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Fastino Labs Open-Sources GLiGuard: A 300M Parameter Safety Moderation Model That Matches or Exceeds Accuracy of Models 23–90x Its Size

As LLM-powered applications move into production — and as AI agents take on more consequential tasks like browsing the web, writing and executing code, and interacting with external services — safety moderation has quietly become one of the most operationally expensive parts of the stack. Most developers who’ve deployed a production LLM system know the […]

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Chinese court awards compensation to sacked worker replaced by AI

Case attracts widespread attention as example of China balancing enthusiastic adoption of AI with job securityA court in China has ruled in favour of a worker whose company replaced him with artificial intelligence (AI), awarding him more than £28,000 in compensation.The worker, whose surname is Zhou, joined a tech company in the eastern city of

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Meta profited from illegal scam ads, California county lawsuit alleges

Santa Clara county claims Meta Platforms violated the state’s false advertising and unfair business practices lawsCalifornia’s Santa Clara county has sued Meta Platforms, alleging it has profited from Facebook and Instagram ads promoting scams in violation of California’s false advertising and unfair business practices laws.The lawsuit – filed on Monday in Santa Clara county superior

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‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken areaA plan to create one of the world’s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area more than twice the size of Manhattan, has provoked a furious public backlash in Utah amid concerns over its vast energy

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Datacentres using 6% of electricity supply in UK and US, research says

Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlashDatacentres are consuming 6% of electricity in the UK and US, with the growing strain of AI on energy supplies prompting community resistance, according to research.The proportion of electricity used by vast warehouses stacked with microchips

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Beware what you tell your AI chatbot. It’s not a shrink – it’s a snitch | Arwa Mahdawi

In a case of ‘oh dear diary’, the OpenAI president Greg Brockman is having to read extracts from his musings about Elon Musk in court. It’s a terrifying reminder that what’s divulged to AI really isn’t privateThe hottest new read of 2026 may well be The Secret Diary of Greg Brockman, Aged 38¾. It’s got

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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Introduces Interaction Models: A Native Multimodal Architecture for Real-Time Human-AI Collaboration

Most AI systems today work in turns. You type or speak, the model waits, processes your input, and then responds. That’s the entire interaction loop. Thinking Machines Lab, an AI research lab, is arguing that this model of interaction is a fundamental bottleneck. Thinking Machines Lab team introduced a research preview of a new class

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Google DeepMind Introduces an AI-Enabled Mouse Pointer Powered by Gemini That Captures Visual and Semantic Context Around the Cursor

The mouse pointer has sat at the center of personal computing for more than half a century. It tracks cursor position. It registers clicks. Beyond that, it does almost nothing. Google DeepMind researchers outlined a set of experimental principles and demos for an AI-enabled pointer that goes considerably further: one that understands not just where

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang joins Trump as tech dominates China trip

Invitation to be part of group including Elon Musk and Tim Cook highlights American AI and tech ambitionsThe billionaire chief executive of the chipmaker Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has joined Donald Trump’s China delegation after a reported last-minute invitation, highlighting the US’s AI and tech ambitions.Huang will join a roster of US bosses including the Tesla

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Chelsea flower show garden designers clash over use of AI

Horticulturalists express alarm after award-winning Matt Keightley launches app that can automate designsWith glasses of champagne sipped among the peonies, Chelsea flower show is generally a friendly and genteel occasion. But this year, the secateurs have been drawn as gardeners clash over the use of AI in designing the exhibits.Matt Keightley, an award-winning designer who

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