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Last week, TypeSafe AI released Jev, its first System One model. Founder Diogo Almeida previously worked at OpenAI on the instruction-following research behind ChatGPT. Jev does not chat, write code or summarize. It takes unstructured state and returns typed decisions with calibrated probabilities. That makes it a natural fit for the thousands of small judgments inside an agent loop: which model to call, whether a command is safe, which passage is relevant, whether the agent is actually done. How Jev Works Every call sends a state (text or JSON) plus a dictionary of typed questions.…

In brief Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy has filed a preliminary proxy proposing daily dividend accrual on STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD. Dividends would accrue every calendar day, including weekends and holidays, and pay the next business day. Shareholders vote on October 28. STRC would switch on November 1, the other three on January 1. Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy wants to pay dividends on its four U.S. preferred shares every day, including weekends and public holidays, executive chairman Michael Saylor said on Thursday.The proposal covers STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD. Dividends would accrue every calendar day and pay the following business…

“Are we the baddies?”, asked the comedy double act Mitchell and Webb in their most famous sketch, in which two uniformed SS officers look one another up and down and arrive at that inescapable conclusion. And lo, it turns out they are, if this week’s news about the supposed offensiveness of the duo’s back catalogue is to be believed.Their newfound unpalatability made headlines last Monday, when 11 of the pair’s sketches were pulled from the rerelease of That Mitchell and Webb Look on iPlayer to mark its 20th anniversary – a move that led to loud condemnation from the keyboard…

Chalmers says ‘near-universal’ expectation rate rises will occur worldwideIn response to a question about the expected interest rate hike tomorrow from the Reserve Bank and whether the government is considering doing anything to take pressure off inflation, Chalmers says it is a “near universal expectation of economists and the market that rates will go up around the world, including in Australia”.Conflict in the Middle East in particular will put pressure on inflation, he says. On productivity, he adds: double quotation markThere is no quick and easy way to turn around two decades of underperforming on productivity but we are taking…

The CFP is widely recognized as one of the world’s most ambitious and comprehensive fisheries management frameworks. Following years of overfishing and declining profitability, its reform in 2013 placed sustainability at the heart of fisheries decision-making. Progress has been neither uniform nor easy, but the overall direction has been clear: healthier fish stocks, improved management and a stronger foundation for the long-term viability of the sector. According to the European Joint Research Centre, in 2003 only 27 percent of fish stocks in the North Atlantic were fished at levels below the maximum sustainable yield. By 2021 that figure stood at…

Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It’s a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn’t Suno in a box, though. This isn’t a “push-button, get-song” device, aimed at creating something that sounds ready for top-40 radio. It’s about creating experimental, uncanny sounds and pushing AI audio models beyond their limits.Engram isn’t connected to the internet. Instead, it runs a “tiny AI” locally. According to the Kickstarter listing, the model is designed in-house and custom-trained. The company says:“We’ve trained our audio…

Zano has rolled back approximately a month of blockchain history after a vulnerability involving Gateway Addresses allowed unauthorized ZANO and Freedom Dollar to enter circulation, according to its core team. The Zano blockchain has been restarted at block 3,833,000, immediately before Hard Fork 6, which introduced the affected feature. The recovery requires participating nodes, miners, stakers, exchanges and other services to adopt the update, the team said Sunday. The rollback invalidates a month of legitimate transactions along with the unauthorized tokens, meaning transactions made during that period will no longer appear on the recovered chain. It also cannot reverse payments already settled…

In surveys ranking the Premier League’s greatest moments, football supporters regularly give pride of place to Sergio Agüero’s championship-winning goal for Manchester City in 2012. Scored in injury time on the last day of the season, Agüero’s strike against Queens Park Rangers delivered the first league title for City since the 1960s. Knocking their historic rivals Manchester United into second place, it also signalled a new era in which the club replaced United as the dominant force in the English game.“Aguerooooooo!” – the incredulous single-word response from the match commentator Martin Tyler – has entered football folklore. But an asterisk…

Mundhe has been criticised by sections of the food and hospitality industry over his enforcement drives. He has rejected allegations of selective or unlawful action, saying inspections are evidence-driven and licences are suspended only in serious cases.Batth, too, has faced flak for acting against illegal encroachments, with critics alleging his enforcement is selective and disproportionately affects vulnerable people. In several viral videos, he has said his actions are carried out strictly under town-planning rules.Jaswal explains a street vendor’s stall may be an unauthorised structure in the eyes of the law, but could be a family’s only source of income. And…

A 28-year-old British climber has died after falling about 60m (200ft) from one of the highest mountains in northern Spain. The man fell into a gully while descending from the summit of Torrecerredo in the Cantabrian Mountains on Thursday, the Spanish Civil Guard said.Police and an air unit were deployed to the scene after emergency services were called around 13:27 local time (11:27 GMT). The man’s body was recovered by a mountain rescue unit. The UK Foreign Office said it was in contact with local authorities “following reports of the death of a British national in Spain”.Spanish emergency services said…