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A cryptomining campaign has compromised more than 3,400 servers, including systems running AI services such as LiteLLM and Ollama, according to research from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. Operators should check exposure and patch affected software: the campaign was still infecting new victims when Lumen published its findings.
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Project Jupiter, a planned data-centre campus in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, is intended to supply AI infrastructure for OpenAI through Oracle. The proposed power supply is strikingly large: up to 2.45 gigawatts from fuel cells, supported by a proposed natural-gas pipeline.
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AI training is becoming a workplace productivity question, not just a way to keep up with new software. Multiverse chief executive Euan Blair says workers who are not shown how to use technology effectively risk falling behind, while his company’s research points to persistent gaps in workers’ data…
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Two AI-equipped surveillance towers in a downtown Toronto parking lot are raising questions about how they are used and who controls their deployment. Avante Security says the system is used there for billing, while also describing AI tools that detect threats including aggressive behaviour, weapons and fires.
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AI is sharpening workplace concerns among some Silicon Valley tech workers, from job displacement to surveillance and the loss of influence over how products are used. A KQED report finds those worries are feeding conversations about unionising, alongside objections to companies’ political decisions and government work involving AI.
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McKinsey research cited by Fortune says roughly 11 million Americans may need to move into different occupations by 2035, while demand for workers with AI fluency has risen sharply. The report’s practical message is that job transitions depend not just on workers’ skills, but on whether employers and…
Nous/Hermes Watch
A Verge reporter is testing whether local AI can handle useful personal tasks without sending sensitive information to cloud services. Using Hermes Agent on an M5 Ultra Mac Studio, the reporter has sorted more than 400 Steam games and analysed financial records, while finding that setup and reliability…
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HPE is extending AI-assisted network monitoring and automated fixes across its hybrid-cloud portfolio. Its networking chief says the longer-term aim is to resolve almost every network trouble ticket without human intervention, with hardware replacement the likely exception.
Reflection AI Watch
Nvidia is reportedly considering either a larger investment in Reflection AI or an acquisition of the open-source startup. The talks are said to be at an early stage, and one possible route would be hiring staff and licensing technology rather than buying the company outright.
Watch Desk
A Hugging Face community article describes three AI systems built around a shared, signed-address routing method: AlephLM, AlephLLM and the adapter library AMOE. Its most interesting claim is that the method can be used across language models and diffusion systems, though the results remain the article author’s account…
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Opposition to a proposed Pennsylvania data centre has united residents across party lines and prompted the state to change how such projects are approved. The dispute shows how local resistance to AI infrastructure can move from protest to policy.
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A new essay by historian of science Pranav Sharma argues that today’s AI systems are being credited with understanding when they generate convincing language without regard for truth. His challenge is not just to the technology, but to what people mean when they call it intelligent.
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In a University of Limerick study reported by Gizmodo, participants assigned about 10% more pay to a male-presenting AI agent than to an identically performing female-presenting one. The study also found that participants saw the male-presenting agent as more human, putting a familiar workplace bias into a distinctly…
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South Korea is pressing ahead with its existing national AI foundation-model project while planning a separate frontier-model programme worth 4.7 trillion won ($3.5 billion). The two-track plan raises a practical question for the teams competing for public support: what will each programme deliver that the other cannot?
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Predictive AI is enjoying a revival as newer models make it easier to classify and score cases without first training a bespoke model. But Eric Siegel argues that easier access will not fix the business and measurement problems that have long kept machine-learning projects from delivering value.
Jacob Coxon Watch
Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon argues that powerful AI should be nationalised, and predicts that models could automate many jobs by 2027. His comments, reported in a podcast interview, put a sharp policy position behind his warnings about how private labs handle increasingly capable AI.
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Suzlon plans to spend Rs 550 crore on three AI-enabled wind-blade factories in Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, with the facilities expected to be set up by 2027. The plan puts AI, automation and robotics into the making of wind equipment, rather than just the turbines themselves.
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Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s G42 has become a significant bridge between the UAE, US technology companies and the global AI build-out, according to a new MoneyWeek profile. The reported links include Microsoft’s $1.5 billion investment in G42 and a planned Abu Dhabi data-centre campus with a…
