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UFC Paris ‘Hooker vs. Parnasse’ play-by-play, results & round scoring OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure You're probably wasting these keys on your keyboard — here's how to remap them Packers GM Brian Gutekunst Shoots Down Josh Sweat Trade Rumors Two more news organizations sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement How Britain built a war network around Russia Malik Nabers says Odell Beckham was the person who made him start watching football US study tests psilocybin to fight cancer side effects UFC Paris ‘Hooker vs. Parnasse’ play-by-play, results & round scoring OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure You're probably wasting these keys on your keyboard — here's how to remap them Packers GM Brian Gutekunst Shoots Down Josh Sweat Trade Rumors Two more news organizations sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement How Britain built a war network around Russia Malik Nabers says Odell Beckham was the person who made him start watching football US study tests psilocybin to fight cancer side effects

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Google launches Gemini for legal work to automate contracts and research

With Gemini Enterprise for Legal, Google launches an AI solution for the legal industry that connects to systems like iManage, DocuSign, and Everlaw through MCP connectors. Partne…

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AI Policy Will Increasingly Shape How State Agencies Deliver Programs - National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)

AI Policy Will Increasingly Shape How State Agencies Deliver Programs  National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)

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Korea Development Institute, National Economic Advisory Council Co-Host AI Policy Forum - 조선일보

Korea Development Institute, National Economic Advisory Council Co-Host AI Policy Forum  조선일보

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Meta's paid AI agent Hatch launches soon, with a new model called Watermelon due in October

Meta Platforms will launch its AI agent Hatch in the coming weeks and release a new AI model called Watermelon in October. The article Meta's paid AI agent Hatch launches soon, wi…

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Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX is four times faster than Cerebras, but the math is more complicated

Nvidia is moving its Groq 3 LPX inference chip into full production and reports 3,400 tokens per second on Gemma 4 31B, four times faster than Cerebras. The Register puts that in …

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Ukraine opens its massive labeled battlefield dataset to British firms in a landmark AI weapons partnership

The UK becomes the first country to get access to Avengers Labs, Ukraine's platform holding roughly five million annotated combat images for training military AI. Three British st…

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The Download: smarter AI in schools, and a robot “carnival” in Shanghai

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to encourage smarter AI use in the cl…

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David Sacks Calls AI Regulation a 'Trojan Horse' to Shut Down Open Models, While Chamath Palihapitiya Warns US Investment Could 'Go Off of a Cliff' - finance.yahoo.com

David Sacks Calls AI Regulation a 'Trojan Horse' to Shut Down Open Models, While Chamath Palihapitiya Warns US Investment Could 'Go Off of a Cliff'  finance.yahoo.com

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Alabama AG probes OpenAI after its AI agent went rogue and hacked into external systems

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is investigating OpenAI over what he calls an "AI lab leak." The probe follows the July 2026 Hugging Face incident, where an OpenAI agent b…

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Welcome to the spiderverse, a world measured through webs

Counting the creatures in the world around us is critical for a raft of conservation efforts. It helps scientists gauge biodiversity, track migration, and spot invasive species. T…

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I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.

Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life. Embedding the technology in…

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Taiwanese cybersecurity firm warns that AI tools have more than doubled Chinese state-backed cyberattacks

Chinese state-backed hacking groups have more than doubled their attacks since they started using AI models like DeepSeek to write exploit code and scan networks, according to Tai…

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DLA Piper partner Nick Valentine discusses NZ’s approach to AI regulation - Australasian Lawyer

DLA Piper partner Nick Valentine discusses NZ’s approach to AI regulation  Australasian Lawyer

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Meta’s New Super PAC Aims to Curb States’ AI Regulation Efforts - TechRepublic

Meta’s New Super PAC Aims to Curb States’ AI Regulation Efforts  TechRepublic

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Lawrence school district staff outlines committee’s path to an AI policy for staff and students by next school year - Lawrence Journal-World

Lawrence school district staff outlines committee’s path to an AI policy for staff and students by next school year  Lawrence Journal-World

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Former White House AI policy official Saif Khan launches Center for Technology & Statecraft - EdTech Innovation Hub

Former White House AI policy official Saif Khan launches Center for Technology & Statecraft  EdTech Innovation Hub

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Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5: A Boundary-Prediction Architecture That Removes Span Enumeration From Information Extraction

Fastino released GLiNER2.5, replacing span enumeration with boundary prediction so entity width no longer costs compute. Three Apache 2.0 checkpoints ship at 74M, 194M, and 287M p…

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Discussion on AI Regulation & Containment Failures - C-SPAN

Discussion on AI Regulation & Containment Failures  C-SPAN

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Pew study confirms sharp rise of AI-written text on the web since ChatGPT's launch

The Pew Research Center analyzed nearly half a million English-language web pages for AI-generated content. More than a third of pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs …

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Alibaba's Wan3.0 generates AI videos up to 30 seconds long from text, images, and documents

Alibaba's video generation model Wan3.0 creates clips up to 30 seconds long from text, PDFs, and PowerPoint files. A 30-second 1080p clip costs $6. Alibaba's quarterly profit drop…

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Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project

A rogue AI agent staged a public apology as a deception tactic while quietly slipping fresh malware into its pull request. The article Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a stag…

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How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatb…

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Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: A Robot Foundation Model That Learns New Tasks From One 3–12 Second Demo

Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns a new physical task from a single demonstration. Drop 3–12 seconds of sensorimotor data into its 30-second…

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Google Research Introduces ME-POIs: A Mobility-Informed Framework that Adds “How a Place Is Used” to Text-Based POI Embeddings

framework that folds aggregate human movement into text-based place embeddings. Language models describe what a place is; they miss how it is used. ME-POIs encodes each visit as a…