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After warning AI is too dangerous, Bill Gates bets a billion on its upside

The Gates Foundation is investing at least a billion dollars over two years to make AI tools more widely available in health, education, and

🇬🇧 Pony.ai unveils autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets

Pony.ai has unveiled an autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets, developed with GAC Commercial Vehicle for freight supply chains. Unv

Agility Robotics says its new Digit 5 robot can work next to people without safety fences

Agility Robotics has unveiled Digit 5, the next version of its humanoid robot for warehouses and factories. The article Agility Robotics say

🇬🇧 The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers

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. Th

🇬🇧 AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it

Last year, the clinical trial policy analyst Ruxandra Teslo posted an idea for super-charging medical AI systems: use data from failed biote

🇬🇧 The AI Talent Britain Fought to Hire May Be Recalculating Its Future

A proposed overhaul of UK settlement rules would double the wait for permanent residence, and it reaches back to sponsored engineers already

Apple brings a fully revamped Siri built on Google's Gemini, but not to the EU

Apple is shipping its rebuilt "Siri AI" after years of delay, built on Google's Gemini models and running partly on the device, partly throu

Not everyone is convinced that Big AI's proposed development slowdown is really about safety

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google want to slow down frontier AI development, citing safety concerns. But critics from across the industry and po

🇬🇧 What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off

When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy ov

🇬🇧 Meta Introduces ZGateway: A Stateless Proxy Tier That Unifies ZippyDB Traffic and Handles Over 1 Billion Operations Per Second

Meta engineering team introduced ZGateway, a proxy tier that now sits between client applications and ZippyDB, the Meta’s most widely used k

🇬🇧 Agent-net Open Sources Webagent: A Go Harness That Turns Any Website into a Guarded AI Agent

Agent-net, the team building an agent-to-agent marketplace where AI agents discover, trust, and pay each other, has released Webagent, an op

🇬🇧 Agent Harness vs Agent Framework vs MCP: Which Layer Owns the Loop, State, Tools, Permissions, and Recovery

A practitioner's map of the 3 layers in a modern agent stack, with verified sources and an overlap analysis. The post Agent Harness vs Agent

🇬🇧 Reward AI Releases OM-1: A Robot Policy Trained on Human Demonstrations Only, With No Teleoperation or On-Robot Data

Reward AI has released OM-1 (Omnibody Model 1), a general-purpose manipulation policy trained entirely on human demonstrations captured with

🇬🇧 Sakana AI Researchers Introduce PC-ALM, a Layer-Local Alternative to Backpropagation That Trains 1000-Layer Networks

Sakana AI researchers Jeffrey Seely and Julian Gould introduce Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding (PC-ALM), a local-learning alternative

🇬🇧 Microsoft AI opens review on Humanist AI Code of Conduct

Microsoft AI has published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct, opening a six-week public consultation on operational constraints for model

OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading your ChatGPT conversations

OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading real ChatGPT conversations and rating them on a scale of one to seven, partly to reduce flat

Microsoft's AI rulebook: readable thinking, no inner life, and definitely no rights

Microsoft AI has published a code of conduct for its MAI models that puts human control ahead of autonomy and performance. "If it isn’t safe