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- 01 of 06TOOLS
Alibaba releases a giant free AI model
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a very large open weight model, meaning anyone can download and adapt it rather than pay for access. It targets long multi step jobs like planning a trip or writing a report from scratch.
OUR TAKEFree as in beer, and apparently just as filling.
Read more → - 02 of 06NEWS
South Korea breaks ground on a national AI computing centre
South Korea started building a national AI computing centre in Haenam so AI systems can run at home rather than on foreign cloud services. Officials say it will power future services for citizens and businesses.
OUR TAKENothing says commitment like breaking ground in a rice farming county for chips.
Read more → - 03 of 06NEWS
Security startup raises 125 million dollars to police rogue AI agents
Zenity raised 125 million dollars, backed by SoftBank, Hitachi and LG, for tools that watch AI agents, programs that act on their own inside company systems, before they misbehave. Big non-US firms are taking workplace AI safety seriously.
OUR TAKESomebody has to babysit the robots we just hired.
Read more → - 04 of 06TOOLS
Osaka professor's android twin holds AI conversations
Osaka University's Ishiguro lab held a salon where visitors chatted with a lifelike android built to resemble Professor Ishiguro, using AI that creates humanlike speech and expressions. Visitors tested how comfortable we feel talking to a robotic copy of a real person.
OUR TAKEMeeting your professor's robot twin sounds like a fever dream lecture.
Read more → - 05 of 06NEWS
Indian IT giant loses work as a client turns to AI
HCLTech, a major Indian technology outsourcing firm, lost around 50 million dollars of project work after a client moved the tasks to AI automation. It shows AI already reshaping outsourced jobs, not just future ones.
OUR TAKEFifty million dollars is a lot to lose to a very fast typist.
Read more → - 06 of 06NEWS
Australian judge catches an AI inventing a court case
A lawyer's AI chatbot made up a legal case that never existed, and admitted the error when an Australian judge questioned it. It is a reminder that AI text tools can sound convincing while being completely wrong.
OUR TAKEThe chatbot pleaded guilty faster than most defendants.
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