I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines."
—Claude Shannon
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Frontier AI models are doubling their offensive cyber performance every six months while costs crash. Banks, telecoms, energy firms and critical infrastructure are the next high-value targets, warns Irregular CEO Dan Lahav, who is calling for urgent Differential Defensive Cyber Acceleration.
India is less exposed to AI-driven job risks than many other countries because a large share of its workforce is engaged in physical or mechanical tasks, according to Goldman Sachs Chief India Economist Santanu Sengupta. Construction and retail trade together account for about 40% of the workforce.
Apple is training its own China-specific AI model in collaboration with Alibaba to power Apple Intelligence features in the Chinese market, according to a Reuters exclusive report.
UK officials are weighing stricter rules on AI in gene synthesis, including mandatory screening and biological weapons legislation, to stop terrorists creating bioweapons, Bloomberg reports.
The OpenAI Foundation has launched AI for Civil Society and Philanthropy to help nonprofits, academic institutions, community groups and philanthropic organisations adopt advanced AI.
NeurIPS 2026 has selected 102 workshops from 454 valid submissions, with workshops in Sydney, Paris and Atlanta highlighting a shift in AI research beyond large language models toward autonomous agents, physical AI, adaptive foundation models, robotics, AI for science and more reliable and efficient systems.
Manus said on Tuesday it will soon return to operating as an independent company, unwinding Meta’s $2 billion acquisition after Chinese regulators ordered the deal reversed in April. Data generated by some users since 29 December 2025 will be deleted later this month as part of the separation.
Meta announced the launch of Muse Glimmer – a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model designed to run locally on consumer hardware such as personal computers and Macs with performant GPUs.
South Australia moves to shape its response to the AI boom, as the government warns that public policy is failing to keep pace with the scale of technological change ahead.
Genome language models Evo 1 and Evo 2 generated some 700,000 candidate bacteriophage genomes. Researchers built 285 of them. Sixteen came alive and infected E. coli, including strains resistant to the natural template.
