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Merab Dvalishvili accuses Usman & Umar Nurmagomedov of hotel attack When rain finally does come to drylands, only some microbes in the soil 'awaken' Google joins the decision-model wave with Gemini Decision 1, scoring 1,000 questions in a single pa… Olaf Sakkers is betting  he can beat the emerging-manager squeeze Putin-Trump meeting, European officials’ presence in Abu Dhabi: Kremlin aide’s statements Carlos Prates draws crowds in India ahead of UFC 336 title fight How backlash and red tape continue to slow data centers post-Blue Wave The 'Super Bowl Era catch-leaders' quiz Merab Dvalishvili accuses Usman & Umar Nurmagomedov of hotel attack When rain finally does come to drylands, only some microbes in the soil 'awaken' Google joins the decision-model wave with Gemini Decision 1, scoring 1,000 questions in a single pa… Olaf Sakkers is betting  he can beat the emerging-manager squeeze Putin-Trump meeting, European officials’ presence in Abu Dhabi: Kremlin aide’s statements Carlos Prates draws crowds in India ahead of UFC 336 title fight How backlash and red tape continue to slow data centers post-Blue Wave The 'Super Bowl Era catch-leaders' quiz

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IMF chief urges countries to act faster on debt, AI regulation - United News of Bangladesh

IMF chief urges countries to act faster on debt, AI regulation  United News of Bangladesh

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Meta AI Open-Sources Rebalancer: A C++ Assignment Solver That Runs About 40 Million Placement Problems a Day

Meta has open-sourced Rebalancer, the C++ and Python library it has used for over 9 years to place shards, servers and traffic. It handles about 40 million assignment problems a d…

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US, China, EU: three paths to regulating AI - The Economic Times

US, China, EU: three paths to regulating AI  The Economic Times

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A Developer’s Guide to Laya: Zero-Shot Decisions and Calibration

Explore a comprehensive coding guide to Laya, the open-source zero-shot decision engine. Learn how to implement typed decisions, fit custom temperatures, and build reliable absten…

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Sam Altman Breaks With Anthropic on AI Regulation, Says World Must Accept ‘Some Bad Things’ as AI Benefits Outweigh Harms - Yahoo

Sam Altman Breaks With Anthropic on AI Regulation, Says World Must Accept ‘Some Bad Things’ as AI Benefits Outweigh Harms  Yahoo

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Palm Desert City Council to consider adopting AI policy for city work - KESQ

Palm Desert City Council to consider adopting AI policy for city work  KESQ

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Belmont High School AI Policy Faces Backlash From Students, Parents - The Belmont Voice

Belmont High School AI Policy Faces Backlash From Students, Parents  The Belmont Voice

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Council votes to send back AI policy over ambiguous language - Rapid City Journal

Council votes to send back AI policy over ambiguous language  Rapid City Journal

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Many factors determine Mid-Hudson Valley’s fall foliage peak - Daily Freeman

Many factors determine Mid-Hudson Valley’s fall foliage peak  Daily Freeman

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Palm Desert Looks To Adopt New AI Policy - Patch

Palm Desert Looks To Adopt New AI Policy  Patch

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Google claims EmbeddingGemma 2 outperforms rival embedding models twice its size

Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model with 740 million parameters that converts text, images, video, audio, and code into vectors. It runs on-device, needs only about 19…

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Google's new image model Nano Banana 2.1 generates better images for less money

Google's new Nano Banana 2.1 image model uses Gemini 3.6 Flash and beats the previous Pro model in some benchmarks at a lower cost. But its predecessor also scored well in tests, …

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Google DeepMind Releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M Open Multimodal Embedding Model Built on Gemma 4

Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 maps 5 input types into one 768d space and ships today under Apache 2.0. The post Google DeepMind Releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M Open Multimo…

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Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure

According to the Wikimedia Foundation, rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission, tried to abuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have caused a partial Wikidata Query…

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State Sen. Gounardes testifies before City Council on legislation governing AI regulation - Brooklyn Eagle

State Sen. Gounardes testifies before City Council on legislation governing AI regulation  Brooklyn Eagle

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Microsoft publishes Nobel economist's bearish AI forecast of just 1.5% GDP growth over a decade

Microsoft published a bearish AI outlook from Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu. He predicts about 1.5 percent GDP growth over ten years and at most five percent of jobs replaced. Bi…

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Mistral AI Releases Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk): A 1.05T Parameter Multimodal MoE Model

Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, as a public preview. It is a 1.05 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts model with 49 billion active parameters, nativ…

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Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers

Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. They might also melt away the years. Drug giants Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk say patients taking their drugs age…

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Insurers brace for millions in claims as AI agents spin out of control

Insurers are bracing for millions in claims from rogue AI agents, and executives like OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei could be personally on the hook for the fall…

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AI regulation takes focus at Abu Dhabi summit - CNN

AI regulation takes focus at Abu Dhabi summit  CNN

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Mistral Large 4 is Europe's trillion-parameter answer to US models that refuse security work

Mistral's Large 4 is the company's biggest model yet, with one trillion parameters trained on its own European infrastructure. In the independent Intelligence Index, the model mak…

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Decatur School Board greenlights taking part in legal action, adopting AI policy and passing fiscal budget - Westside Eagle Observer

Decatur School Board greenlights taking part in legal action, adopting AI policy and passing fiscal budget  Westside Eagle Observer

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German publishers call for AI regulation over copyright concerns - Yahoo

German publishers call for AI regulation over copyright concerns  Yahoo

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Why Trump's new AI task force co-chair says the admin won't rush regulatory rules - Axios

Why Trump's new AI task force co-chair says the admin won't rush regulatory rules  Axios