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            @leonbovett
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              Views expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of my employer, Acxiom.
              
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           “Between 2021-2023, British exports to the EU fell by 27%. Brexiteers boasted that Brexit would be worth 100s of billions a year. Cambridge Econometrics estimates that over the next decade our economy will be £300bn smaller than if we’d not left the EU.” 
          
            
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              With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
            
                
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             “a seminal report by the joint intelligence committee on the threats to UK security of the collapse of critically important ecosystems is being swept under the carpet by a government embarrassed by its failure to provide any leadership on the issue.” 
          
            
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              Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
            
                
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             “Done properly, AI releases human capacity, not replaces it. Most important is its power to drive real-world outcomes: managing microgrids, mapping climate risk, guiding resilient planning.” 
          
            
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              Simon Stiell insists it is vital governments regulate the technology to blunt its dangerous edges
            
                
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             “Within little more than a decade, costs of more than 5% of GDP a year are likely to bite. Compared with that, Covid and the global financial crisis would pale into insignificance” 
          
            
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              Exclusive: Simon Stiell believes economic benefits will compel countries to speed up climate action
            
                
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             “…access to  https://t.co/30uiSy2MNi  was thwarted by the Trump administration, and its production team was fired. Now, a team of climate communication experts is working to resurrect its content into a new organization with an expanded mission.” 
          
            
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              Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission
            
                
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             “highlights include Craig Quintero and Phoebe Greenberg’s Blur, a theatrical exploration of AI cloning, Wayne McGregor’s mixed reality dance production On the Other Earth, and Singing Chen’s The Clouds are Two Thousand Meters Up” 
          
            
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              At the festival’s pioneering immersive section, a ‘seamless evolution’ of VR and mainstream film-making is revolutionising narrative
            
                
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             New paper from @VERSESAI - AXIOM is a world model that learns to play pixel-based arcade games in minutes. Preprint:  https://t.co/DnqwZDaN6l  Blog:  https://t.co/bIsschojXA  Code:  https://t.co/nxQKlm8swF  🧵 
          
                
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             “it's very hard to move energy around the world. Most kinds. But if you (put big clusters in a lot of places) and exchange energy for intelligence and then move the intelligence around the world, it's much easier.”  https://t.co/507JARdusA 
          
          
            
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              Podcast Episode · OpenAI Podcast · 18/06/2025 · 40m
            
                
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             “the spending package on the green economy > £60bn, plus £22bn in R&D spending, …. boosted by 16%, more than any other department. Climate change thinktank E3G, said: ‘This is a historic uplift in capital support for building a clean economy..’” 
          
            
            theguardian.com
              By earmarking billions of pounds for the green economy, Labour is setting itself apart from the Tories and Reform
            
                
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             It's all happening. Thank you @WIRED and @fchollet #AXIOM #Genius #wired #ARCAGI3🚀  https://t.co/TXQsisaXOD 
          
          
            
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              A new machine learning approach tries to better emulate the human brain, in hopes of creating more capable agentic AI.
            
                
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             The FEP posits that intelligent agents don't just passively absorb data to build a world model (the way DL models are trained), instead they actively sample their environment to reduce uncertainty and bring their internal model into alignment with reality. This is 100% correct 
          
                
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             The climate graphic got updated. CO2 acts like a heat-trapping blanket, warming the lower atmosphere and preventing heat from reaching the upper layers. Also, more CO₂ in the stratosphere helps it radiate energy more efficiently, which cools it further. 
          
            
            fastcompany.com
              The updated 'climate stripes' graph now visualizes the impact of climate change on oceans and the atmosphere. Some parts may surprise you.
            
                
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             “Gulf states are racing to diversify beyond oil, offering advantages that Silicon Valley can’t match: abundant and cheap energy, ambitious sovereign wealth funds, and a regulatory environment that can push massive projects to run modern AI models.” 
          
                
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             2/3 Francesco Innocenti @InnocFrancesco - a deeply suspicious (& brilliant) Ph.D. student @SussexUni @SussexAI - has now (w/ @drclbuckley) developed a new predictive coding method that scales to >100 layers w/ highly competitive benchmark performance 
          
                
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             "Agent Engineering is a new discipline – Taking inspiration from software engineering, prompting, product, ML, you need to code, engineer your prompts, [and translate] business workflows into agents. Being good at all four disciplines is a tall task!" 
          
            
            blog.langchain.com
              Hear more about the product launches, keynote themes, and exciting news from our first-ever conference.
            
                
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             PB 8x125c/1:00r row workout. 2.08.5. Less than 16km!Check it out!  https://t.co/bPie4L2SPd 
            #concept2 #logbook
          
          
            
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              Distance: 16,227, Time: 1:16:33.2, Pace: 2:08.5, Energy Burned: 1000 Calories
            
                
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             Excited to share what I've been working on @SakanaAILabs! 🐟 We present the Continuous Thought Machine (CTM), a novel neural network architecture that leverages temporal processing and neuron synchronization. There are three central components to CTM 🧵👇 
           Introducing Continuous Thought Machines New Blog:  https://t.co/kLGlwICBDu  Modern AI is powerful, but it’s still distinct from human-like flexible intelligence. We believe neural timing is key. Our Continuous Thought Machine is built from the ground up to use neural dynamics as 
            
                
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             “In the long history of liberalism, a free press, the law, labour unions, […], universities, civil resistance, & multilateral organisations have all served – alongside multiparty free elections – to constrain the men who would be kings.” 
          
            
            theguardian.com
              From the Canadian elections to universities and civil society, the campaign to turn the tide against anti-liberal nationalists is well underway, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
            
                
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