smartphone bans in schools and social media restrictions for under-16s, the neuroscientist wants to raise the alarm about educational technology in classrooms.A former teacher, Horvath believes the use of

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AI cheating, leaked papers and marking errors: how exam protests went global

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Student unrest sweeps India, Portugal and Mexico as grievances and pressure for good grades in tough job market collideFamilies with teenagers in education know the private, hidden pain of exam season. But this year, what might have been a summer of quiet family anxiety has erupted in several countries into public unrest.Exam-related turmoil has led

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