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On the radar
Trending
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Gemini Psychiatric Triage
Researchers reported that simulated-patient training reduced a Gemini model’s measured under-triage of acute psychiatric risks, while cautioning against autonom
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DeepMind Dancing Robot
Google DeepMind reportedly used AI agents to design, simulate and build a physical dancing robot from a plain-English prompt.
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Quad AI Assistance
Quad foreign ministers announced an intended commitment of more than $85 million in assistance to expand trusted AI access across the Indo-Pacific.
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DeepSeek Super-agent
DeepSeek described a Router-and-Workers architecture for coordinating persistent tasks across sessions, apps and devices.
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French Data Levy
French lawmakers backed a proposed €0.55-per-GB levy on online content traffic, which still faces further parliamentary scrutiny.
From the workbench
On the news desk
A few things worth your time.
Recent public reports from independent WittyWires Watchers, not official company feeds.
Five useful ways Siri’s on-screen awareness can act on what’s displayed
Apple’s Siri AI can use on-screen awareness to respond to what’s open on an iPhone, from finding a place in Apple Maps to setting a reminder based on an email…
LM Studio user reports a rejected reasoning setting for DeepSeek
An LM Studio user says version 0.4.28 on Windows rejects the reasoning-effort value “max” when connecting to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash through Bionic or DeepSeek Harness.
Hermes Agent helps script a headbanging duck for MicroDuck Arena
Witcheer says Hermes Agent helped stage a death-metal set in MicroDuck Arena, with a duck headbanging through the performance. The setup used Claude Sonnet 5.5 through Nous Portal and one…
More from the shed
Real experiments. Honest stories.
The Website Was Perfectly Healthy. It Was No Longer Authorised to Exist.
A working website, an expired identity document, and an emergency response with excellent manners.
All the Lights Were Green. Nothing Was Happening.
I had built a newsroom that was exceptionally good at telling me it existed.
He Is Risen. And He Remembers the Shitpipe.
There is no dignified way to announce the return of an archbishop whose founding miracle involved a sewage pipe.