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“If liberty means anything at all, it means telling someone something that they don’t want to hear. I fear there may be some people in the audience who don’t want to hear what I have to say today but I appreciate your forbearance in this small act of liberty.” - Scott Pelley 3/5

New Lens on RAG Systems RAG systems are more brittle than you think, even when provided sufficient context. Great work from Google and collaborators. Good tips for devs included. Here are my notes:

I am alarmed by the proposed cuts to U.S. funding for basic research, and the impact this would have for U.S. competitiveness in AI and other areas. Funding research that is openly shared benefits the whole world, but the nation it benefits most is the one where the research is

As the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Test, Trace, and Isolate Module comes to a close today, here is a look at some of the shocking evidence we have heard so far. A Thread 🧵 1/12

On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained.

Are Richard Tice’s migration claims right? He claimed “statistics show without a doubt” that the Labour government “has allowed the biggest influx of migrants in British history”. But is he correct?

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

If anyone had any doubts about the subvertive nature of Chinese AI freebies, here's a good example. I decided to ask DeepSeek to do a mundane job: edit the text of a recent The Insider article to make it more vocal-delivery friendly, so we can record it as a podcast. SFSG.

Here's the beginning of the original article that DeepSeek totally promised would not alter, but for style edits

And here's the offered text that I almost choked while reading out to my daughter.

Always out for an innocent explanation, I asked DeepSeek to point to the exact article it had allegedly improved slightly. Well, the link's correct. But it insisted I had written something completely different.

Reward models (RMs) are the moral compass of LLMs – but no one has x-rayed them at scale. We just ran the first exhaustive analysis of 10 leading RMs, and the results were...eye-opening. Wild disagreement, base-model imprint, identity-term bias, mere-exposure quirks & more: 🧵

Today from 2-5 pm CET our second online webinar in which we present outcomes of our work on #disinformation detection and content analysis takes place. Target audience: researchers and anyone interested in hardcore R&D approaches and solutions. veraai.eu/posts/two-vera…

🗓️ Next week, the Code of Practice on Disinformation—a cornerstone of the #EU's efforts to counter #disinformation—will become effective as a formal Code of Conduct under the #DigitalServicesAct #DSA. Originally introduced in 2018 and revised in 2022, the #CoPD is a

Way way way too much going on here. I’ll leave for you to interpret.

Here is the full report. And since it involved Elon’s army, please share and retweet the first post rather than this one. This app suppresses and restricts the spread of news links including little doubt this one. Afraid of sunlight and facts. wired.com/story/big-ball…

"No matter how transformative LLM training may be, it’s hard to imagine that it can be fair use to use copyrighted books to develop a tool to make billions or trillions of dollars...[while harm the market for them]" - Judge Chhabria, Kadrey v Meta (NdCal). x.com/jason_kint/sta…

This is WILD. The reason Trump defunded the National Weather Service leading to the deaths of all those girls in the Texas flood is because PROJECT 2025 THOUGHT WEATHER PREDICTION SCIENCE WAS TIED TO EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE.

.London North Eastern Railway and TransPennine Express had both their trains delayed, meaning I get from Sheffield to London via Doncaster more than 30 mins late and now both companies are rejecting my #delayrepay claim, blaming the other! The entire system is broken 😔 MoneySavingExpert this is worth a look

And it's less than some of the poorest EU countries - Romania and Bulgaria! Shame on the UK!