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UK not ‘on the slide’, Burnham to tell UN as he gears up for first meeting with Trump – UK politics live

Burnham is heading to New York for the United Nations general assemblyKanishka Narayan, the minister for AI, is on the trip to New York with the PM. In a video that he recorded on the plane, he says the fact that he is going shows that AI is now “top of the international agenda”. He […]

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AI is generating a new wave of US populism. It could be a tipping point | Robert Reich

It’s becoming obvious to many Americans that corporations have been raking it in while workers take it on the chinLast week, the unlikely duo of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon both spoke before a Washington group demanding a stop to AI and its datacenters.Notably, both lambasted the corporate oligarchs behind AI. Continue reading…

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NVIDIA Introduces SoL-Pi: Auto-Research Loops That Cut Coding Agent Token Traffic by Up to 49%

Coding agents now run for hours, not minutes. Every edit, test run and log read goes back into the model’s context. A team of researchers from NVIDIA, NTU and MIT have released SoL-Pi, a set of 4 efficiency mechanisms for the open-source Pi coding agent. An AI found these mechanisms by running auto-research loops at

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SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.7: A Larger Base Model at the Same $2/$6 Price as Grok 4.6

SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.7, its new flagship model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. Grok 4.7 is built on a larger base model and a longer reinforcement learning run. It still ships at the same price and speed as Grok 4.6. Is it deployable? Yes, as a hosted model. You can call grok-4.7

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The rise of Big Toothbrush: how did our mouths become such a lucrative market?

People in the UK are more interested in oral health than ever – and you can now buy prebiotic toothpastes and brushes that cost up to £600. Yet we remain in the midst of a serious dental crisisA December 1969 report from the consumer magazine Which? explored a relatively new gadget that, it predicted, many

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Black Tesla employees accuse company of fostering racial discrimination in major trial

Lawyers say Black employees at Tesla experienced ‘rampant racism’ that was left unchecked for years at their flagship factory in CaliforniaDozens of Black employees at Tesla’s flagship plant in California said they were subject to racist slurs, unequal pay and promotions, and bullying by supervisors on a daily basis, a situation management did little to

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AWS Strands Agents Team Releases Strands Harness: An Open-Source Agent Harness With 28% Lower Token Cost at Comparable Accuracy

Many developers find that an agent idea works inside Claude Code or Codex, then struggles once they rebuild it with their own loop. The Strands Agents team at AWS is targeting that gap with Strands harness, a fully assembled, general-purpose agent harness. It runs locally or deploys to a cloud provider, ships for Python and

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Halt super-intelligent AI with non-proliferation treaty, Ed Davey to say

At Lib Dems’ conference in Brighton, leader will accuse Andy Burnham of relying on Donald Trump and ‘tech bros’ to solve problemEd Davey is to call for a global nuclear-style non-proliferation treaty to halt the development of super-intelligent AI when he makes his keynote speech at the Liberal Democrat conference, accusing Andy Burnham of relying

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Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1: A 7B Open-Weight Model for Image Generation and Editing

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, a unified text-to-image generation and image editing model. Its visual generation component has 7B parameters across 32 single-stream DiT layers. One checkpoint covers text-to-image, multi-reference editing, local edits, and transparent RGBA output. Is it deployable? Yes, for research and evaluation. Day 0 support covers Diffusers, ComfyUI, vLLM-Omni, SGLang, and

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Stop relying on chatbots for customer care, UK service providers urged

Citizens Advice says providers of services such as energy, banking, phone and internet should guarantee the ‘right to talk to a human’Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care and guarantee the “right to talk to a human”, Citizens Advice has urged essential service providers, as research found they wasted time, caused stress and delayed

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