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The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force." He made the announcement amid growing calls from across the political spectrum and even within the industry to pump the brakes on AI development. He posted that his administration "will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows!" In the rambling post, Trump said that data centers were "wealthy and prestigious" and claimed without evidence that they raised salaries, lowered taxes, and made for safer streets in the communities in which they were … Read the full story at The Verge.
Scale of debt issuance being used to fund the hectic pace of the datacentre rollout by tech firms is a worry Warnings about powerful and uncontrolled AI have dominated the headlines this past week. But even amid the omens of apocalypse, it is still worth asking if the entire AI-industrial complex is sailing towards a financial iceberg. It will hardly be our most pressing concern if the bots are poised to take over the world, but a collapse of the AI bubble would have repercussions far beyond the US. Continue reading...
Treasury’s latest intergenerational report projects life expectancy at birth will reach 89 for women and 86 for men by 2066 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australian households will shrink but more people can expect to live well into their 90s, according to the latest update to forecasts of the country’s long-term future. Treasury’s latest intergenerational report, to be published in full on Monday, will project the impact of government policies 40 years into the future. Continue reading...
Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to describe itself. Jason Aten, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine, posted on Threads screenshots of an interaction he had with Muse in which the assistant asks him some questions about a conversation he was having in Messages. The problem is that Aten says he didn't give Muse access to his messages. When asked how it knew about the contents of his messages, Muse replied, "I saw the notification previews, not … Read the full story at The Verge.
After a week of alarming warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our technology reporters Aisha Down, Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo answer your questions on the reality of the AI threat In realistic terms how would artificial intelligence actually kill me? What is the main proxy threat? Nuclear war, death due to breakdown of society, a virus? I hear all these reports it could kill us but still unsure how that could practically happen? To be honest all sounds too wooly to really take seriously. Pottys99 Aisha: For what it’s worth, it seems unlikely that AI at this point can significantly change the equation around bioweapons or viruses … What has prevented bioweapon attacks through the past decades is not the difficulty of inventing new deadl…
Australia faces stark choices about the most significant technological development since the splitting of the atom in the 1930s Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast There’s nothing like a threat of human extinction to focus the mind. The threat of AI to the existence of humanity has long been raised. Continue reading...
California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, US I only noticed this after I had taken the photo: Morris the Northern Gannet is peeking out from behind the base of the sign. Tags: wildlife
As AI agents move into production, the path between a request and its result is becoming less predictable. An agent The post Your AI agent failed. The model might not be the problem. appeared first on The New Stack.
Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly "killing all humans," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack - and the risk is growing. "We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving at the appetite of our predators," Joshua Corman, executive in residence for public safety and resilience at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), told me last year. At the time, I was preoccupied with a Department of Homeland Security warning that Iranian actors and sympathizers could target the US with cyberattacks. Last week, I called Corman up to chat about recent incidents of rogue AI a … Read the full story at The Verge.
We tested Jev against LLM judges on accuracy, repeatability, latency, and cost to see whether System One models could offer a new approach to agent evaluation.
President had brushed away suggestions to slow down AI technology, even as his own party counseled caution Donald Trump on Saturday said he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and create an “AI Force” to help monitor the technology, though he gave almost no details about either plan. As global fears over AI have grown, especially in the past week in the face of multiple industry figures sounding the alarm about its dangers, the president has been critical of calls to slow down development of the fast-moving industry. Continue reading...
David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI – putting the White House out of step with its own party As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the US have joined together calling for the regulation of powerful artificial intelligence models, one of the few vocal naysayers has been Donald Trump. He’s called the perceived dangers of the technology a “hoax” and a “scam”, arguing that the government already has “tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies”. It’s a starkly different stance from those of his former adviser Steve Bannon, the Republican Texas senator Ted Cruz and even the heads of the world’s leading AI companies. But it’s directly in line with the opinion of David Sacks – a prominent billionaire venture capitalist and Trump’s onetime AI and cr…
Coming midterm elections are starting to be framed not as right versus left but instead the ‘well-fed versus the fed-up’ Brian Leeland, a 79-year-old Democratic voter in Detroit, had enough. Frustrated by the way the US media covers this febrile political era, from Donald Trump’s Washington to political campaigns across the country, he contacted the Guardian. “Your decision to frame the race here as a simple progressive versus establishment choice is overly simplistic verging on lazy,” he wrote to this reporter, after our coverage of progressive Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign in the Democratic US Senate primary in Michigan. “As an electorate, we are not binary for the convenience of the media.” Continue reading...
Beijing believes slowdown calls aim to lock in US advantage, and is pursuing a different balance between safety and pace About two years ago, education entrepreneur Boris But had what he calls a “penny-drop moment” – that, like countless others in China, his company needed to embrace AI before it was made obsolete by it. His clients, well-off parents looking to send their children to study overseas, had begun arriving in his office reeling off information and opinions gleaned not from rival firms, but from chatbots. Continue reading...
Unit1 hopes to offer cheaper version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venue The former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s entertainment group has obtained a near-£15m investment for his UK music tech startup that hopes to recreate classic concerts by manifesting musicians as digital avatars. Unit1 was set up last year by Barney Wragg, an entertainment executive who ran Lord Lloyd-Webber’s Cats-to-Evita empire for five years from late 2011. It has secured the $20m in funding from a group of investors, including tech backer Balderton Capital through its partner Daniel Waterhouse, who made early investments in Spotify. Continue reading...
It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts Donald Trump’s sons, through a series of AI-linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up a $620m Pentagon loan, a Marine Corps robotics contract and an undisclosed air force drone deal in the past year. His longtime friend Michael Dell won a Pentagon contract worth nearly $9bn. And this week, as public support for artificial intelligence sinks to some of the lowest levels ever recorded, the president went to bat for the industry. . “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades,” he posted on Truth Social Monday. “There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers.” It…
Qwen has released Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, a real-time simultaneous interpretation model built on a new Interleave architecture. It cuts average lagging (LAAL) from 2.8 seconds to 2.3 seconds. It also adds real-time speaker diarization with stable voice cloning, synchronized bilingual display, and long-context disambiguation for names and terms. The model understands 60 languages, speaks 29, and is available now as a WebSocket API on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and QwenCloud. The post Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate: A Real-Time Interpretation Model That Cuts Average Lag to 2.3 Seconds Across 60 Languages appeared first on MarkTechPost.
OpenClaw 2026.9.5 ships 4,179 pull requests from 502 contributing accounts. The headline change is Atomic Updates, which check the next version against a private copy of your setup while the current Gateway keeps running. The release also adds plugin hot reload, read-only conversation sharing, GPT Live in meetings and calls, shared browser pages, archiving, and guided specialist-agent setup. The post OpenClaw Releases 2026.9.5 With Atomic Updates, Plugin Hot Reload, Conversation Sharing, and Expanded GPT Live appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Why are AI chatbots pulling so many people down a rabbit hole? Our answer starts with the world’s first-ever chatbot, the strange effect it had on people and the ‘time bomb’ that exploded when ChatGPT was released four years ago. The result is a strange experiment we are all living through – whether we know it or not. You can find episodes one and two further back in the Full Story feed. Studies and surveys cited in this episode: Amelia Miller’s interviews with AI researchers, engineers, product managers and executives. The 2022 Anthropic pre-print study that identified sycophancy as a behavioural trait of LLMs. And another pre-print paper the following year that found the way LLMs have been trained appeared to be increasing those sycophantic tendencies. How longer context windows appear…
Release: datasette-explain 0.2.2 Explain plans now work on read-only stored-query pages. I upgraded datasette.simonwillison.net to Datasette 1.0a40, which inspired me to ship a new version of this explain plugin. Tags: sqlite, datasette
Release: datasette-auth-github 1.0 I run this GitHub login plugin on the agent.datasette.io demo site and I noticed that my authenticated sessions weren't lasting very long. It turned out that the plugin was setting cookies without a Max-Age parameter, so they were expiring at the end of a browser session (which in Mobile Safari seems to happen pretty often, independently of how you are using the app.) I fixed that in #80 and, since this plugin has been around for quite a while and is tested against both Datasette 0.65.x and Datasette 1.0ax, I decided to bump it up to a 1.0 release. I'm trying to get better at promoting stable plugins to 1.0. Tags: github, plugins, datasette
TypeSafe AI released Jev, a System One model that answers typed questions with probabilities instead of generating text. Input costs $0.042 per 1M tokens, and output tokens are free. We cover the API, the vendor benchmarks and their caveats, what developers are already building, and the documented limits. The post TypeSafe AI Releases Jev: A System One Model That Returns Typed, Calibrated Decisions Instead of Text appeared first on MarkTechPost.