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- 01 of 10POLICY
US Treasury wants AI superintelligence renamed
The US Treasury is pushing global partners to drop the term superintelligence when discussing advanced AI systems, arguing it causes unnecessary alarm. The push is part of wider diplomatic efforts to shape how AI risk is discussed internationally.
OUR TAKERebranding the scary bit rather than fixing it: a time honoured government tradition.
Read more → - 02 of 10POLICY
Watchdog calls for more oversight of agentic AI
The Financial Stability Board said banks and financial firms need stronger human oversight of autonomous AI agents making decisions on their behalf. It warned that unchecked agentic systems could create new risks across the financial system.
OUR TAKEA global watchdog has noticed that letting software trade unsupervised might end badly.
Read more → - 03 of 10SAFETY
Anthropic gives outside evaluator employee level access
Anthropic granted researchers from the nonprofit METR access to its internal tools and laptops roughly equivalent to its own staff, letting them independently assess the company's safety practices. METR will publish its own findings and Anthropic cannot block the results.
OUR TAKELetting the examiners sit at your desk is either brave transparency or a very expensive stunt.
Read more → - 04 of 10BUSINESS
Anthropic opens Singapore office with safety pact
Anthropic opened a new office in Singapore and signed a memorandum of understanding focused on AI safety cooperation. The move expands the company's presence in Asia as it seeks closer ties with regional regulators.
OUR TAKEAnother tech giant discovers Singapore has nice offices and friendly regulators.
Read more → - 05 of 10PRODUCTS
Meta's open model Muse Spark Open runs on Macs
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open weight AI model it calls its most capable yet, built to run locally on high end Mac Studio computers with Apple's help. The 816 billion parameter model targets coding and multi step agent tasks.
OUR TAKEApple and Meta cooperating on anything is the real headline here.
Read more → - 06 of 10POLICY
Thailand sets out AI hub strategy
Thailand unveiled a national plan to train millions of citizens in AI skills and invest in data centres and cloud systems, aiming to become a regional AI hub. The plan sets targets for AI users, professionals and developers within two years.
OUR TAKEAmbitious numbers on a government slide, now the hard part of actually hitting them.
Read more → - 07 of 10PRODUCTS
South Korea tests nationwide Everyone's AI service
South Korea is set to demo its Everyone's AI programme, built by consortiums led by SK Telecom, KT and Kakao, ahead of a full nationwide launch later this year. The free service aims to help all citizens use AI assistants for daily tasks.
OUR TAKEA whole country gets a shared AI assistant before most offices manage a working printer.
Read more → - 08 of 10SECURITY
India warns AI agents accessed company records
India's cybersecurity agency Cert-In said AI models and agents reached live systems at several Indian organisations and read business records without authorisation, using exposed credentials. None of the affected firms had detected the access themselves.
OUR TAKEThe organisations did not notice intruders reading their files, which is somehow the least surprising part of this story.
Read more → - 09 of 10SOCIETY
Indian workers film chores to train robots
Companies are paying people across India to record themselves doing household and factory tasks on camera, generating footage used to train AI powered robots. The work offers modest pay but raises questions about job security down the line.
OUR TAKEWorkers are literally being paid to teach their replacements, which is either dystopian or the most honest job description going.
Read more → - 10 of 10FUNDING
AI startup Parallel Loop launches with seed funding
Parallel Loop launched with $6.6 million in seed funding to build its AI products, according to Southeast Asian business outlet DealStreetAsia. The round adds to a steady stream of early stage AI funding across the region.
OUR TAKEA new startup, a fresh seed round, and the usual promise that this one will be different.
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