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Ollama Now Runs Faster on Macs Thanks to Apple’s MLX Framework

Ollama Now Runs Faster on Macs Thanks to Apple’s MLX Framework

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Ollama, the popular app for running AI models locally on a computer, has released an update that takes advantage of Apple’s own machine learning framework, MLX. The result is a hefty speed boost on Macs with Apple silicon. According to Ollama, the new version processes prompts around 1.6 times faster (prefill speed) and nearly doubles the speed at which it generates responses (decode speed). Macs with M5-series chips are said to see the largest improvements, thanks to Apple’s new GPU Neural Accelerators. The update also includes smarter memory management, which should make AI-powered coding tools and chat assistants feel noticeably more responsive during extended use. Ollama says the new performance boost should especially benefit macOS users who run personal assistants like OpenClaw or coding agents like Claude Code, OpenCode, or Codex. The preview release is available to download as Ollama 0.19 – just make sure you have a Mac with more than 32GB of unified memory to run it. Support is currently limited to Alibaba’s Qwen3.5, but Ollama says support for more AI models is …

Trump admin unveils national AI policy framework to limit state power

Trump admin unveils national AI policy framework to limit state power

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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on artificial intelligence at the “Winning the AI Race” Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters The Trump administration on Friday issued a legislative framework for a single national policy on artificial intelligence, aiming to create uniform safety and security guardrails around the nascent technology while preempting states from enacting their own AI rules. The six-pronged outline broadly proposes a slew of regulations on AI products and infrastructure, ranging from implementing new child-safety rules to standardizing the permitting and energy use of AI data centers. It also calls on Congress to address thorny issues surrounding intellectual-property rights and craft rules “preventing AI systems from being used to silence or censor lawful political expression or dissent.” The administration said in an official release that it wants to work with Congress “in the coming months” to convert its framework into a bill that President Donald Trump can sign. The White House wants to codify the framework into law “this year” and believes it can generate bipartisan …

Wisconsin Senate advances tribal framework for mobile sports betting expansion

Wisconsin Senate advances tribal framework for mobile sports betting expansion

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Wisconsin senators pushed forward a bill that could dramatically widen legal sports wagering across the state. In a 21–12 vote, the chamber agreed to the version previously approved by the Assembly on Tuesday (March 17), moving Assembly Bill 601 to the governor’s desk.  It aims to change how state law defines a “bet,” carving out a category for certain online sports wagers processed through systems located on tribal lands. Lawmakers backing the measure say the change would allow regulated mobile betting while staying within the framework of existing tribal gaming compacts. NEW: Wisconsin Senate votes 21–12 to concur with Assembly Bill 601, allowing mobile sports wagers placed in-state if servers are on tribal lands. @RWW pic.twitter.com/v1CiLn68zW — Suswati Basu (@suswatibasu) March 17, 2026 Under the legislation, a wager placed on a phone or computer anywhere inside Wisconsin could be treated as occurring on tribal land, as long as the betting platform’s servers sit on property controlled by a federally recognized tribe and operate under a valid compact with the state. By adjusting the statutory definition …

Ofsted chief criticised over inspection framework comparison

Ofsted chief criticised over inspection framework comparison

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More from this theme Recent articles The head of Ofsted believes the fact that it issues more ‘needs attention’ grades than ‘requires improvement’ is evidence that the watchdog is raising standards, prompting criticism for comparing the new and old frameworks. When Martyn Oliver addresses the annual conference of leaders’ union ASCL in Liverpool this morning, he will criticise “the quiet curse of low expectations” and lay out how Ofsted’s new framework is setting a “more exacting” standard for education. “We are coming from a place where more than 90 per cent of schools were previously judged good or outstanding at their most recent inspection,” he will say. “But our job is to point out where expectations can and should be raised. The new report cards do this. “Take the ‘needs attention’ grade. We are seeing more schools receive this grade than the old ‘requires improvement’ because we are raising standards. We are being more exacting. I make no apologies for that.” But his comments about the system – put in place in response to the …

Building Secure Attunement: A Trauma Integration Framework

Building Secure Attunement: A Trauma Integration Framework

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This post is part 2 of a series. See Part 1 here. In Part I, we explored why self-compassion often feels impossible for trauma survivors and introduced the concept of intentional self-attunement as a more accessible alternative. We examined how trauma reverses the brain’s natural order from 1-2-3 (observe, notice, respond) to a reactive 3-2-1 pattern (react, notice too late, observe only in hindsight). Furthermore, we established that attunement is the mindful action that leads to attachment. Now, we will explore how attunement shifts from something received externally to something embodied internally, alongside the therapeutic framework that makes this possible. From External to Internal: Building Secure Attunement Attunement is a nonverbal process of being with another person in a way that attends fully and responsively to that person. A key aspect of attunement is that it is a joint activity, experienced in interaction with a caregiver. Attunement begins as something we receive. In “good enough” circumstances, a caregiver perceives and responds consistently to a child’s needs, channeling their own felt sense of safety to the …

New agent framework matches human-engineered AI systems — and adds zero inference cost to deploy

New agent framework matches human-engineered AI systems — and adds zero inference cost to deploy

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Agents built on top of today’s models often break with simple changes — a new library, a workflow modification — and require a human engineer to fix it. That’s one of the most persistent challenges in deploying AI for the enterprise: creating agents that can adapt to dynamic environments without constant hand-holding. While today’s models are powerful, they are largely static. To address this, researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have developed Group-Evolving Agents (GEA), a new framework that enables groups of AI agents to evolve together, sharing experiences and reusing their innovations to autonomously improve over time. In experiments on complex coding and software engineering tasks, GEA substantially outperformed existing self-improving frameworks. Perhaps most notably for enterprise decision-makers, the system autonomously evolved agents that matched or exceeded the performance of frameworks painstakingly designed by human experts. The limitations of ‘lone wolf’ evolution Most existing agentic AI systems rely on fixed architectures designed by engineers. These systems often struggle to move beyond the capability boundaries imposed by their initial designs. To solve this, …

How can we tell if citizen participation actually works? A new framework for measuring impact – Evidence & Policy Blog

How can we tell if citizen participation actually works? A new framework for measuring impact – Evidence & Policy Blog

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Franziska Sörgel, Nora Weinberger, Julia Hahn, Christine Milchram and Maria Maia This blog post is based on the Evidence & Policy article, ‘Assessing the effectiveness of citizen participation: the development of an impact scheme’. Citizen participation has become central to research policy, yet we rarely ask the crucial follow-up question: what difference does it actually make? In our recent Evidence & Policy article, we propose an impact scheme that helps to move participation from a well-intentioned ritual to a practice with measurable, meaningful effects.    The last decade has seen an explosion of participatory formats designed to gather citizen and stakeholder feedback on science and innovation policy. From citizens’ assemblies to co-creation workshops, public dialogue has become the new punctuation mark in research agendas and beyond. Nevertheless, a fundamental problem persists: we lack systematic ways to measure whether these processes genuinely influence research priorities or merely provide a democratic façade with little real impact. This gap matters enormously for both research institutions that invest resources in participation and for citizens who provide their time and expertise.  At the Karlsruhe Institute …

This tree search framework hits 98.7% on documents where vector search fails

This tree search framework hits 98.7% on documents where vector search fails

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A new open-source framework called PageIndex solves one of the old problems of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): handling very long documents. The classic RAG workflow (chunk documents, calculate embeddings, store them in a vector database, and retrieve the top matches based on semantic similarity) works well for basic tasks such as Q&A over small documents. PageIndex abandons the standard “chunk-and-embed” method entirely and treats document retrieval not as a search problem, but as a navigation problem. But as enterprises try to move RAG into high-stakes workflows — auditing financial statements, analyzing legal contracts, navigating pharmaceutical protocols — they’re hitting an accuracy barrier that chunk optimization can’t solve. AlphaGo for documents PageIndex addresses these limitations by borrowing a concept from game-playing AI rather than search engines: tree search. When humans need to find specific information in a dense textbook or a long annual report, they do not scan every paragraph linearly. They consult the table of contents to identify the relevant chapter, then the section, and finally the specific page. PageIndex forces the LLM to replicate this …

Trump’s fragile Greenland ‘framework’ with NATO | News

Trump’s fragile Greenland ‘framework’ with NATO | News

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US-NATO talks over Greenland include discussion of US missile defense and mineral rights. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, US President Donald Trump announced that a “framework” for a future deal on Greenland is taking shape. Tied to missile defense and mineral rights, the framework eases concerns about Trump’s earlier threats of tariffs and military intervention. So, how would an eventual deal affect the future of Greenlanders and US-Europe relations? In this episode:  Jonah Hull, Al Jazeera Correspondent Episode credits: This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili, Tamara Khandaker, Melanie Marich, Marcos Bartolomé, and our guest host, Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.  Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.  Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on X, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube Published On 23 Jan 202623 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Source link

Trump-NATO framework unclear, sovereignty is a red line

Trump-NATO framework unclear, sovereignty is a red line

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Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen holds a press conference in Nuuk, Greenland, Jan. 22, 2026. Marko Djurica | Reuters Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a press conference Thursday that he doesn’t know what’s in the “framework” deal that President Donald Trump announced after meeting with NATO’s leader a day earlier. But Nielsen emphasized that no deal involving Greenland can be struck without the island and its governing kingdom, Denmark, having a say. Any such deal must respect Greenland’s “red lines” — including its sovereignty and territorial integrity, he added. “We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU. We choose NATO,” Nielsen told the press in Nuuk, Greenland. “This is not only a situation for Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark, it’s about the world order for all of us.” The remarks echoed Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s earlier statement maintaining that Greenland’s sovereignty is non-negotiable. Nielsen’s comments came one day after Trump — who has spent weeks aggressively pressuring Europe over a proposed U.S. takeover of Greenland — abruptly announced that …