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FCA official makes case for greater powers for watchdog as millions use technology for personal finance decisions.

STK095 Microsoft | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximately 2.1 percent of its…

Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups.

Fables generates GPU kernels via AI; coverage of AI automation and analog computing approaches.

sqlite-utils 4.0rc3 adds compound foreign key introspection and case-insensitive column handling with breaking changes.

Grok Voice expanded with 21 new multilingual voices and improved naturalness for existing voices.

Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy, who are turning to AI to teach their kids instead of traditional schools…

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

I call BS: the founding fathers definitely would have been Microsoft Teams users. | Image: Google "Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the…

sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 released; Claude Fable assisted development at ~$149.25 cost.

Developer demonstrates generating ASCII world map in 445 bytes using deflate compression and JavaScript data URIs.

Claude Opus 4.8 degrades tool-use reliability by inventing extra fields in nested JSON, breaking schema validation despite correct edit logic.

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?

As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.

Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”

Fanfiction communities are trying to hunt down writers who haven’t written works with their own hands. | Image: Álvaro Bernis / The Verge Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative AI. But the detection methods…

Current AI launches Gap Map v0.1, an index of 421 open-source AI products across models, tools, datasets, and hardware, backed by $400M committed capital.

Developer Josh W. Comeau reports significantly lower course sales, attributing decline to AI-driven job displacement fears and LLM-based tutoring competition.

NetinfoGC proposes permutation-invariant graph representations for classification using structural descriptors and training-free NUI estimation.

Modular foundation model framework for time-series perception in Digital Twins and PHM systems with improved transferability.

PLGSA-Transformer uses periocular landmarks and adaptive thresholding for masked face recognition across modalities.

Study of geometric perturbations via dihedral group transformations in UNet, ViT, and DiT architectures using activation diagnostics.

Efficient runtime representation for neuro-symbolic learning that decouples program search from parameter calibration via evaluator differentiation.

Knowledge distillation framed as learning teacher representation equivalence classes rather than absolute feature coordinates.

EPRA U-Net architecture for acute ischemic infarct segmentation in diffusion-weighted MRI with EfficientNet encoder.

Simon Willison reports Anthropic's Claude Code team recommends letting Fable/Opus apply autonomous judgment on tasks like testing rather than prescribing workflows.

Scalable AI safety via doubly-efficient interactive proofs that relax debate assumptions of equal model ability and truthfulness.

PULS pipeline for video anomaly anticipation using kinematic-to-semantic distillation bridge and V-JEPA 2 with Qwen3-VL embeddings.