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This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster
Verity Harding, who led global public policy at Google DeepMind between 2016 and 2020, argues that the widespread framing of artificial intelligence as an “arms race” is not merely inaccurate but actively dangerous. In a newly curated essay anthology, Reframing the AI Arms Race, she and contributors including historian Lawrence Freedman and Japanese politician Taro…
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OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9
OpenAI has announced that it will publicly launch all three variants of its new GPT-5.6 model series — named Sol, Luna and Terra — on Thursday 9 July, after receiving government clearance for a wider release. The launch matters because it is one of the first tests of a new US framework in which AI…
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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
French AI startup ZML has released ZML/LLMD, an inference-server product that lets a range of open-source large language models run across chips from multiple vendors — including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal and Intel Arc. The launch matters because inference — the processing of prompts, as opposed to model training — has become a…
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AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
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Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
“HalluSquatting” weaponizes LLMs’ inability to say “I don’t know.”
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Australia dock workers call for 28-hour week in AI talks
A union says workers are “in the crosshairs” of automation as AI is being tested across ports.
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Meta built an AI detection tool to ID images and video created with its new models
Meta has previewed a web-based detection tool that can identify images, and eventually video, made or edited with its newer AI models by checking for an invisible watermark called Content Seal. The move matters because it is an attempt to improve transparency around AI-generated media after criticism that Meta has not labelled such content consistently.…
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This Divisive Sci-Fi Is Steven Spielberg’s True Masterpiece 25 Years Later
To coincide with the release of his new film, Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg has revisited his earlier work — including 2001’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence — a project he inherited from his late friend Stanley Kubrick. The article argues that, 25 years on, this divisive science-fiction film stands as one of Spielberg’s most ambitious and accomplished…