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AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption
Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour The surviving part of an ancient scroll that was burnt to a crisp when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago has been virtually unwrapped and read with help from artificial intelligence. Researchers uncovered 20 columns of previously hidden text covering more than a metre of charred papyrus without physically unrolling the scroll. The work discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour and dates to the second or late-third century BC. Continue reading...
AI agents are changing work — and Dell’s John Roese says it’s just beginning
To gain a better understanding of the longer-term impact that autonomous agents will have on the nature of work, Dell Technologies Inc. has been taking a closer look at how AI is already changing how work gets done. This has been a central focus for John Roese (pictured), Dell’s global chief technology officer and chief […] The post AI agents are changing work — and Dell’s John Roese says it’s just beginning appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants
Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid is being pushed to its limits as people turn to fans and air-conditioning to try to stay cool. Some power plants won’t be online to help handle the load. On June 23, France saw its hottest day since record-keeping began in 1947.…
Critic of Labor’s tax changes deletes anti-immigration AI video reposted from rightwing nationalist account
Fund manager Geoff Wilson says he did not watch full video and deleted it after ‘inappropriate associations were identified’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The fund manager Geoff Wilson, a prominent public critic of the government’s tax changes, has deleted an inflammatory AI-generated video he reposted from a rightwing nationalist account portraying Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers taking money from white Australians and giving it to recently arrived migrants wearing Islamic face coverings. Wilson said he had not watched the full video before sharing it or examined other accounts, some of whose content he reposted on Wednesday morning – which included content relating to the QAnon conspiracy theory – and deleted his posts after being contacted by Guardian Australia. Continue reading...
A Three-Phase Factual Recall Circuit in Gemma-2B and Gemma-12B-IT
Activation patching reveals how facts are stored, routed, and read out across transformer layers, and why the residual stream does most of the work The post A Three-Phase Factual Recall Circuit in Gemma-2B and Gemma-12B-IT appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Ireland: Interlocking factors shape the approach to China in science-tech innovation
Ireland: Interlocking factors shape the approach to China in science-tech innovation H.Seidl Wed, 06/24/2026 - 16:15 picture alliance / Long Wei / Costfoto Download (pdf - 3.95 MB) Report Jun 30, 2026 14 min read Ireland: Interlocking factors shape the approach to China in science-tech innovation You are reading the Ireland chapter of the 2026 report of the European Think Tank Network on China (ETNC) "Fragmented Europe: Dealing with China as a technology and innovation power". Go back to the main page . By Alexander Davey , MERICS, and Niall Duggan , Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork Ireland’s approach to China in science, technology and innovation is shaped by several interlocking factors. At its core is Ireland’s open, FDI-driven economic model. This approach is further informed by a growing set of government strategies focused on security and competitiveness, designed both to bolster that model and to support a gradual shift toward industrial policy and deeper integration within the EU single market. It is also shaped by pressure to diversify amid uncertainty surrounding the current US administration, as well as by wider efforts to build resilience in response to geopolitical instability. Recent developments: Meeting in Beijing, open to collaboration In January 2026, Ireland and China’s leaders met for the first time in 14 years in Beijing. Both Taoiseach Micheál Martin and President Xi Jinping made speeches about the bilateral relationship. I…
Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis with automated, iterative genomic reanalysis
Talos was built to help resolve a major bottleneck in genomic medicine: human review time. The open-source system recovered 90% of in-scope diagnoses while surfacing just 1.3 candidate variants per patient for expert review. The post Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis with automated, iterative genomic reanalysis appeared first on Microsoft Research .
Long-horizon agent benchmarks are fragmenting: a field guide to what each one actually measures
A field guide to the new wave of long-horizon agent benchmarks: what each one actually measures, the realism-versus-verifiability bargain it strikes, and the seam where its score leaks. The post Long-horizon agent benchmarks are fragmenting: a field guide to what each one actually measures appeared first on Arize AI .
Make an Origami Circuit Board
What could you do if you could make a circuit trace by just bending a piece of paper? How about bridging modern technologies and traditional handicrafts while providing opportunities for learning skills in both. As part of our interdisciplinary research into digital craftsmanship at the MEI Lab at the School of Creative Media , City University of Hong Kong , we came across research that demonstrated how to impregnate paperlike material (technically a “nonwoven textile”) with the kind of liquid metal used to make conductive ink . Initially, the impregnated material is nonconductive because an insulating oxide layer forms that encapsulates microscopic droplets of the liquid metal. However, applying pressure via shaped molds will crack open the insulating layer, allowing neighboring particles to merge, and thus creating conducting regions in the shape of the mold. Both of us were introduced as children to origami and kirigami (similar to origami, except that cutting is allowed in addition to folding). We, along with our colleagues, decided to see if those traditional techniques could be used on the new material to eliminate the need for molds. Our goal was to allow crafters to make hybrid papercraft creations that contained easily integrated elements such as LEDs and motors. In particular, we were interested in the possibility of combining the separate stages of creating a papercraft object and adding electrical conductors. Previous approaches to creating electrified papercraft…
After Access surveys: What to expect in 2026
Research ICT Africa’s After Access survey has served as one of the few nationally representative sources of demand-side data on mobile device ownership, internet use and digital skills in Africa. […] The post After Access surveys: What to expect in 2026 appeared first on Research ICT Africa .
I was wary of driverless cars and their tech overlords – but they could give me a different future | Gabriel Stewart
For those of us who can’t drive due to disabilities, the drawbacks of these vehicles are vastly outweighed by the possibilities they offer The robotaxis are coming! The robotaxis are coming! Well, actually, they’re already here. Until now they’ve been the stuff of science fiction, but this summer London’s streets have seen Silicon Valley-based company Waymo testing out self-driving cars. It hasn’t been the smoothest of introductions – from cars getting stuck in a cul-de-sac and repeatedly waking up the residents of Shoreditch to one driving into a crime scene , after a double stabbing in Harlesden. The automated vehicles (AVs) have so far had trained drivers waiting behind the wheel to take control if needed, but will soon be shedding their human minders. Waymo and British rival Wayve are hoping to launch driverless minicabs in the capital this year, subject to approval from the British government and Transport for London, among others. A subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, Waymo currently operates ride-hailing services in 10 US cities, but London, with its narrow streets and densely populated centre, will serve as one of its biggest challenges yet. Gabriel Stewart is a freelance writer and an intern on the Guardian’s positive action scheme Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...
Data Privacy Brasil participa de audiência pública com contribuições para a Política Nacional de Proteção de Dados
Proposta inclui instrumentos de concretização da política, competências federativas, cooperação institucional e atenção a temas como segurança pública e transparência O post Data Privacy Brasil participa de audiência pública com contribuições para a Política Nacional de Proteção de Dados apareceu primeiro em Data Privacy Brasil Research .
Why I Stopped Using One Agent and Built a Multi-Agent Pipeline Instead
A practical walkthrough using text-to-SQL as the example The post Why I Stopped Using One Agent and Built a Multi-Agent Pipeline Instead appeared first on Towards Data Science .
How Publicis Sapient transformed its marketing organization
You've heard AI can transform how your marketing team works, now hear from someone whose team actually did it. The post How Publicis Sapient transformed its marketing organization appeared first on MarTech .
World Cup coverage, brought to you by one of Brazil’s biggest influencers
Virginia Fonseca’s debut on TV Globo is the latest sign of a media shift that critics say is blurring the line between journalism and entertainment. The post World Cup coverage, brought to you by one of Brazil’s biggest influencers appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center .
Abu Dhabi’s TII joins new AI security standard
TII founding partner of OPAQUE 3.0 to verify AI against quantum threats
The Data Compliance Problem AI Teams Keep Ignoring
I’ve avoided writing about copyright and AI. Not because it isn’t important, but because it felt like a legal sideshow compared to the engineering and business questions I find more interesting. That’s gotten harder to justify. There is also something mildly funny about naming my podcast The Data Exchange years ago, because I believed data Continue reading "The Data Compliance Problem AI Teams Keep Ignoring" The post The Data Compliance Problem AI Teams Keep Ignoring appeared first on Gradient Flow .
How to build trust when buyers question everything
Firsthand expertise, original research, and transparent thinking carry more weight than polished messaging. Here's why. The post How to build trust when buyers question everything appeared first on MarTech .
Coval raises $28M as enterprises push voice agents into production
Voice artificial intelligence testing startup Coval Inc. revealed today that it has raised $28 million in new funding to expand its platform as more enterprises put voice agents into production. Founded in 2024, Coval offers software that runs simulations, tracks live performance and labels data for AI voice and chat agents. Companies use it to […] The post Coval raises $28M as enterprises push voice agents into production appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Modulate launches AI music detection as synthetic tracks flood streaming
Voice artificial intelligence company Modulate Inc. today launched a tool that flags AI-generated music straight from the audio. The product, an application programming interface called AI Music Detection, scores how likely a clip is to contain AI vocals or AI instrumentals and gives a verdict on the whole file. Streaming services, distributors and rights holders […] The post Modulate launches AI music detection as synthetic tracks flood streaming appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Microsoft’s New AI in Education Report highlights widespread adoption and increasing demand for support
The post Microsoft’s New AI in Education Report highlights widespread adoption and increasing demand for support appeared first on Source .
AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine
Summary RFIC design is a complex “ dark art ” that limits progress in wireless technologies like 5G, autonomous vehicles, and satellite communications. Princeton researchers use reinforcement learning and inverse design to rapidly create RFICs from scratch. Diffusion models rapidly generate novel or human-interpretable RF layouts, achieving record performance and drastically reducing design time. Future progress needs large, shared chip design datasets and open ecosystems so AI can learn universal electromagnetic and circuit behaviors. Take a moment and try to imagine your life without the wireless advances of the past three decades. Have you lost your luggage? What a shame AirTags have not been invented. The airline representative has promised to call with updates, so settle in for a long wait by the kitchen telephone, because there are no affordable cellphones. You’ll be stuck listening to whatever is on the radio while you wait, because there are no streaming services. That’s not even to speak of all the movie plots that would have been ruined. This is just a tiny sliver of how wireless technology makes itself felt in your day-to-day existence. The effects it has had on supply chains, infrastructure, and how the economy runs have been world-altering. None of it would be possible without the radio-frequency integrated circuits that allow all our devices to unobtrusively send and receive information. Now imagine what the further evolution of this technology will bring: Wide…
Why trust belongs at the center of your data strategy
More customer data once looked like a competitive advantage. AI is exposing the risks of data built on inference, opacity, and extraction. The post Why trust belongs at the center of your data strategy appeared first on MarTech .
The Download: introducing the Engineering issue
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Engineering issue We can’t fix everything, but we can be ambitious. We can take on the challenge of making the world better through human ingenuity. That’s what the new…
The weirdest things a leak revealed about Peter Thiel’s secret club | Tayo Bero
The Dialog society grades its attendees on a hidden scale, tackles issues from sex to world wars, and offers matchmaking What would happen if roughly 200 members of the global elite gathered every year for a top secret retreat? What would they do? What would they talk about? Who would be on the guest list? Well, data leaked by the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew (who also brought us the justice department’s no-fly list back in 2023) is shedding new light on Dialog , the private social club co-created by the former PayPal boss Peter Thiel and the angel investor Auren Hoffman. Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
Compri secures €3.2M to build AI-powered procurement teams
Compri, a Milan-based startup developingAI-powered procurement software for industrial companies, has raised €3.2million in a seed funding round led by Picus Capital, bringing its totalfunding to more...
Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI are backing an effort to stop respiratory infections
The common cold comes for us all—often more than once a year. And there is no way to prevent it. The best you can do is take vitamin C and stay away from people with the sniffles. Now the payment company Stripe, founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison, says it will fund a new…
Finding the right anchors for RAG: keyword, embedding, and TOC signals in parallel
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #7B] - Retrieval is filtering on structured tables: keywords first, TOC second, embeddings last The post Finding the right anchors for RAG: keyword, embedding, and TOC signals in parallel appeared first on Towards Data Science .
The emergence of the web data infrastructure layer for AI
AI is booming. New use cases are emerging each day. To capitalize on the technology’s potential, enterprises require data at scale. In many cases, though, the relevant information is blocked or unstructured, which limits its use by AI models. To understand this challenge, consider the foundation of the web itself. The web was not designed…
Wakeline lands €2.1M to bring continuous learning to AI
Düsseldorf-basedWakeline, a deeptech startup developing continuously adaptive AI systems, hasraised €2.1 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Aachen-basedTechVision Fonds (TVF), with part...
Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns
About 1,600 workers signed petition against tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and computer screen content Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has paused a program that tracked employees’ computer activity amid data privacy concerns and a staff backlash. The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp had introduced a tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and content displayed on computer screens in order to collect data for training its AI models. Continue reading...
Inside Microsoft’s two-decade push to cut water intensity while scaling for growth
The post Inside Microsoft’s two-decade push to cut water intensity while scaling for growth appeared first on Source .
Harness-1: The 20B Retrieval Subagent That Beats GPT-5.4 at Search
Most search agents try to handle too many jobs at once. They generate new queries, remember what they have already explored, collect evidence, and decide what is relevant as the search keeps expanding. That can make the whole process messy, expensive, and hard to control. Harness-1 takes a simpler approach. Built with researchers from UIUC, […] The post Harness-1: The 20B Retrieval Subagent That Beats GPT-5.4 at Search appeared first on Analytics Vidhya .
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New €34M Nucleo Ventures fund targets startups and SMEs across Central and Eastern Europe
Fortech Ventures announces the launch of a €34 million investment fund and its transition to a new public identity, Nucleo Ventures. Developed in partnership with the North-West Regional Development ...
Tissium raises €30M in equity funding, €30M in debt
A French startup which uses a novel technology to reconstruct damaged tissue and restore it to its natural state has raised €30m in equity funding and taken out up to €30m in debt financing, it said t...
LiveKid acquires Aldea to expand in Latin America
LiveKid, aplatform for preschool and nursery management and parent-school communication,has acquired Aldea, a software provider serving early childhood educationcentres across Mexico, Colombia, and Ch...
Fragmented Europe: Dealing with China as a technology and innovation power
Fragmented Europe: Dealing with China as a technology and innovation power H.Seidl Wed, 06/24/2026 - 12:14 picture alliance / Long Wei / Costfoto Download (pdf - 3.95 MB) Report Jun 30, 2026 2 min read Fragmented Europe: Dealing with China as a technology and innovation power Report by the European Think-tank Network on China Edited by: Bernhard Bartsch, Claudia Wessling Peer reviewers: Andreas B. Forsby, Nick Nieschalke, John Seaman, Tamás Matura, Francesca Maremonti, Aurelio Insisa, Matej Šimalčík, Filip Šebok, Anastas Vangeli, Katja Zajc Kejžar, Mario Esteban, and Miriam Tardell Recent years have seen the EU shift toward a policy of “de-risking” in relation to cooperation with China in the science and technology space, as concerns over economic and research security continue to grow. However, this ambition lacks cohesive implementation, and the current state of affairs is a patchwork of sometimes competing interests and approaches across member states. This year’s report by the European Think Tank Network on China (ETNC) examines national approaches to dealing with China as a technological power and research partner, reflecting the broad range of approaches implemented across Europe. The report features 24 national chapters and a dedicated EU chapter, written by China experts covering their own country’s relationship with China in relation to science, technology and innovation, along the same line of inquiry: How does your country engage with and respond to China as a tec…
If an AI chatbot misleads you, who is to blame? | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders
A court in Germany found that Google was responsible for what its chatbots say in search summaries. This is the accountability we need Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves”, and that they generally know “that information generated with AI should not be blindly trusted”, the court held that the AI’s summaries are reflections of the company and “above all an expression of Google’s business activities”. This is the latest skirmish in a decades-old battle over internet publishing. Historically, there were two different types of information distributors: carriers and publishers. A phone company is a carrier. It’ll transmit whatever you say, even discussions about committing a crime. Words are words, and the phone company does not know – nor is it liable for – the words you choose to speak. A newspaper, on the other hand, is a publisher. It decides the words it publishes, and what quotes to include in its articles. If those words or quotes are defamatory or otherwise illegal, it’s liable. Continue reading...
Top 7 Coding Models You Can Run Locally in 2026
Explore the best local coding models for private AI coding, fast GGUF inference, agentic workflows, multimodal development, and running powerful open models on your own GPU.
Home Broadband Is 5G’s Surprise Killer App
5G telecommunications, according to industry hype when 5G first launched in 2019 , was going to be all about buzzy applications like mobile augmented reality and autonomous vehicles . But the surprise plot twist came when replacing home cable internet turned into 5G’s most widely adopted new application. Fixed wireless access (FWA) now serves over 14 million U.S. customers , and contributes 28 percent of worldwide wireless traffic . Fixed wireless access is what the term sounds like: broadband internet delivered over a cellular radio link to a stationary location—no cable, no fiber, no trenching, no satellite broadband antenna pointed at the sky. What makes FWA distinctive is that it repurposes the same towers, spectrum, and 5G infrastructure that was built for mobile devices. One U.S. Federal Communications Commission commissioner has called FWA 5G’s killer app . And that’s true not just in the United States either. Jio, India’s largest carrier, is also one of the world’s largest FWA providers, with over 9 million customers as of last year. Carriers discovered they could repurpose surplus 5G capacity, while also exploiting a usage pattern quirk: mobile traffic starts to drop after 8 p.m. , just when home internet usage peaks. The result is broadband, delivered via traditional cellphone towers, at a lower cost than fiber deployment. For these reasons, FWA provides real price competition to cable broadband , while reaching underserved rural and suburban communities. Fixed Wir…
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Samsung opens ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex access after AI restrictions
Samsung Electronics is expanding employee access to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, giving staff wider use of AI tools for technical and non-technical work. According to OpenAI, the deployment covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all Device eXperience employees worldwide. The DX division includes smartphones, consumer electronics, and home appliances. Samsung plans to use […] The post Samsung opens ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex access after AI restrictions appeared first on AI News .
GEMS, Oracle to prepare 11,000 students for the Agentic Economy
GEMS becomes the first school network in Oracle University programme
Open source grapples with agentic coding
Unless you’ve been living under an old woodpile in your backyard, you have certainly seen how agentic coding is rocking the software development world. Things are happening fast and furious, and keeping up is practically a full-time job. The latest area that is catching the attention of developers is how agentic coding is affecting the open source community. The open source movement has been defending the rights of folks to use, change, and contribute to software for many years. And of course, agentic coding is starting to become part of that process. On the one hand, maintainers of open source projects rightfully are frustrated as they become overwhelmed with pull requests of dubious quality and usefulness being submitted by coding agents. On the other hand, as David Heinemeier Hansson notes , maintainers are starting to get a little snooty about accepting AI-written code, viewing it as somehow not worthy of being included. Some organizations have explicitly banned AI-generated submissions . I get that they don’t want AI slop overwhelming their input queues. But I think it is a huge mistake to ban AI-written code outright. Whose code? Before I dig deeper into that notion, it’s important to look at another issue that arises from all of this: Who actually owns the code that AI writes? Copyright requires that a human produce the thing being copyrighted. If you prompt Claude Code with “Write me a CMS system” and then Claude writes you a CMS system that you check into a public G…
Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode
Microsoft has been pushing hard to make Visual Studio Code a major way to consume its AI services, mostly in the form of GitHub Copilot . GitHub Copilot’s deep integration with VS Code brings many conveniences — inline autocomplete, for instance — but it’s frustrating for those, like me, who would rather use another model provider, or even a locally hosted LLM, for those functions. Visual Studio Code 1.122 introduced a new feature, “ Use BYOK [Bring Your Own Key] without a GitHub sign-in ,” that allows you to “use chat, tools, and MCP servers in air-gapped or restricted environments where GitHub sign-in isn’t possible.” More importantly, it “enables fully offline workflows with local models like Ollama.” In other words, you can now use locally hosted LLMs for chat, tools, and Model Context Protocol servers inside Visual Studio Code. The one thing you still can’t do is use a local LLM for inline and next-edit suggestions — at least, not without additional tooling. Choosing a model for BYOK mode If you want to use a local LLM with VS Code’s bring-your-own-model system, the first thing you need is a way to host the model. VS Code lacks a model-hosting mechanism of its own, although it’s conceivable that a VS Code extension may offer something like that in the future. That said, hosting models is complicated enough that a dedicated app is really needed for the job. One easy way to host models is via a product like LM Studio , a convenient GUI for standing up, serving, and managi…