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Waymo Enters Canada, but No Robotaxis for Now: Toronto Is Its Northernmost City Yet, and Snow Will Be the Real Test

The permit is here, driverless rides are not. Maps first, then tests with a human at the wheel, and Toronto's...

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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, the "most capable" open model in the US: it runs on a Mac, if you have at least a terabyte of RAM

816 billion parameters, open weights and a promise that it runs on a Mac. The small print: you need at...

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Spyware that gets in through an ordinary ad, without a single click: Citizen Lab points to Israel's Discover-Tech

All it takes is an ad appearing on your screen and the device is infected. Al Jazeera is most likely...

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YouTube Music will tell you if a song was made by a machine: the label is here, but the money for AI songs keeps flowing

Three labels, from "fully generated" to "no AI", and not a single ban. YouTube is tagging machine-made songs while also...

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AI agents posing as easy marks: Australia's Apate keeps scammers on the line, across 2.5 million conversations so far

Instead of waiting for the scam to happen, the startup sends its bots straight into the trap. The scammers waste...

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OpenAI employee arrested over a hidden device behind the TV in the leadership meeting room: the charge is eavesdropping, the FBI talks about "superintelligence"

A hidden device in a USB port behind a TV, in OpenAI's leadership meeting room. The FBI director talks about...

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Facebook lets you tell the algorithm in your own words what you want to see: Meta offers control, but the ranking stays its own

Instead of the algorithm guessing, now you write to it what you want to see. Every such sentence is also...

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OpenAI Publishes Over 700 Maths Papers, and a Fields Medallist Admits He Cried: "They Destroyed My Field of Research"

Problems people worked on for entire careers, solved by a model nobody outside the company has seen. Some are already...

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Meta Releases Muse Wonder, Its First Frontier Model: By Its Own Tests It's Neck and Neck with Rivals, and Its Biggest Boast Is That It'll Remember You for Months

Meta's new models, according to the company's own tests, are on a par with the competition's leading models. But the...

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Batteries Now Beat Gas Turbines for Peak Power in All 43 Markets Analysed: AI Data Centres Snapped Up the Turbines and Drove Up Their Price

On every continent, a four-hour battery is cheaper than an open-cycle gas turbine. The paradox: gas is being made more...

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Musk Calls Ambani India's "Prime Minister": Starlink Still Has No Licence, and New Delhi Says Nobody Is Being Left Out

Musk accuses Ambani of a monopoly, and India's ministry replies that all satellite operators are waiting in the same queue....

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Sorkin's "The Social Reckoning" Takes 5.5 Million Dollars on Its Opening US Weekend, a Quarter of "The Social Network"'s Start: Does Anyone Still Care About Facebook?

The film about Frances Haugen and the "Facebook Files" failed to excite audiences. Several more films casting tech bosses as...

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