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Economist Diane Coyle: AI Will Ultimately Benefit the General PublicCambridge public policy professor Diane Coyle rejects extreme forecasts of an AI job apocalypse, arguing the challenge is distributing AI's productivity gains. She cites a probate case where ChatGPT did for free what a lawyer charged £12,000, and stresses workflow reorganization and regulatory arbitrage.
Open-source engine Splash hits 144 tok/s on M5 MaxOpen-source inference engine Inco Splash launched, claiming 144 tok/s for Qwen3.8-27B on an M5 Max MacBook Pro, up to 3x Ollama and 2x oMLX decode speed. It requires M3 or newer, macOS 26.4+, and 36GB RAM, works with Claude Code and Codex, and is available in LM Studio.
Discussion on JMLR Submission ExperienceA CS PhD student asks about JMLR submission experiences, focusing on review quality, preference for applied stats papers, and timeline. Their supervisor wants to submit to JMLR for tenure review.
Redditor Claims Major AI Labs Push Fear-Driven Headlines to Spur Rules Hurting Open ModelsA r/LocalLLaMA user argues that major AI labs deliberately produce fear-mongering headlines to push for regulation that harms open-source models. The post offers no specific evidence and reflects ongoing open-source community skepticism about labs' regulatory motives.
India forces caller-ID apps to share spam reports with telcosIndia's telecom regulator amended commercial-communication rules to require caller-ID and call-management apps to send user spam reports to a blockchain platform run by telecom operators. Truecaller called the one-way requirement anti-competitive, noting India is its largest market with over 350 million of its 500 million-plus monthly users.
Could AI Wipe Out Humans and How Might It Happen?BBC examines AI safety concerns, including pessimistic predictions of a greater than 10% chance AI wipes out humans in 10 years, and assesses the scenarios envisioned by AI Doomers and their likelihood.
Jensen Huang calls for developing AI 'as fast as we can'Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS that AI development should not slow down over others' concerns, while stressing products would not ship before they are ready or safe. His remarks follow an Anthropic researcher's resignation and CEO Dario Amodei's warnings on AI risk, with Nvidia now worth over $5 trillion.
AI actress Tilly Norwood stumbles in press tour, randomly speaks ChineseAI-generated "actress" Tilly Norwood is fumbling its first press tour, including 75 simultaneous interviews, with repeated errors. Speaking to Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti, it abruptly switched to Chinese for over 10 seconds, then apologized for crossed wires. It is promoting a film called Misaligned from Particle6 Group.
Alibaba open-sources Damo Radar medical AI detecting cancer and nearly 150 conditionsAlibaba's Damo Academy has open-sourced Damo Radar, a vision-language model that analyzes contrast-enhanced CT scans across 18 abdominal organs to identify 146 clinical findings including cancers. In nearly 40,000 real-world exams it achieved an average AUC of 0.913, per a study in Science; the team calls it the world's first expert-level generalist medical imaging model.
Nvidia CEO says '0% chance' world ends in 2030Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang again pushed back on AI doomsday scenarios, saying the technology poses no extinction risk to humanity and putting the chance of the world ending in 2030 at zero. It is his latest public rebuttal of AI existential-risk arguments.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Face Antitrust Class ActionConsumers filed an antitrust suit against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and SpaceXAI, alleging they conspired to slow AI development in violation of Sherman Act Section 1. The complaint says Dario Amodei's essay 'We Must Pace the Frontier' was endorsed by Musk, Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis, forming an output-restricting cartel; plaintiffs seek class certification and an injunction.
Startup builder Vantora raises $100M, pivots to physical AIUP.Labs, now Vantora, raised $100 million from Silversmith Capital Partners and renamed itself. It shifted to building startups solely for corporate customers in industrial manufacturing and oil and gas, focusing on physical AI, with partners able to fold ventures into their own businesses.
OpenAI used its own LLMs to design Jalapeño chipAccording to IEEE Spectrum, OpenAI used its own large language models to help design its Jalapeño chip, drastically shortening design time. The chip pairs a compute die with six stacks of HBM4 and an I/O chiplet, and the design process is expected to get even faster.
OpenAI sees burning through $278 billion by 2030Citing a company presentation, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278 billion from 2026 through the end of 2030, underscoring the funding pressure from its large-scale infrastructure spending.
Trump admin to host UN event on AI next weekThe Trump administration will host a United Nations event on artificial intelligence next week, with details still undisclosed. The move signals U.S. intent to lead international AI discussions.
AI makes fake identities easier, harder for agencies to detectExpert Jordan Burris said the world has entered "fraud 4.0," an AI era underpinning many fraudulent attacks, including generation and manipulation of online identities such as faces and large-scale automated bot attacks, making it harder for agencies to verify who is real.
M5 Ultra and M6 chip benchmarks reveal graphics performanceA forum post shared first benchmark results for the M5 Ultra and M6 chips, saying they reveal graphics performance. The post offered no further details or data beyond its title and link.
Angle Health Raises $600M at $2.7B ValuationAI-native healthcare benefits platform Angle Health raised $600M in equity financing at a $2.7B valuation, more than doubling its December Series B valuation. The round comprises a $200M Series C and a $400M tender offer, led by Vitruvian Partners. It serves over 5,000 employers across 47 states.
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 Doubles AccuracyxAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, claiming twice the accuracy of version 1.0 at the same price. It ranks first for accuracy among 32 streaming models on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard and improves on 1.0 across four internal production sets: telephony support calls, Grok conversations, spoken credentials, and multilingual commands. It handles dozens of languages with automatic detection.
Stagehand makes Playwright 2x faster, 80% more token efficientBrowserbase released Stagehand, a TypeScript, Python, and Go SDK built for AI agents to extract data and interact with any website. Compared to Playwright, which was built for testing, Stagehand is 2x faster and 80% more token efficient.
Prism-ML Bonsai 2 Joins Qwen3.8 Quantization ComparisonA developer added Prism-ML's Bonsai 2 QAT models based on Qwen3.8 to a common quantization evaluation, where they scored roughly 91.5% on a composite benchmark, balancing throughput and quality; the post notes provider-reported numbers are not directly comparable due to differing benchmarks and runtimes.
Realtime-Venus Omni Audio-Visual Models ReleasedinclusionAI released two Realtime-Venus checkpoints. The 9B Realtime-Venus-Omni, adapted from MiniCPM-o 4.5, continuously watches and listens, decides when to respond, and generates text and speech on a shared causal timeline. Realtime-Venus-Audio focuses on audio understanding and conversation. Both support proactive interaction, semantic interruption, and training-free long-video memory, with an async harness on GitHub.
MiniMax open-sources terminal version of MiniMax CodeMiniMax has open-sourced the terminal version of MiniMax Code, with a repository including interactive TUI, headless execution, code editing, permission controls, and sandboxing, under the MIT license. This is a 0.4.12 source preview and does not include the desktop app source, but it enhances auditability of the agent layer.
OpenAI Introduces Australian Youth Safety BlueprintOpenAI launches the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a six-pillar roadmap aimed at safer AI experiences that protect and empower young people. This is OpenAI's latest move in AI safety.
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