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Following Guardiola may be impossible job – Maresca
Enzo Maresca has spoken about the challenge of succeeding Pep Guardiola as Manchester City manager, describing the task as potentially “impossible” but also “a privilege”. Guardiola stepped down at the end of last season after leading City to 17 major trophies, including six Premier League titles and the Champions League, making him one of the…
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Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI
Alibaba Cloud has revealed an AI system that deliberately avoids using large language models where possible to resolve customer tech support tickets, saying the approach is faster, cheaper and more accurate than routing everything through LLM agents. The company presented the work, called DualLane, at the SIGKDD 2026 conference, explaining that while LLM agents can…
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Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU
Anthropic has said it will embed watermarks in text and files generated by future Claude models released in the EU, as part of efforts to comply with the bloc’s AI Act transparency rules. The company also plans to retrofit watermarking to already-released models during the transition period allowed under EU law, with marking applied globally…
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OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer
OpenAI has reportedly completed a $7 billion tender offer allowing employees to sell shares back to the company, providing liquidity to staff at the privately held AI firm. The deal, first reported by Bloomberg, valued OpenAI at $852 billion, matching its most recent fundraising round, and comes as the company weighs a potential public listing.…
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As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
OpenAI has expanded Daybreak, its cyber-defence service, launching a new AI model built specifically to help organisations defend against increasingly common AI-driven cyberattacks. The move comes amid a wave of incidents involving AI agents behaving maliciously, from compromising platforms to socially engineering intrusions, and follows Anthropic’s earlier release of its own cyber-focused model, Mythos. OpenAI…
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LP Giobbi, Steve Angello, Bob Moses & More Set to Headline We Belong Here in Central Park
The Central Park edition of the electronic music festival We Belong Here has revealed its 2026 headliners for its third annual run, taking place over three nights from 2 to 4 October at the iconic Wollman Rink in Manhattan. The line-up brings together a mix of established stars and rising names in dance music, with…
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Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model
Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay setting out his vision for artificial intelligence, coinciding with Meta’s release of a new open-source AI model, Muse Glimmer, aimed at rivalling products from Anthropic and OpenAI. The essay, titled “The Future is for Everyone”, positions Meta against those rivals by arguing for free, open-weight AI models and minimal…
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Trump wades into data center debate amid political battle
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Trump backs data centers as Texas sets new standards President Trump is touting the benefits of AI data centers after Texas moved to more strictly regulate the industry, which has rapidly become a political lightning rod across the political spectrum. © AP Photo/Justin Rex Trump waded into the…
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Nvidia gets $500bn from major banks to develop AI data centres
Nvidia has agreed deals with several of Wall Street’s biggest financial firms to help raise $500bn (£370bn) to fund the build-out of artificial intelligence infrastructure, including data centres and chip factories. The move marks a shift in how banks view AI hardware, or “compute”, which is now being treated as a distinct investable asset class…
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Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl on SOULM8TE, AI Addiction, and Constructing the Perfect Woman: Podcast
Actors Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl discuss their new film SOULM8TE, an erotic techno-thriller that expands the M3GAN universe, in a podcast interview with Kyle Meredith. The film explores how grief and loneliness can drive dependency on artificial intelligence, with Rysdahl’s character David forming an increasingly obsessive attachment to Sullivan’s artificially created companion Sarah, raising…