Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition Summary Sainsbury’s has begun an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in two UK stores — Sydenham (London) and the…
UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost Summary The Department for Business and Trade ran a three-month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot (Oct–Dec 2024) using 1,000…
FreeBSD Project Isn’t Ready To Let AI Commit Code Just Yet Summary The FreeBSD Project’s Q2 2025 status report reveals the core team is working on a formal policy for…
AI Generated ‘Boring History’ Videos Are Flooding YouTube, Drowning Out Real History Summary Journalist Jason Koebler (404 Media) reports that YouTube is becoming saturated with long, AI-generated “boring history” videos…
Switzerland Releases Open-Source AI Model Built For Privacy Summary Switzerland has launched Apertus: a fully open-source, multilingual large language model trained on roughly 15 trillion tokens and data spanning over…
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors Summary Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class-action suit brought by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk…
This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements Summary Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid can now use a single AI model to perform a variety of humanlike…
Supervised learning in DNA neural networks Summary This Nature paper describes a DNA-based molecular system that performs supervised learning and subsequent classification in vitro. The team built a multi-layer DNA…
Training of physical neural networks Key points • Physical neural networks (PNNs) use analogue physical systems (optical, electronic, mechanical, quantum, etc.) to compute, moving computation into physics rather than pure…
Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization Key Points • The paper introduces the Analog Optical Computer (AOC): an all-analog opto-electronic platform that runs iterative fixed-point searches to…
