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How the fight over US datacenters is scrambling this state’s politics: ‘We don’t want it’

Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s governor, squares off with state lawmakers over the facilities powering an AI boomA controversial haunted house near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, taps into its dark history every fall to scare tens of thousands of visitors. In 1968, a local news station documented appalling conditions for disabled people in the red brick buildings on the […]

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Elon Musk’s unprecendented accumulation of wealth

IPO mints Musk as world’s first trillionaire – now SpaceX is public, it will be harder than ever not to have a stake in its future Hi and welcome to TechScape. Nick Robins-Early here, US tech and power reporter at the Guardian. I’m filling in for your usual host Blake Montgomery, who is out this

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‘Streaming gave me a space to be myself’: Twitch creators on what it’s like to grow up on the platform

The world’s most successful gamer content creators, many of whom have spent their entire adult life on the platform, have met up at TwitchCon in RotterdamAimee Davies, better known as Aimsey to their fans, is 24 but looks much younger. Sitting in a bland meeting room above the annual TwitchCon event in Rotterdam, they’re a

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Google Cloud Introduces Open Knowledge Format (OKF): A Vendor-Neutral Markdown Spec for Giving AI Agents Curated Context

Foundation models keep getting stronger, yet they still stall on the same thing: context. A model can write code or analyze a dataset, but only with the right internal knowledge. That knowledge includes table schemas, metric definitions, runbooks, join paths and it lives scattered across catalogs, wikis, and a few senior engineers’ heads. Google Cloud

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How to Build a Parsing Pipeline with Docling Parse for Layout-Aware Document Intelligence

In this tutorial, we build a workflow for using Docling Parse to analyze PDF documents at a detailed structural level. We start by preparing a stable Python environment, handling common Colab dependency issues, and generating a custom multi-page PDF with text, columns, table-like content, vector shapes, and an embedded image. We then use Docling Parse

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Sakana AI Commercializes AB-MCTS in Sakana Marlin, an Enterprise Agent Generating Up to 100-Page Research Reports With Slides

Tokyo-based Sakana AI shipped its first commercial product ‘Sakana Marlin’ this week. Sakana team positions it as a Virtual CSO (Chief Strategy Officer). It is a B2B autonomous research agent built for enterprises. Marlin does not answer in seconds like a chatbot. You give it one research topic. It then runs autonomously for up to

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Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state’s child social media ban

State’s attorney general alleges TikTok exposed children to harmful sexual content and addictive featuresFlorida became the latest state to sue TikTok on Monday after the attorney general accused the company of violating a state law that limits social media access for teenagers.In a press conference, Republican James Uthmeier said TikTok exposed children to harmful sexual

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UK ministers lobby Trump to avert backlash against social media ban

No 10 is worried about retaliation from White House over restrictions to under-16s’ internet useMinisters have embarked on a concerted lobbying operation to prevent a backlash from the Trump administration to the under-16s social media ban announced by Keir Starmer.Officials said they have spent weeks trying to reassure senior Trump officials and the US president

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Meet Flash-KMeans: An IO-Aware, Exact K-Means That Runs Over 200× Faster Than FAISS on GPUs

k-means has been an offline tool for decades. You run it once to preprocess data, then move on. A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UT Austin released Flash-KMeans, a new open-source library that targets a different setting. Modern AI pipelines now call k-means inside training and inference loops. At that frequency, latency per

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Starmer confirms social media ban for under-16s, saying this is a ‘big moment for our country’ – UK politics live

Prime minister defends going for full ban, saying social media is making children unhappy and unsafeStarmer acknowledges some teenagers will get round these restrictons. But that does not make the rules pointless, he says.Will it mean that no child ever looks at social media again? No.But look, this might shock you, but it doesn’t shock

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