OpenAI
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationOpenAI
Focus AreaModel behavior framework and safety

Inside our approach to the Model Spec

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Learn how OpenAI’s Model Spec serves as a public framework for model behavior, balancing safety, user freedom, and accountability as AI systems advance.

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Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to pause AI data centre construction

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Unlike the current administration, who claim a pause would harm America's competitiveness, Bernie is actually proposing a ban on chip exports to other countries. Trump recently did the bidding of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and bizarrely ended a ban on the sale of H200 chips to China.

TechCrunch
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationU.S. Congress
Focus AreaData center regulation and AI oversight

Bernie Sanders and AOC propose a ban on data center construction

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Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced companion legislation to halt construction on new data centers until Congress passes comprehensive AI regulation.

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Funding
Institution / OrganisationDeccan AI
Focus AreaAI training data workforce

Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India

Published on: 2 days ago

Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.

TechCrunch
Business
Institution / OrganisationAnthropic
Focus AreaAI skills gap and workforce inequality

The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead

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Anthropic finds AI isn’t replacing jobs yet, but early data shows growing inequality as experienced users gain an edge, raising concerns about future displacement and workforce divides.

TechCrunch
Product Updates
Institution / OrganisationGoogle
Focus AreaAdvanced music generation model

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model

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Google is launching Lyria 3 Pro, an upgraded music model that generates longer, more customizable tracks, as it expands AI music tools across Gemini, enterprise products, and other services.

TechCrunch
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationGoogle
Focus AreaMemory compression algorithm

Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

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Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises to shrink AI’s “working memory” by up to 6x, but it’s still just a lab experiment for now.

The Guardian
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationxAI
Focus AreaAI safety, content moderation risks

Baltimore sues Elon Musk’s AI company over Grok’s fake nude images

Published on: 3 days ago

Lawsuit argues XAI failed to disclose risks, limitations and exposure to harm that come with using chatbotThe mayor and city council of Baltimore, Maryland, filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI company on Tuesday, alleging that its Grok chatbot violated consumer protections by generating nonconsensual sexualized images.Baltimore’s lawsuit argues that xAI deceptively marketed Grok as a general-p

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Funding
Institution / OrganisationGranola
Focus AreaEnterprise AI app with AI agents

Granola raises $125M, hits $1.5B valuation as it expands from meeting notetaker to enterprise AI app

Published on: 2 days ago

Granola's valuation jumped from $250 million to $1.5 billion with this round, and it has added more support for AI agents after users previously complained.

NVIDIA
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationMultiple
Focus AreaOpen and proprietary AI models

The Future of AI Is Open and Proprietary

Published on: 2 days ago

AI is the defining technology of our time, quickly becoming core business infrastructure. It’s fueled by a diverse ecosystem of models: large and small, open and proprietary, generalist and specialist. This variety is essential for a future where every application will be powered by AI, every country will build it and every company will use […]

Wired
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationN/A
Focus AreaAI ethics, misogyny, online harms

There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos

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With female AI fruit being fart-shamed and even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans.

Bloomberg
Business
Institution / OrganisationBloomberg
Focus AreaAI impact on entertainment industry

Why AI Won’t Be the End of Hollywood

Published on: 2 days ago

Disruption hurts. But Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson has reason for cautious optimism about AI and Hollywood. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Intel will sell a cheap GPU with 32GB VRAM next week

Published on: 2 days ago

It seems Intel will release a GPU with 32 GB of VRAM on March 31, which they would sell directly for $949. Bandwidth would be 608 GB/s (a little less than an NVIDIA 5070), and wattage would be 290W. Probably/hopefully very good for local AI and models like Qwen 3.5 27B at 4 bit quantization. I'm

MIT News
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationMIT Sea Grant
Focus AreaDeep learning fish monitoring system

Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring

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MIT Sea Grant works with the Woodwell Climate Research Center and other collaborators to demonstrate a deep learning-based system for fish monitoring.

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Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationUS Government
Focus AreaMilitary AI deployment and warfare

As US Strikes Hit Iran, AI Warfare is Debated At Washington Forum

Published on: 2 days ago

Nearly 10,000 targets hit in Iran so far.

The Guardian
Business
Institution / OrganisationRevolut
Focus AreaAI and crypto sustainability concerns

Revolut warns it risks backlash over support for energy-intensive AI and crypto

Published on: 3 days ago

Fintech company’s profits leap to £1.7bn as it gears up for US push after getting UK banking licence this month Business live – latest updatesThe UK banking app Revolut has said it could face a backlash over its support for energy-intensive sectors such as crypto and AI, as it posted a 57% increase in profits for last year.The fintech, which can now launch as a fully fledged UK bank after a five-y

The Guardian
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationEsther Perel
Focus AreaAI companions and human relationships

Esther Perel provided couples therapy for a man and his AI ‘girlfriend’ and now I fear for the human race | Emily Mulligan

Published on: 2 days ago

The relationships therapist sat down with a lovestruck man and his chipmunk-voiced companion. But could the bot provide him with what he really craved?I heard celebrity therapist Esther Perel provide a couples counselling session for a man and his AI “girlfriend”. As a result, my soul will never know peace.Something very, very drastic needs to occur to fix society before more precious, real people

Axios
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationLockheed Martin
Focus AreaHuman-machine teamwork in warfare

Exclusive: Lockheed Martin's Martell says warfare requires human-machine teamwork

Published on: 2 days ago

The future of warfare involves humans and machines working together, Lockheed Martin's chief technology officer Craig Martell predicted on Wednesday at Axios' AI+DC Summit.Why it matters: As the military expands autonomous weapon use, debates are intensifying over when or whether to trust these systems and who is accountable for mistakes or misfires.What they're saying: "I want us to really focus

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Focus AreaCommunity

ARC AGI 3 is up! Just dropped minutes ago

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The Guardian
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationUnclear
Focus AreaAI ethics, digital spirituality impact

‘I’m deathly afraid’: what is digital spirituality leading us toward?

Published on: 3 days ago

Where traditional religion once gathered people together, digital spirituality is now consumed in isolation, mediated by tech gods with opaque agendasSign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter course, hereJim Pu’u didn’t set out to find God. His soul-searching began with a modest idea: to leave a record of his life in case something happened to him. His own father had died young, leaving

Axios
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationSen. Mark Warner
Focus AreaAI data center policy regulation

Exclusive: Sen. Warner calls AI data center moratorium championed by AOC "idiocy"

Published on: 2 days ago

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said on Wednesday at Axios' AI+DC Summit that placing a moratorium on the construction of AI data centers would be "idiocy," adding that it would grant China an edge in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.Why it matters: Warner's comments come the same day that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) unveiled legislation to pause all

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Focus AreaCommunity

First-ever American AI Jobs Risk Index released by Tufts University

Published on: 2 days ago

[First-ever American AI Jobs Risk Index released by Tufts University - The Brighter Side of News](https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/first-ever-american-ai-jobs-risk-index-released-by-tufts-university/) About 9.3 million U.S. jobs could be displaced within the next two to five years. Depending o

arXiv
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationMemory Bear AI
Focus AreaMultimodal affective intelligence systems

Memory Bear AI Memory Science Engine for Multimodal Affective Intelligence: A Technical Report

Published on: 3 days ago

arXiv:2603.22306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Affective judgment in real interaction is rarely a purely local prediction problem. Emotional meaning often depends on prior trajectory, accumulated context, and multimodal evidence that may be weak, noisy, or incomplete at the current moment. Although multimodal emotion recognition (MER) has improved the integration of text, speech, and visual sign

Bloomberg
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationU.S. Congress
Focus AreaAI data center regulation policy

Virginia Rep. Calls for Spreading AI Build-Out Across the Country

Published on: 2 days ago

Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plan to introduce legislation that would impose a moratorium on new AI data centers, following growing pushback on their impact on energy prices. Representative Suhas Subramanyam, a Democrat from Virginia, home to one of the largest concentrations of data centers in the country, discusses what approach he thinks the country should t

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DeepSeek Employee Teases "Massive" New Model Surpassing DeepSeek V3.2

Published on: 2 days ago

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arXiv
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationarXiv
Focus AreaLanguage of Thought hypothesis research

The Efficiency Attenuation Phenomenon: A Computational Challenge to the Language of Thought Hypothesis

Published on: 3 days ago

arXiv:2603.22312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper computationally investigates whether thought requires a language-like format, as posited by the Language of Thought (LoT) hypothesis. We introduce the ``AI Private Language'' thought experiment: if two artificial agents develop an efficient, inscrutable communication protocol via multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), and their perfor

MIT Tech Review
Gov & AI
Institution / OrganisationAnthropic
Focus AreaMilitary AI contracts and defense

The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war

Published on: 3 days ago

AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an “opportunistic and sloppy” deal. Users quit ChatGPT in droves. People marched through London in the biggest protest against AI to date. If you’re keeping score, Anthropic—the company founded…

MIT Tech Review
AI Breakthroughs
Institution / OrganisationMIT Technology Review
Focus AreaBrain preservation and AI research

The Download: reawakening frozen brains, and the AI Hype Index returns

Published on: 2 days ago

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona. It has been held there at a temperature…

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Community
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Focus AreaCommunity

RIP Sora, here are the best alternative models in 2026

Published on: 2 days ago

Sora is gone, and free AI models. Will always miss you Sora. It's annoying that I have to replace Sora with other models. I've tested the major video models on r/AtlasCloudAI and and here's my conclusion FYI. **Kling3.0** the strongest replacement right now. best overall balance, strongest ecosyst

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Community
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Focus AreaCommunity

China bars Manus co-founders from leaving country amid Meta deal review, FT reports

Published on: 3 days ago

March 25 (Reuters) - China has barred two co-founders of artificial intelligence startup Manus from leaving ​the country as regulators review whether Meta's (META.O), opens new tab $2 billion ‌acquisition of the firm violated investment rules, the Financial Times reported. Manus's chief executive X

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OpenAI shuts down Sora app amid rising concerns about deepfakes and consent | CBC News

Published on: 2 days ago

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Pentagon formalizes Palantir's Maven AI as a core military system with multi-year funding — platform's investment grows to $13 billion from $480 million in 2024. The Pentagon is spending $13.4 billion on AI this year alone.

Published on: 2 days ago

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How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes at high risk of slipping

Published on: 3 days ago

Sudden and unexpected, landslides and avalanches claim thousands of lives each year and cause billions of dollars in damage. What if we could see them coming?

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