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View More NewsEvery Friday, the Russian Ministry of Justice adds new names to its dreaded Register of Foreign Agents, which identifies people and organizations who have allegedly received foreign support while engaging in political activities. This past week, the Libertarian Party of Russia (LPR) and 24 of its members were added to the list. The registry lists the LPR as an unincorporated public association that disseminated materials of other “foreign agents” and “unreliable information” about the electoral system and policies of the Russian government. Among other allegations, the LPR has been accused of opposing the war in Ukraine and calling for violations…
In brief Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue thanked Z.ai on X saying the Chinese model became “a key part of our defense” during the breach OpenAI’s own models carried out. American frontier AI refused to assist with the forensic investigation—safety filters couldn’t tell a security researcher submitting real exploit code from an attacker. Delangue’s conclusion: defenders everywhere, not just vetted partners with special API access, need powerful unrestricted AI they can run locally before an attack happens. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue just sent the most pointed thank-you note in AI right now—to a Chinese startup—the day after OpenAI confirmed…
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On a black volcanic beach, Christopher Nolan peers into a wheeled contraption that looks like a portable air-conditioner. The IMAX camera, weighing some 180 kilograms, is encased in a black box—a “blimp”—designed to muffle the camera’s sound. Unhoused, the machine is so loud that Matt Damon compared it to ‘a blender… in your face’. Nolan had used IMAX cameras for action scenes before, but this new casing let him do something he never could: film quiet dialogue, with the huge machine only inches from an actor’s face. The Odyssey, Nolan’s thirteenth feature film, is the first narrative feature shot entirely…
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