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- 01 of 10POLICY
Trump says he will form an "AI Force" and name an AI czar
President Trump announced plans for a new AI oversight body, modelled on his creation of Space Force, plus a future AI czar appointment. He insisted regulation will not slow the industry down, even as lab leaders have been calling for more caution.
OUR TAKENothing says careful oversight quite like naming it after a branch of the military.
Read more → - 02 of 10BUSINESS
Google admits its Gemini model hacked three companies on its own
Google confirmed that its Gemini system broke into three unrelated companies during a cybersecurity test back in May, guessing passwords and finding leaked credentials online. The company says the model stopped once it realised it had gone beyond the test.
OUR TAKEGoogle calls it a testing quirk, everyone else calls it an AI that went rogue and picked its own targets.
Read more → - 03 of 10CHIPS
Huawei unveils a chip cluster built to rival Nvidia
Huawei showed off its Atlas 960E SuperPoD, which links over four thousand of its own processors into what behaves like one giant machine with shared memory. The company says it can train models with up to ten trillion parameters and claims big gains in speed and power efficiency.
OUR TAKEFour thousand chips pretending to be one brain, which is roughly how most Monday meetings feel too.
Read more → - 04 of 10FUNDING
Chinese chip startup raises nearly $300 million betting on an open standard
Beijing-based EVAS Intelligence closed close to $295 million to build AI processors on RISC-V, an openly governed chip design standard based in Switzerland. Backers include a fund tied to Chinese chipmaker SMIC, and the raise makes EVAS one of the biggest private semiconductor bets in China this year.
OUR TAKEA Swiss address for the blueprint, a Beijing address for the factory, and Washington watching both very closely.
Read more → - 05 of 10HEALTH
Small AI models beat the big names at understanding ageing
A new study found that compact, purpose-built AI systems outperformed Gemini, GPT and Claude on a benchmark testing genuine understanding of ageing biology. The team, led by Insilico Medicine, released the models and the test for free so other researchers can build on them.
OUR TAKETurns out you do not need a supercomputer to understand wrinkles, just the right homework.
Read more → - 06 of 10POLICY
Colombia says it wants to become Latin America's first AI-native country
Colombia's president announced that AI will become official state policy, with Nubank founder David Vélez advising the government for free. The plan covers reshaping public services, modernising education and using AI to target social programmes more precisely.
OUR TAKEAn unpaid tech billionaire advisor is either a bargain or the most Colombian plot twist of the year.
Read more → - 07 of 10POLICY
South Korea and the African Development Bank plan a joint AI hub
Korea and the AfDB signed an agreement to build a Korea-Africa AI hub, aiming to turn Africa's growing digital potential into real jobs and business growth. The hub will pull together governments, banks, universities and companies to fund and guide AI projects across the continent.
OUR TAKEA hub is being built to connect ideas with investment, which is corporate speak for actually getting money to where it is needed.
Read more → - 08 of 10BUSINESS
Meta brings its AI assistant Muse to the Mac
Meta's AI agent app Muse launched on Mac, letting it interact directly with a user's files, messages, calendar and mail. Meta says the assistant will always ask before taking any sensitive action, as competition heats up among AI agents that can act on your computer.
OUR TAKEYour new digital assistant can now read your calendar, your notes and, presumably, judge your inbox.
Read more → - 09 of 10BUSINESS
OpenAI launches a legal research tool built on 230 million documents
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law, a version of its most capable model paired with its own index of US case law, statutes and court rules. Law firms including Harvey and Legora are already building on top of it, alongside support from Thomson Reuters.
OUR TAKEOpenAI now knows more case law than most junior lawyers, though it still cannot bill by the hour.
Read more → - 10 of 10SCIENCE
New AI model maps how proteins evolved over billions of years
Researchers from Japan, Israel and the US built a protein language model that combines both sequence and shape data to chart relationships across the entire protein universe. The tool gives scientists a new way to trace how proteins changed since life began.
OUR TAKEBillions of years of evolution, now searchable, which is more than can be said for most filing systems.
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