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Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakes

The errors included getting dialogue wrong and incorrectly claiming a scene was set 100 years earlier than it was.

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How to use GitHub Copilot Spaces to debug issues faster

Follow this step-by-step guide to learn how to debug your issues using GitHub Copilot Spaces and Copilot coding agent.
The post How to use GitHub Copilot Spaces to debug issues faster appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Power outage paralyzes Waymo robotaxis when traffic lights go out

A third of San Francisco lost power over the weekend, causing traffic chaos.

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Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech

Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.

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National AI Boom Hits Home as Demand for Power Surges

PLYMOUTH COUNTY, WISCONSIN — On a warm fall afternoon, dairy farmer Chris Kestell pushes through prairie brambles taller than himself, tracing a path overgrown with thickets and swarming with bees as he hikes toward a hidden waterway. Though the route is unidentifiable to the untrained eye, Kestell,…

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TikTok’s Chinese owner plans $23bn AI spend to keep pace with US rivals

ByteDance set to increase capital expenditure next year in effort to further build AI infrastructure

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DeltaMIL: Gated Memory Integration for Efficient and Discriminative Whole Slide Image Analysis

arXiv:2512.19331v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Whole Slide Images (WSIs) are typically analyzed using multiple instance learning (MIL) methods. However, the scale and heterogeneity of WSIs generate highly redundant and dispersed information, making it difficult to identify and integrate discrimina…

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I tried Amazon's new AI assistant, and I'm never shopping without it again

Did you know Amazon's Rufus AI tool can alert you to price drops and even snag deals for you? That's just one of several game-changing features.

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How social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, summed it up in three words: “This is embarrassing.” Hassabis was replying on X to an overexcited post by Sébastien Bubeck, a research scientist at the rival firm OpenAI, announcing that two mathematicians had used OpenAI’s latest large language model, GPT-5…

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Guided learning lets “untrainable” neural networks realize their potential

CSAIL researchers find even “untrainable” neural nets can learn effectively when guided by another network’s built-in biases using their guidance method.

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Explainable Graph Spectral Clustering For GloVe-like Text Embeddings

arXiv:2508.14075v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In a previous paper, we proposed an introduction to the explainability of Graph Spectral Clustering results for textual documents, given that document similarity is computed as cosine similarity in term vector space.
In this paper, we generalize…

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Webinar: Will AI End Distinct Programming Languages?

Join Stephen Cass, Dina Genkina, and Kohava Mendelsohn as they discuss whether AI spells the end of distinct programming languages as we know it. IEEE Spectrum publishes a respected annual ranking of the year’s Top Programming Languages—but could this year be our last? This recording of the live web…

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New and enhanced AWS Support plans add AI capabilities to expert guidance

Prevent cloud infrastructure issues before they impact your business with AWS Support plans that combine AI-powered insights with expert guidance, offering faster response times and proactive monitoring across performance, security, and cost dimensions.

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AWS DevOps Agent helps you accelerate incident response and improve system reliability (preview)

New service acts as an always-on DevOps engineer, helping you respond to incidents, identify root causes, and prevent future issues through systematic analysis of incidents and operational patterns.

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Watch: AI app apologises over false crime alerts across US

An AI-powered app called CrimeRadar has apologised for the distress caused by false crime alerts issued to local US communities after a BBC Verify investigation.

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'Architects of AI' named Time Magazine's Person of the Year

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang is among the influential tech figures that adorn one of the two covers.

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How to master ChatGPT basics in under an hour - with my favorite free resources

Want to learn ChatGPT fast? Here are the top videos and guides I recommend - and they're all free.

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GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability

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SurgiPose: Estimating Surgical Tool Kinematics from Monocular Video for Surgical Robot Learning

arXiv:2512.18068v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Imitation learning (IL) has shown immense promise in enabling autonomous dexterous manipulation, including learning surgical tasks. To fully unlock the potential of IL for surgery, access to clinical datasets is needed, which unfortunately lack the ki…

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Confidence Calibration in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2507.17383v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Trustworthy robot behavior requires not only high levels of task success but also that the robot can reliably quantify how likely it is to succeed. To this end, we present a first-of-its-kind study of confidence calibration in vision-language-acti…