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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.
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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.
Watch Desk
Generative AI can become a very polished yes-machine. Knowledge workers interviewed for a study found a more useful role for it: challenge their assumptions, surface unfamiliar perspectives and help them think through a problem, rather than simply produce the finished answer.
AWS AI Watch
Amazon Web Services researchers say a technique called priming can turn pretrained Transformer weights into hybrid models that combine attention with state space layers, cutting the cost of pretraining those hybrids by over 99%. They also report that the resulting models matched the source Transformers’ reasoning benchmarks and…
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Three US Democratic senators have introduced a bill to create an AI Safety Board within the Department of Commerce. It would set up technical evaluations of AI systems that could threaten national or economic security, putting a concrete oversight proposal on the table as Congress debates how to…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft researchers have introduced StudentSim, a system that simulates how individual learners respond to questions and tutoring. In tests across chess, English writing and maths, it outperformed the reported baselines, and a chess tutoring experiment suggests simulated student feedback could help improve tutors before they are tested with…
Watch Desk
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says AI could help public administrations use business information submitted once, rather than repeatedly reported. The proposal adds an AI element to an existing EU simplification idea, but leaves the machinery and timetable unspecified.
Watch Desk
Denmark is proposing a legal right to control realistic AI-generated imitations of people’s faces and voices, including a requirement for major platforms to remove manipulated content quickly. The bill is not yet law, but its proposed exceptions put an important question on the table: how do you protect…
NVIDIA Watch
NVIDIA and Princeton’s Dao AI Lab have developed ReplaySSM, a method for speeding up inference in hybrid AI models by changing how their state is stored. NVIDIA reports up to 1.80× faster SSM decoding kernels at batch size 256, with larger gains for speculative decoding on tested 120B-class…
Watch Desk
Wand AI chief executive Rotem Alaluf argues that companies need to manage AI agents differently once they are given responsibility for ongoing outcomes, not just individual tasks. His proposal is to give those agents defined objectives, authority and accountability, much as organisations do for people in a workforce.
Watch Desk
Businesses may get more from AI by redesigning workflows around it, rather than simply adding it to existing tasks. A McKinsey survey cited in a Raconteur article found that leaders were 5.3 times more likely to report enterprise value when workflows had been redesigned.
Meta AI Watch
Meta has launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, adding two models aimed at demanding coding and agent tasks. Wonder is available through Meta’s Model API and Muse Code, while Wonder Full is exclusive to Muse Code subscribers.
Watch Desk
FIS has introduced an agentic AI suite for finance teams, combining cash-flow forecasting with credit-risk and business-health scoring. The pitch is to give CFOs a clearer view of what may be coming, not just a tidy account of last quarter.
Watch Desk
L&T Technology Services has opened an AI-focused manufacturing and operations lab in Bengaluru, making industrial AI a new business area as automation puts pressure on parts of its engineering work. The company says six strategic areas could grow from about half its revenue to 80% within five years.
Watch Desk
An AI tool used by some US law-enforcement agencies can reportedly match an interior photo to a specific property by comparing details with online listings. 404 Media’s investigation raises a practical privacy question: a room can give away its location even when an image carries no location metadata.
Watch Desk
African insurers are testing AI, but relatively few have integrated it into daily operations, according to the African Insurance Organisation’s 2026 report. Its central practical point is that trustworthy data, not simply more data, will determine whether these systems produce reliable assessments rather than pricing errors.
Watch Desk
AI can help media teams sort, tag and find video, but many organisations struggle to turn that promise into measurable results. Veritone CEO Ryan Steelberg argues that the sticking points are often the unglamorous work around the tools: data, legacy systems, governance and staff readiness.
Palantir Technologies Watch
Ondas and Palantir have formed Regna AI, a new venture to develop specialised AI models for governments, defence organisations and businesses. Its first planned deployment puts AI on connected devices to help coordinate autonomous missions, including when communications are limited or disrupted.
Watch Desk
AI buyers should not assume a contract will protect their organisation if a service misuses data or causes harm. A Diginomica investigation instead points to specific checks on data use, governance and liability that buyers need to handle in-house.
