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- 01 of 10TECHNOLOGY
Saudi Arabia launches Arabic-first AI model
Saudi Arabia has released HUMAIN-M3, a frontier Arabic model built on the open weights of China's Minimax M3. It shows how countries are building local AI on shared international foundations.
OUR TAKEBuilt in Riyadh, with a little help from Beijing. Globalisation finds a way.
Read more → - 02 of 10EDUCATION
Lagos deputy governor says build African intelligence, don't import it
Lagos State deputy governor Kadri Obafemi Hamzat has urged Nigeria to stop treating AI as an imported product. He wants homegrown systems that understand local context and solve regional problems first.
OUR TAKEA fair point. The manual rarely mentions Lagos traffic.
Read more → - 03 of 10POLICY
China's top court sets first rules on deepfakes
China's Supreme People's Court has issued its first legal framework covering AI deepfakes and fabricated content. The rules define liability for synthetic media used to deceive, giving lower courts a clear yardstick.
OUR TAKEThe judges have seen the fake videos. The fake videos have been warned.
Read more → - 04 of 10INDUSTRY
Made in China now comes with AI built in
Chinese manufacturers are embedding generative AI into cars, robots and household appliances at industrial scale. The shift aims to put intelligence at the heart of the country's factory output for global markets.
OUR TAKEYour next fridge may have opinions. Do keep up.
Read more → - 05 of 10STARTUPS
HubX becomes Turkey's first AI app unicorn
Izmir-based HubX has raised up to 75 million dollars from Point72 at a 1.28 billion dollar valuation, making it Turkey's first AI-native consumer app unicorn. Its 40-plus apps serve more than 600 million users.
OUR TAKESix hundred million users from Izmir. Quietly done, that.
Read more → - 06 of 10HEALTH
Japan opens sovereign AI drug discovery platform
JapanFold has launched as an open-source drug discovery platform running on high-performance superclusters. The project gives Japanese researchers domestic computing power for AI-driven medicine.
OUR TAKEFolding proteins at home rather than abroad. Very tidy.
Read more → - 07 of 10BUSINESS
Japanese firm brings chatty AI service bot to Indonesia
Tokyo-listed transcosmos has launched its trans-AI Chat service in Indonesia. Unlike script-following bots, it holds natural conversations with customers and is aimed at enterprise clients across the archipelago.
OUR TAKEA chatbot that chats. The bar was low, and it cleared it.
Read more → - 08 of 10BUSINESS
Brazil's stock exchange lets AI write a third of its code
B3, Brazil's stock exchange, has given AI coding assistants to 600 staff, who now produce 1.5 million lines of code a month. Software delivery times have fallen by 35 per cent.
OUR TAKEThe exchange now runs partly on machine-written code. What could possibly go wrong.
Read more → - 09 of 10BUSINESS
Nvidia's openness pledge draws antitrust eyes in US and EU
Nvidia has promised to keep Hugging Face open and hardware-neutral after its 12.93 billion dollar acquisition. Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are weighing whether the chip giant could tilt the platform in its favour.
OUR TAKEA promise to share the toys. The referees are taking notes anyway.
Read more → - 10 of 10POLICY
Australian bill would ban risky automated decisions in government
Independent MP Kate Chaney has tabled a bill to ban high-risk automated decision-making across Australian government services. It would require human oversight and set safeguards across the whole public service.
OUR TAKEA human must sign it off. The humans asked for that in writing.
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