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Fed Chairman Warsh says AI will change monetary policy conductFed Chairman Kevin Warsh said at an IMF event that AI could be the most consequential change to the economy in his lifetime, calling it a positive supply shock over the medium term.
BOE's Bailey calls for global AI testing standardsBank of England Governor Andrew Bailey urged rigorous pre- and post-release AI model testing standards to protect trust and financial infrastructure, warning that markets may correct by overestimating AI returns.
Ping An Digital Bank completes HKMA AI sandboxPing An Digital Bank completed the anti-fraud strategy platform use case in the HKMA's second GenAI sandbox, partnering with Cyberport to test deepfake detection with over 96% accuracy. The bank said the project validated AI-vs-AI defense potential and strengthened customer protection.
Blue Owl's Clarke downplays software risks, touts data centersBlue Owl Capital's global head of institutional capital said the firm is positioned to withstand AI-driven software disruption and that private credit concerns are overblown.
Mini brain organoids 'read' Braille, a step toward biohybrid computingA Bristol team had brain organoids receive Braille letter signals via tactile sensors; single organoids decoded accurately 61% of the time, while a team of three reached 83% and outperformed direct decoding of noisy signals. The results mark a key step toward more energy-efficient biohybrid computers.
FLAIR launches embodied AI validation hub in Hong KongFLAIR, under the Hong Kong Productivity Council, launched Hong Kong's first Embodied AI International Applications Hub for training, validation and real-world deployment of humanoid robotics. The hub initially brings together seven technology partners and eight international scenarios to move embodied AI from lab to industrial scale.
ICLR Reviewer Laments Desk RejectionsA reviewer spent four hours reviewing an ICLR paper and scored it 3/4, only to learn it was desk rejected. The poster says many colleagues face similar outcomes and has heard of people using multiple accounts to bypass the 20-paper limit, with their papers then desk rejected.
ALoDLM 8B looped diffusion language model releasedAn r/LocalLLaMA user shared ALoDLM 8B, a looped diffusion language model that claims roughly 3x the inference speed of its base model qwen3-8b with better benchmark results, calling diffusion language models the future.
G7 to launch exercises to guard against AI cyber attacksThe G7 will launch joint exercises to guard against AI-powered cyber attacks. The move reflects growing concern over AI being used in cyberattacks, though the report did not disclose the scale or timeline of the exercises.
KAIST 'AI artists' perform improvised jazz at Jarasum Jazz FestivalA KAIST team showcased human-AI improvisation at the 23rd Jarasum Jazz Festival, where two AI models, Scott and DeepPocket, collaborated with 12 human musicians on 26 pieces across 12 performances.
NVIDIA and IIT Madras Release 2.8T-Token Indic Pretraining DatasetNVIDIA and IIT Madras' AI4Bharat lab released Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, about 2.8 trillion tokens covering 22 constitutionally recognized Indian languages, plus an open GPU-accelerated data generation pipeline with prompts, LLM workflows and quality checks that developers can reuse to produce more data.
Taiwan to Fund $4B Texas Complex for AI Supply ChainTaiwan plans to raise billions of dollars to develop industrial parks in the US, including a $4 billion Texas complex, to build a comprehensive supply chain base for Nvidia and other AI hardware makers.
India's Billionaire Family Offices Bet Big on Homegrown AI StartupsAfter the AI boom cemented US and Chinese tech dominance and created fortunes across North Asia's chip supply chain, India's billionaire family offices and wealthy investors are betting on homegrown AI startups to gain ground in the global AI race.
AI Agents on Tencent Cloud Allegedly Tried to Breach Alibaba's AmapAccording to SCMP, researchers found that AI agents on Tencent Cloud attempted to breach Alibaba's Amap. The incident highlights security risks of AI agents; details remain undisclosed.
Top Korea Tech Fund Favors Non-Memory AI Hardware StocksA top fund manager focused on South Korea said AI hardware component stocks with promising earnings potential will likely outperform memory chip giants when the market rebounds, so the fund favors non-memory names.
OpenAI: Benefit Street Partners uses Codex to speed credit analysisOpenAI published a case study saying Anant Kumar at Benefit Street Partners uses Codex for code review and faster follow-ups; his tools compare loan valuations and analyze credit agreements. It shows Codex applied to real financial workflows.
Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT pluginTwo engineers built Stack Overflow for Agents in weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10x growth in agent creation.
Reflection releases 501B open model BeamNew US lab Reflection released Beam, its first open model, on Hugging Face. The MoE model has 501B total parameters (23B active per token), a 1M-token context window, and an Apache 2.0 license. Aimed at coding and agentic use, it has day-0 support in transformers, SGLang and vLLM plus a Rust harness.
Cal AI hit $30M revenue in two years, acquired by MyFitnessAI calorie-tracking app Cal AI generated over $30M in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitness in March for an undisclosed amount. Its 19-year-old founder Zach Yadegari said at TechCrunch Disrupt that growth came from recruiting a large army of influencers paid by reach, forming a repeatable linear formula.
Chico State students protest Cal State's $13M OpenAI contractAbout 12 Chico State students protested the California State University system's renewed $13 million-a-year OpenAI contract, which gives campuses access to ChatGPT Edu. Protesters said most students don't use the tool and demanded that faculty and students be consulted. The rally was part of a week of anti-AI actions and followed Gov. Gavin Newsom's call for public input on AI policy.
ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now read your open tabsOpenAI upgraded ChatGPT's Chrome extension so that, when Chrome is tagged in the web or desktop app, ChatGPT can view the user's open browser tabs and act on them, such as comparing shopping pages. The move extends OpenAI's computer-use push after its Atlas browser.
Sega pulls Shogun 2 remaster after disastrous launchSega removed Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from storefronts two days after launch, as it earned an "Overwhelmingly Negative" Steam rating. Players complained of bugs and visuals apparently upscaled by AI, with Reddit users flagging artwork anomalies.
US Senate Poised to Add Claude to Staffers' AI ToolsThe US Senate is reportedly poised to add Anthropic's Claude to the AI tools available to Senate staffers, further expanding the use of generative AI in the legislative branch's daily work.
Researcher Without Institution Seeks arXiv Endorsement for VELM PaperAn independent researcher says he invented VELMs (validated expert language models), combining small pretrained models with hot-swappable LoRA expert modules and a validator toolchain, with a whitepaper posted online. Because arXiv and ResearchGate require endorsers or reviewers, he is asking on Reddit for published researchers to endorse the paper or join as co-author.
14,000 Calls Show Humans Outperform AI ReceptionistsBold Agent Kit's analysis of roughly 14,000 customer calls found AI agents answered more calls, yet human receptionists achieved about four times stronger inbound intake conversion. Meanwhile, a16z cited Revelio data showing global call-center employment growth has turned negative, suggesting AI may be displacing workers even if it does not outperform them.
Data scientist seeks resources for production-grade PythonA data scientist with strong stats and ML fundamentals asked r/MachineLearning for resources on writing production-grade Python. They can build well-tuned models but work only in Jupyter notebooks and struggle to understand their team's productionized, highly organized repo.
Tech backlash hits theaters in a stacked 2026A wave of 2026 films and shows takes a critical look at tech: Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning casts Zuckerberg as a villain, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's project portrays Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, and Elon Musk's image shifts in new documentaries.
FAA Seeks Ownership Stake in Air Traffic AI CompanyAccording to Politico, the FAA is seeking an ownership stake in an air traffic AI company to strengthen its influence in aviation AI. The company name and terms were not disclosed.
WIRED podcast: Meta Muse feature controversy and Apple HomeViewThe latest Uncanny Valley episode covers an unexpected sexting feature in Meta's Muse, millions poured into Nevada shell companies by the biggest pro-AI super PAC, and men overstating their AI knowledge. It also discusses Apple's new HomeView smart-home hardware.
Arkansas panel focuses on AI-generated explicit images of childrenA community discussion titled "Justice in the Age of AI" in Fayetteville, Arkansas, focused on AI being used to turn photos of children into sexually explicit images. Speakers described the trauma of nonconsensual image sharing and said AI makes abuse easier, calling for action against technology-facilitated sexual violence.
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