Tag: AI

Net zero needs AI — five actions to realise its promise Summary Amy Luers (Microsoft) argues that achieving net zero by 2050 is unlikely without deliberate use of artificial intelligence.…

DeepSeek’s new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon Summary DeepSeek has pushed a V3.1 point release for its flagship large language model that swaps its FP8…

Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason Summary Anthropic has deployed an experimental classifier to scan a portion of conversations with its Claude model for…

Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer follow-up adds Nvidia GPUs Summary Japanese research institute RIKEN has announced it will add Nvidia GPUs to its next-generation Fugaku successor, FugakuNEXT. Fujitsu remains contracted to build…

Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot Summary Commonwealth Bank of Australia has reversed its decision to replace 45 customer service staff with an AI…

IBM, NASA cook up AI model to predict solar tantrums Summary IBM and NASA have open sourced Surya, an AI foundation model designed to forecast space weather — specifically solar…

U.S. could feel effects of EU AI Act as companies comply Summary Major AI developers including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, Cohere and Mistral AI have signed the General-Purpose AI…

Bank Forced To Rehire Workers After Lying About Chatbot Productivity, Union Says Summary Australia’s largest bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), has been ordered to rehire 45 customer-service staff…

Google AI Mode Is Expanding To 180 Countries, Adding an Agentic Restaurant Finder Summary Google is rolling out AI Mode in Search to 180 countries, extending the feature beyond the…

Summary DeepSeek has released V3.1, a point update of its flagship large language model that signals support for a new FP8 variant (UE8M0) intended to be compatible with an incoming…