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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.
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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.
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ASUS has unveiled a compact server built around NVIDIA Vera CPUs for agentic AI and reinforcement-learning workloads. The XA P2N-E2 is designed to handle the less glamorous, essential work around AI models: running code, using tools, sandboxing tasks and processing data.
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Businesses scaling AI should track what it costs, what value it creates and where each task should run, argues HP executive Neil Sawyer. His case for combining cloud and local AI offers a practical alternative to sending every task to the cloud by default.
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NVIDIA and Cisco have announced a new pluggable optical module design aimed at connecting more computing equipment inside AI data centres, with up to 12.8 terabits per second of capacity. The proposed USFP standard targets more bandwidth in a familiar-sized module, potentially helping AI operators scale networks without…
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Anthropic researchers say they found a focused set of representations inside Claude that may help coordinate information for reasoning. A New Scientist feature describes why this has caught the attention of consciousness researchers, while making clear that evidence of information processing is not evidence that a chatbot has…
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A New Republic essay argues that effective altruism has helped concentrate money and political influence in parts of the technology world, including debates over AI safety. Its challenge is worth airing, though a sharp critique is not the same thing as proof about a whole movement.
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Taiwan-based AI compute operator KONST says it has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by ADATA Technology, with the money earmarked for expanding its AI data-centre buildout across Asia. The raise backs a business that aims to sell not just computing capacity, but the tools to…
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Several UK universities are changing or ending their Turnitin arrangements after concerns about proposed terms that could allow student work and staff feedback to be used to develop AI services. The dispute is now shaping universities’ software choices, even after Turnitin said it would redraft the terms.
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Unsloth’s new beta lets local and hosted models browse the web, while adding several useful tools for training and running models on personal hardware. The browser controls and performance changes make this a substantial update for people building local AI workflows, not just another dot on a release…
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Singapore’s financial regulator has set out staged expectations for how financial institutions should manage AI, including generative AI and increasingly autonomous agents. The framework asks firms to match oversight and controls to the risks of each use, rather than treating every AI tool alike.
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Alibaba researchers have detailed QwenGyre, a framework for training AI agents on long software-engineering tasks. It dynamically shifts GPUs between generating agent runs and training, targeting expensive stretches when hardware would otherwise sit idle.
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Amazon has more than a million warehouse robots and is expanding its fleet of robotic arms, including systems designed to handle a huge variety of products. Its newer machines use AI to make picking and sorting decisions, bringing a practical question into sharper focus: when robots work alongside…
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The UK’s AI minister says a breach of British cyber defences by AI is “likely, if not inevitable”, and says government researchers are evaluating advanced systems including Google’s Gemini. His warning comes alongside plans to prepare for threats involving autonomous agents, though the report describes no specific new…
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Microsoft plans to deploy its Maia 300 custom AI chip at multi-gigawatt scale from 2027, positioning it as the primary inference system for its products and services. The announcement signals a major expansion of Microsoft’s in-house AI compute, with potential consequences for how its services are built and…
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Marvell has announced two CXL 3.2 memory expanders for AI infrastructure, adding six memory channels and support for sharing memory across as many as four hosts. The company says the new Structera X controllers can expand capacity for larger models and longer context windows, with sampling expected in…
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AMD has unveiled Helion, an open-standard rack reference design aimed at AI data centres, with a CPU-only configuration capable of holding up to 32,768 Zen 6 cores. The rack is planned for the first half of 2027, giving server makers a design to build from rather than a…
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Microsoft is adding a way for Copilot users to create and edit Office documents from the Copilot app, while removing its AI-generated Outlook themes. The new document feature is rolling out to Frontier customers using Chat and Cowork; the theme change leaves current users with a one-way exit.
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Matthew Botvinick argues that protecting constitutional democracy should count as AI safety work. His point: a system cannot be called safe if it operates under institutions that enable surveillance, censorship or unchecked executive power.
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Employees’ personal AI agents can reach workplace systems through permissions and credentials tied to the employee, according to a new security article. The practical challenge is controlling what those agents can access without pretending they can simply be kept out.
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Artificial intelligence is being used across US medical billing, from coding visits to contacting patients about bills and assessing how likely they are to pay. The Guardian reports that these systems could shape both what patients are charged and what collection offers they receive, as hospitals look to…
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Rimac Technology and ECOBLOX are developing modular data-centre systems for AI computing, combining battery storage, power electronics, cooling and IT infrastructure. Their first planned installation, at Rimac’s campus near Zagreb, is due in November, putting the partnership’s infrastructure pitch on a real site rather than leaving it in…
