UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
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The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.
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Персональная лента новостей на русском: зарубежные материалы подтягиваются, переводятся в нормальную русскую подачу и открываются у нас с подробной выжимкой и ссылкой на оригинальный источник.
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The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.
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Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
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Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time to pump the brakes and “pace the frontier” of bleeding-edge AI development. Their motivations are suspect, but le…
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The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "threads" running different tasks in parallel, with a "coordinator" directing everything: Under the hood, each thread is a Claude Code cloud session working on its own…
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The company suspended service in the city in April after one of its robotaxis got swept away.
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King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the U.K. government.
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Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
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The refurbished Apple TV 4K with its voice remote. | Image: The Verge Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices. Thankfully, you can offset some of the increased costs on an Apple TV 4K by buying one refurbished through the company. The 64GB model is selling for $169, $30 lower than the new retail price. The upgraded model, with 128GB of storage…
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When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox One. Disc-to-digital seems like a clever new feature for Xbox, perfectly timed as a response to Sony killing PlayStation discs. But the reality is that it has been 15 years in the making and is now a big part of Xbox's ongoing game preservation efforts. Ahead of the launch of the X…
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Europe’s largest financial technology company confirmed it had fallen victim to an impersonation scam last week Revolut is facing a reported $3m (£2.2m) ransom demand after hackers posing as government officials accessed the data of hundreds of the bank’s cryptocurrency customers, including one victim who says he fears for his safety. Europe’s largest financial technology company confirmed last weekend that it had fa…
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What the plan to sell £146bn in gilts back to the Treasury means for the public finances Bank of England holds interest rates Burnham’s talk of ‘breathing space’ at odds with reality of future rate rises Mixed in with the Bank of England’s decision on Thursday to hold interest rates at 3.75% was a surprise announcement that it was shaking up its programme of quantitative tightening. So why is this apparently arcane c…
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Camp Snap is expanding its small collection of screenless digital point-and-shoot cameras with the new pocket-friendly 110D featuring a thin horizontal design first popularized by Kodak film cameras in the 1970s. The Camp Snap 110D is available for preorder starting today for $74.95 in back in black (black and gray) or dreamsicle (white and orange) color options with matching accessories. The Camp Snap 110D's design…
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Facebook told it was wrong in leaving up AI-generated videos of a Labour councillor and Muslim campaigner, amid calls to curb fakes Meta’s “supreme court” has ordered the tech company to take down deepfake videos of a UK politician and a young Muslim woman from Facebook and do more to tackle AI-generated fake imagery. A fake video showing a Labour party councillor in Scotland making inflammatory comments about refuge…
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Central bank announces surprise plan to sell billions of pounds in government bonds back to the Treasury Burnham’s talk of ‘breathing space’ at odds with reality of future rate rises The Bank is shaking up its bond sales – why does it matter? Business live – latest updates The Bank of England has kept interest rates on hold as it warned a continuation of the bitter fighting in the Middle East could force it to raise…
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Exclusive: PM, who is facing pressure over whether to approve North Sea oil and gasfields, makes strongest comments yet on issue British people understand the climate crisis threat. Today I’m empowering them to tackle it UK politics live – latest updates The UK must fully commit to reaching net zero by 2050, Andy Burnham has argued in his strongest comments yet on the issue, saying it is no longer possible for Briton…
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As three siblings came of age and had to leave their pack, scientists tracked the dogs’ perilous 2,500-mile odyssey to find their own territory It sounds like a Disney movie: three wild dogs, all brothers, on an epic journey to find a home of their own after their family tells them to leave. They dodge cars and hunters in search of a new life, navigating bushmeat snares and the hostility of a human-dominated landscap…
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Planned 2029 debut could make this Apple’s first enterprise server in decades.
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Survivors appalled nobody will tell them if they’re in Epstein’s CSAM collection.
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Group plans to be largely out of commission for several weeks.
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Also: Laika Studios debuts a stunning full-length trailer for its stop-motion feature, Wildwood.
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New system-level tools bring Arm chipsets, Android APKs into the Steam ecosystem.
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String of female murder victims found near Johannesburg’s international airport, including five in the past week The discovery of the bodies of eight women around Johannesburg’s international airport, including five in the past week, has prompted an outpouring of fear, grief and anger over a lack of progress in tackling femicide. When Elizabeth “Tsontso” Moselakgomo did not return after going for a run on 9 September…
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Announcement of visa restrictions follows Trump’s false claims of ‘white genocide’ taking place in South Africa The US has announced visa restrictions on some South Africans as Donald Trump’s administration continues to claim that South Africa’s government racially discriminates against white minority Afrikaners. The announcement did not specify individuals who were barred from the US. Trump has spent his second term…
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, figures compiled by conflict monitor underline how Sahel region has become centre of Islamist terror Islamist extremist violence in Africa’s Sahel region is set to reach historic highs after a series of sweeping offensives by groups linked to al-Qaida and Islamic State, according to new figures compiled by the conflict monitor Acled. As the US marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attac…
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Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans The Bank of England and the British financial system were for centuries deeply involved in the enslavement and transatlantic trafficking of millions of African people, according to new research on Britain’s slavery history. Research by historians compiling the Register of British Slave Traders has found that the…