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Nous Research Releases Hermes Desktop: A Native Cross-Platform Front End for Hermes Agent v0.15.2 with Streaming Tool Output

Nous Research has released Hermes Desktop in public preview. It is a native application for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It gives the open-source Hermes Agent a graphical interface. Until now, users ran Hermes through a CLI and messaging gateways. The current build is Hermes Agent v0.15.2. Per Nous Research’s documentation, the desktop reuses the same […]

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As the tech mega-IPO race hots up, has OpenAI missed its moment?

With rivals racing to market to raise ‘eye-popping sums’, the spotlight is now on the AI sector’s one-time ‘poster child’A year is a long time in AI. Just 12 months ago, Sam Altman was predicting his company OpenAI would build a super intelligence and fundamentally remake society. Now the boss of the ChatGPT developer is

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Thank God for Pope Leo. He’s the leader our world desperately needs | Arwa Mahdawi

Even for nonbelievers like me, the pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarityDo you remember the early 2000s, when Silicon Valley buzzed with idealism and tech bros told us they were going to save the world? “Don’t be evil” was Google’s unofficial motto; it’s 2004 IPO prospectus

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NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3: A Two-Tower Mixture-of-Transformers Foundation Model Unifying Physical Reasoning, World Generation, and Action Generation

NVIDIA AI team have released Cosmos 3. It is a family of omnimodal world models for physical AI. The models combine physical reasoning, world generation, and action generation. All three capabilities live inside one open model. NVIDIA open sourced the checkpoints, training scripts, deployment tools, and datasets. The Cosmos 3 release targets robotics, autonomous vehicles,

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UK media groups given power to opt out of Google AI search summaries

Watchdog says ‘publishers will now have effective tools to prevent content being used to power AI features in search’Publishers will be able to opt out of their content being used to train Google’s AI models and power its search summaries, the UK competition watchdog has announced as it imposes new conduct requirements on search services.“Publishers

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‘The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.’ Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making?

It should have taken years, but Ash Koosha made a drama about Iran’s anti-government protests in weeks – and now it’s the first AI-made movie to screen at a major film festival. It could transform indie film-making, claims the directorNext week a breakthrough 75-minute drama about the brutal crackdown in Iran on anti-government protesters in

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‘You can be made a laughing stock to millions’: can gen Z escape the fear of being cringe?

With the constant risk of being recorded, many young people are afraid of showing enthusiasm – let alone doing something so potentially embarrassing as dancing in public. Is there a way to set themselves free?In a video posted to TikTok, where Katie Whitney has 2.5 million followers, she says to camera, bluntly: “This video is

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Chip, chip … boom? South Korea tech makers join the trillion-dollar club but some fear a short-circuit looms

South Korea’s Kospi stock market has hit record highs thanks to AI, but experts urge caution over boom-bust cycles and a heavy reliance on two chipmakersSouth Korea has leapfrogged India to become the world’s sixth largest share market, leaving equity markets in the UK, Germany and France trailing in its dust. But despite the runaway

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How to Fine-Tune LFM2 Using QLoRA and DPO: A Complete Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial on Google Colab

In this tutorial, we fine-tune Liquid AI’s LFM2 model through a complete open-source workflow. We start by loading the base LFM2 checkpoint with QLoRA, preparing a chat-style supervised fine-tuning dataset, training a lightweight LoRA adapter using TRL and PEFT, and then merging the adapter back into the model. We also extend the workflow with DPO

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You hunch over a screen all day. Here are six small ways to relax your tight neck and achy back

Find relief from back pain and muscle tension with picks our contributors love, like slip-on shoes and thick cushionsSeven essential gadgets to live with when you have back pain, from grabbers to lap desksSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsIn another world, pressing play on a “heal

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