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Queensland to ban non-consensual sexual deepfakes with up to three years jail
Queensland will criminalise the creation of non‑consensual sexual deepfake images, closing a gap that only bans distribution. Offenders face up to three years imprisonment and the government will start expert consultations in April, aiming to begin legislation mid‑year.
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By the numbers: EGYM merges with Playlist in $7.5B deal
Kudwa, a UAE‑USA fintech SaaS, secured $1.1 million in a round led by 1818 Venture Capital, F6 Ventures, Sparked VC, IM Fndg and IVP. The AI‑powered finance manager automates reporting, forecasting, and insights, linking to ERP and accounting systems. The capital will accelerate product development, broaden integrations, and drive go‑to‑market expansion across multiple regions. Founded in 2023, Kudwa aims to become the real‑time financial brain for modern finance teams.
Meta and Nebius Group have inked a five‑year infrastructure supply agreement valued at up to $27 billion. Nebius will deliver roughly $12 billion of dedicated AI compute built on Nvidia’s upcoming Vera Rubin platform, with new clusters slated for early 2027. Meta...
AI-driven data‑center spending is flooding bond markets with unprecedented infrastructure debt, exemplified by the $27 billion Beignet Investor joint venture between Meta and Blue Owl. T. Rowe Price warns that many of these bonds are concentrated in a handful of hyperscaler tenants, creating...
Littler Mendelson is hosting a one‑hour webinar on April 14, 2026, to dissect emerging AI legislation targeting employers. The session will cover federal and state proposals, including rules for automated decision‑making, surveillance‑based wage setting, and chatbot transparency, with a focus...
Recent research shows five London luxury hotels captured 57% of AI-driven travel recommendations, highlighting a winner‑take‑all distribution model. Google’s AI Mode appears to prioritize OTA partners, limiting direct‑booking visibility for many properties. Meanwhile, RoomPriceGenie’s revenue‑intelligence now embeds directly into 15...
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI is recruiting Wall Street bankers, portfolio managers, traders and credit analysts to train its Grok chatbot on complex financial products such as leveraged loan syndications and CLOs. The move follows job postings that describe data‑annotation...
The Commercial UAV News webinar highlighted how drone surveying firms must first secure data‑first workflows before layering AI, adopt a three‑tiered, modular tech stack, and address new regulatory demands. Panelists stressed that clean, structured data and automated pipelines are prerequisites...
The post demonstrates how Google Gemini’s text‑to‑image feature can transform a pet photo into a human‑like portrait. By uploading a cat picture and entering a simple prompt, users receive a realistic illustration of the animal as a person. The author...
Last fall, analysts warned of an AI bubble as firms like OpenAI and Anthropic projected revenue doubling or tripling within a year. Contrary to those fears, Anthropic’s annualized revenue surged to $19 billion, far exceeding its 2026 target and the industry’s...
IACrea just got a game-changer for internationalization: @subclip_app I record a tutorial a video in French, Pick a language in Sub, And got my video translated and dubbed automatically ! I used to record only in French my video (biggest iacrea audience), and...
Tech writers face a new dilemma: choosing AI tools that fit documentation style guides amid a flood of headline‑grabbing models and agents. Ethan Mollick’s recent guide reframes the decision‑making process into three layers—models, applications, and harnesses—rather than a single "use...
🤖 Most AI lives behind a screen. Physical AI connects intelligence to a body, enabling machines to perceive the world, reason about physics, and learn from mistakes. In this video, I explain: ✅ Why traditional robots were rigid, and why...
Adaptive just dropped a game-changer: an always-on AI computer that automates your workflows, builds software, and encodes what it learns for future tasks. No more manual grinding just drag files, give instructions, and let it handle Square updates, sales reports, everything. This...
Alibaba announced the creation of the Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) Business Group, consolidating its Tongyi Laboratory, MaaS, Qwen, Wukong, and AI Innovation units under a single AI umbrella. Led by CEO Eddie Wu, the group will focus on token‑driven AI...
I am not sure "Forward Deployed AI Engineers" are going to deliver on what a lot of companies are hoping for. They are useful, yes, but AI applications are far less of a technical issue, and much more about rethinking...
Artificial intelligence is moving from data analysis to hypothesis generation, fundamentally altering the scientific method. Recent work such as DeepMind’s GNoME system has generated millions of candidate materials, while neural networks have rediscovered physical laws without prior equations. These advances...
The blog argues that AI is a transformative wave comparable to the internet, mobile, and crypto, and that investors should focus on the “pick‑and‑shovel” companies that supply the underlying hardware and services. It highlights Nvidia’s explosive growth as a proxy...
Wearable Devices Ltd. has expanded its AI advisory board by adding former Google executive Leor Stern alongside existing advisor Pankaj Kedia and new growth leader Ron Kaldes. The board will guide the company’s ai6 Labs, which develops neural AI powered...
In this episode, Tim Peacock and Anton Chuvakian interview SIEM veteran Raffy Marty about the evolving landscape of security information and event management (SIEM) versus emerging AI‑SOC solutions. Marty argues that traditional SIEMs aren’t dead but are under pressure to...
The post argues that the ubiquitous "I agree" click is the biggest lie on the internet, citing studies showing most users never read privacy policies and that fully reviewing them would require about 76 workdays a year. It highlights recent...
In this episode, host Jaden Schaefer breaks down four major AI headlines: a tech entrepreneur used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to create a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine that shrank his dog’s tumor; NVIDIA is set to unveil a next‑generation AI chip...
Multimodal AI workloads—combining text, images, audio, and video—are outpacing traditional AI in complexity, requiring heterogeneous accelerators, bursty scaling, and stateful pipelines. Kubernetes, equipped with GPU operators, MIG slicing, and advanced schedulers like Volcano and KubeRay, provides the core primitives to...
Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys unveiled TLPath, a machine‑learning model that infers telomere length from routine histopathology slides. The system was trained on 5,263 whole‑slide images covering 18 organs from 919 individuals and can predict telomere shortening in 11 tissue...
The First Proof initiative, a benchmark for large language models in research‑level mathematics, has launched its second round, mandating full transparency from participating AI firms. In the inaugural test, OpenAI and Google DeepMind’s models collectively solved about eight of ten...
Shift4 Payments has partnered with Maple AI to embed the startup’s AI‑driven phone‑ordering system into its SkyTab POS platform. The integration pulls live menu data from SkyTab, routes orders directly to kitchen displays and receipt printers, and supports payments, reservations...
Nokia announced a new optical networking suite designed to handle the massive data traffic generated by AI workloads. The portfolio combines coherent optics, a compact multi‑line in‑life amplifier and full‑band transponders, promising up to 40‑times more services per footprint while...
The article argues that AI should act as a mentor rather than a ghostwriter in education. It draws on research about the illusion of competence and the concept of desirable difficulty, emphasizing generative learning and scaffolding to promote deep understanding....
Beeline Kazakhstan launched Orman‑AI, an AI‑driven forest fire monitoring platform, in 2022. The system deploys more than 100 video‑surveillance cameras across Astana and six key regions, continuously scanning for fire signatures. Since its inception, Orman‑AI has prevented over 100 forest...
Stellar Cyber has released version 6.4.0, adding autonomous SOC capabilities that automate alert triage and generate AI‑driven case summaries. The platform promises 60‑80% analyst time savings and up to 70% reduction in alert noise through its Agentic AI and Verdict...
The post spotlights two breakthrough AI tools released in March 2026—OpenJarvis, Stanford’s open‑source, local‑first framework for on‑device personal agents, and GLM‑5‑Turbo, Zhipu AI’s high‑speed, agent‑native model for long‑chain tasks. OpenJarvis runs entirely on smartphones or edge servers, achieving 88.7% local...
Why Prompt Engineering Isn’t the Most Valuable AI Skill in 2026 As AI becomes more autonomous and agent-driven, the most valuable human skills shift from crafting prompts to managing, supervising and guiding AI systems. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/evyRq2ky #AI #FutureSkills...
Innov8.ag unveiled HarvestReplay™, the first operational intelligence service that transforms a farm’s own data into daily decision‑making insights. The managed platform delivers visual analytics and AI‑generated audio briefings, targeting labor, production and harvest cost inefficiencies. Estimated savings range from $25,000...
A LuxDirect CS7 study of 2,700 AI queries across 25 London luxury hotels found five properties captured 57% of AI recommendations. The concentration appears faster than early SEO trends and is independent of hotel size or brand, with a 26‑room...
Meta announced a multi‑year agreement to purchase up to $27 billion of artificial‑intelligence infrastructure services from Nebius Group. The five‑year contract will give Meta access to Nebius’s high‑performance compute and storage platforms, accelerating its generative‑AI initiatives across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp....
ShengShu Technology unveiled Vidu Q3, the world’s first AI solution built specifically for animated series production, at SXSW 2026. The platform tackles persistent hurdles such as character instability, prompt complexity, shot continuity, and audio‑visual misalignment. By integrating specialized training, a...
D‑ID unveiled its V4 Expressive Visual Agents, a diffusion‑based generation of ultra‑high‑fidelity digital humans that operate in real time with sub‑0.5‑second latency and up to 4K resolution. The avatars integrate directly with large language models, adapting facial expressions and tone...
California Regional MLS (CRMLS) announced that its RealReports AI‑powered home‑report service will be offered as a no‑cost core product to all its members. The move follows strong adoption by multiple real‑estate associations, prompting CEO Art Carter to extend the tool...
The "race to AGI" is framed as positive for society, or at least the people talking about their society or government. This framing or narrative implies the following: - There is a globally accepted definition of AGI (there isn't). -...
OpenAI announced its Instant Checkout feature for ChatGPT in late 2025, but in March 2026 the company said it is scaling back the rollout to focus on merchant‑site integrations. The pause reflects the difficulty of embedding AI agents in e‑commerce,...
It's still early in the agent building / AI app building world. We're looking for a marketer who has built stuff (agents, apps etc) with AI - and most people still applying with links to AI generated images, content or even...
Most AI rollouts fail due to governance gaps. A governance-first approach demands clarity on how AI will be used, ensuring guardrails and deliberate purpose are in place to prevent adoption backfire. #AIGovernance #AIStrategy https://t.co/uXFm8RiB5T
Okara just dropped the world’s first AI CMO. Enter your website and it instantly deploys a full team of agents (SEO, GEO, Reddit, HN, X, AI writer + more) to drive traffic and users for you. No more agencies. No more 10K/mo...
How often do you use AI in your role? Private Sector: Frequent: 25% Total Users: 41% Public Sector: Frequent: 21% Total users: 43%
Anyone use Manus my computer / agents How does it compare to perplexity computer, OpenClaw and Claude Cowork?
Perk up when the DORA team does research into software delivery. The surveyed Google engineers to understand how AI tools impacted their work, and where they struggled. The advice is very actionable. https://t.co/PnaUMyiBLp https://t.co/mgU4WJb8SL
Martin nails it, Agency will be the defining factor for Agents and Humans as AI consumes everything.
AI should be the GUIDE, not the Ghostwriter AI can support learning, not replace it. Learning science recommends generative learning, desirable difficulty & scaffolding, used not to outsource thinking but critique, question and guide your effort... https://t.co/DZpsuMNcvN https://t.co/KppoGzgPNC
🔺 How to Integrate AI into a Business When Its Employees Lack the Skills https://t.co/a1MEGFXrNq https://t.co/sQck7B3jqf
From me this weekend: Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases says the risk profile of chatbots may be shifting from self-harm cases to potential mass-casualty incidents. https://t.co/Gx2sqHpp7J via @techcrunch 1/
“If nobody builds it, everyone dies” Nick Bostrom’s latest piece on artificial superintelligence makes the point that, given we are all on course for dying in (by and large) the next few decades, developing a transformative technology like AGI is worth...
