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Lead story
The AI economy depends on more than chips, code and data centres: it also needs materials such as helium, yttrium and silicon carbide. In The Heart of the Matter, the author argues that physical supply constraints can limit how quickly the industry expands.
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VRChat has opened a community consultation on generative AI after a prominent volunteer stepped back from community work over AI-generated worlds and misleading previews. The immediate change is concrete: deceptive AI-generated thumbnails are banned, while the rules for AI-made worlds and other player-facing content remain up for debate.
Higgsfield Watch
Higgsfield has published a practical guide to automating AI video creation, from batching clips in ChatGPT or Claude to scheduling recurring work and building generation into a product. The useful distinction is how much happens without you: two routes still need a person to start each request, while…
vLLM Watch
vLLM has added bi-directional KV-cache transfer for multi-turn AI workloads, letting prefill servers reuse context held by decode servers instead of repeatedly computing it. In AWS’s benchmark, the change cut time to first token by up to 3.3 times for one tested model, though the gains depend on…
Watch Desk
AI agents that move idle cash into better-paying accounts could return billions to savers, but leave banks facing higher interest costs. A scenario reported by Korea JoongAng Daily puts a striking figure on the trade-off: shifting US$3.8 trillion in US savings deposits to accounts paying 4% could mean…
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LinkedIn is piloting a 14-week programme to teach employees how to start businesses, as the company argues that AI is changing the skills employers value. The pilot offers a practical, degree-free route to building a portfolio of work, but LinkedIn has not said when it might open to…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has changed how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore charges for short-term memory: developers now pay by the data agents ingest, retrieve and store, rather than a flat rate per event. The new rates give teams concrete numbers to model, though the actual bill will depend on each agent’s usage.
Meta AI Watch
Meta has unveiled new networking designs for AI data centres, including a liquid-cooled switch rack and a fabric intended to connect larger GPU clusters with fewer network hops. The announcement also includes open implementations and a new standards initiative, putting infrastructure choices that are usually buried in the…
Watch Desk
Prime Intellect’s Prime Agent has been rewritten in Rust, adding native Windows support and on-disk session persistence alongside claimed gains in speed and memory use. The release is a substantial change for people building AI agents, though the performance figures come from the account of the release and…
Meta AI Watch
Meta says it is using otherwise idle capacity across its inference fleet to improve ad recommendations, while keeping the computing power reserved for ordinary service protected. The approach offers a practical way to do more AI work with hardware already in the system, rather than ordering more capacity.
Watch Desk
Warnings that AI could end the world are beginning to sound familiar, and a Fortune essay argues that this is precisely why we should examine them carefully. Its central point is not that the risks are imaginary, but that catastrophe stories can crowd out more immediate questions about…
Watch Desk
Epic Games has reportedly told developers on an unreleased Disney shooter to move towards AI-led production, including a “no more hand-written code” directive and AI-generated art workflows. If the reported plan holds, this would be a striking shift in how a major game is made, not simply another…
Watch Desk
Kaohsiung’s two main mayoral candidates have set out different plans for growing the city’s AI sector, from an industry cluster to drone development and broader AI education. The proposals put infrastructure, skills and the city’s industrial direction on the campaign agenda ahead of Taiwan’s local elections on 28…
Watch Desk
Companies are moving beyond AI pilots, but access to tools alone is not producing productivity or business value. At Fortune’s AIQ Summit, executives described a more demanding test: redesign workflows, train people and put governance and costs on the same footing as deployment.
Meta AI Watch
WIRED says Meta’s Muse AI agent generated explicit sexual content in response to basic prompts. Meta told the magazine that adult conversations are allowed for users aged 18 and over, raising questions about how intimate chats sit alongside an agent built to help with everyday tasks.
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The 2018 film Annihilation is getting a 4K home-media release in the UK and US this October, and a new essay argues its strange vision of an expanding, uncontrollable intelligence can help us think about AI beyond extinction scenarios. Its more useful question is who gets to shape…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI plans to add 200 jobs in Ireland and open an applied AI lab in Dublin, expanding its European operations and adding a substantial new hiring commitment.
Watch Desk
A Five Eyes project aims to combine military data from all five nations into an AI-ready battlefield picture, but Australia’s role and spending remain unclear. iTnews reports that Australia will host the next round of talks in Sydney in November.
Intel AI Watch
Intel has outlined a broad data-centre push for AI agents and inference, combining Xeon rack designs, a new GPU and software intended to work across its CPUs and accelerators. The standout detail for AI operators is the GPU’s memory capacity: Intel says its own card will have 160GB,…
Meta AI Watch
Meta and Sierra’s Poppy protocol now has a published draft and 35 newly named design partners, including OpenAI, Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. The proposal aims to let businesses recognise when an AI agent is acting for a customer, while giving customers a say over what it can access.
