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The company argues that it’s for individuals to ensure they don’t ‘actively exploit’ this technology. That won’t keep children safeIt took me a while to realise what the man sitting next to me on the train was doing. He was flicking through pictures of a little girl on his phone; zooming in on some, cropping […]
Research during Hungary election shows AI recommended parties not running and gave highly volatile answers to identical promptsAI chatbots provide inaccurate, inconsistent and unreliable guidance to voters asking which party they should back, a study suggests, often recommending the wrong party, not mentioning the right one, or listing parties not even running.“The results raise serious
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Google’s ‘Debug’ project in California and Florida aims to reduce mosquito numbers by releasing millions of sterilised malesIn the United States, Google’s (now Alphabet) Debug initiative has asked the federal government for permission to release up to 32 million sterilised male mosquitoes in California and Florida.Male mosquitoes don’t bite or carry disease. The hope is
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same lineage. Flash targets real-time interaction. Plus targets high-quality generation. Both are delivered as hosted models through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, not as downloadable weights. The release focuses on four things developers hit in production: broader
The 764 network is just one part of a growing online ecosystem that pushes young members into brutal and degrading acts. It has perpetrators and victims in dozens of countriesIn late 2024, in a quiet suburb of Stockholm, a 14-year-old boy approached a man in his 80s who was using a walker. He stabbed the
Global increase in cases of predators coercing children to harm themselves or produce child sexual abuse materialCases of predators coercing children into producing sexual photos and videos of themselves have surged globally in the past year, a cruel phenomenon known as “sadistic online exploitation”, child safety experts and law enforcement officials warn.In cases of sadistic
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A community developer, GnLOLot, has published a 1B model that runs fully on local hardware. The model is MiniCPM5-1B-Claude-Opus-Fable5-Thinking, with GGUF builds for llama.cpp-compatible runtimes. It needs no API key and makes no cloud calls. The Proposed Model The model is built on openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B. That base is a real, documented release from OpenBMB. It is
A single 24GB card is the practical floor for serious local inference. It is enough for genuinely capable models, and small enough to sit on one GPU. An RTX 3090 or RTX 4090 both land in this tier. The card you own matters less than the models you pick for it. The old hobbyist move
Most text-to-SQL systems treat the task as translation. Feyn AI (YC-backed startup) reframes it around inspection. The Feyn team has released SQRL, a family of models that turn natural language questions into SQL. Instead of generating a query immediately, SQRL can inspect the database first. This lets it resolve ambiguity and write only queries the
On July 19, Alibaba’s Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, the next flagship in the Qwen family. The research team describes it as a 2.4 trillion-parameter model, ‘second only to Fable 5’ among the systems it benchmarked. The preview is live now. The benchmark table, model card, and license are not. The July 19th 2026 announcement landed
