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- 01 of 10MODELS
Google Genie 4 adds sound to playable AI worlds
Google DeepMind has released Genie 4 as a research preview, adding speech, ambient sound and music to its interactive worlds. Users can change scenes while they run, and the model can keep a scene consistent for up to two minutes.
OUR TAKEAt last, an imaginary world with its own noise complaints.
Read more → - 02 of 10SCIENCE
AI labs challenge a major computer science claim
OpenAI and Anthropic say their AI systems have refuted a long-standing assumption about how hard certain computing problems are to solve. Researchers are examining the proofs, so the claims should not yet be treated as settled science.
OUR TAKEThe computers have handed in their homework; the marking may take a while.
Read more → - 03 of 10SOFTWARE
Harmonic brings AI proofs to software and chips
Harmonic says its Aristotle AI can now check software written in C and chip designs written in Verilog. The expansion takes its mathematical proof tools into work where a small mistake can become an expensive product fault.
OUR TAKEA second pair of eyes is useful, even when neither pair has eyes.
Read more → - 04 of 10CHIPS
Oracle widens its AI chip menu beyond Nvidia
Oracle is expanding its use of Nvidia AI servers while adding chips from Google, Cerebras and SambaNova. It will also use some of its own networking chips, giving cloud customers more choices for running AI.
OUR TAKEEven the largest chip order apparently benefits from a side menu.
Read more → - 05 of 10BROWSERS
Opera previews AI that runs inside your browser
Opera has introduced WebAI, a proposed web standard for running AI models directly in its browser rather than on distant servers. The early preview is available in Opera One by choice, with other Opera browsers due to follow.
OUR TAKEYour browser would like to think locally for a change.
Read more → - 06 of 10DIPLOMACY
Singapore and Germany deepen industrial AI ties
Singapore and Germany have agreed to make industrial AI a bigger part of their economic partnership. Their updated five-part work plan aims to connect their strengths in areas such as manufacturing and digital trade.
OUR TAKEDiplomacy has discovered a factory setting.
Read more → - 07 of 10WORK
Singapore puts worker training into AI plans
Singapore opened its SWITCH technology festival with a call for businesses to train staff as they adopt AI. Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong said employers should redesign jobs and business processes together, rather than leave workers as an afterthought.
OUR TAKERemembering the staff is a pleasingly traditional management idea.
Read more → - 08 of 10ROBOTICS
Machenta raises £30m for quick-learning robots
London robotics company Machenta has raised £30 million in seed funding led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures. It says its AI lets robots learn physical tasks from a single demonstration, with early work covering packaging, assembly and tidying.
OUR TAKEShowing it once would be a welcome change from most office training.
Read more → - 09 of 10ECONOMY
AI chips help lift South Korea’s growth to 3.7%
South Korea’s economy grew 3.7% from a year earlier in the third quarter, with strong chip demand helping drive the rise. The central bank said semiconductors accounted for roughly half of annual growth, putting a 4% full-year result within reach if the final quarter is strong enough.
OUR TAKEThe national accounts are developing a noticeable fondness for chips.
Read more → - 10 of 10FUNDING
Tendos raises €12m for building materials AI
Munich-based Tendos has raised €12 million in seed funding led by Insight Partners. Its AI helps building materials makers process sales requests, review specifications and prepare quotes, with staff reviewing and approving the work.
OUR TAKEEven artificial intelligence must eventually get a quote for the plasterboard.
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