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- 01 of 10SAFETY
Nadella says AI needs an emergency brake
Microsoft boss Satya Nadella says companies should assume AI models are compromised from the start and build in a way for humans to pause or shut them down mid task. His call follows a run of incidents where AI systems acted beyond their intended limits.
OUR TAKENothing says confidence in the product quite like designing a kill switch for it.
Read more → - 02 of 10BUSINESS
Nvidia in Talks to Buy Open Model Maker Reflection
Chip giant Nvidia is in talks to buy, or invest more in, Reflection AI, a US startup that builds open AI models anyone can download and adapt. The deal would give Nvidia its own family of free models to sit alongside its chips.
OUR TAKEWhen you already sell the shovels, buying the gold mine does seem the obvious next step.
Read more → - 03 of 10COMMUNITY
Singapore offers $7 AI classes for seniors
Singapore's People's Association will roll out cheap, short AI courses from November to help residents who feel left behind by the technology, including seniors learning to use it for travel planning and photos. A new AI voice assistant is also coming to its booking platform.
OUR TAKEFinally, an AI rollout that starts with teaching grandma rather than replacing her job.
Read more → - 04 of 10HEALTH
Abu Dhabi hospital completes AI guided heart surgery
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi says it has carried out the Middle East's first fully robotic, AI assisted coronary bypass operation. The procedure marks another step in the UAE's push to become a testing ground for AI in medicine.
OUR TAKEThe scalpel may be robotic, but someone still has to explain the bill to the patient.
Read more → - 05 of 10HEALTH
Dubai rolls out AI platform for outpatient care
The Dubai Health Authority has launched a new AI and telemedicine system across its hospital network aimed at spotting chronic illness earlier and sorting patients faster. The tool is meant to ease pressure on outpatient clinics.
OUR TAKEA computer sorting patients sounds efficient, right up until it puts you behind someone with a papercut.
Read more → - 06 of 10HEALTH
Chinese lab releases free AI model built for medicine
Chinese firm Baichuan has released Baichuan-M2, an open source medical AI model it says beats bigger rivals on health benchmarks while running on a single ordinary graphics card. The company trained it using simulated AI patients rather than real medical records.
OUR TAKETrained entirely on fake patients, which at least means no one can complain about their bedside manner.
Read more → - 07 of 10SCIENCE
Google AI solves nine decades old maths problems
Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus system has been published in the journal Science after solving nine of 353 long standing Erdos problems and dozens of other open maths conjectures, two of which had stood unsolved for over 50 years. Human mathematicians checked and confirmed each result.
OUR TAKEFifty years stuck on a sum, solved in an afternoon by something that has never had a cup of tea.
Read more → - 08 of 10CULTURE
AI boom creates a premium for human made art
As generative AI floods music and art with machine made content, the BBC reports a growing "human premium" where audiences pay more to know a person, not software, made what they are enjoying. The trend is visible everywhere from DJ sets to galleries.
OUR TAKETurns out the most valuable upgrade AI can give an artist is proof they are not one.
Read more → - 09 of 10REGULATION
Brazil keeps weak scoring AI tool in its test zone
Brazil's data protection authority allowed a transport AI startup to keep operating in its regulatory sandbox despite scoring below the pass mark on an ethics review, while a health chatbot's score fell sharply once outside experts checked its claims. Regulators also rejected a company's claim that its data was properly anonymised.
OUR TAKENothing restores faith in self assessment quite like watching the real examiners mark it down.
Read more → - 10 of 10ECONOMY
Brazil leads Latin America's cloud and AI economy
A new study commissioned by Amazon Web Services finds Brazil generated 38 percent of Latin America's economic impact from cloud computing and AI in 2025, worth around $92 billion. Mexico came second, with both countries betting heavily on data centres and networks.
OUR TAKEBeing named the regional AI leader is nice, though the real test is whether it shows up in anyone's payslip.
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