
- AI reshapes professional services around trust and business outcomes
Professional services firms are rethinking how they deliver client value as artificial intelligence takes on more routine work, shifting attention toward human judgment, trusted outcomes and new operating models. The transition is changing how firms… Read more: AI reshapes professional services around trust and business outcomes - A famous quantum effect can finally be predicted in real materials
Scientists have developed a powerful new way to calculate the Kondo effect, a strange quantum phenomenon that appears when magnetic atoms are embedded in metals. Instead of relying on simplified models, the method uses the… Read more: A famous quantum effect can finally be predicted in real materials - MIT astronomers catch a star in a feast that could last billions of years
Astronomers have discovered a bizarre star system about 300 light-years from Earth where a small star is slowly devouring a nearby brown dwarf, an object too massive to be a planet but too small to… Read more: MIT astronomers catch a star in a feast that could last billions of years - Loneliness may steal nearly 6 years of good health
A large study suggests loneliness and social isolation can cost people years of healthy life, especially when it comes to mental health. Men experiencing both lost about 5.8 years free from depression and anxiety, while… Read more: Loneliness may steal nearly 6 years of good health - Scientists may have found a shortcut to fusion energy
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory may have found a dramatically more efficient route to fusion energy by reversing the traditional approach: heating plasma first, then increasing its density. Their calculations could help future reactors reach self-sustaining… Read more: Scientists may have found a shortcut to fusion energy - Black Box: The Chatbots | The Line | Ep 5 – podcast
Five stories that feel like five answers to one important question: in a world where AI chatbots can help us through a breakup, listen like a friend, be a life coach, draft a difficult text… Read more: Black Box: The Chatbots | The Line | Ep 5 – podcast - The AI control gap: Who gets to say ‘It’s safe’?
We see a control gap between what artificial intelligence can do and what the evidence supports trusting it to do. A great demo doesn’t prove that a system will stay within the limits of an… Read more: The AI control gap: Who gets to say ‘It’s safe’? - One of America’s Last Remaining Chestnut Groves Could Soon Be Wiped Out to Make Room for an AI Data Center
Over a century ago, in 1904, a necrotrophic fungus known as chestnut blight swept across North America, brought across the Pacific on the back of chestnut trees from Japan and China. With no natural resistance to the… Read more: One of America’s Last Remaining Chestnut Groves Could Soon Be Wiped Out to Make Room for an AI Data Center - Mac Users Are Nuking Every Trace of Apple AI on Their Machines
Apple hasn’t exactly impressed with its AI offerings. And privacy-minded Mac users were even less compelled by the company’s decision, with macOS 27, to remove a setting that allowed you to disable and delete its… Read more: Mac Users Are Nuking Every Trace of Apple AI on Their Machines - Eggheads at Anthropic Said They Used Claude to “Solve” Humor
The overly-serious eggheads at Anthropic are adamant that they’ve “solved” a problem that’s been plaguing humankind since time immemorial: humor. At least, that’s according to former employee Jacob Coxon, best known as the guy who… Read more: Eggheads at Anthropic Said They Used Claude to “Solve” Humor - Mainstream News Anchors Now Talking About the AI Bubble Bursting at Any Moment
On Thursday, news that ChatGPT maker OpenAI was set to miss its annual revenue goal by a cool $20 billion sent stock markets into a tailspin. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index took the heaviest hit, falling… Read more: Mainstream News Anchors Now Talking About the AI Bubble Bursting at Any Moment - One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
For about a decade, the mainstream understanding has been that psychedelics cause chaos in the brain. Brain networks—the stable patterns of communication that handle vision, attention, or our sense of self, and more—loosen and start… Read more: One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics. - AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims. - Scientists Detect Record-Breaking Radio Signal from the Ancient Universe
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that spotted a blast from the past, opened a portal between realms, yakked it up, and rose from the ashes. First, scientists have spotted… Read more: Scientists Detect Record-Breaking Radio Signal from the Ancient Universe - Mark Zuckerberg Launched Meta’s Muse AI Agent Despite Disturbing Safety Concerns
When Meta first launched its cutesy Muse AI agents to the public, the company was immediately met with a virtual tidal wave of headlines, as major errors and glaring privacy issues rose to the surface.… Read more: Mark Zuckerberg Launched Meta’s Muse AI Agent Despite Disturbing Safety Concerns - Jon Davis on job titles in the age of AI – cartoon
Continue reading… - UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute
George Williamson says ‘national resilience’ is key focus of ATI amid US and China’s runaway leadership in field The UK must not become dependent on foreign AI systems that can be switched off at short… Read more: UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute - ‘Gaza is a moral tear in the universe’: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast
Are we really living through ‘end times fascism’? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor think so. In a new series from the Guardian, the pair speak to Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty in an extended interview.… Read more: ‘Gaza is a moral tear in the universe’: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast - Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase The owner of a recruitment firm has been accused of being at the centre of a so-called “doxxing”… Read more: Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists - What’s been driving Hawaii’s lava fountains?
In most cases, hotspot-driven volcanism is relatively sedate, with lava flowing down mountainsides slowly enough that people can walk out of its way. But in a number of locations—Mount Etna, Hawaii, Iceland—lava gets expelled in… Read more: What’s been driving Hawaii’s lava fountains? - NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
NASA on Friday released a much-anticipated “request” to the US commercial space industry to develop private space stations that, as early as 2030, will succeed the International Space Station as a place for astronauts to… Read more: NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations - A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 “obsolete” Mac Minis
The Museo de Historia de la Computación in Spain has unveiled a 1:1 scale visual replica of the famous Cray-1 supercomputer from 1976. Instead of sourcing expensive, cutting-edge tech to run the system, the creative… Read more: A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 “obsolete” Mac Minis - Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google”
Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex. The damage has left Yandex, known as “Russia’s Google” because it operates the country’s most popular search… Read more: Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google” - Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
The Stone Age owes its name to tools that survived to our time. The material early humans worked with most, though, was probably wood because it is so much easier to process. Unfortunately, we know… Read more: Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone - IBM connects enterprise AI orchestration to production readiness ahead of TechXchange
Enterprise AI orchestration must account for agents working across the data, applications and infrastructure businesses already use. As organizations move beyond experiments, running those systems consistently brings questions of access, oversight and operational control into… Read more: IBM connects enterprise AI orchestration to production readiness ahead of TechXchange - Police Furious After an Anthropic AI Model Submitted a Bogus Tip About an Unsolved Murder, Posing as a Person Who Might Have Information About the Case
An Anthropic AI model submitted a bogus tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police, in a blunder the department called “unacceptable.” The unspecified model, not unlike an unscrupulous prankster, submitted the fake info… Read more: Police Furious After an Anthropic AI Model Submitted a Bogus Tip About an Unsolved Murder, Posing as a Person Who Might Have Information About the Case - Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund “unethical” vaccine trial
Outrage has erupted among health experts over news that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still eager to fund a widely condemned vaccine trial that would expose newborns in Guinea-Bissau to hepatitis B,… Read more: Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund “unethical” vaccine trial - AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Anyone who has even tangentially associated with computer programming knows that modern AI coding assistants and agents can be incredibly efficient at generating huge amounts of functional code. But coders making use of those tools… Read more: AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software - AI surveillance startup Flock to cut several hundred jobs amid backlash, sources say
Company, which grown rapidly in recent years, has been under scrutiny as privacy concerns grow Flock Safety plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said… Read more: AI surveillance startup Flock to cut several hundred jobs amid backlash, sources say - Seismora builds a control plane to route AI workloads across devices and clouds
A control plane for distributed AI could help applications decide which tasks to run on a device, at the edge or in the cloud. Seismora Inc. is developing networking technology to coordinate AI workloads across… Read more: Seismora builds a control plane to route AI workloads across devices and clouds - Jev creator TypeSafe closes $870M round at $7.5B valuation
TypeSafe Inc., the creator of the Jev artificial intelligence model, today announced that it has raised $870 million in funding at a $7.5 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with contributions from Sequoia Capital,… Read more: Jev creator TypeSafe closes $870M round at $7.5B valuation - Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. - Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
SpaceX has a deal to purchase nationwide low-band spectrum licenses for a planned terrestrial mobile network that would complement the space-based Starlink cellular service. SpaceX will buy up to 14 megahertz of spectrum in the… Read more: Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon - Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release
The Debian Linux project has opened a call for community artwork submissions ahead of the release of the upcoming Forky (Debian 14). If you think you’ve got the artistic chops, your art could appear on… Read more: Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release - AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
Credit: Nguyen Nam Nhat. Last month we covered the winner of Nikon’s Small World in Motion video: Ning Xu of Tsinghua University in China, whose video captured tiny cilia beating in the airways of a… Read more: AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner - PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
PC shipments saw a steep drop of about 20 percent in Q3 2026, analysts reported this week. The industry saw its “sharpest decline since “Q1 2023,” Omdia said in an announcement toady. Global shipments of… Read more: PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023 - OpenAI Wargaming Response in Case of Public Revolt After Catastrophic AI Disaster
In the United States, public sentiment against the rising power of AI labs and their CEOs is overwhelmingly negative. As Wall Street Journal polling from late September found, 63 percent of US adults support an… Read more: OpenAI Wargaming Response in Case of Public Revolt After Catastrophic AI Disaster - McKinsey connects enterprise data through a knowledge graph for AI
The knowledge graph can give enterprise AI applications context by connecting data with the business relationships needed to support decisions. Knowledge graphs can connect enterprise data with the meaning AI applications need. Many people have… Read more: McKinsey connects enterprise data through a knowledge graph for AI - Sacked OpenAI Insiders Say the Company Is Firing Anyone Who Warns What’s Really Going On
Last week, OpenAI fired three safety researchers because they allegedly mishandled confidential information and shared it outside of the company’s approved channels. Now, the fired employees have published an open letter denying OpenAI’s claims —… Read more: Sacked OpenAI Insiders Say the Company Is Firing Anyone Who Warns What’s Really Going On - Nvidia’s $1 Billion Research Plan Targets AI, Quantum Computing and Medicine
Nvidia commits $1 billion over five years to support US science, quantum computing and AI research, expanding its role in the federal Genesis Mission. The post Nvidia’s $1 Billion Research Plan Targets AI, Quantum Computing… Read more: Nvidia’s $1 Billion Research Plan Targets AI, Quantum Computing and Medicine - Google’s New Gemini Agent Can Handle Work Across Multiple Apps
Google’s Gemini Agent can handle tasks across workplace apps, join team conversations, and complete longer assignments. See how it works and what’s available. The post Google’s New Gemini Agent Can Handle Work Across Multiple Apps… Read more: Google’s New Gemini Agent Can Handle Work Across Multiple Apps - Swimlane Leads as Progressive Company in MarketsandMarkets AI SOC Evaluation
Independent MarketsandMarkets evaluation positions Swimlane highest on both axes among startups and SMEs, reinforcing a governed approach to AI-powered security operations News Highlights Swimlane was ranked among the top “Progressive Companies” in the MarketsandMarkets AI… Read more: Swimlane Leads as Progressive Company in MarketsandMarkets AI SOC Evaluation - Behind the Blog: What Would the Pope Do?
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss AI and spirituality. JASON: I think we’ve… Read more: Behind the Blog: What Would the Pope Do? - Definian Names Steve Lyerly as Chief Executive Officer
Former Infocenter President and technology services executive brings proven track record of building and scaling high-growth organizations to lead Definian’s next phase of growth Definian, a leader in data and AI solutions and a Renovus… Read more: Definian Names Steve Lyerly as Chief Executive Officer - Following 404 Media Investigation, Senator Demands Info About White House’s License Plate Surveillance Program
In response to a 404 Media investigation, Sen. Ron Wyden is demanding more information about how a federal license plate reader camera program works. Last month, we reported on the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area… Read more: Following 404 Media Investigation, Senator Demands Info About White House’s License Plate Surveillance Program - Meta Won’t Say If It Violates Its Policies to Upload AI-Generated Videos of Sobbing Little Children Begging for Likes and Follows So They Don’t Get Arrested by Police
In the age of AI, Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram have become breeding grounds for content farms peddling in emotionally charged AI slop. Some click mills traffic in racist incitement against minorities, others in… Read more: Meta Won’t Say If It Violates Its Policies to Upload AI-Generated Videos of Sobbing Little Children Begging for Likes and Follows So They Don’t Get Arrested by Police - Natura’s $99 AI Ring Wants to Put Multiple AI Agents One Press Away
Natura unveils Interface, a $99 AI smart ring designed to access multiple AI agents. Explore its health tracking, battery life, compatibility and availability. The post Natura’s $99 AI Ring Wants to Put Multiple AI Agents… Read more: Natura’s $99 AI Ring Wants to Put Multiple AI Agents One Press Away - Building and optimizing AI agents at scale.
I’m Yahya, an engineer at Lovable, and over the past few months I’ve been working on a use case that taught me a lot about what it actually means to build an agent and, more… Read more: Building and optimizing AI agents at scale. - Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency
Donald Trump’s administration has temporarily banned Microsoft, Adobe, and several other tech companies from sponsoring workers for permanent US residency, claiming they abused immigration programs at the expense of American citizens. Vice-president JD Vance said… Read more: Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency - OpenAI revenue falls short, models play hopscotch and Trump cracks down on tech green cards
I’m not going to call the bursting of artificial intelligence bubble yet, not with all that money still pouring into every hardware and software company with AI in their pitch decks. But we got a… Read more: OpenAI revenue falls short, models play hopscotch and Trump cracks down on tech green cards - Lost generation: the AI threat to Britain’s next great directors
Commercials once launched careers from Ridley Scott to Guy Ritchie, now automated production is cutting costs – and the chance to learn by doing When Ridley Scott was awarded the UK’s highest accolade for a… Read more: Lost generation: the AI threat to Britain’s next great directors - 18 insights from SailPoint’s Navigate event: Enterprises race to bring identity security for AI agents up to machine speed
AI agents have made identity the front line of enterprise security. Agents now number in the thousands. They pick up access nobody meant to give them, and when they’re blocked partway through a task, they… Read more: 18 insights from SailPoint’s Navigate event: Enterprises race to bring identity security for AI agents up to machine speed - Mathematicians React With Fury as OpenAI Releases Hundreds of New AI-Generated Proofs
It’s safe to say that when it comes to mathematicians, OpenAI isn’t exactly winning hearts and minds. On Tuesday, the ChatGPT maker released hundreds of new papers with purported proofs for all sorts of mathematical… Read more: Mathematicians React With Fury as OpenAI Releases Hundreds of New AI-Generated Proofs - Volkswagen’s replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here
Volkswagen’s ID.4 is no more. The midsize crossover debuted in 2021, one of VW’s first new electric vehicles designed in the wake of dieselgate. A year later, the company began local production in Chattanooga, Tennessee,… Read more: Volkswagen’s replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here - Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan’s time to shine?
Welcome to Edition 9.14 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week, from our perspective, is that United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket appears to be close to launching. We’ve seen a no-earlier-than launch date… Read more: Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan’s time to shine? - Nylas Launches IAM With Scoped API Keys for AI Agents and Services
Per-key permissions, account-level boundaries and a record of every call, checked before each request reaches the provider and included on every Nylas plan Nylas, the communications data layer powering core product experiences and agentic AI… Read more: Nylas Launches IAM With Scoped API Keys for AI Agents and Services - AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure
For anybody who thought AI companies were about to unlock trillions of dollars in profits, OpenAI has bad news for you: it ain’t happening anytime soon. Some red-hot reporting from the Financial Times just revealed… Read more: AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure - Why enterprise agentic AI needs an evidence standard.
Enterprise AI dashboards are becoming more sophisticated. They can show activated users, usage frequency, tool adoption, reported time savings, and even estimated return on investment. But a dashboard alone does not create confidence in a… Read more: Why enterprise agentic AI needs an evidence standard. - A quantum prediction from 1931 just came to life
Nearly a century after physicist Hans Bethe predicted them, scientists have created and directly observed unusual quantum states known as “Bethe strings” in an ultracold gas. By cooling cesium atoms to near absolute zero and… Read more: A quantum prediction from 1931 just came to life - A 9-billion-year-old signal could help explain dark energy
A Canadian radio telescope has detected the faint glow of hydrogen from billions of years ago using only its own observations, proving a long-awaited way to map the distant universe can actually work. CHIME can… Read more: A 9-billion-year-old signal could help explain dark energy - Bacteria turn a virus’ own weapon against it
Researchers have uncovered a new way bacteria detect viral attacks: a virus-produced enzyme cuts a bacterial sensor protein, triggering a self-destructing immune response. The discovery could lead to more effective phage therapies against antibiotic-resistant bacteria… Read more: Bacteria turn a virus’ own weapon against it - Scientists find hidden materials that could improve batteries and solar fuels
Scientists have uncovered a hidden world of “in-between” materials that briefly form as chemical ingredients are heated, revealing structures that conventional methods can miss. Among the discoveries is a previously unknown form of bismuth vanadate,… Read more: Scientists find hidden materials that could improve batteries and solar fuels - AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them | Robert Reich
Liability lawsuits have held tobacco, oil and pharma companies to account in the past. AI investors won’t ignore this threat The most basic function of government is to protect people from harm. Two growing phenomena… Read more: AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them | Robert Reich - AegisAI announced the launch of Proteus
AI-generated attacks now change faster than rule-based and behavioral systems can update. Catching them takes purpose-built AI that investigates every message without relying on known patterns. In a benchmark of 3,020 real phishing attacks, Proteus… Read more: AegisAI announced the launch of Proteus - Renting GPUs felt smart in 2023. The math has moved
It makes considerably less sense once the workload is running 24 hours a day and the finance team starts asking why the AI line item keeps outgrowing the AI budget. The rent-first default is starting… Read more: Renting GPUs felt smart in 2023. The math has moved - TD SYNNEX Announced the Introduction of FinOps Fusion
New service and finance offering helps partners manage and govern AI token spend for their end customers at scale TD SYNNEX (NYSE: SNX) today announced the launch of FinOps Fusion, a new offering designed to… Read more: TD SYNNEX Announced the Introduction of FinOps Fusion - No Coding Needed: Google’s New AI Tool Builds Games From Your Ideas
Google launches Playground, an AI game-building platform that turns text prompts into playable games without coding. Here’s how it works and who can use it. The post No Coding Needed: Google’s New AI Tool Builds… Read more: No Coding Needed: Google’s New AI Tool Builds Games From Your Ideas - Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 With API Prices Starting at $0.10
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with lower API pricing, stronger benchmark results and new options for developers building cost-efficient AI agents. The post Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 With API Prices Starting at $0.10 appeared… Read more: Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 With API Prices Starting at $0.10 - Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI
In its 26th season premiere, the procedural legal drama paints a damning picture of power-mad AI CEOs. - NLP Logix Announced its Naming as an OpenAI Select Partner
NLP Logix, an artificial intelligence and machine learning consultancy, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program for partners… Read more: NLP Logix Announced its Naming as an OpenAI Select Partner - Tensor Machines Announced the Launch of Open-Source Benchmark
New benchmark connects GPU performance and power consumption to the cost of useful AI output Tensor Machines today announced an open-source AI hardware benchmark designed to help data center operators answer the most pressing economic… Read more: Tensor Machines Announced the Launch of Open-Source Benchmark - Nuix Neo Announced the Launch of Generative AI Framework
Governed, Enterprise-Grade Gen-AI Orchestration Layer for Unstructured Data Intelligence Nuix (ASX: NXL) announces the Nuix Neo Generative AI (Gen AI) Framework, which directly addresses the governance, confidence, and auditability concerns that have limited the use… Read more: Nuix Neo Announced the Launch of Generative AI Framework - Rencore Announced the Launch of New Multi-AI Governance Functionality
Rencore extends its governance platform beyond Microsoft 365 to govern every enterprise AI from one control plane New AI & Agents capabilities bring Claude Enterprise, with ChatGPT Enterprise to follow, under the same identity-anchored governance… Read more: Rencore Announced the Launch of New Multi-AI Governance Functionality - JumpCloud Report Reveals Gaps in AI Access and Enterprise Governance
The report finds AI agents are gaining access to critical systems faster than organizations are extending identity and governance controls. JumpCloud Inc. today released a new study, Enterprise AI Access Is Outpacing Control. The report shows that organizations… Read more: JumpCloud Report Reveals Gaps in AI Access and Enterprise Governance - Apollo GraphQL Announced the Introduction of GraphOS Agent Services
New services extend Apollo’s platform to AI agents, helping companies control what agents can find and do across existing systems; GraphOS MCP Server gives teams a full suite of agent-ready tools for building and managing… Read more: Apollo GraphQL Announced the Introduction of GraphOS Agent Services - OpenAI projected to bring in $20bn less in revenue than expected
Questions raised over AI growth as ChatGPT maker forecasts this year’s revenue at $50bn, way below the $70bn signalled before OpenAI has revealed that it is making about $20bn less in projected revenue than it… Read more: OpenAI projected to bring in $20bn less in revenue than expected - Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts
Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns if situation arose Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader who recently joined Palantir, has warned against “mob… Read more: Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts - Zankore’s AI Factory: Can Central Java afford the water cost?
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, together with Ooredoo Group, Nokia and NVIDIA, plans to develop Zankore, an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure platform aimed at serving the region. The 1-gigawatt (GW) AI Factory will be built in stages.… Read more: Zankore’s AI Factory: Can Central Java afford the water cost? - British households would be £5,000 richer if we were more innovative. Let’s unleash our talents | Gordon Brown
We have a deep reservoir of assets, but struggle to turn small companies into global success stories. Innovation needs to be at the heart of government policy Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007… Read more: British households would be £5,000 richer if we were more innovative. Let’s unleash our talents | Gordon Brown - After Firmus shelved the biggest ASX listing in 30 years, what does it say to investors about AI hype?
It was pitched to investors as “the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in a generation”. Firmus Technologies – a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) data centres – planned to raise A$7 billion from investors on… Read more: After Firmus shelved the biggest ASX listing in 30 years, what does it say to investors about AI hype? - Is this the ‘mathocalypse’? Why OpenAI’s latest results dump has left mathematicians in shock
Picture Alliance / Getty Images Earlier this week, OpenAI published a trove of hundreds of mathematical results it claimed could “push the frontier of human knowledge”. Produced largely by an unreleased artificial intelligence (AI) model,… Read more: Is this the ‘mathocalypse’? Why OpenAI’s latest results dump has left mathematicians in shock - CoreWeave targets AI inference bottlenecks with full-stack optimization
AI inference is fast becoming the workload that decides the economics of the AI boom. Training built the first wave of GPU clouds, but serving models faster and cheaper will define the next. That shift… Read more: CoreWeave targets AI inference bottlenecks with full-stack optimization - Anthropic bans users from ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude
A spokesperson behind the tech company’s AI chatbot has not yet specified what counts as abusive or cruel content Anthropic has barred users from exhibiting “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its models,… Read more: Anthropic bans users from ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude - Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules
One of the regulations that make vehicles in the US different from those in Europe or Japan is our headlight rules. They’re laid out in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), and changing them… Read more: Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules - Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms
Trump Mobile apparently failed to obtain necessary authorizations to operate the international calling portion of its phone service, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) wrote in a letter to the company today. Her letter said Trump Mobile… Read more: Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms - Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts
Likely in the next few weeks, a federal judge will decide if Donald Trump can become the first president to personally profit from selling early access to government information in his social media posts. At… Read more: Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts - SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink
Space has plenty of room for more megaconstellations, but only if all operators are willing to share information about where their satellites are and where they’re going, a top executive at SpaceX and its AI… Read more: SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink - AI stocks crumble on report that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is much lower than believed
Technology stocks fell lower today following a report that artificial intelligence giant OpenAI Group PBC’s annualized revenue this year is about $20 billion less than what was previously reported by the media, sending shockwaves through… Read more: AI stocks crumble on report that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is much lower than believed - ChatGPT Teen Safety Report Finds Gaps in Parental Alerts
Common Sense Media flags gaps in ChatGPT’s teen safeguards, while OpenAI disputes the tests. Here’s what the findings mean for parents and educators. The post ChatGPT Teen Safety Report Finds Gaps in Parental Alerts appeared… Read more: ChatGPT Teen Safety Report Finds Gaps in Parental Alerts - Hark Launches Free AI Assistant to Handle Tasks Before You Ask
Hark Pro offers free AI task automation on web, iOS and Android. Explore its pricing, proactive features and privacy trade-offs before connecting accounts. The post Hark Launches Free AI Assistant to Handle Tasks Before You… Read more: Hark Launches Free AI Assistant to Handle Tasks Before You Ask - Amazon’s New Alexa Tablets Start at $229: What’s Changing for Fire Owners
Amazon unveils three new Alexa tablets starting at $229.99, with Google Play access, Alexa+ features, and major changes for Fire tablet owners. The post Amazon’s New Alexa Tablets Start at $229: What’s Changing for Fire… Read more: Amazon’s New Alexa Tablets Start at $229: What’s Changing for Fire Owners - Gallatin AI raises $50M in funding for its military logistics platform
Gallatin AI Inc., a developer of military logistics software, today announced that it has raised $50 million in funding. The Series A round included contributions from 8VC, Silent Ventures and several others. It follows a… Read more: Gallatin AI raises $50M in funding for its military logistics platform - Trump hosts awards party for tech billionaires, almost as if he doesn’t care about ordinary Americans
Amid a cost-of-living crisis, with US midterms a month away, the president held a ceremony to celebrate our tech overlords – again He stands accused of being out of touch, enriching himself and his family,… Read more: Trump hosts awards party for tech billionaires, almost as if he doesn’t care about ordinary Americans - Firmus pulls biggest ASX float since Telstra amid investor doubt about datacentre company
The $11-a-share offer would have been the biggest debut on the stock market since the telecommunication giant in 1997 Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Firmus Technologies has scrapped what… Read more: Firmus pulls biggest ASX float since Telstra amid investor doubt about datacentre company - Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo. - 3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?
With artificial intelligence capabilities continuing to expand, universities now face complex, urgent questions about how to navigate increasing challenges, as well as new opportunities. Much attention is now directed toward this, including an MIT report on… Read more: 3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia? - CoreWeave Forge aims to speed up the AI improvement loop
Enterprises racing to put agents into production are learning that the AI improvement loop never really ends. Agents must be run, observed, evaluated and improved continuously. CoreWeave Inc. has been assembling a full-stack platform aimed… Read more: CoreWeave Forge aims to speed up the AI improvement loop - Alphabet spinoff Isomorphic Labs reportedly raising funding at up to $50B valuation
Isomorphic Labs Ltd., an Alphabet Inc. spinoff working to accelerate drug discovery, is said to be raising a new funding round. The Bloomberg report that revealed the discussions today didn’t specify the size of the… Read more: Alphabet spinoff Isomorphic Labs reportedly raising funding at up to $50B valuation - An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light
Writing about quantum entanglement is always a challenge. There are so many clichés to avoid: It’s mysterious, ghostly, spooky, and weird. Entanglement is none of those things, and yet it is also all of those… Read more: An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light - RFK Jr. unveils sweeping federal initiative to find evidence of vaccine injuries
Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the federal health department is undertaking an agency-wide effort to focus on injuries claimed to be related to vaccines. In a press announcement Thursday, the Department of… Read more: RFK Jr. unveils sweeping federal initiative to find evidence of vaccine injuries
