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Searching Across Images, Sound and Text: What EmbeddingGemma 2 Adds to Local AI

Much of the attention surrounding artificial intelligence goes to systems that generate something visible: an answer, an image or a passage of code. A quieter problem precedes many of those…

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Who Gains from AI at Work? Gender, Opportunity and the Unequal Distribution of Change

An economy can create jobs while leaving particular groups with fewer routes into secure work. A company can become more productive while making the working day more demanding. An employee…

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Artificial Intelligence for Public Governance

From AI Awareness to Administrative Judgement: What Castile and León’s Staff Training Must Deliver

On 28 October 2026, Castile and León brought public employees together in Valladolid for a session on artificial intelligence in administration. The regional government’s account, republished by Spain’s National Institute…

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From AI Code Review to Executable Evidence: What Meta’s Just-in-Time Testing Changes

A warning about faulty software is easy to generate and difficult to evaluate. A language model can offer a convincing account of why a change might break something, yet the…

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Liquid AI’s LFM3 and the Case for Bringing Specialised Intelligence Back to the Device

Progress in artificial intelligence is often narrated through the largest available model: more demanding reasoning, more elaborate demonstrations and more expensive infrastructure. Yet a second question matters just as much…

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Artificial Intelligence for Public Governance

Designing Accountability into Public-Sector AI: Australia’s New Reference Architecture

An AI project can appear to begin with a model, yet some of its most consequential decisions concern everything around it. Which records can it access? Where does its output…

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Before AI Can Reason Over Documents, It Must Read Them: What Surya 2.5 Changes

A scanned report looks deceptively simple on a screen. A person sees a heading, follows the columns, notices that a footnote qualifies a claim and understands that the numbers beneath…

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