All posts tagged: leverages

DfE leverages capital to force LA mainstream focus

DfE leverages capital to force LA mainstream focus

Published by skeptic

Town halls will be required to sign a new ‘memorandum of understanding’ on how to spend £860m of high needs capital cash Town halls will be required to sign a new ‘memorandum of understanding’ on how to spend £860m of high needs capital cash More from this theme Recent articles Whitehall is continuing to tighten its grip on councils’ SEND functions by forcing them to agree to prioritise mainstream specialist places or face having capital cash withheld. Town halls will be required to sign a new “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) on how to spend £860 million of high needs capital cash for 2026-27. This “should start” with ensuring that there are enough places in mainstream schools, including through inclusion bases – which ministers expect to be in every secondary school. But if they intend to spend it on expanding special school or alternative provision, a “clear evidence-based rationale” must be provided. While the MOU is not legally binding, councils which fail to “evidence the outcomes” may have funding reduced or pulled entirely in future years.  …

Future leverages high visibility on ChatGPT by offering GEO as a service

Future leverages high visibility on ChatGPT by offering GEO as a service

Published by Sam Flores

Tom’s Guide and Techradar homepages on Friday 23 January 2026 Future has began offering LLM optimisation as a commercial product across its media brands. The move means Future offers tailored content campaigns for commercial partners which are aimed at boosting their visibility on generative AI-based services like ChatGPT. The move follows research that has found that Future brands – particularly Techradar – are among the most cited sources on various AI platforms. According to research by SEO software company Ahrefs, Future’s Techradar is the most cited publisher website domain globally on ChatGPT, closely followed by The Sun. The specialist websites and magazine publisher recently worked with Samsung to promote the launch of two new phone brands. And, according to Future SEO director Simon Glanville, the content campaign secured up to a 33% uplift in visibility on ChatGPT for the new Samsung products. Now the publisher has launched Future Optic, which is offering generative AI optimisation as part of the marketing mix offered across its portfolio of brands. The content in these campaigns is labelled as …

z.ai’s open source GLM-5 achieves record low hallucination rate and leverages new RL ‘slime’ technique

z.ai’s open source GLM-5 achieves record low hallucination rate and leverages new RL ‘slime’ technique

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Chinese AI startup Zhupai aka z.ai is back this week with an eye-popping new frontier large language model: GLM-5. The latest in z.ai’s ongoing and continually impressive GLM series, it retains an open source MIT License — perfect for enterprise deployment – and, in one of several notable achievements, achieves a record-low hallucination rate on the independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0. With a score of -1 on the AA-Omniscience Index—representing a massive 35-point improvement over its predecessor—GLM-5 now leads the entire AI industry, including U.S. competitors like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, in knowledge reliability by knowing when to abstain rather than fabricate information. Beyond its reasoning prowess, GLM-5 is built for high-utility knowledge work. It features native “Agent Mode” capabilities that allow it to turn raw prompts or source materials directly into professional office documents, including ready-to-use .docx, .pdf, and .xlsx files. Whether generating detailed financial reports, high school sponsorship proposals, or complex spreadsheets, GLM-5 delivers results in real-world formats that integrate directly into enterprise workflows. It is also disruptively priced at roughly $0.80 …