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- 01 of 08LAUNCH
xAI unveils a workplace assistant built with Cursor
xAI has launched Grok Bot, a workplace AI agent built in partnership with coding tool Cursor. It is designed to sit inside company systems and handle everyday office tasks.
OUR TAKEEvery tech company now has a workplace agent, and at some point the workplace itself might notice it is outnumbered.
Read more → - 02 of 08HIRING
Google researchers reportedly avoid Google's own AI hiring tool
Bloomberg reports that Google sells AI based recruitment screening tools to corporate clients, but some of its own researchers are reluctant to trust the same tools when hiring for their own teams.
OUR TAKENothing inspires confidence in a product quite like the people who built it quietly avoiding it.
Read more → - 03 of 08EDUCATION
Taiwan report says schools must teach AI ethics, not just AI use
A new report backed by student group EdYouth found nearly half of surveyed students do not understand the rules and ethics around AI use. It is calling for academic honesty and AI ethics to become core teaching content in Taiwanese schools.
OUR TAKETurns out handing teenagers a powerful new tool without a manual has consequences.
Read more → - 04 of 08BUSINESS
IBM and Together AI sign a multi year deal on Nvidia hardware
IBM has agreed a multi year partnership with Together AI to build a large AI serving cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia HGX B300 systems. The aim is to help businesses run open source AI models faster and more cheaply.
OUR TAKEAnother week, another very large cheque exchanged for the privilege of running someone else's chatbot.
Read more → - 05 of 08CHINA
ByteDance says it is training a 10 trillion parameter model its own way
ByteDance has confirmed it is training a model with 10 trillion parameters, larger than most Western frontier systems, and says its approach will not simply copy strategies used by American AI labs.
OUR TAKEBigger numbers, same promise that this one will finally be the one that changes everything.
Read more → - 06 of 08HARDWARE
South Korean chip makes real time AI far more accurate
Engineers at KAIST have developed a programmable memtransistor chip that can adjust to data changing at different speeds, cutting prediction errors for time sensitive data by up to 40 times. It could help self driving cars and wearable devices.
OUR TAKEA chip that gets less confused by chaos than most humans, which is genuinely humbling.
Read more → - 07 of 08PUBLIC SERVICE
Bengaluru police launch an AI tool to handle emergency calls
Bengaluru police have rolled out an AI system called VANKI to help process and prioritise emergency phone calls. The aim is to speed up response times in India's tech capital.
OUR TAKEA high stakes job for a first day on the force.
Read more → - 08 of 08RESEARCH
Claude helps nudge a 160 year old maths problem forward
Researchers used Anthropic's Claude model to push forward work on the Riemann zeta function, moving a key bound to 67.2 percent using several AI agents working together. The famous Riemann hypothesis itself remains unsolved.
OUR TAKEStill has not cracked one of maths' great mysteries, but give it time.
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