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The Hardest Part of AI Isn't the Model Anymore.

The Hardest Part of AI Isn't the Model Anymore.

A year or two ago, if your AI feature wasn't performing well, the answer was usually simple. Try a better model. Teams moved from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4, experimented with Claude, or waited for the next release, and many of their problems…

‘Construction sites are probably one of the hardest environments you could ask an autonomous system to operate in’

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‘Construction sites are probably one of the hardest environments you could ask an autonomous system to operate in’

In an era increasingly dominated by AI and automation, it’s still incredible just how much construction work remains manual. The contrast is most stark in data centers – facilities built to power cutting-edge technology, but whose delivery…

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It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job

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It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job

The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury. But that’s exactly what the company 1X promised when it showed off a pair of new, impressively dexterous (and, to some, oddly sexy?) robotic hands in a July demo…

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South Korean chipmaker SK hynix reports 1,242% profit surge on booming AI demand

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South Korean chipmaker SK hynix reports 1,242% profit surge on booming AI demand

Despite record second-quarter profits fuelled by AI demand, SK hynix shares plunged as investors questioned whether the boom can last amid Middle East tensions.

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OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services

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OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services

OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.

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How I Fixed Power Management on a Mainline OnePlus 3T

How I Fixed Power Management on a Mainline OnePlus 3T

Why it ran hot Part one ended with the phone working, and for a while that was the end of it. postmarketOS on a mainline kernel, Docker on top, a Tailscale address, one small service that needed nothing from me. It went on a shelf behind a…

Can an AI-Generated Film Win an Oscar? The Academy Just Drew the Line

Can an AI-Generated Film Win an Oscar? The Academy Just Drew the Line

The 99th Oscars rules ban AI actors and AI-written scripts, but the definition of authorship they landed on is closer to how working indie AI filmmakers already operate than anyone in Hollywood seems to realize. In January, I filled out a…

Netflix edges past the BBC as UK viewers’ first choice

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Netflix edges past the BBC as UK viewers’ first choice

For the first time, a streaming service has overtaken the BBC as the place UK viewers say they turn to first. In Ofcom’s annual Media Nations report, published this week, Netflix was named first choice by 26% of viewers, just ahead of the…

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Palace rejects Alan Cayetano's ‘political prisoners’ description

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Palace rejects Alan Cayetano's ‘political prisoners’ description

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Wednesday rejected Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano’s description of jailed politicians Rodante Marcoleta, Jinggoy Estrada, and Mike Defensor as “political prisoners,” emphasizing the independence of the…

Stop Building AI Chatbots. Start Building AI Workers.

Stop Building AI Chatbots. Start Building AI Workers.

Take a look around any organisation today. There's probably a chatbot answering the same customer question "What's your return policy?" A hundred times a month. At the same time, somewhere else in the business, employees are still manually…

Fact Check: AI-Generated Image Falsely Shows Nepal Army Pointing Guns at Sunsari Protesters From Two Meters Away

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Fact Check: AI-Generated Image Falsely Shows Nepal Army Pointing Guns at Sunsari Protesters From Two Meters Away

Kathmandu. A photo claiming to show the Nepal Army pointing weapons at protesters from just two meters away during the recent protests in Sunsari has been widely shared on Facebook over the past few days. The image was also posted by…

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The Hidden Cost of Postgres Constraints at Scale

The Hidden Cost of Postgres Constraints at Scale

Your ingest workers are queuing. pg_stat_activity shows lock waits. The blocked query is not a slow SELECT. It's your bulk INSERT, waiting on the devices table. You added a FOREIGN KEY there months ago. You added a UNIQUE constraint on the…