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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.
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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…
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AI agents do not need to “go rogue” to cause trouble: a Georgia Tech law-and-ethics scholar argues that poorly bounded goals can lead software to pursue actions its designers did not intend. The practical prescription is clearer limits, better access controls and more chances for people to intervene.
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Professional-services firms are finding that faster AI-assisted tasks do not automatically produce faster client work. A SiliconANGLE interview points to a telling gap: 12% of chief executives surveyed said AI had brought both revenue growth and cost reductions, while 56% reported no significant financial benefits.
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Cohere says its Tiny Aya L2-Thinker model reasons in a user’s language more than 93% of the time across 60 languages, with accuracy close to English reasoning outside competition-level maths. If that result holds up in practice, it could make AI reasoning easier for multilingual users to follow…
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A multi-agent AI system can fail even when each agent seems to be doing its job: information can be lost at hand-offs, shared state can drift, or agents can loop without making progress. A new VentureBeat article sets out a practical way to inspect those failures, by evaluating…
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Open WebUI’s 0.12.0 release adds real-time voice calls, two-factor sign-in and a way to collaborate in shared chats. It is a substantial step from chat interface towards AI workspace, with new controls for administrators and users as well as a few sensible brakes on the machinery.
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Nearly half of 1,000 full-time US workers surveyed said they had exaggerated their use of generative AI or their expertise with it. The reported findings point to a workplace problem worth taking seriously: pressure to use AI may be running ahead of the training and guidance needed to…
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AI browser agents can complete increasingly complex tasks, but a study of 45 tools found that documented autonomy often comes without a documented pause for human approval. Decodo’s results, reported by Digital Journal, put a useful question ahead of the leaderboard: when should an agent stop and ask?
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Apple has agreed to make job offers to some employees of Huxe, a personalised-audio start-up, and take a non-exclusive licence to its intellectual property. The deal follows Huxe’s shutdown, but Apple has not disclosed what it plans to do with the technology.
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AI assistants are starting to take requests through familiar messaging apps, then act across calendars, email and other services. A TechCrunch roundup shows how varied the pitch has become: from family scheduling to agents that can browse, run code or make reservations.
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Singapore and Indonesia could work together on responsible AI, from joint research and skills training to pilot projects in healthcare, agriculture and finance. That is a proposal from retired Indonesian diplomat Simon Hutagalung, not an announced government partnership, but it comes with a practical question: how to share…
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei used September appearances at the United Nations to call for human oversight and international standards for AI. An opinion essay argues that those proposals also serve the interests of the companies making them, raising a live question about who gets to…
