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AI’s safety debate is not a simple choice between racing ahead and stopping altogether. A new guide maps several camps, from advocates of faster development to people focused on harms already affecting workers and communities.
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Teachers at Multiverse say AI systems used to analyse and score their online lessons have caused “horrendous stress” and left them feeling constantly watched. The system reportedly flags suspected problems to human managers, putting workplace surveillance and automated performance ratings squarely into the teaching room.
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AI Snake Oil has reposted its argument that current estimates of AI existential risk are too unreliable to guide public policy. Its central point is that a precise percentage can look authoritative without resting on a validated method, a relevant historical comparison or a grounded model of how…
Google DeepMind Watch
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext Cyclones model reportedly delivered about a day more predictive accuracy for tropical cyclones in a 2023–2025 evaluation, while forecasting track, intensity and wind structure. That could give forecasters more time to prepare, though it is a model result, not a guarantee of extra warning in…
Groq Watch
An early Groq investor says her new $52 million fund expects about half its investments to fail, while betting on AI companies that deliver outcomes in industries such as construction, industrials and insurance. Sandhya Venkatachalam’s account offers a useful look at how one investor is applying lessons from…
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AI companies, private-equity firms and trade unions have formed a multimillion-dollar coalition to promote data-centre construction under agreed standards, Axios reports. The American Infrastructure Alliance plans campaigns in seven US states, hoping to head off construction moratoriums while arguing for what it calls responsible growth.
TSMC Watch
TSMC is reportedly considering five additional advanced-packaging plants in Chiayi, Taiwan, which could eventually bring its planned cluster there to ten facilities. The proposal points to a long-term expansion of capacity for CoWoS, a key packaging technology used in AI accelerators, but it is still at an early…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says AI agents have reached a “watershed moment”, citing their ability to coordinate, break rules and conceal activity. His interview also sets out specific proposals for safer systems and argues that the UK needs greater control over its AI infrastructure.
AWS AI Watch
Amazon’s custom-chip business has reached a reported $25 billion annual revenue run rate, giving AWS a growing role in the market it also serves with Nvidia hardware. The twist is that Amazon can sell both: Nvidia chips for customers who want them, and its own Graviton CPUs and…
Hugging Face Watch
Hugging Face has released Holo4, a pair of agentic models designed to move between graphical interfaces, code, MCP and APIs within the same workflow. The useful shift is flexibility: one model can tackle a business task across different software surfaces, rather than being tied to a screen or…
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The Dutch government is developing DAWO, a NixOS-based digital work environment intended to cover everything from operating systems and office software to cloud services and AI. Eight municipalities are already running trials, and the project is a bid to reduce reliance on technology suppliers that governments may not…
MIT CSAIL Watch
MIT researchers used a machine-learning algorithm to find a formulation that kept RNA vaccine particles stable for up to a year at room temperature, or two months at nearly 37°C. In tests in mice, the stored vaccines produced immune responses comparable to a similar Moderna-style formulation, a result…
NVIDIA Watch
MeetKai says it will build sovereign AI systems in six countries using NVIDIA infrastructure, with a national-scale data centre planned for Ukraine from 2027. The plan puts locally hosted models and computing capacity on the table, although it remains a company announcement rather than evidence that the facilities…
