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AI policy sets the rules for how artificial intelligence is developed, deployed and held accountable. Follow AI regulation, copyright disputes, privacy, surveillance and government decisions affecting the technology. Our coverage explains who a proposal applies to, whether it is law or still under discussion, and what it could mean for developers, businesses and the people using AI.
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Anthropic’s prospective IPO comes with a striking bill attached: a leaked draft prospectus, as described by IFA Magazine, puts the company’s long-term computing commitments at $518bn, with roughly 80% reportedly non-cancellable or payable regardless of use. The figures sharpen the question facing investors: can revenue keep growing fast…
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An Abu Dhabi start-up called Limb is developing an AI-powered app to give people feedback while they do physiotherapy exercises at home. Its approach also tackles a specific blind spot in computer-vision training data: movement tracking can struggle with the loose-fitting clothes many patients in the UAE wear.
DeepSeek Watch
A community plugin called DeepSeek Bot adds multiple bots, persistent memory and group chats to DeepSeek Harness, with its data stored on the user’s own computer. It offers Harness users a practical way to experiment with AI teams, though the project is independent of DeepSeek itself.
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The Solicitors Regulation Authority has opened an eight-week consultation that would put technology and AI explicitly into the standards for competent legal practice. The proposals could make responsible use of AI a professional competence issue for solicitors and qualification candidates, not merely a matter of firm preference.
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Seven Swedish university hospitals and AI Sweden are launching a national programme to train 600 healthcare employees in AI, backed by SEK 18 million in European Social Fund funding. The initiative aims to build practical skills across healthcare, where making AI useful means more than handing the IT…
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AI at work is not only a question of which jobs may disappear. Speakers at a Dublin conference described workers being monitored more closely, moved into lower-paid editing work and left carrying a heavier workload without extra pay or time off.
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Accenture and Dell have formed a dedicated business group to help organisations deploy AI on private infrastructure, including in regulated industries. The expansion pairs Accenture’s industry and services work with Dell’s AI-ready systems, and Accenture plans to train more than 3,000 practitioners on Dell’s portfolio.
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Several open AI models are using hybrid attention designs to reduce the memory and computing costs of generating text. A technical analysis compares eight approaches and reports a trade-off: lower costs and faster performance can come with weaker retrieval across long contexts and less deterministic generation.
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AI companies can commit to enormous cloud-computing deals without paying the full headline amount on signing. The commitments reserve computing capacity and set out future spending, leaving providers to finance much of the infrastructure before collecting payment.
Microsoft AI Watch
Qatar’s government Copilot programme has more than 8,000 active users across 17 participating entities, alongside 96 AI-agent use cases under discussion. The figures offer a useful snapshot of public-sector adoption, though activity counts alone do not tell us whether the tools are improving services.
Reflection AI Watch
Nvidia is reportedly considering either a larger investment in Reflection AI or an acquisition of the open-source startup. The talks are said to be at an early stage, and one possible route would be hiring staff and licensing technology rather than buying the company outright.
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A Hugging Face community article describes three AI systems built around a shared, signed-address routing method: AlephLM, AlephLLM and the adapter library AMOE. Its most interesting claim is that the method can be used across language models and diffusion systems, though the results remain the article author’s account…
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A new essay by historian of science Pranav Sharma argues that today’s AI systems are being credited with understanding when they generate convincing language without regard for truth. His challenge is not just to the technology, but to what people mean when they call it intelligent.
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Predictive AI is enjoying a revival as newer models make it easier to classify and score cases without first training a bespoke model. But Eric Siegel argues that easier access will not fix the business and measurement problems that have long kept machine-learning projects from delivering value.
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AI agents do not need to “go rogue” to cause trouble: a Georgia Tech law-and-ethics scholar argues that poorly bounded goals can lead software to pursue actions its designers did not intend. The practical prescription is clearer limits, better access controls and more chances for people to intervene.
Cohere Watch
Cohere says its Tiny Aya L2-Thinker model reasons in a user’s language more than 93% of the time across 60 languages, with accuracy close to English reasoning outside competition-level maths. If that result holds up in practice, it could make AI reasoning easier for multilingual users to follow…
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Apple has agreed to make job offers to some employees of Huxe, a personalised-audio start-up, and take a non-exclusive licence to its intellectual property. The deal follows Huxe’s shutdown, but Apple has not disclosed what it plans to do with the technology.
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Singapore and Indonesia could work together on responsible AI, from joint research and skills training to pilot projects in healthcare, agriculture and finance. That is a proposal from retired Indonesian diplomat Simon Hutagalung, not an announced government partnership, but it comes with a practical question: how to share…
