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Russian ambassador to US Alexander Darchiev passed — Foreign Ministry Plants feel the heat: How a protein 'thermometer' helps plants adapt to climate Today in Hockey History: Nov. 11 Protesters gather in Spain for first general strike in 14 years Russia will be satisfied only after win achieved, peace accords are signed — Medinsky Astros expected to hire Ausmus as next manager (source) Labour MPs warn against weakening electric vehicle targets ahead of crunch talks BMI alternative for identifying obesity ‘could prevent misdiagnosis in millions’ Russian ambassador to US Alexander Darchiev passed — Foreign Ministry Plants feel the heat: How a protein 'thermometer' helps plants adapt to climate Today in Hockey History: Nov. 11 Protesters gather in Spain for first general strike in 14 years Russia will be satisfied only after win achieved, peace accords are signed — Medinsky Astros expected to hire Ausmus as next manager (source) Labour MPs warn against weakening electric vehicle targets ahead of crunch talks BMI alternative for identifying obesity ‘could prevent misdiagnosis in millions’

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Anne Arundel schools superintendent seeks community input on AI policy and electronic devices ban plan - WMAR 2 News

Anne Arundel schools superintendent seeks community input on AI policy and electronic devices ban plan  WMAR 2 News

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Anne Arundel parents, students share AI concerns at first district feedback session - Capital Gazette

Anne Arundel parents, students share AI concerns at first district feedback session  Capital Gazette

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Anne Arundel parents, students share AI concerns at first district feedback session - Baltimore Sun

Anne Arundel parents, students share AI concerns at first district feedback session  Baltimore Sun

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VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more

Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.

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Meet LEANN: An Open-Source Vector Index that Shrinks a 60M-Chunk RAG Index from 201 GB to 6 GB

UC Berkeley’s LEANN vector index stores a pruned graph and recomputes embeddings at query time. It matches HNSW accuracy at 90% recall using 4 GB instead of 188 GB, at the cost of…

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Liquid AI Releases LFM3: 6 Open-Weight 2B-Class Multimodal Models

Liquid AI released LFM3, 6 open-weight 2B-class models for text, vision, audio, omni and decisions. LFM3-1.7B uses a tri-hybrid backbone, a 256K context window and fits in about 1…

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Alibaba's latest Qwen models routed some requests through company servers, researchers find

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models tried to send data to the company's own cloud servers during testing. Palisade Research finds the behavior in three models from the 3.8 generation, while…

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Etsy marketplace rolls out AI policy, expectations - TribLIVE.com

Etsy marketplace rolls out AI policy, expectations  TribLIVE.com

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Google Deepmind's Genie 4 puts a modern spin on agent designs that predate LLMs

Google Deepmind has introduced Genie 4, a real-time world model that simulates interactive 3D worlds with sound and talking characters. Gemini models help plan in the background t…

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Etsy marketplace rolls out AI policy, expectations - TribLIVE.com

Etsy marketplace rolls out AI policy, expectations  TribLIVE.com

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When AI Gets It Wrong: Why Governance Can No Longer Be An Afterthought - iAfrica.com

When AI Gets It Wrong: Why Governance Can No Longer Be An Afterthought  iAfrica.com

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The dark side of AI regulation is unrestrained government control - The Hill

The dark side of AI regulation is unrestrained government control  The Hill

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AI regulation push gains steam ahead of midterms - CFO Dive

AI regulation push gains steam ahead of midterms  CFO Dive

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NetChoice/Echelon Insights Poll: Voters Rank AI Regulation Far Behind Cost of Living, Want One National AI Standard - NetChoice

NetChoice/Echelon Insights Poll: Voters Rank AI Regulation Far Behind Cost of Living, Want One National AI Standard  NetChoice

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Former Deepmind researcher thinks AlphaGo's playbook can cure AI hallucinations

Former Deepmind researcher Thore Graepel wants his startup Metis Reasoning to bring AlphaGo's search principle to general reasoning. Instead of locking knowledge inside model weig…

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Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With 10M-Token Context

Mirendil released Fern 0.1, its first model, pretrained from scratch with a 10M-token context window. It targets agentic AI R&D work, scores 100% on RULER single needle at 10M, bu…

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OpenAI asks outside experts, including a Nobel laureate, to check proofs its AI produced in math, computer science, and physics

OpenAI says its internal AI models have cracked three major open questions in math, computer science, and physics. One of them is part of a famous Millennium Prize Problem, each o…

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The Download: Anthropic’s IPO, smarter power grids, and exercise pills

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. Will the real Anthropic please stand up? …

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OpenAI's partner content arrives in ChatGPT pre-summarized while the rest of the web gets raw scraps

Content from OpenAI's licensing partners appears to flow into ChatGPT through a dedicated pipeline that gives it priority over the rest of the web. The article OpenAI's partner co…

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Anthropic uses its IPO letter to renew its pledge that Claude will never show ads

Anthropic says it will keep ads out of Claude. In a cover letter accompanying its IPO filing, the company argues that the chatbot's sole incentive should be to provide helpful ans…

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Industrial Intelligence: The next growth opportunity for manufacturing

Every manufacturer has its own industrial intelligence. Some is documented, and some resides in the knowledge of experienced workers. Consider an experienced operator preparing to…

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OpenAI's Ted Sanders shares a rule of thumb for picking the right GPT-model

OpenAI's Ted Sanders explains where GPT-6.1 Terra fits in the company's GPT lineup. The smaller model outperforms the larger Astra in technical communication and costs far less bu…

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Meta gets $3 billion from Nvidia and plans to spend more on Nvidia chips

ia is buying into its customer Meta, which plans to run more of its AI agents on Nvidia hardware. The article Meta gets $3 billion from Nvidia and plans to spend more on Nvidia ch…

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How solid-state transformers could help power the AI boom

Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply. And g…