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Putin says no strikes on Kiev have been carried out since midnight Trump continues to try to contribute to resolution of conflict in Ukraine — Putin Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism Russian air defenses down six Ukrainian drones Saturday Pavel Andrusca Shines In UFC Paris Debut After Accepting Nathaniel Wood Fight On Just Five Days’ No… 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 Egyptian TV presenter among 12 sentenced to death for drug crime Putin says no strikes on Kiev have been carried out since midnight Trump continues to try to contribute to resolution of conflict in Ukraine — Putin Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism Russian air defenses down six Ukrainian drones Saturday Pavel Andrusca Shines In UFC Paris Debut After Accepting Nathaniel Wood Fight On Just Five Days’ No… 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 Egyptian TV presenter among 12 sentenced to death for drug crime

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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…

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Thomson Reuters bets $40M on owning its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic

Thomson Reuters is launching "Thomson," its own language model built on Alibaba's Qwen, at a cost of about $40 million over two years. But the benchmarks only show top marks when …

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The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents

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. Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know …

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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' - TradingView

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'  TradingView

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Cerebras unveils CS-4 with double the performance on the same chip

Cerebras has introduced its CS-4 AI accelerator, which CEO Andrew Feldman calls the fastest system in the industry. The article Cerebras unveils CS-4 with double the performance o…

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AI chatbots regularly link pregnant users to anti-abortion websites without disclosure

When asked about unplanned pregnancies, AI chatbots regularly link to anti-abortion groups without disclosing their stance. In an AlgorithmWatch investigation of 270 responses fro…

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Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human l…

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Nvidia in talks to invest in Perplexity at $30 billion-plus valuation

Nvidia is negotiating an investment in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion, more than 50 percent higher than its last funding round, The Information reports. Perplexity's …

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A sketch of Chuncheon City's artificial intelligence (AI) policy has been released. The key is stren.. - 매일경제

A sketch of Chuncheon City's artificial intelligence (AI) policy has been released. The key is stren..  매일경제

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Best GPU Neoclouds 2026: CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, and Groq Ranked by Published Pricing and Contracted Power

The five largest GPU neoclouds now run on very different models. CoreWeave and Nebius report to the SEC; Lambda and Crusoe are private and heading toward IPOs; Groq rebuilt itself…

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Scientific Data Analysis with LabPlot in Python: Signal Processing, Spectral Peak Fitting, Visualization, and Batch Automation

In this tutorial, we explore a LabPlot-inspired scientific data analysis workflow in Python while preserving the structure and terminology of LabPlot’s aspect tree, analysis kerne…

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Members’ win: NSW Trustee & Guardian AI policy to be rewritten and put out for consultation - PSA CPSU NSW

Members’ win: NSW Trustee & Guardian AI policy to be rewritten and put out for consultation  PSA CPSU NSW

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Albo not up to the challenge as nation faces AI conundrum - The Nightly

Albo not up to the challenge as nation faces AI conundrum  The Nightly

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Balancing the Badge and Technology: Why Law Enforcement Must Lead on Data Privacy and AI Policy - lawenforcementtoday.com

Balancing the Badge and Technology: Why Law Enforcement Must Lead on Data Privacy and AI Policy  lawenforcementtoday.com

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Harvey Introduces Harvey Tenet: A Kimi K3 Base Post-Trained with Fireworks for Long-Horizon Legal Agent Work

Harvey's first post-trained model nearly doubles LAB task completion, but only one benchmark number survives independent verification today The post Harvey Introduces Harvey Tenet…

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An AI boss fired its first employee but only after humans reminded it of its own rules

Andon Labs' AI agent Luna fired a human employee at a San Francisco store for the first time but needed a clear push from the operators to do it. When the scenario was replayed wi…

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Meet FreeToken: An Edge-Native MoE Serving Engine that Runs 753B GLM-5.2 on a Single Workstation GPU

FreeToken splits MoE cache misses between PCIe fills and CPU execution using measured bandwidths, unlocking frontier models locally The post Meet FreeToken: An Edge-Native MoE Ser…

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Geopolitical Obstacles to AI Regulation - logos-pres.md

Geopolitical Obstacles to AI Regulation  logos-pres.md

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AI is becoming AI's biggest customer as agentic token usage jumps 14x on OpenRouter

AI agents have consumed more tokens than humans on OpenRouter since February 6, 2025. Agentic usage has grown 14x since then, while human usage is up just 2.8x. Nearly 70 percent …

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Uganda MPs in Rome for AI regulation talks - Pulse Uganda

Uganda MPs in Rome for AI regulation talks  Pulse Uganda

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AI could make scientists do more work less well, not less work better, study argues

Even if language models worked perfectly, they could make research worse, not better. A new theoretical study argues that because AI saves time, researchers' remaining hours becom…

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Memory shortage reportedly drives Nvidia AI server prices up about 15 percent

Nvidia servers with Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips are set to cost about 15 percent more due to an ongoing DRAM shortage from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, Bloomberg report…

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Building an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with deepDoctection

Build an end-to-end document intelligence pipeline with deepDoctection. This tutorial covers configuring layout analysis, DocTR OCR, and table extraction, while demonstrating how …

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How China's gray market sells Claude tokens at a fraction of the price

Anthropic's strict access controls against China, from geoblocking to selfie verification, are being systematically bypassed through a thriving network of so-called "transfer stat…