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Amazon expands ultra-fast deliveries in UK and adds same-day fruit and veg

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Deliveries in 30 minutes or less coming to Manchester and Birmingham and fresh groceries service to start in London Amazon is expanding fast-track deliveries in the UK, including adding fresh fruit and vegetables to same-day services, after closing its standalone grocery stores.The firm said it would expand Amazon Now, its ultra-fast delivery service that already […]

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Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights

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Miso Labs has released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model. It generates expressive speech from both text and audio context. The model uses residual vector quantization (RVQ) to widen its sonic range. This avoids scaling a single flat vocabulary while keeping parameter count fixed. What is MisoTTS MisoTTS is an 8B-parameter text-to-dialogue RVQ Transformer. It

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Meet OpenJarvis: A Local-First Framework for On-Device Personal AI Agents with Tools, Memory, and Learning

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Researchers at Stanford University and Lambda Labs, have published the research paper for OpenJarvis, an open-source framework that runs inference, agents, memory, and learning entirely on-device. The open-weight models configured through OpenJarvis land within 3.2 percentage points of the best cloud model on average, at roughly 800× lower marginal API cost per query and roughly

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‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?

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Some will question its credibility. But the alternative future to the one imagined in the World Justice Report is far more bleak• Academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survivalIn our increasingly dystopian world, who wouldn’t want to at least be open to a utopian antidote? The World Justice Report, published on Thursday, outlines how

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Smartglasses and earpieces may worsen exam cheating in schools, says Ofqual

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Stronger checks likely to be needed in England to safeguard reputation of GCSE, AS and A-levels, says Ian BauckhamCheating in exams could be magnified by the new generation of wearable hi-tech devices such as smartglasses or invisible earpieces, according to England’s qualifications watchdog.Ian Bauckham, the head of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual),

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My year with the robots: how Joanna Stern let AI into her home, work – and heart

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In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not – but it was her time with a chatbot companion that really shook herFor a year, Joanna Stern decided to turn herself into a

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Seattle, home to Amazon and Microsoft, poised to pass moratorium on new datacenters

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Measure expected to pass next week represents major rebuke to big tech as local disquiet over AI boom growsSeattle’s city government is on the verge of passing a year-long ban on the construction of new datacenters, the largest city yet in the US to consider such a moratorium as nationwide backlash grows.Four companies sought to

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SpaceX targets biggest ever stock market debut, putting Musk on course to be trillionaire

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IPO could raise up to $75bn, giving SpaceX market value of $1.77tn as it sets up Musk for extraordinary wealthSpace X is seeking to raise about $75bn (£55bn) through its imminent stock market listing, , the company has said, which would make it the largest initial public offering ever.If the stock market launch – primed

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In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters

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While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a banSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailResidents in Monterey Park, California, became the first in the US to vote on a permanent ban on datacenters on Tuesday, and early results indicate a resounding victory for

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How to Build a Document Intelligence Backend with iii Using Workers, Functions, and Cron Triggers

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In this tutorial, we build a document-intelligence workflow with iii. We begin by installing the iii engine and Python SDK, then start the engine as a background process and connect a Python worker to it. After the setup, we register separate functions for text normalization, tokenization, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, reporting, and heartbeat tracking. We

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