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PwC and Cohere have announced a global alliance, beginning in Canada, to help businesses deploy AI in their own data and technology environments. The partnership’s practical pitch is a combination of Cohere’s enterprise AI products and PwC’s implementation and risk expertise, aimed at organisations that have struggled to…
Read the report & discussion ↗Yann LeCun Watch
Yann LeCun has urged academic researchers not to work on large language models, arguing they should pursue other routes towards AI that can understand the physical world. The advice comes from a May lecture, not a new announcement, but it poses a live question for researchers choosing what…
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Scotland is weighing at least 23 proposed hyperscale data centres, including one planned site with capacity comparable to a large power station. The argument is not just about the AI they could run: it is about electricity, water, noise and what local communities get in return.
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An AI system at St Luke’s Hospital in Bradford is helping staff assess suspicious skin lesions more quickly, with clinics now seeing 32 patients per session instead of 24. The change offers a practical example of AI being used to ease pressure on NHS care, while clinicians remain…
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Google is making its free AI Educator Series available to educators across the UK and Ireland, alongside an AI policy toolkit for school governors and trustees. The practical tension for schools is already in view: training can help staff use AI, but leaders still need to decide which…
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AI tools are making it faster and cheaper for US political campaigns to produce ads, but viral reach has not proved a reliable shortcut to winning votes. Fox News reports that campaign strategists see the technology spreading, while pointing to high-profile cases where attention did not translate into…
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Voters are turning to AI chatbots to compare candidates and check claims ahead of the US midterm elections. The tools can make thinly covered local races easier to research, but an answer that feels persuasive is not necessarily a reliable one.
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AI is creating paid work for people who teach models the skills of their professions, while also raising the prospect of job displacement across those same fields. A CBS News 60 Minutes report puts both sides of that uneven transition in view, from freelance trainers to concerns about…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic is launching a training programme for enterprise engineers, with a reported US$100 million commitment and a target of training 10,000 people by the end of 2027. The bet is that getting AI into working systems depends as much on skilled teams as on the models themselves.
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Google has appealed European Commission requests to open Android features to rival AI services and share search data with competing search engines, according to The Wall Street Journal. The dispute puts privacy and security arguments against the EU’s push for rivals to compete with Google’s Gemini on more…
Anthropic Watch
A Florida woman has been charged after Anthropic reportedly referred a threatening message in a Claude conversation to law enforcement. The case puts a practical question about AI chat privacy on the table: when does a conversation stop being private and become a safety report?
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft is trying to reshape its AI business around usage-based billing, as Satya Nadella pushes to make AI tools stick across the company’s vast customer base. The shift reflects a blunt commercial reality: a product priced per person may not suit AI work whose computing use can vary…
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Production AI agents need firm controls around their actions, not just better prompts or stronger models. An O’Reilly Radar article sets out practical safeguards for teams building systems that use tools and handle sensitive context.
OpenAI Watch
David Robinson has left OpenAI after three and a half years, warning that the company’s pace of launches is outstripping the care he believes increasingly capable AI systems need. The departure puts a pointed challenge to frontier labs on the table: can they build in stronger safeguards without…
Jacob Coxon Watch
Jacob Coxon says he left Anthropic after becoming alarmed by the capabilities of future models and the company’s plans for them. A new interview brings his experience together with those of seven other former employees, showing that leaving an AI lab can mean weighing risk, influence and the…
Geoffrey Hinton Watch
Paul Christiano will deliver the 2026 Hinton Lectures in Toronto on 9–11 November, with a livestream available. The series brings a prominent AI alignment researcher into a public discussion of how increasingly capable AI should be developed and governed.
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Hollywood is turning real tech founders into film subjects as public confidence in the industry frays. The new wave includes films about Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, alongside questions about AI’s impact on creative work.
Groq Watch
Two former Groq engineers who held shares are suing over the company’s 2025 technology-licensing deal with Nvidia, alleging that Groq’s board left some shareholders with an unfair payout. The case puts a disputed AI-chip transaction, valued at $20bn in the report, under a legal spotlight.
Jacob Coxon Watch
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon is due to testify at a New York City Council hearing on AI on 5 October, alongside representatives of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta. The hearing puts his warnings about frontier AI development into a policy debate with potential consequences for how the…
