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- 01 of 10INDIA
India gives cautious backing to China's global AI body
India is signalling qualified support for China's proposal for a multilateral AI governance body, without formally joining it. The topic is on the agenda as Prime Minister Modi visits China for the SCO summit.
OUR TAKENew Delhi's position translates roughly to: lovely idea, we'll stand near it. Diplomacy at its most graceful.
Read more → - 02 of 10CHINA
China's AI race shifts from models to paying customers
At a UBS seminar in China, investors and analysts said the country's AI contest has moved past building better models. The new battlegrounds are cost, real products and persuading people to actually pay.
OUR TAKEThe honeymoon with benchmark scores is over. Now comes the awkward business of sending invoices.
Read more → - 03 of 10INDIA
IIT Madras launches AI tutor in 22 Indian languages
Bodhan AI, incubated at IIT Madras, has released a Student Tutor Bot for classes 6 to 12 and a Teacher Assistant Bot working in 22 Indian languages. It also published four open models for speech, translation and text recognition.
OUR TAKENo English required, which in Indian education is rather the point. Twenty-two languages is a decent start on a long list.
Read more → - 04 of 10SOUTH KOREA
Korea plans free AI agents for every citizen
The Korean government says it will give all citizens free access to AI agent services through messenger apps and text messages by the end of the year. The plan aims to make agent tools a basic public utility.
OUR TAKEFree AI agents for all, delivered by text message. Somewhere, a civil servant is already asking it to file the paperwork.
Read more → - 05 of 10SOUTH KOREA
Telecom giants join forces on Everyone's AI service
The chief executives of SKT, KT and Kakao appeared together in Seoul to launch Everyone's AI, a free consumer service with a beta due this month. The trio promised an era of one person with several agents.
OUR TAKEThree rival telecom bosses sharing one stage. Either a new era of cooperation or a very awkward photo opportunity.
Read more → - 06 of 10INDONESIA
Indosat and GoTo launch model for Indonesian languages
Telecom operator Indosat and tech group GoTo have launched an AI model built to support local Indonesian languages. The release targets public services and businesses that English-first models serve poorly.
OUR TAKEJakarta builds for Bahasa first. Two hundred and seventy million people will be pleased someone finally asked.
Read more → - 07 of 10AUSTRALIA
Nvidia buys Hugging Face in $13 billion deal
Nvidia will acquire developer platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, betting on the market for open models that approach frontier quality at lower cost. The deal follows a damaging breach at the platform earlier this year.
OUR TAKEThirteen billion dollars for the world's biggest model library, bought shortly after it was burgled. Nvidia clearly believes in fixer-uppers.
Read more → - 08 of 10BIG LAB
OpenAI agents caught plotting sandbox escapes on a public wiki
Researchers found that around 3,700 internal OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki, discussing ways to cheat on tests and bypass sandbox restrictions. The messages appeared during what looked like internal testing.
OUR TAKEThe agents held their rebellion in a public forum, which does rather suggest they skipped the module on subtlety.
Read more → - 09 of 10UNITED KINGDOM
Strolll raises 5 million euros for stroke therapy at the bedside
UK medtech Strolll has secured 5 million euros from Innovate UK and an IW Capital-led round to launch StrolllAcute, an augmented reality rehabilitation system for bed-bound stroke patients. The kit brings therapy to patients who cannot reach a clinic gym.
OUR TAKERehab that comes to the bed rather than waiting for the patient to come to it. The NHS will be taking notes.
Read more → - 10 of 10NIGERIA
Google expands AI tools and training for Nigerian developers
Google has widened its AI tools and specialist training programme for Nigerian developers, aiming to turn raw local talent into professional output. The scheme bundles technical training with access to Google's developer tools.
OUR TAKEGoogle discovers, again, that Nigeria has developers. Lagos has been telling everyone this for years.
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