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Enterprise AI is shifting from deploying individual tools to organising teams of agents, argues NTT Research chief executive Kazuhiro Gomi. His case is that leaders will need to decide how agents divide work, learn their roles and remain under human oversight, not simply pick a model and let…
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Mistral has opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, a trillion-parameter multimodal model with a particular pitch for cybersecurity. The company plans to release its weights on 27 October, after more testing, giving customers a chance to try the preview before they can run…
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South Korea has selected Doosan Robotics to lead two government-backed projects with a combined research budget of about $74 million, spanning AI-enabled collaborative robots and automated welding. The plans put locally processed AI into industrial machines, with commercial robot products targeted for 2031.
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AI consultant Igor Rikalo argues that companies should shrink the role of their AI centres of excellence as adoption grows, leaving business teams accountable for results while central teams provide shared standards and tools. His practical proposal is a useful alternative to making one central office approve every…
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Xeal plans to use spare capacity at its US EV-charging sites to build a distributed network for AI inference, with a target of more than 100,000 Nvidia GPUs. If the plan works, it could bring computing closer to users without waiting for new data centres to connect to…
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AI data centres are becoming a campaign issue in several closely watched US midterm races, where candidates are arguing over who should pay for the electricity and grid upgrades they require. Axios identifies contests in Michigan, Ohio, Colorado and Pennsylvania where those costs, and the politics around new…
Databricks Watch
Databricks has made Meta’s ads MCP server available in its Marketplace, connecting Meta campaign tools with business data and models in Databricks. Marketers can use Genie to ask questions about campaign performance and take actions such as adjusting budgets or creating campaigns, with administrative controls around what the…
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AI investment is booming, but the productivity data cited by Yahoo Finance does not yet show a clear lift in the US economy’s total factor productivity. That measure is slightly below zero, according to Apollo chief economist Torsten Sløk’s analysis, while the more upbeat output-per-hour figure may have…
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Google and Constellation Energy have agreed a 20-year power-purchase deal intended to add 890 megawatts of nuclear capacity in the US. The arrangement links growing data-centre demand with upgrades to existing reactors, rather than relying solely on new power plants.
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AI agents could one day guide people through legal problems, draft claims and negotiate with institutions, the Law Society warns. Its foresight study argues that accountability and meaningful human oversight need settling before such systems become a doorway into justice.
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A randomised trial found that primary teachers using Oak National Academy’s Aila AI lesson assistant spent 24% less time preparing lessons, without a drop in the quality of their materials. The saving was about 49 minutes a week, though teachers used the tool for only a small share…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI has announced plans for a $20bn data centre campus in Effingham County, Georgia, with a peak electrical load of 3.2 gigawatts. The scale, power agreement and local hurdles make this a major piece of AI infrastructure news, not just another big number in a server-room arms race.
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Aleph Alpha released Kolibri 1, a German-English open-weight language model with 78.1 billion parameters, on 3 October. Its Apache 2.0 licence allows users to modify and redistribute the weights, but running the full model still calls for substantial hardware.
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Cloudflare has released its first machine-learning models, Clef and Clef-flash, for tasks such as choosing from predefined options. TokenPost reports that both are available through Workers AI, with weights under the Apache 2.0 licence for download and self-hosting. The practical draw is speed and flexibility, though the hosted…
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AI makes it easier for organisations to produce fluent copy at speed. It may also make their messages more alike, and the evidence cited by a Forbes Councils contributor suggests that this sameness can show up even when individual work improves.
Meta AI Watch
Meta’s Oversight Board overturned the company’s decision to leave a deepfake of a Scottish councillor on Facebook, finding that it should have been removed under Meta’s Hateful Conduct rules. The Board also called for stronger friction, penalties and transparency around high-risk AI content.
AMD Watch
AI agents may be shifting some of the computing workload back towards CPUs, giving AMD and Intel a larger role alongside the GPUs that have dominated the AI boom. The change matters because agents need processors to keep their virtual computers and tasks running, not just chips to…
NVIDIA Watch
NVIDIA’s head of sustainability argues that growing electricity demand, including demand from AI, strengthens the case for a US nuclear expansion. The essay also sets out the company’s view of where computing could help nuclear developers, and where policy needs to change.
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SignSplit has launched with a reported $400 million strategic seed commitment, pitching infrastructure for people to license personal data, creative work and likenesses to AI developers. The bigger question is whether signed consent and payment can become practical plumbing for AI training, rather than another promise attached to…
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Aragón is courting more than €60 billion in data-centre and digital-infrastructure investment over the next decade, with fast-track permits helping make the Spanish region a major draw. The speed could help build infrastructure for cloud and AI, but residents and researchers question whether public scrutiny can keep pace.
