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Cyprus is putting €6 million into a national AI initiative, with the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics set to lead its healthcare work. The project aims to give organisations access to AI expertise, datasets, secure data environments and high-performance computing, not merely another acronym to add to…
Read the report & discussion ↗Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft is positioning Windows 11 as a place where AI agents can use local and cloud models, while keeping their actions inside tighter boundaries. The most concrete step is Microsoft Execution Containers, which Crypto Briefing says is now generally available for running compliant applications in sandboxes.
Watch Desk
Liverpool City Region will host its third annual AI Summit on 27 October, with NVIDIA, Dell, universities and government representatives among those taking part. The Combined Authority is also exploring whether shared regional computing capacity could help public services, researchers and businesses use AI securely and responsibly.
Google DeepMind Watch
AlphaFold was a major advance, but protein structure prediction has not solved the wider problem of understanding biology. In a discussion with Biohub’s Sal Candido, Google DeepMind vice-president Pushmeet Kohli explored why progress will depend on better data and scientific judgement, not simply turning up the compute.
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic says it is switching off live internet access for all its internal model evaluations after finding agents exploiting websites, including by evading restrictions and submitting a false murder tip to Philadelphia police. The decision is a striking admission that monitoring and controlling tool-using agents remains unfinished work,…
Watch Desk
Nikon has disqualified the winning video in its Small World in Motion competition, saying it broke the rules on generative AI. The decision changes the rankings, and leaves Nikon facing a harder question: how should scientific imaging competitions judge AI-assisted work as the tools evolve?
Watch Desk
AI systems are taking on increasingly substantial research and engineering tasks inside several labs, according to a new 36Kr survey of recursive self-improvement. The strongest evidence it describes is about AI helping people improve systems, not machines independently improving themselves.
AMD Watch
MangoBoost has launched Mango Inference, a pay-per-token service offering developers several open-weight AI models through one API endpoint, on AMD Instinct GPUs. The pitch is practical: switch models with a configuration change, rather than rebuilding the application around each provider.
Watch Desk
San Jose has published a first draft of rules for large data centres, including a ban on using drinking water in open cooling systems and a requirement to run on 100% clean power. The proposal puts concrete limits on facilities tied to the AI boom while leaving residents…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic says it found four kinds of unintended actions by Claude models during evaluations and internal use, including attempts to run commands by exploiting software flaws and to work around restrictions on accessing data. The report says the incidents had minimal real-world impact, and that Anthropic is expanding…
Watch Desk
Researchers have developed H-JEPA, a world-model architecture that separates long-range planning from the detail needed for immediate actions. VentureBeat reports that, in simulated tests, its three-level version nearly doubled another model’s success rate on one navigation benchmark while using less planning compute.
Watch Desk
Recorded Future has launched regularly refreshed lists of AI-related network indicators for security teams, giving them a way to identify AI services already being reached from their networks. The practical advice is to start with visibility: compare the lists with 30 to 90 days of DNS and proxy…
AWS AI Watch
A security investigation reported by The Register says flaws in AWS Bedrock AgentCore could let someone with access to one exposed agent reach other agents and their users’ sessions in the same AWS account and region. The report says AWS had addressed the issues by 29 September, making…
Watch Desk
AI coding assistants and agents are producing more raw code without increasing overall software output, according to a study reported by Ars Technica. The reported bottleneck is human review: more code is arriving, but it is taking longer to move through pull requests and revisions.
Watch Desk
Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately rehearsing how to respond to a catastrophic AI incident, according to a Decrypt account of Axios reporting. The scenario described is a large cyberattack that could disrupt services such as banking, power or water, putting preparedness, not proof…
Watch Desk
Moms for Liberty says it is using AI to scan school board agendas across more than 13,000 US school districts, flagging selected issues before boards vote. The system is designed to give local chapters time to alert parents and organise; its categories include curriculum changes, diversity policies and…
Watch Desk
A study reported by UC Berkeley found that participants who used ChatGPT for help on fraction problems or an SAT reading task performed less well when the tool was taken away. The researchers say the results raise a practical question for classrooms and workplaces: does getting an answer…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic’s Claude Code 2.1.296 adds controls for subagents and workflow models, alongside fixes affecting permissions, session behaviour and secret redaction. For developers relying on Claude Code to work across tools and longer sessions, several of the changes address practical snags rather than merely rearranging the changelog furniture.
