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

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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

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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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What happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment? | Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran

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AI’s danger isn’t just in experts losing the ability to reason. It’s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first placeIn healthcare, there’s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically adept as they increasingly rely on AI tools. But what about the trainees – medical students, residents and fellows – who

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Meme factories are churning out hard right AI slop on Facebook | First Dog on the Moon

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: your passport to a folding phone future

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Novel squat Android opens to an iPad-like screen for video or multitasking, with plenty of power and battery lifeSamsung’s latest folding phone breaks the mould with a squat, passport-like shape reminiscent of the Blackberry, which opens up to become a tablet similar to an iPad mini. It is certainly a better shape for a tablet

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ByteDance Seed Introduces SeedRealtime: a Native Audio-Visual Full-Duplex LLM That Watches, Listens and Speaks in One Model

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ByteDance’s Seed team has introduced SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex LLM. The model fuses audio, video and text in a single unified architecture. It interacts in real time over continuous multimodal streams, rather than one turn at a time. Seed positions it as a step toward omni-modal interaction, and claims three breakthroughs: joint audio-visual understanding,

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UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year

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Big companies describe being under constant threat but only half have a plan in place to respond to an attackNearly a third of British manufacturers have been hit by a cyber-attack on them or a company in their supply chain, according to a survey that highlighted the growing hacking risk to companies.The findings come almost

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NVIDIA Releases NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B: An Open Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with ~450 ms Turn-Taking and Live Tool Calling

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NVIDIA has released NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an open 11B end-to-end speech-to-speech model for real-time, full-duplex conversation. Instead of chaining ASR, an LLM, and TTS, it performs streaming speech understanding and speech generation in one unified network. That removes the multi-model orchestration and API handoffs a cascaded stack requires, and cuts end-to-end latency: measured smooth turn-taking

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Top LLM Observability and Evaluation Platforms in 2026: Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust, Arize, and More Compared

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LLM applications fail in ways traditional software does not. The same prompt can produce different outputs. A retrieval step can return the wrong document while every HTTP status reads 200. An agent can loop through fourteen tool calls, burn thousands of tokens, and deliver a confidently wrong answer. Standard application performance monitoring (APM) alone does

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‘People were giving me dirty looks’: the backlash against Meta smartglasses

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Influencers describe negative reactions to their use of what are widely becoming known as ‘pervert glasses’It was hardly an offensive video. Amid the buzz of the Tour de France finale, Oliver Hooson filmed himself whipping up a delicious-looking flat white for a fellow cycling enthusiast. But after posting the footage on social media, the comments

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