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Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview: The First MoE Diffusion Model Converted From an Autoregressive LLM With Up to 7.7x Speedup

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Zyphra, the San Francisco-based AI lab behind the ZAYA1 model family, released ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview — a preview of its early work in diffusion-language models. The release demonstrates that an existing autoregressive language model can be converted into a discrete diffusion model with no systematic loss of evaluation performance, while delivering substantial inference speedups on AMD hardware. […]

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Richard Dawkins and the question of AI consciousness | Letters

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Salley Vickers and Carrie Eckersley respond to a letter on Richard Dawkins and his chats with AI botsI was delighted to read Dr Simon Nieder’s cogent rebuttal of Richard Dawkins’s attribution of consciousness to the responses engendered by AI (Letters, 10 May). That human consciousness appears to have an innate tendency to project itself on

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X to block UK access to accounts linked to terrorist groups in Ofcom agreement

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Media regulator announces commitments by Elon Musk’s platform to crack down on terrorist and hate contentElon Musk’s X platform has promised to block UK access to accounts linked to banned terrorist groups under an agreement with the communications regulator to crack down on terrorist and hate content.X will also review suspected illegal terrorist and hate

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‘I didn’t want to be the guinea pig’: inside tech’s AI-fueled manager purge

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Tech workers say AI-driven restructurings are eroding mentorship, support and paths to promotion across Silicon ValleyAs tech companies pour billions into artificial intelligence bets and slash their workforces, middle managers are squarely in the crosshairs.A trend is emerging: when tech CEOs announce that AI is making it possible to do more with fewer workers, they

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Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition

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Three-storey GreenSquare datacentre in Hazelmere was to power cloud computing and the acceleration of AIGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA 15,000 sq metre datacentre near Perth will no longer go ahead after the developer withdrew plans amid community opposition over its impact on culturally significant sites.The three-storey, 120-megawatt GreenSquare datacentre

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Best AI Agents for Software Development Ranked: A Benchmark-Driven Look at the Current Field

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The AI coding agent market looks almost unrecognizable compared to 2024 or even early 2025. What started as inline autocomplete has evolved into fully autonomous systems that read GitHub issues, navigate multi-file codebases, write fixes, execute tests, and open pull requests — without a human typing a single line of code. By early 2026, roughly

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Supertone Releases Supertonic v3: On-Device Text-to-Speech Model with 31-Language Support, Fewer Reading Failures, and Expression Tags

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Supertone released Supertonic 3, the third generation of its on-device, ONNX-based text-to-speech system. Supertonic 3 ships with 31-language support, improved reading accuracy, fewer repeat and skip failures, and v2-compatible public ONNX assets. It is Lightning Fast, On-Device, Multilingual and Accurate TTS. What Changed from v2 to v3 Compared with Supertonic 2, Supertonic 3 reduces repeat

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Poetiq’s Meta-System Automatically Builds a Model-Agnostic Harness That Improved Every LLM Tested on LiveCodeBench Pro Without Fine-Tuning

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Poetiq has just published some very interesting results showing its Meta-System reached a new state-of-the-art on LiveCodeBench Pro (LCB Pro), a competitive coding benchmark, by automatically building and optimizing its own inference harness — without fine-tuning any underlying model or accessing model internals. The result: GPT 5.5 High with Poetiq’s harness scores 93.9% on LCB

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A Coding Implementation to Master GPU Computing with CuPy, Custom CUDA Kernels, Streams, Sparse Matrices, and Profiling

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In this tutorial, we delve into CuPy as a powerful GPU-accelerated alternative to NumPy for high-performance numerical computing in Python. We start by inspecting the available CUDA device, checking the CuPy version, runtime details, GPU memory, and compute capability so that we understand the hardware environment before running heavy computations. Then, we compare NumPy and

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High-stakes courtroom drama of Musk v OpenAI hears closing arguments

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Nine-person jury to consider whether AI firm bilked world’s richest person and unjustly enriched themselvesClosing arguments began on Thursday in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, bringing the weeks-long courtroom battle between the two tech moguls nearer to a decision. A nine-person jury is set to deliberate and return a verdict on whether

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