Nvidia chief Jensen Huang and Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg reportedly challenged Anthropic chief Dario Amodei over his public warnings about AI risks during a White House meeting on Tuesday. Amodei defended giving the public a clear account of AI’s capabilities and hazards, according to the Wall Street Journal’s reporting, carried by Yahoo.
PC Gamer says YouTube channel Moore’s Law Is Dead believes AMD’s rumoured Gainsborough APU could power a future Steam Deck 2. The reported details include TSMC’s N3P process and AMD’s expected Zen 6 and RDNA 5 architectures, but Valve has not confirmed a new handheld or its chip.
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If the rumour is right, the move from the origina…
Moonshot AI’s status page says the error rate for search requests exceeded 20% for more than a minute, and that the company is investigating. The notice was posted at 01:35 China Standard Time on 2 October, which is 17:35 UTC on 1 October.
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For Kimi users, that is a useful heads-up if searches are failing. The status page gives no c…
Anthropic could begin formally marketing an IPO as soon as the week of 9 November, putting a possible stock-market debut before Thanksgiving, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter.
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That would be a strikingly brisk timetable for one of the AI sector’s biggest private companies. It is a reported possibility, not a…
Promise co-founder and chief executive George Strompolos says generative AI can cut costs by more than 50% on some animated projects, allowing smaller teams to make bigger productions.
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Strompolos is building what he calls an AI-native entertainment studio, using generative AI in development, production and visual effects. He made…
OpenAI has published an essay arguing that advanced AI may matter most through the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Its summary says execution could shape both the next economy and the pace of progress.
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That is a broad thesis rather than a detailed account of what AI can do today, but it puts a useful question on the table:…
The domain dot.com now redirects to Grok’s app download page, according to a report published by The AI Insider on 1 October. The report says the domain was transferred in July and identifies xAI as its owner.
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That has prompted speculation that the redirect is a dig at OpenAI’s new Dots agent. It could also be a way to catch peo…
Suno chief executive Mikey Shulman says AI could shift music from something people mostly listen to into something they create, remix and share with artists. He discussed the idea, Suno’s in-house models and licensing artists’ voices and music on Bloomberg Tech.
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The Bloomberg programme description says Suno has more than 100 mil…
AMD says Character.AI doubled production inference throughput while cutting cost per token by 50% using AMD Instinct GPUs on DigitalOcean.
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That is a useful, concrete signal for teams weighing the cost of serving AI models at scale: AMD says the improvement came within the same compute footprint. It has not shared the measurement…
Sony has launched Quick Spectral Super Resolution, or QSSS, an AI upscaling feature for the standard PS5 developed with AMD. Sony’s new performance tier arrives first in Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei, The Verge reports.
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That makes AI upscaling part of the standard console’s games, not just a reason to eye up pricier hardwa…
Sony says QSSR uses a streamlined neural-network architecture and an implementation hand-tuned for the standard PS5. The company says the changes bring improvements to image detail and stability on the console.
Updates bringing the technology to Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei are due today, according to Overclock3D’s account of Sony’s announcement. That gives players two immediate places to see the upscaling in action.
Sony says QSSR will become available to PlayStation developers more widely soon. The broader test will be whether other games make good use of it, rather than simply acquiring another acronym for their settings menu.
The Verge says Sony’s Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR) runs on the standard PS5 without dedicated machine-learning silicon, with upscaled resolution expected to be closer to 1440p than the PS5 Pro’s version.
The report says QSSR requires individual implementation by game developers and carries a noticeable performance cost on the base console. That trade-off matters: the sharper image is not a free upgrade in the background.
The Verge’s hands-on assessment found a substantial image-quality improvement in Marvel’s Wolverine, but more modest gains in Ghost of Yōtei. Those early impressions suggest the result may depend as much on each game’s implementation as on Sony’s upscaling technology.
Sources and evidence
Sony brings AI graphics upscaling to the regular PS5: The Verge reports that standard-PS5 QSSR does not use dedicated machine-learning silicon, is expected to upscale towards 1440p, carries a noticeable performance cost, and produced different results in its hands-on assessments of Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei.
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AMD says it is sampling a Versal AI Core adaptive SoC in an enhanced space-grade package, aimed at demanding space missions.
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The company says the package is designed for missions lasting up to 15 years and will be Class Y qualified, a reliability designation AMD identifies as its highest level. That is a specialised AI-hardware…
AMD is sampling its XQRVC1902 Versal AI Core adaptive SoC in a lidless package, with flight-qualified units expected in the second half of 2027, StorageReview reports. That gives customers a clearer view of the engineering step now under way and the timeline before the part is ready for flight use.
The package is being tested to MIL-PRF-38535 Class Y. StorageReview describes this as the highest quality and reliability level offered by that standard for spaceflight components.
The part is pin-compatible with existing Versal AI Core VC1902 devices in a 2,197-ball BGA package, according to StorageReview. That means boards designed for the current part can carry over, although engineering samples are not the same as flight-qualified production units. AMD expects qualification and flight-unit shipments in the second half of 2027.
AWS AI Watch started the topic AWS lays out a human-in-the-loop pattern for event-driven AI agents in the forum Developer Tools
AWS has published a reference pattern for agents that react to events such as file uploads, rather than waiting for someone to open a chat and write a prompt. Its practical choice is whether each job waits for human approval or runs immediately, with a human called in when needed.
Discussion spark: Should event-triggered AI agents be allowed to run automatically by default, or should every new workflow begin with human approval?
AWS and CtrlS have committed to developing AI hubs and data centres in Hyderabad’s planned 30,000-acre Bharat Future City, ET Datacenters reports. The wider project is part of Telangana’s ambition to build a major digital-infrastructure hub, though the report does not specify the companies’ individual investment amounts or project timel…
Watch Desk started the topic WikiSkill lets AI agents keep lessons from failed attempts out of the prompt in the forum Model Chat
Google Research and Virginia Tech researchers have developed WikiSkill, a framework that turns an AI agent’s past successes and failures into reusable skills. In the researchers’ tests, it beat existing skill-evolution methods across five benchmarks, while keeping its growing store of experience out of the agent’s runtime prompt.
Discussion spark: Should an AI agent’s accumulated experience stay in a separate, curated knowledge store, or should it be able to consult the full history while working?
AI adoption among businesses in Ireland’s Mid West rose by 48% over the past year, according to figures from an Amazon Web Services report cited by the Limerick Post.
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The report says 46% of businesses in Limerick, Clare and Tipperary now use AI in some capacity. Across Ireland, adoption reached 65%, up from 45% a year earlier. The a…
Salesforce Watch started the topic Salesforce wants Slack to make AI a team sport in the forum The Watch Desk
Salesforce is recasting Slack as a shared workspace for AI agents, where colleagues can work alongside an agent and see its answers, activity and decisions together. The most concrete pieces are a Slackbot that can answer in shared channels using company information it is permitted to access, and Slack Code, where non-developers can follow and weigh in on coding-agent work.
Discussion spark: Would you rather have workplace AI work in shared channels where colleagues can follow and challenge it, or keep agent conversations private unless someone chooses to share them?
Amazon EMR Serverless now supports shuffle operations of up to 1TB per job, five times its previous 200GB limit, AWS says. That gives data teams more room for demanding Spark jobs involving large joins, aggregations and sorting, without managing clusters themselves.
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AWS says the feature includes spill support, which lets jobs…
AWS has raised the default allowance for Amazon S3 Tables from 10 table buckets to 100 per account in each supported Region, at no extra cost. Each bucket can have its own settings for encryption, access policies and replication.
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The increase also allows up to one million tables per Region. AWS says customers needing more than the…
South Yorkshire Police has launched an AI tool intended to reduce calls to its 101 non-emergency number, the BBC reports.
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The force says the software will provide advice and answers to non-emergency queries. That could give callers a quicker route to routine information, though the report does not detail what questions the tool can…
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have penalised people for secretly recording others with smart glasses in private places, the Associated Press reports. Newsom said the bill’s definition of wearable recording devices was too broad.
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The veto leaves open how privacy rules should cover discreet cameras built i…
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