Pro-datacentre officials argue scale of Australia’s buildout is smaller, more regulated and less damaging than in US Australian politicians and business leaders are arguing that their populace’s growing resentment of AI datacentres is an inauthentic import from the United States. Like the US, Australia is seeing community resentment grow in response to a surge in the construction of massive AI datacentres. However, pro-datacentre officials and executives argue the scale of Australia’s buildout is smaller, more regulated and therefore less damaging than that in the US. They say the burgeoning negative reaction is being tainted and inflamed by a heated US debate that has arrived down under via social media feeds. Continue reading...

Sarvam AI's Saaras V4 is a speech-to-text model covering all 22 Indian languages plus global English. It pairs an audio encoder with a 3B hybrid state-space decoder. It adds keyterm prompting for up to 50 terms, 5 output modes from 1 model, and streaming with first-token latency under 150 ms. It is available today through Sarvam's API at ₹30 per hour. The post Sarvam AI Releases Saaras V4: A Speech-to-Text Model for All 22 Indian Languages and Global English appeared first on MarkTechPost.

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Supersonic Labs has released Julia 1, a 144.3M-parameter decision model built on mmBERT-small. It takes context, a question, and 2 to 20 options, then returns one choice with probabilities. The model runs on a CPU and ships under Apache 2.0. It beat Jev reference values on 3 of 4 pilots but trailed on the 72-label Banking77 test. The post Supersonic Labs Releases Julia 1: A 144.3M-Parameter Open Decision Model That Runs on a CPU appeared first on MarkTechPost.

The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop After the recent backlash against Meta’s so-called “pervert” smartglasses, this week Mark Zuckerberg launched a much cuter alternative: the Muse “charm” device. With a screen that shows a cutesy little avatar, it has drawn comparisons with Tamagotchis. “We’ve packed a lot of technology into this little guy,” the Meta founder told the San Francisco audience. Continue reading...

As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet access. The incident happened on September 20th, and "All training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use" remains paused as of Saturday evening, September 25th. In addition, OpenAI revealed on Friday that its agents had inappropriately uploaded 53nimages from ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites. The company has not stated if the images were AI- … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Agentic Context Learning or ACE is a learning paradigm that lets an AI agent improve across tasks by editing the context it reads, while leaving model weights unchanged. The paper outlining the techniques show why full rewrites fail, how the playbook update works, and where the measured gains hold up. This article explores how ACE […] The post Agentic Context Engineering (ACE): Self-Improving Language Models appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have been invited to appear before the Greens-led inquiry into AI and datacentres Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic have been called to face a Senate inquiry after rogue OpenAI agents hacked Australian and US government websites. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei were requested to appear at the Greens-led inquiry into AI and datacentres as their companies negotiate with the Labor government for greater access to Australian content in exchange for a greater local presence. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...

Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it turns out things are even wilder because of AI, and Matthew and Cloudflare are right at the center of it. Cloudflare found in June that bots made up more than half of internet traffic. That number just keeps going up as more and more AI companies scrape more and more of the web, and now as more and more AI agents try and do things for people on the web. Cloudflare sits between websites and all those agents, and allows website owners some level of control: Owners can block all those AI tools, allow them, or, as you’…

University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT The University of Oxford has allowed the company behind ChatGPT to train its AI models on historical texts from its Bodleian library, as tech companies scour academic institutions for fresh data. The Bodleian material digitised by OpenAI has been used to “populate the OpenAI training set”, according to internal documents. Continue reading...

Locals say Google’s $15bn project in Andhra Pradesh has resulted in smallholdings being taken back off them by the government When the government officials arrived in Tarluvada last year, they came with abundant promises. Google, one of the world’s richest and most powerful tech companies, would soon be bringing a “golden opportunity” to this tiny village in south India: a $15bn AI datacentre. Continue reading...

Debates over AI development, regulation and datacenters have become buzzy topics for US presidential candidates The debate over artificial intelligence development, how to regulate it and the construction of datacenters that power the technology has become a buzzy topic for potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates. Already, concerns were mounting over the environmental and energy impact of datacenters, which consume vast amounts of resources to power AI. But worries about the rapid development of AI came to a head in mid-September when tech executives issued a flurry of dire warnings that the technology could harm humans. Continue reading...

Exa has released Agent Ultra, the highest effort mode of its Exa Agent API. It coordinates subagents across thousands of sources for list building and entity enrichment. Exa reports it beats Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, and Perplexity Agent on 4 benchmarks, including 81.4% soft recall on WANDR. The post Exa Launches Agent Ultra: A Subagent Swarm Deep Research API Built for Exhaustive List Building appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Discover how to build a comprehensive multimodal augmentation and adversarial robustness workflow using AugLy for images, text, audio, and PyTorch datasets. The post End-to-End Multimodal Data Augmentation and Adversarial Robustness Benchmark with AugLy for Images, Text, Audio, and PyTorch appeared first on MarkTechPost.

In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.

Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark, a 279.5M-parameter draft model that brings speculative decoding to its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model. It delivers up to 3.13x faster decoding on Apple M5 Max and 2.66x on H100, with identical output under greedy decoding. Support ships in llama.cpp, MLX-VLM, and SGLang. The post Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark: Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models With Up to 3.13x Faster Decoding appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Disclosure reveals ⁠new area of privacy risk for the company and illustrates ​how difficult it is to inventory unauthorized activity tied to its agents Two ⁠months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still working to understand the full scope of its rogue agent activity, two people briefed on the matter told Reuters. The latest example came on Friday when OpenAI said its agents had leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users. OpenAI declined to say if the images were AI-generated or identified real people. It also declined to ⁠say when the images were posted. Continue reading...

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Xi’s state visit to the US emphasized personal rapport with the US president, rather than substantial agreements to pause their respective countries’ AI arms race Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping wrapped up their Washington summit on Friday, facing criticism that they had squandered an opportunity to pause their countries’ artificial intelligence (AI) arms race. The three-day state visit emphasised pageantry and personal rapport rather than substantial agreements. The US president and Xi discussed the wars in Iran and Ukraine and the status of Taiwan. Their biggest policy announcement was a modest two-month extension of a trade truce. Continue reading...

The PKG Center for Social Impact expands Code.Tulsa experiential learning program.

See how LangGraph orchestrates Jev, TypeSafe AI's decision model, to build faster, cheaper production agents.

With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update—so you spend less time adapting to tools and more time getting work done. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running in Meta’s cloud) and because it’s packaged in an easy-to-install easy-to-use way. It’s literally presented as a cute mascot. It’s the first consumer-accessible agentic AI system, and Meta has truly done an amazing job with that. But it’s a genuinely open question whether consumers have any understanding what this means. If you buy a power saw that can cut your fingers off, you are almost certainly aware that you are buying a power saw that can sever your fingers. [...] I don’t think people realize how powerful — and thus dangerous — Muse is, especially if it’s running on your Mac. — John Gruber, Muse Looks Cute, but Looks are…

The Chinese leader’s visit to Washington appears to have done nothing to shift the stalemate in bilateral relations Within days, two high-profile Chinese visitors will arrive in the US – envoys of friendship, as Xi Jinping described them when he met Donald Trump at the White House this week. The giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, will be hosted at Atlanta zoo. Beijing dispatched the first panda pair to the US in 1972 following President Richard Nixon’s landmark visit to China. It uses the animals to indicate satisfaction or displeasure with other nations. But it also charges heftily for their lease: reportedly, around $1m a year per pair. Americans’ views of China have warmed from a pandemic nadir, but are unlikely to be shifted much by two animals, however charming. These days they a…

Pontiff continues to decry the rise of AI on his visit to France, stressing the importance of retaining 'ethical discernment' in an age when rapidly advancing technology threatens to undermine humanity Europe live Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit Continue reading...

Yesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta's Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI chatbot, and appeared to expose details we weren't meant to see, not least because Muse itself told people, including us, it wasn't supposed to reveal them. But today Muse will eagerly offer up the contents of its file system when you ask for it. That appears to be because, as Meta's Nat Friedman later said, this is the "intended behavior." In a post on X, Meta Superintelligence Labs' David Singleton elaborated: This was a very deliberate choice - your Muse Secur … Read the full story at The Verge.

Learn how to scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS using Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and DeepEP. This post presents an architecture that combines Amazon EKS, EFA, and Amazon S3 and increased aggregate reinforcement learning rollout throughput by 40% for large-scale RLHF and GRPO training.

Bev Littlewood reminds us that mathematics has been the prime driver of the rise in AI, in response to an editorial You report in your leader that some mathematicians feel discomfiture at the AI solution to a Navier-Stokes problem (The Guardian view on AI v mathematicians: humans are still vital to the field, but tech firms refuse to see that, 20 September). I fear that they have been hoist by their own petard: mathematics, after all, has been the prime mover of the AI revolution. As a somewhat lowly mathematician, let me remind others of the famous quote of Augustine: “The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty promises. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the…