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Top 10 — News
- Japanese stocks soar to record after Takaichi landslide election win Prime minister will command government with biggest majority in decades
- Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison Billionaire media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner was convicted in national security trial last month
- The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.
- Luxury travel takes off as plane makers chase Asia’s super-rich Parts of the aviation industry are shifting towards wealthy customers and selling a more luxurious type of international travel.
- Ella Baron on Jeff Bezos’s cuts to the Washington Post – cartoon Continue reading...
- A Project Hail Mary final trailer? Yes please "There are infinite possibilities for this to go wrong."
- YouTube Music starts putting lyrics behind a paywall Free YouTube Music accounts are now seeing their access to lyrics limited, according to multiple reports.
- Amazon’s ‘Melania’ documentary stumbles in second weekend After a better-than-expected opening weekend in theaters, box office for Amazon’s “Melania”fell 67%.
- Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl The purchase rewrites the domain record books -- not that the crypto industry has ever been accused of restraint when it comes to spending.
- Super Bowl LX ads: all AI everything
Super Bowl LX is nearly here, with the Seattle Seahawks taking on the New England Patriots.
AI tools & model updates
- openai/openai-node: v6.18.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.17.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.79.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: sdk: v0.74.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: foundry-sdk: v0.2.3 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.78.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- How to Build License-Compliant Synthetic Data Pipelines for AI Model Distillation Specialized AI models are built to perform specific tasks or solve particular problems.
- Study finds AI reasoning models generate a “society of thought” with arguing voices inside their process New research reveals that reasoning models like Deepseek-R1 simulate entire teams of experts when solving problems: some extraverted, some…
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports browser profiles Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports browser profiles, enabling you to reuse authentication state across multiple browser sessions…
- 3 Ways NVFP4 Accelerates AI Training and Inference
The latest AI models continue to grow in size and complexity, demanding increasing amounts of compute performance for training and inferenc…
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Prime minister will command government with biggest majority in decades
Billionaire media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner was convicted in national security trial last month
Security services to launch advisory scheme for threatened academics in wake of Sheffield Hallam row
Former president’s strident voice has vanished from the airwaves.
Tehran faces growing pressure over its brutal crackdown on recent unrest as talks with US are set to continue
Labour MPs and officials warn that the Peter Mandelson scandal could yet claim prime minister’s job
Executives face choice between cutting returns to shareholders, raiding reserves or tapping the markets
Peter Mandelson’s protégé quits as Keir Starmer seeks to appease angry Labour MPs and stay in Number 10
Japan digests election results, Hong Kong protester Jimmy Lai sentenced and Bangladeshis vote in a pivotal election
Bhumjaithai Party led by prime minister emerges in strong position as progressive People’s Party concedes defeat
Prime minister’s Liberal Democratic Party gains two-thirds majority in stunning landslide victory
A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.
Parts of the aviation industry are shifting towards wealthy customers and selling a more luxurious type of international travel.
The prime minister said "outdated assumptions about how to make it into a successful career" have held young people back.
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A mining disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo underscores the human cost of extraction.
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By freezing thresholds, Labour is quietly loading the cost of public services on to young graduates, while insisting it has not raised taxe…
Labour will introduce legislation to cut threshold from 20 in effort to head off looming shortages Labour will introduce legislation to low…
Concerns about the cultural damage being done by the student loan system are raised by Prof Vaughan Grylls Your coverage of the dispute bet…
Arrests follow discovery on Friday of magistrate and her mother in a garage in south-east of country French authorities have arrested six s…
"There are infinite possibilities for this to go wrong."
Free YouTube Music accounts are now seeing their access to lyrics limited, according to multiple reports.
After a better-than-expected opening weekend in theaters, box office for Amazon’s “Melania”fell 67%.
The purchase rewrites the domain record books -- not that the crypto industry has ever been accused of restraint when it comes to spending.
But this is still a bad idea.
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A march supporting California’s billionaires didn’t exactly draw a huge crowd on Saturday.
Super Bowl LX is nearly here, with the Seattle Seahawks taking on the New England Patriots.
New York's state legislature is set to consider a pair of bills that would require labels on AI-generated content and would put a three-yea…
Often, I focus on recommending older media that isn't currently getting a ton of attention.
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i recreated Yahoo!
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What are you working on?
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I built a desktop Mars colony survival game called Underhill, in homage to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.
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Specialized AI models are built to perform specific tasks or solve particular problems.
A new benchmark called WorldVQA tests whether multimodal AI models actually recognize what they see or just make it up.
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OpenAI's GPT-4o will soon be shut down for good, and some users are dreading this moment because they feel emotionally attached to the AI m…
New research reveals that reasoning models like Deepseek-R1 simulate entire teams of experts when solving problems: some extraverted, some…
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Claude: Speed up responses with fast mode New "research preview" from Anthropic today: you can now access a faster version of their frontie…
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI-generated fake videos are spreading rapidly across Japanese social media during the lower house election campaign.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports browser profiles, enabling you to reuse authentication state across multiple browser sessions…
AWS Config now supports 30 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon EKS, Amazon Q, and AWS IoT.
The latest AI models continue to grow in size and complexity, demanding increasing amounts of compute performance for training and inferenc…
Release update (see link for changelog).
OpenAI shares its approach to AI localization, showing how globally shared frontier models can be adapted to local languages, laws, and cul…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Starting today, the Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region.
Today, Amazon WorkSpaces announces the availability of 12 new Graphics G6, Gr6, and G6f WorkSpaces bundles built on the Amazon EC2 G6 famil…