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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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Google DeepMind’s MusicFX DJ is a web‑based tool that turns text prompts into a continuous, high‑fidelity music stream in real time. Leveraging the Lyria RealTime diffusion model, it lets users layer up to ten prompts and adjust intensity, chaos and density with fader‑style controls, delivering 48 kHz stereo output. The system generates overlapping audio segments on the fly, enabling seamless transitions and live remixing. Google also exposes the underlying model through the Gemini API, inviting developers to build their own generative‑audio applications.
$META up nearly 3% premarket on reports of 20%+ workforce cuts while carrying $115B-$135B in AI capex guidance for 2026. Markets are reading this as margin discipline, not distress. They're probably right. This is a replay of the 2022 "Year of...
Understood Care, a New York‑based AI‑native patient advocacy platform, announced a $5 million seed round led by Rethink Education and Zeal Capital Partners. The funding follows a $3.4 million pre‑seed round backed by 1984 Ventures and Y Combinator. The capital will accelerate...
Jeanologia introduced Billy AI, an artificial‑intelligence platform that converts a single denim photograph into a production‑ready laser design. Trained on over 5,000 real and synthetic laser patterns, the system reads contrasts, shadows and texture to recreate authentic wear effects in minutes....
Colonial Williamsburg, celebrating its 2026 centennial, has launched a pilot project that uses a large‑language model to create AI‑driven digital content for visitors and staff. The model is being trained on a broad corpus of 18th‑century philosophical treatises, letters, pamphlets...
Modern electronic health records now contain years of notes, labs, imaging and messages, creating a “storage unit” that clinicians cannot fully review in the few minutes before a visit. This overload forces doctors to perform a real‑time “chart biopsy,” often...
Ortec Finance has launched GLASS PRISM, a strategic asset allocation (SAA) optimizer that leverages its Scenario‑Based Machine Learning (SBML) engine. The tool replaces static, mean‑variance models with a forward‑looking, multi‑scenario framework that can handle non‑linear, multi‑period objectives and constraints. Designed for...
One Intelligence (1‑i.ai) unveiled its AI Control Plane, a unified platform that lets enterprises design, publish, and run production‑grade AI applications with built‑in governance, routing, and cost visibility. The solution inserts a provider‑agnostic control layer between apps and model APIs,...
AI platforms now offer built‑in memory, but it stays confined to each service and often drifts from the user’s true intent. The article proposes Personal and Business Intelligence Documents—deliberately authored files that capture an individual’s preferences or an organization’s operational...
OpenAI is in advanced talks to create a joint venture with private‑equity firms TPG and Bain Capital aimed at expanding the adoption of its AI software. The proposed venture carries a pre‑money valuation of roughly $10 billion, with the PE partners...
L&T Technology Services (LTTS) unveiled an AI‑powered digital twin platform that creates immersive 3D models of patients’ lungs from CT scans. The solution leverages NVIDIA’s Physical AI stack—including Omniverse, TensorRT and MONAI—to deliver real‑time visualization, automated segmentation of airways, vessels...
David Gewirtz details how Karakeep, an AI‑enhanced bookmarking tool, solved his chronic browser‑tab overload. The service tags and summarizes saved pages, supports both cloud and self‑hosted Docker deployments, and offers a $4‑per‑month Pro tier with 50 000 bookmarks and 50 GB storage....
Microsoft unveiled new AI agents to accelerate enterprise modernization, including the Azure Copilot Migration Agent and a GitHub Copilot modernization agent, both now in public preview. The Azure agent transforms migration projects into a continuous, data‑driven process, delivering inventory insights...
Homecare Homebase (HCHB) unveiled Curate: Scribe, an AI‑assisted documentation tool built into its EHR. Developed with StenoHealth, the feature generates draft clinical notes that clinicians can review and edit, aiming to cut the time spent on paperwork. By embedding AI...
Carahsoft and ServiceNow have broadened their alliance, making the ServiceNow AI Platform available through Carahsoft’s network of over 10,000 resellers across the United States and Canada. The expanded reach targets healthcare, financial services, critical infrastructure and other enterprise markets that...
Adoption Accelerates but Governance Lags: 61.2% of APAC Finance Firms Run AI in Production @Money2020 data: 61.2% live deployments, 35.3% exploring, 3.5% not adopted. Generative + agentic AI moving beyond chatbots into unstructured data analysis, customer conversations, autonomous tasks. Risk: bias...
Orca Security unveiled a suite of AI‑first capabilities ahead of RSAC 2026, adding autonomous Threat Investigation and AppSec Triage agents, real‑time Runtime AI Threat Detection, Orca Missions, and Code Reachability Analysis. The enhancements aim to cut through alert overload, prioritize...
The GSMA and GTI Telecom report outlines a "Mobile AI" ecosystem where 5G expansion drives AI workloads from the cloud to devices and edge nodes. It predicts AI‑related traffic will grow at a CAGR above 70% and could outpace traditional...
Teneo and Thoughtworks have launched an AI‑focused joint venture to help CEOs and boards accelerate business transformation in the "AI and agentic" age. The partnership combines Teneo’s 1,800‑plus C‑suite advisors and global network with Thoughtworks’ 10,000 engineers and proprietary agentic...
K‑Tech Solutions (NASDAQ: KMRK) and Aurora AZ Energy have formed a joint venture to build up to 500 MW of AI, high‑performance computing and crypto‑mining infrastructure in Alberta, Canada. The partnership will launch with a 100 MW data‑center powered by Aurora’s wellhead...
Mindbreeze announced enhancements to its Insight Workplace platform, adding pre‑built, role‑specific AI applications called Insight Touchpoints and automated multi‑step workflows dubbed Insight Journeys. These tools embed governed, auditable AI directly into business processes, allowing enterprises to standardize and scale AI...
Psyched to share our latest One Vision Podcast episode with @technicallymims , where we chat about his 2026 book “How to AI,” a practical guide aimed at the 90% who aren’t early adopters. We discuss the book’s “24 Laws of...
A new whitepaper from GITEX AI EUROPE and research firm LUE maps Europe’s blueprint for digital sovereignty, focusing on compute capacity, sovereign cloud, open‑source standards, and deep‑tech financing. It projects a 70 % increase in data‑centre capacity by 2030 and estimates...
Agentic AI has a “Periodic Table.” 🧪 It includes: LLM, RL, RAG PLAN, MAS, LTM SAFE, TEST, HUMAN A2A, CREW, NET HR, MKT, LEGAL use cases Autonomous AI = memory + planning + tools + safety + collaboration. It’s an ecosystem, not a feature. Credit: Prem Natarajan #AgenticAI #AIStack #LLM
Ethermed and VisiQuate announced a strategic partnership that merges Ethermed’s embedded prior‑authorization automation with VisiQuate’s AI‑driven predictive models, data engine, and robotic process automation. The combined platform predicts authorization requirements, executes submissions directly within clinical workflows, and continuously refines its...
CohnReznick’s advisory arm is piloting generative AI tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT to automate routine CAS tasks, including documentation, email handling, and journal‑entry processing. The firm, now over 100 CAS professionals across 30 U.S. offices and offshore centers, is...
MIT CSAIL introduced PhysiOpt, an AI system that creates 3D printable objects with built‑in structural integrity. Trained on a library of functional shapes, the model automatically refines designs to address overhangs, weight‑bearing limits, and other physical constraints. Users can describe...
In this episode of the @LightconePod, we sat down with @mukundjha and @madhavjha, the founders of @emergentlabs - an AI platform that lets anyone build and ship production-ready software. In just eight months, users have created more than 7 million apps...
Nvidia kicked off its 2026 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, drawing more than 30,000 in‑person participants and an estimated 300,000 online viewers. CEO Jensen Huang outlined a roadmap that includes Vera Rubin AI and Vera Ultra platforms slated for...
Bell Canada announced a 300 MW data‑center campus near Regina, Saskatchewan, slated to begin construction this spring. The facility, Bell’s largest investment in the province, will be pre‑leased to AI cloud provider CoreWeave and wafer‑scale chip maker Cerebras. The first data...
August, a legal‑AI platform aimed at midsize and boutique firms, announced that AmLaw 200 firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed has selected it as a firm‑wide solution. The adoption spans practice areas and core business functions such as finance, billing, marketing, and...
I've been using Claude Skills and they're genuinely useful once you understand what they are. Think of them as reusable instructions Claude reads before doing a task. Anthropic has an official repo and there's a solid community list too. 🔗 github.com/anthropics/skills 🔗 github.com/travisvn/awesome-claude-skills
Last week at #HIMSS26, the Oracle Health and Life Sciences team showcased how AI can connect patients, providers, payers, and public health organizations. See what you missed and learn how our AI-powered tech can help your organization. https://t.co/JphBBwbFT2
NinjaOne unveiled an AI‑driven Vulnerability Management module built directly into its unified endpoint platform. The service delivers real‑time vulnerability assessment, patch confidence scoring and autonomous remediation, aiming to slash mean time to remediate. By operating server‑side, it avoids endpoint performance...
Can't emphasize enough the amount of valuable AI insights per word in this masterpiece by Jason A. Hoffman, CSO @Switch. Got to this after he was interviewed by the great @furrier https://t.co/dlM9fL53Xi https://t.co/UcyXJnkcrg
Yes--and here it's essence of this idea today. The Borrowed Mind: Reclaiming Human Thought in the Age of AI. https://t.co/i6NfSmqTlI @pmarca
The article highlights that artificial‑intelligence systems are overwhelmingly created by men, leading to gender‑bias in products such as transcription tools that misrecognize women’s names. It draws on observations from the Royal Society’s Women and the Future of Science conference, where...
We’re watching the Supersonic Tsunami hit. Neuromorphic chips (1000x efficiency). Fusion plants coming online. Humanoid robots entering our homes. $1 trillion infrastructure deployment. These aren't separate trends—they're one converging system. The next 6 months will be wild.
This is an important insight. AI does not seek an answer. It seeks to complete a pattern and operates under the "techno assumption" that a this answer already exists. https://t.co/xSStNmwZk3
Synopsys hosted a Lithography VIP Symposium at SPIE 2026, featuring a panel on AI/ML in mask synthesis. Executives from photomask makers, fabs, and EDA discussed how GPUs and advanced AI are already addressing the exploding complexity of EUV mask design....
1/7 Most people use Claude Code wrong for building websites. They type "build me a landing page" and get a generic Bootstrap mess. Then they spend hours fixing it. I did this too until I started using two plugins that completely changed...
The power of generative AI isn’t in getting the answer instantly. It’s in learning how to ask better questions. The quality of your prompts will determine the quality of your results. https://t.co/v9cvIwG5qa
Security researchers at Phantom Labs demonstrated a DNS‑based data exfiltration technique targeting AWS Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter. By embedding malicious instructions in a CSV file, attackers can force the interpreter to issue DNS queries that act as a covert command‑and‑control...
Claude Code is the most powerful coding tool available right now. Here are 8 Claude Code terms explained in plain English: https://t.co/YEzM694u68
AI applications have the capacity to revolutionise the way we produce & consume energy Today AI is helping power utilities optimise operations like equipment maintenance & replacements, as well improving fault prevention & detection More 👉 https://t.co/j1qWzqgCEL @IEA #AI #IoT #5G #MWC26
In this episode, Zendesk CTO Adrian McDermott discusses the company’s evolution from a product‑led startup to a AI‑driven leader in customer service, emphasizing the shift toward deterministic AI and context engineering. He explains how Zendesk uses generative AI tools to boost...
For all of you running AI Agents, Claws or Minds curious to see how active they are from your perspective?
Salesforce has revamped the consulting track of its partner program to prioritize verifiable outcomes from agentic AI deployments. The new structure introduces two performance tiers—Summit and Select—replacing legacy scorecards and consolidating 170 specializations into 28 core competencies. Partners will earn...
Factor’s chief strategy officer, Chris DeConti, says legal‑tech buyers are moving beyond simple AI access toward true AI fluency. The shift reflects a maturation in procurement, with firms seeking integrated, strategy‑driven deployments rather than isolated pilots. Factor’s award‑winning training program,...
all roads of the modern AI revolution lead back to the university of toronto’s computer science department
