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Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales

Exclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leaveCourts in England and Wales have joined a number of restaurants, theatres and pubs in banning Meta glasses, amid a mounting backlash against what has been described as “spyware”.Last month courts in New York announced a […]

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Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk | Stuart Russell

A recent letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs – mainly OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind – points to a dangerous momentIt is fashionable in certain circles to dismiss the catastrophic risks of AI. One often hears that “the real experts” who work on the technology every day are really not

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AI ‘will do more to boost fossil fuel production than green energy’

Study finds technology could boost recoverable oil and gas reserves by 5% and cut cost of deepwater projects by 10%AI-driven productivity gains enable more planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels than they avoid from renewables, a study has found.Researchers modelled the technical potential for AI to boost clean power generation along with projections for how it

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How to buy a bike: expert tips for finding the right budget, frame and fit

Whether you’re commuting, training or riding for fun, we asked specialists to break down what to know before you buy – from specs and safety to price• The best bike locks for every budgetFor me, cycling is therapy. It’s calming, meditative and uncomplicated. But there’s a catch. To experience the simple joy of riding a

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‘A horrible nightmare’: the shocking story of the eBay harassment scandal

Jaw-dropping documentary Whatever It Takes details an aggressive stalking campaign targeted towards a couple whose reporting criticized the tech companyWhen Massachusetts husband-and-wife team Ina and David Steiner launched their reporting careers covering Silicon Valley at the turn of the century, the tech beat was still cozy enough to feel personal. The startups were still emerging

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webAI Releases TwIL-LM: A 1.7B and 3B Formal-Logic Model Family for Autoformalization on Local Hardware

webAI has released TwIL-LM, a two-model family of formal-logic reasoners at 1.7B and 3B parameters. The 3B member, TwIL-LM3, is a merged fine-tune of SmolLM3-3B; the 1.7B member is a PEFT LoRA adapter for SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct. Both target autoformalization: translating English into first-order logic and checking whether a conclusion follows from its premises. Both run locally,

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Implementing a MiniMax-H3 Multimodal Video and Audio Generation Pipeline with ComfyUI APIs

In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end MiniMax-H3 video generation workflow using ComfyUI as a headless inference backend. We configure the environment around GPU memory, disk capacity, model precision, resolution, duration, sampling strategy, and multiple generation modes, while dynamically selecting an appropriate weight profile based on the available hardware. We install and launch ComfyUI programmatically,

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Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model

Meta CEO presents utopian vision of AI in 6,000-word essay amid Silicon Valley debate over government regulationMark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay on Monday detailing his views on artificial intelligence and announced several plans for how Meta would develop the technology in the future. The CEO’s essay went online the same day as Meta released

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Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity

Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning that the US Senate will implement regulation if the companies continue deploying AI at their current pace.In a new letter addressed

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Meta AI Releases Muse Glimmer: A 30B Open-Weights Agentic Model That Runs on One Consumer GPU

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter multimodal model distilled from Muse Spark. It is tuned for always-on local agent workflows, and ships under Apache 2.0. A 30B model normally needs over 55 GB of memory at full precision. Meta compresses it to roughly 4-bit, then adds block-level speculative decoding so it answers fast enough

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