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I am fully in support of this.
We need an open weight model trained in the U.K. with enough cultural grounding to know how to make a good cuppa tea and how to reply with dry sarcasm. Where can I donate compute time?
🚨BREAKING: The Alan Turing Institute has developed a proposal to train an open-source British AI base model from scratch and release it as a public good, according to a UK government advisory letter published today.
The model would be UK-governed national infrastructure available to researchers, startups and public services, rather than a proprietary product owned by a single company.
Britain's top science advisers want ministers to consider the proposal and allocate national computing capacity for AI trials. They warn that without urgent action, the UK risks becoming a 'high-value AI customer' rather than a country able to shape the technology.
Something don’t smell right. There is power coming in, new capacity is built. What is stopping it from powering the new datacentre?
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Software development in 2026 is as different from software development in 2022 as piloting an Airbus is from driving a Model T Ford.
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On 11th October, JP, Samuel Rowe and I will be taking on the Chester Marathon, 26.2 miles in support of Prostate Cancer UK 💚
This one is particularly personal for me. Over the summer, my dad was officially diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Thankfully, it was caught very very early, at the moment with no immediate treatment required but it was a reminder of just how many men and families are affected by this disease and how important early diagnosis, research and support can be.
We had already planned to run the marathon but in the event of my dads diagnosis it was only right we tried to raise money.
If you’d like to support us and Prostate Cancer UK, any donation big or small, it would mean a huge amount.
A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us so far, especially our friends within GitHub ❤️
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If you can’t donate, a share would be hugely appreciated too.
Roll on 11th October. 🏃♂️💚
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I work at GitHub. yesterday was rough and i'm not pretending otherwise. full root cause report is up if you want the timeline and numbers, and what we are doing to prevent this from happening again.
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Iain M. Banks wrote one of my favorite sci fi series (Culture Series) about what society would be like in an abundant future.
One of the ideas that stands out is that even if people don’t strictly need a job, they will still want mastery, stories, to build, and to feel useful to others.
In the society he imagines, the hard problems are no longer allocation problems, but are instead about values (what’s good, beautiful) and identity.
The scarce resources become trust, attention, and, for institutions, claims to legitimacy. Values, not resources, drive differences in cultures. Societies choose different aesthetics, morals, and attitudes towards risk.
Banks’ world offers infinite comfort, and some people basically opt into endless pleasure. But the books focus on the people who crave intensity,
put themselves in danger, chase purpose in hard environments, and want friction and consequence.
In the books, “the Minds” are basically benevolent, well-aligned ASIs who solve all our problems and run everything. Even if that’s where we are headed, it’s fun to imagine what we will still care deeply about.
Banks is amazing at thinking through what that might mean. I highly recommend them.
if they could combine it with the recent developments from Apple it could be very interesting.
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Apple has just released details of a new AI video generator experiment:
STARFlow-V is a big deal because it proves that Apple has found a way to build a top-tier video AI without using Diffusion (the technology behind Sora, Runway, and Kling).
Most current video AIs work by taking a fuzzy static image and slowly "denoising" it into a clear picture.
STARFlow-V instead uses Normalizing Flows, a method that smoothly transforms simple data into complex video in a single, reversible stream.
Why this is interesting:
It’s Reversible:
Because the math works in both directions, you can run the model forward to create video, or backward to understand existing video. This makes it naturally good at editing (Video-to-Video) without needing the complex, "hacky" workarounds that Diffusion models require.
It’s Streamable:
It generates video frame-by-frame in a strict timeline, making it much better suited for streaming or potential real-time applications (like video games or "world models") compared to models that generate a whole clip at once.
It’s Competitive:
Historically, this technology was considered "too hard to scale," but Apple just showed it can match the quality of today's best models while being potentially faster and more consistent.
I agree kinda on all of it but the price; it is too expensive in the UK at lest.
£3.5k is a huge amount of money.
It would have been great for Apple at all to shave >30% off to get a few more developers to build apps for it. I for one would have one tomorrow if it was £1500
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We’ve moved fast to integrate Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 into your GitHub Copilot Chat model picker. This new version brings a major boost in performance, giving you a smarter, more capable partner.
Now go put it to the test.
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Claude Opus 4 —> 4.1
The latest and greatest model from @AnthropicAI is now available in the GitHub Copilot model picker. ⚡
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