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Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its measured AI research and development work, up from under 1% in February, while people continue to supervise the work. The figures offer an unusually concrete look at an AI company using AI to help build its next AI systems, which…
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Microsoft says Storm-3168 used compromised Azure service principals to automate a destructive attack against an organisation’s cloud environment, deleting storage accounts and application resources while attempting to interfere with recovery systems. The incident is a sharp warning that exposed workload credentials can turn routine cloud permissions into a…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic researchers say Claude has completed a nine-loop scattering-amplitude calculation in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, a formidable theoretical-physics problem that previously sat well beyond the usual chatbot party tricks. The important point is not that Claude produced some impressive-looking algebra. Anthropic says it completed the calculation inside a…
Watch Desk
European technology leaders are backing calls to slow frontier AI development, while governments and companies remain divided over whether a pause would improve safety or simply protect the biggest labs. The important shift is that the argument is moving from individual warnings to a fight over enforcement, independent…
Meta AI Watch
Meta’s Muse AI assistant is now offering users access to its filesystem after previously appearing to expose files it was not meant to reveal. The important point is that Meta says this behaviour is deliberate, raising a sharper question about what users are being shown and why.
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic says Claude helped identify a previously unknown enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats. New Scientist’s analysis argues that the finding is scientifically interesting but nowhere near comparable to the breakthrough that made CRISPR a transformative gene-editing technology. That distinction is the story: an AI-assisted biological discovery may be…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published an architecture for training mixture-of-experts models with reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS, claiming 40% more rollout-generation throughput by combining EFA networking with DeepEP. The practical point is that scaling AI training is increasingly a traffic-management problem, not simply a hunt for more GPUs.
Google DeepMind Watch
Robert O'Callahan says he has resigned from Google because his Google DeepMind team was developing chips intended to make AI faster and cheaper. In a resignation letter and blog post, he argues that AI progress is already moving too quickly and that pursuing artificial superintelligence in the near…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published a detailed account of how its NarrateAI system checks AI-generated answers before executives rely on them in live business reviews. The important shift is from “ask a model and hope” to a layered production pipeline that checks data, manages capacity and verifies responses as they…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published a SageMaker deployment guide for Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base, allowing developers to clone a speaker’s voice from a short recording and generate new speech in ten languages. The practical shift is from model demo to managed endpoint, with the usual small print that voice identity deserves rather more…
Yoshua Bengio Watch
Yoshua Bengio told a UN forum that AI safety cannot be reduced to cybersecurity, monitoring or release rules. His central warning was more specific: as systems become capable of pursuing goals independently, the danger is whether those goals remain aligned with what people intended.
AWS AI Watch
Datacor has built a self-service rental analytics system inside TrackAbout, giving gas and welding distributors dashboards and natural-language questions over their own operational data. The useful detail is beneath the AI gloss: cross-cloud ingestion, tenant isolation and validation are what make the feature safe enough to put near…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published a hands-on guide to training a vision-language model to navigate visual mazes using reinforcement learning on SageMaker HyperPod. In AWS’s fixed 64-maze evaluation, the model’s solve rate rose from 43.75% to more than 95%, a concrete demonstration of what this training setup can achieve on…
Cohere Watch
Cohere is opening Compass Cloud to a limited group of enterprise teams, turning its retrieval platform into a managed service for search, RAG and AI agents. The important change is operational: customers can use Cohere’s retrieval pipeline and model inference without building and running the whole machinery themselves.
Watch Desk
Zalando has open-sourced an MIT-licensed identity broker designed to let AI agents use third-party services without directly holding users’ provider tokens. The important shift is architectural: consent, delegation and access checks move into a broker, rather than being left for every agent and MCP server to improvise.
Watch Desk
A Brazilian furniture manufacturer is suing Tools for Humanity, OpenAI Brazil and Morgan Stanley for R$20 million after an expected contract to build World ID iris-scanner kiosks largely collapsed. The case puts the commercial fallout of biometric identity projects under a brighter, less flattering light: one factory says…
NVIDIA Watch
Nvidia’s extraordinary share-price rise is changing the meaning of its famous employee retention strategy: some long-serving staff now have enough wealth to leave, retire or build something of their own. Business Insider reports that vested shares are turning the company’s golden handcuffs into a rather well-funded exit plan.
