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US tech firm Oracle cuts thousands of jobs as it steps up AI spending

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Company seeks to reassure investors that bet on artificial intelligence infrastructure will pay offOracle is cutting thousands of jobs as the US technology company seeks to reassure investors that its bet on AI infrastructure will pay off.The $420bn firm, headquartered in Austin, Texas, started letting employees go on Tuesday, with thousands of Oracle’s 160,000-strong workforce […]

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Silicon Valley city to give residents doorbells equipped with cameras

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Milpitas approves measure to distribute smart doorbells and says residents can upload footage to police databaseA Silicon Valley city will offer its residents free wireless doorbells equipped with cameras to help police collect video evidence.The city council of Milpitas, a suburb north of San Jose, California, recently approved $60,000 to provide these devices on a

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Landmark losses for Meta and YouTube as big tech misses the point

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Meta claims social media addiction isn’t real. Juries disagreeHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor for the Guardian. I’m hoping futilely for warm spring weather in New York City, but while it’s still cold, I’m sitting inside and reading The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

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Hugging Face Releases TRL v1.0: A Unified Post-Training Stack for SFT, Reward Modeling, DPO, and GRPO Workflows

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Hugging Face has officially released TRL (Transformer Reinforcement Learning) v1.0, marking a pivotal transition for the library from a research-oriented repository to a stable, production-ready framework. For AI professionals and developers, this release codifies the Post-Training pipeline—the essential sequence of Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Reward Modeling, and Alignment—into a unified, standardized API. In the early stages

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Revealed: the vast illegal casino network targeting UK gamblers

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Calls for tougher laws as network stretching from Caribbean to Georgia generates riches for offshore tycoons by appearing to prey on the vulnerableImmaculately groomed and beaming from ear to ear, Andres Markou looks every inch the golden boy of the gambling sector. The youthful boss of MyStake, a fast-growing digital casino, has been pictured shaking

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Google AI Releases Veo 3.1 Lite: Giving Developers Low Cost High Speed Video Generation via The Gemini API

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Google has announced the release of Veo 3.1 Lite, a new model tier within its generative video portfolio designed to address the primary bottleneck for production-scale deployments: pricing. While the generative video space has seen rapid progress in visual fidelity, the cost per second of generated content has remained high, often prohibitive for developers building

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Liquid AI Released LFM2.5-350M: A Compact 350M Parameter Model Trained on 28T Tokens with Scaled Reinforcement Learning

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In the current landscape of generative AI, the ‘scaling laws’ have generally dictated that more parameters equal more intelligence. However, Liquid AI is challenging this convention with the release of LFM2.5-350M. This model is actually a technical case study in intelligence density with additional pre-training (from 10T to 28T tokens) and large-scale reinforcement learning The

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I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep

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Content creators love the built-in camera; sceptics call them ‘pervert glasses’. Do we really need any more hi-tech wearables, even with a voice assistant that sounds like Judi Dench?Lately, I’ve been hearing Judi Dench’s voice in my head. She tells me tomorrow’s forecast, when to turn right, that there’s been another message in my group

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Why every woman can see herself in the story of a German celebrity couple’s split | Fatma Aydemir

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Many will recognise their own experiences of digital abuse in Collien Fernandes’s allegations – the sense that technology offers perps both tools and coverSome stories that unfold in real life would read like the plot of a bad crime novel if you wrote them down. Too obvious, too contrived, almost lazy in their cruelty. For

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OpenAI, parent firm of ChatGPT, raises $122bn in new funding amid AI boom

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Company said it achieved valuation of $852bn, mentioning in a blog post it generates $2bn a month in revenueOpenAI announced on Tuesday it had closed a fundraising round of $122bn.The company behind ChatGPT said it had achieved a valuation of $852bn, cementing its status among the most highly valued privately held companies in the world.

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