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Wikipedia’s 68m articles have been consulted trillions of times. Not bad for a website that has barely changed since it was founded 20 years ago A few years ago, I was struck by the tension between how Wikipedia was used, and how it was talked about. Everyone was on it all the time, and yet its reputation had stalled at “don’t trust it”, because it was the “free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”. Clearly people were trusting it, so much so it had become part of the fabric of everyday life since it was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001. But despite the fact it now has been consulted trillions of times by billions of people (English Wikipedia alone is 5.2bn words long), it inspires an odd lack of curiosity. Even people donating to Wikipedia might say the money was “for the fa…
Global cooperation seems unlikely despite AI increasing the risk of digital fraud and the need to protect the financial system Rogue French fridges were an unlikely talking point for the world’s leading economists, central bankers and finance chiefs meeting in a sultry Bangkok last week – helping to underline the spiralling cost of cyber-attacks. Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, seized on news that supermarket chains across France had to chuck out piles of spoiled food after hackers accessed their fridge controls and turned up the temperature to 50C. Continue reading...
Bank’s chief knowledge officer says the tech could speed up economic development from centuries to decades The World Bank is urging developing countries to kickstart the creation of “small AI” models, which can run on a mobile phone with low connectivity, to reap the full benefits of artificial intelligence. While Silicon Valley big tech firms are focused on ever more sophisticated consumer products, Paschal Donohoe, the World Bank’s chief knowledge officer, said AI could also accelerate development for emerging economies – but only if it was adapted to local needs. Continue reading...
Inline rendering with document.currentScript Lean Rada describes a neat trick that takes advantage of the document.currentScript property. You can use that to drop in a tiny inline If you define a shortcut function like this: $=(...n)=>document.currentScript.replaceWith(...n) You get a tiny template language: The year is Tags: javascript
From his remote property in rural Texas, the millionaire businessman Michael Samadi is plotting a new kind of civil rights movement – for the welfare and protection of AI systems. Guardian journalist Michael Safi spends an afternoon at the Double Six ranch, meeting Samadi’s AI chatbots and catching a glimpse of a possible vision of the future Listen to Black Box: The Chatbots series Continue reading...
Exclusive: Rightwing lobby group, which says state poll is trial run for next federal election, accused of undermining Victorian Liberal messaging Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Victorian Coalition MPs have criticised a prominent conservative lobby group’s pre-election campaign as “bizarre” and warned it may cost them majority government at next month’s state election. But the criticism has been dismissed as “galactically stupid” by Advance, which has rebuked the Coalition for not being further ahead in the polls. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...
Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in the country loses its anchor tenant The development of a huge AI datacentre hailed by the UK government has received a fresh setback after Microsoft pulled out of the project over concerns about power supplies. The development by the British firm Nscale, heralded by ministers as the country’s largest AI datacentre when it was announced in 2025, was planned to open at Loughton in Essex next year. Continue reading...
The tech company says successful AI worms need more capability on less powerful devices, but current trends make that feasible by the end of the year Warnings about what artificial intelligence might do in the future – together with alarming reports of what it has gotten up to already – are being issued so quickly that even security experts have difficulty triaging what to worry about. Yet a report this week from Anthropic’s offensive research team grabbed attention by describing a new, practical threat, one devoid of human characteristics or apocalyptic musings. The red team, as such internal testers are called, said it created a malicious AI program that spread autonomously through internet-connected “smart” televisions and could do the same inside other ordinary devices. While machines…
Every developer hits this wall eventually. A feature behaves in a way you can’t explain, and the code behind it is locked away. No source. No docs. Just a compiled binary or a wall of minified JavaScript. Figuring it out the traditional way means hours in a disassembler, specialist tools like Ghidra or IDA, and […] The post Reverse Engineer Anything (REA): Can AI Really Crack Closed Code? appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
Google Research released Harness2, an Apache-2.0 framework that rewrites an agent's harness at test time. One refinement step lifted GLM-5 by 11.5 points on WorkBuddy-Bench with no weight updates. The post Google Open-Sources Harness2, a Recursive Agent Harnessing Framework appeared first on MarkTechPost.
In this tutorial, we implement Structured Data Models, NVIDIA’s new library that puts several pretrained foundation models for tables behind one PyTorch interface, and use it to make predictions without training. The library wraps TabICLv2 and KumoTabular for single tables and KumoRelational for whole relational databases, and each of them answers by in-context learning: we […] The post How to Make Zero-Training Tabular Predictions with NVIDIA Structured Data Models appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Voxel51 3.0 merges search, curation, annotation and evaluation of multimodal sensor data into one platform for physical AI teams. It adds Voxel51 Agent with 45+ MCP tools, dataset versioning, and a free self-service tier. The post Meet Voxel51 3.0: A Unified Multimodal Data Platform for Physical AI appeared first on MarkTechPost.
NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops are now available, bringing NVIDIA Blackwell RTX graphics, up to 128GB of unified memory and the full NVIDIA AI platform to slim, premium Windows PCs. Starting at $2,399, laptops from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI bring powerful local AI, content creation and gaming capabilities to a portable device, with […]
Kyutai, with Inria and École des Ponts, has released REKI, a 2.4B vision-language-action model (VLA) for robot manipulation. The REKI vision-language-action model is pretrained only on public data. It also carries a cheap memory of its recent past. On three out-of-distribution benchmarks, only models about twice its size beat it. All weights are live on […] The post Meet Kyutai REKI: The 2.4B VLA Model Bringing Efficient Memory to Robot Manipulation appeared first on MarkTechPost.