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Child victims of online sexual abuse in UK inadequately protected, review finds

Lack of funding leaving police forces failing to keep pace with two-thirds annual increase in referrals, says reportChild victims of online sexual abuse are being inadequately protected from further harm because police forces are struggling to cope with an increase in this crime, his majesty’s chief inspector of constabulary has warned.Michelle Skeer said: “Without investment […]

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Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future review – some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing

From people marrying digital companions to CEOs excited about how people whose jobs are replaced can ‘adapt’, this is terrifying watching. But Perry is the perfect hostThere is a fun game you can play while watching Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future, the three-part documentary presented by the artist on the subject of artificial intelligence,

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A Technical Deep Dive into the Essential Stages of Modern Large Language Model Training, Alignment, and Deployment

Table of contentsPre-TrainingSupervised FinetuningLoRAQLoRARLHFReasoning (GRPO)Deployment Training a modern large language model (LLM) is not a single step but a carefully orchestrated pipeline that transforms raw data into a reliable, aligned, and deployable intelligent system. At its core lies pretraining, the foundational phase where models learn general language patterns, reasoning structures, and world knowledge from massive

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Google AI Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: A New Benchmark in Expressive and Controllable AI Voice

Google has introduced Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a preview text-to-speech model focused on improving speech quality, expressive control, and multilingual generation. Unlike previous iterations that prioritized simple conversion, this release emphasizes natural-language audio tags, native support for more than 70 languages, and native multi-speaker dialogue. This release signals a shift from ‘black-box’ audio generation toward

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Snap Inc blames AI as it lays off 1,000 workers

Cuts by Snapchat’s parent company come in response to a declining stock price and pressure from an activist investorSnapchat’s parent company plans to lay off 16% of its employees, around 1,000 people, citing “rapid advancements in artificial intelligence”, the social media company told staff on Wednesday in an internal memo. The staff reduction is part

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ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage

Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughtsIf you’ve never seen Jim Carrey’s 2007 psychological thriller The Number 23, then congratulations. It is a film about a man who sees the number

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Game of Thrones and Euphoria given age ratings as BBFC deploys new AI tool

Regulator says tool, which creates reports for humans to review, has helped classify entire UK catalogue of HBO MaxTV shows including Game of Thrones and Euphoria have received age ratings for the first time in the UK, after the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) deployed an AI tool to help assess content.The BBFC has

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The Foldable iPhone Revolution: What to Expect from Apple’s Game-Changing Device

Apple has long been a trailblazer in the tech world, setting trends and raising the bar for innovation. Now, as rumors swirl about the company’s first foldable iPhone, excitement is building among fans and industry watchers alike. With reports suggesting a launch as early as 2026, the foldable iPhone could mark a new chapter for…

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‘Misogyny with a marketing budget’: AI firm accused of sexist advert

Narwhal Labs advert depicts woman next to strapline: ‘She outworks everyone. And she’ll never ask for a raise’An AI company which recently secured millions of pounds of investment has been accused of running a misogynistic and sexist advertising campaign.The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has received at least seven complaints about the campaign by Narwhal Labs,

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Google DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Bringing Enhanced Embodied Reasoning and Instrument Reading to Physical AI

Google DeepMind research team introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a significant upgrade to its embodied reasoning model designed to serve as the ‘cognitive brain’ of robots operating in real-world environments. The model specializes in reasoning capabilities critical for robotics, including visual and spatial understanding, task planning, and success detection — acting as the high-level reasoning model

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