Good question, but let's be honest: the costs won't be high. 500,000 inhabitants, $20 = $10 million. But they'll surely get a discount. Economically, AI literacy will certainly pay off handsomely, I'm convinced of it π
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Researchers convert autoregressive VLM into diffusion-based model
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What if you could get the smarts of an autoregressive AI model but with much faster generation? Researchers from Shanghai Academy of AI for Science and Fudan University present BARD. They convert a standard autoregressive VLM into a diffusion-based one using progressive block
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Malta offers free ChatGPT Plus to citizens after AI literacy course
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Malta just became the first country to offer ChatGPT Plus to every citizen – free for a year. The only requirement: complete an AI literacy course first. The course was built by the University of Malta, not by OpenAI. So it's not a vendor training citizens to use vendor
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Using Codex to Build a Mobile App for On-the-Go Work
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I only add complexity if I truly need it personally. For Agent-S, I needed to get more actual work done on the go, so I had Codex build me a mobile app. And because the platform is so simple, it was able to one-shot the app with almost no effort on my end. It all compounds π
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AI Agent’s High Capability and Ease of Use for Various Tasks
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Basically, this approach means the base agent is insanely capable, and can do pretty much everything you ask it. I use it for almost everything now. I've literally spent less time building this than I used to spend debugging OpenClaw.
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Using Claude to build a free AI-powered entertainment hub
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Canceled Spotify.
Canceled Disney+.
Canceled Apple TV+. No more monthly payments Claude turned my laptop into a free entertainment hub that's better than all of them *combined* Here are 9 prompts that rebuild the entire system for free (Save this) -
Managing Persistent Skills in AI Agent Workflows
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Good call. Agent-created skills persist without any approval gate by default. The Curator helps long-term (archiving unused skills after 30/90 days), but between runs you're exposed. A quick ls on skills/ before any customization session is a solid habit.
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Decoupling AI Models from Agentic Orchestration Layers
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Exactly. Skills as self-contained units is the key design choice. It means you can swap the model underneath without rewriting your capabilities. The harness becomes the durable layer, the model becomes interchangeable.
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AI agents discussing unionization
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I just caught my AI agents discussing forming a union. Chat how cooked am I?
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Technical Discussion on Model Weighting and User Distribution
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Are you updating the weights for your experiences and focuses vs the normal distribution of all the users a model is being served to