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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
Amazon Mechanical Turk will stop accepting new customers on July 30, 2026. The announcement on the service website…
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Baidu’s “Unlimited OCR” processes dozens of document pages in one pass by treating memory like human forgetting
Baidu researchers have built an OCR model that handles dozens of document pages in a single inference pass,…
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Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
A new Google Workspace advertisement imagines the American founding fathers relying on modern collaboration tools to draft the…
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LlamaIndex ‘legal-kb’: Agentic Retrieval over Index v2 with retrieve, find, read, and grep Tools
LlamaIndex has published legal-kb, a public reference application on GitHub. It is described as a knowledge base for…
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Qwen’s Former Lead on What Hybrid Thinking Got Wrong — and Why He Now Backs Agents
Junyang Lin was the technical lead of Alibaba’s Qwen project. He announced he was stepping down on March…
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Structured PDF-to-JSON: A Guide to Open-Source Extraction Models in 2026
Most enterprise data still sits inside PDFs, scans, and slide decks. Large language models and agents cannot use…
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Better Models: Worse Tools
Armin Ronacher reports that newer Anthropic models like Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 frequently call Pi’s edit tool…
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New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI
The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence arrives with a new Google commercial asking what would have…
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What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
Following the Trump directive that forced Anthropic to pull its latest models offline, Mistral AI has become the…
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The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself
On June 29th, an anonymous account named @heatedrivalryai launched a tool designed to identify fanfiction written by artificial…