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Queensland moves to criminalize non‑consensual sexual deepfakes
Queensland will make the creation of non‑consensual sexual deepfake images a criminal offence, punishable by up to three years in prison. Attorney‑General Deb Frecklington said the proposal will close a legal gap that currently only bans distribution. Expert consultations begin in April with legislation expected to start mid‑year.
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NTT DATA announced an enterprise AI factory platform built on NVIDIA’s GPU‑accelerated stack, combining AI Enterprise software, NeMo and NIM microservices into a production‑ready solution. The offering spans the entire AI lifecycle—from model training to governed deployment—in both cloud and edge environments. Early pilots in a cancer‑research hospital, an automotive supplier, and a battery‑technology firm show faster model evaluation, reduced setup time, and accelerated simulation. NTT DATA positions the service as a domain‑specific delivery model that bridges the gap between proof‑of‑concept and full‑scale production.
The AI industry is seeing a surge of activity this week, from a global push for an “AI‑free” certification label to major funding rounds and product launches. Travis Kalanick’s rebranded Atoms targets automation in food, mining and transportation, while startups...
Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin outlined a three‑part artificial‑intelligence strategy aimed at turning AI into a core competitive advantage. The plan focuses on enhancing travel products, streamlining operations, and equipping employees with AI‑driven “superpowers.” Gorin highlighted how generative models can personalize...
AI‑driven routing is turning satellite constellations into real‑time, autonomous utilities that allocate bandwidth, imagery and sensing data in milliseconds. While this autonomy makes megaconstellations economically viable, it also embeds opaque decision‑making into models that can prioritize one user over another...
Fingerprint has launched an open‑source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server that lets any AI assistant or chatbot query its device‑intelligence platform in real time. The server uses the open MCP standard, enabling fraud analysts to ask natural‑language questions—such as device...
The Deepfake Summit in Houston warned that AI‑driven impersonation, deepfakes and synthetic identities are outpacing traditional fraud defenses. Speakers highlighted how injection attacks and autonomous AI systems are accelerating fraud across banking, payments and government services. The event called for...
Callandor Group, a new sports‑tech firm, launched the first AI‑focused registry for athletes’ digital identities, enabling licensing and royalty collection for likeness, voice, and biometric data used in AI models. The platform, featuring the Event Horizon API, helps athletes and...
Recent advances in natural language processing, especially transformer models like BERT, are reshaping how systematic traders extract alpha from text data. LSEG Data & Analytics reports double‑digit performance gains on GLUE benchmarks and highlights BERT’s ease of fine‑tuning with limited...
WSO2 announced a comprehensive platform portfolio aimed at powering secure, sovereign AI adoption across Africa’s enterprise landscape. The suite bundles an agent platform, API management, integration, identity and access management, and platform engineering tools, all deployable in cloud, on‑premises, or...
WealthAi, an AI-driven operating system for wealth managers, has partnered with Stratiphy to embed its managed portfolio services into the WealthAi platform. The integration delivers Stratiphy’s AI‑built portfolios via bank‑issued synthetic certificates, giving firms a single interface for construction, execution,...
Swedish telecom operator Telia has partnered with Canadian infrastructure firm Brookfield to deliver sovereign AI services. The deal connects Brookfield’s planned AI‑focused data centres to Telia’s nationwide fibre network, with Telia’s Cygate unit operating a secure centre within the facilities....
The New York Times identified over 110 AI‑generated war images and videos in the first two weeks of the U.S.–Israel–Iran conflict, reaching millions of viewers. Iran is deploying these deepfakes as a coordinated propaganda weapon, while real satellite imagery has...
Agricultural data is highly fragmented, with no universal standards linking field‑level information from research, manufacturers, farmers, and retailers. This incompatibility hampers the deployment of general‑purpose AI, despite the sector’s massive data volumes. A McKinsey study suggests that integrating and connecting...
Kentucky Horsewear has deployed a generative‑AI product assistant that guides shoppers through natural‑language queries, delivering tailored horse‑gear recommendations both on its e‑commerce site and in physical stores. Developed with Taglayer, the tool instantly suggests items such as blankets, underblankets, and...
Hot take: The real AI divide is dabblers vs. system builders. Dabblers ask for one-shot blog posts. Builders create prompt libraries, workflows and iteration loops. One group saves time. The other compounds advantage. I break down how I've been using Claude & ChatGPT to...
In this episode, Claire Vo interviews Dan Roth, a former business writer turned iOS developer who uses Claude Code to orchestrate AI agents for building production‑grade apps. Roth explains his "Bob and Ray" workflow, where a Builder agent (Bob) drafts...
H2O.ai announced its open‑source H2OVL Mississippi visual‑language models have surpassed one million monthly downloads on Hugging Face, marking a major adoption milestone. The lightweight 2 billion‑parameter and 0.8 billion‑parameter models excel at OCR and document AI, delivering real‑time efficiency for regulated sectors....
Grapevine, a corporate networking platform, secured $4.1 million from Kae Capital, Peak XV Partners, and upGrad founder Ronnie Screwvala to expand its AI‑driven job discovery service, TAL. TAL acts as a talent agent, scanning listings and recommending matches for users. The round...
XLSMART, the product of the 2025 XL Axiata‑Smartfren merger, announced an AI‑centric strategy to become Indonesia’s digital‑economy engine. The telecom now serves 73 million customers, holds a 27% market share and operates 225 000 base stations. AI “copilots” powered by Huawei’s AUTIN...
Biophytis has broadened its alliance with AI specialist LynxKite to fast‑track longevity drug discovery, launching the MASSIVE project that seeks Mas receptor activators for sarcopenia. Backed by Enterprise Singapore, the partnership will augment Biophytis’ computational platform with LynxKite’s chemoinformatics, advanced...
Prof. Dionne introduced VINPix, a silicon‑photonic resonator platform with ultra‑high Q factors and sub‑wavelength mode volumes, capable of housing over 10 million devices per square centimeter. Coupled with acoustic bioprinting and artificial intelligence, the system promises simultaneous detection of genes, proteins,...
OpenAI launched Frontier, an overlay platform that creates a semantic layer for AI agents across an enterprise’s data warehouses, CRM, ticketing and internal apps. Early adopters such as Uber, State Farm, Intuit and Thermo Fisher report dramatic efficiency gains, with...
In this episode, host Chris Daig talks with AI strategist Jesse Jameson about the hidden risks of voice‑cloning platforms, focusing on his experience with Eleven Labs' Voice Actors Program. Jesse reveals that despite promises of passive income, 93% of his...
Market research, a $100 billion industry, is poised to become a trillion‑dollar market as artificial intelligence converts massive behavioral data into real‑time consumer intelligence. AI will accelerate study cycles from months to hours, slash costs, and democratize insights for startups and...
Nolana AI, an agentic AI operating system for insurance operations, has been chosen for Cohort 16 of Lloyd’s Lab, the leading global accelerator for the specialist insurance market. The company was selected from more than 220 applicants, joining only 12...
Lithuanian fintech Chaseit.ai has entered live production with AI agents that automate loan‑servicing calls. The agents manage inbound and outbound interactions, verifying identities, reminding borrowers, negotiating repayment plans, and escalating complex issues to human staff. Within seven months of founding,...
Liverpool‑based Spotlight Pathology has closed a £1.4 million seed round to accelerate its AI‑driven blood cancer diagnostic platform. The round was co‑led by the UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund and the Liverpool City Region Seed Fund, earmarked for product development,...
Ant Group’s embodied AI unit Robbyant announced a strategic partnership with Leju Robot, a leading Chinese robotics firm. The collaboration will combine Robbyant’s AI algorithms with Leju’s hardware expertise to develop data‑rich, embodied intelligence platforms. Both companies aim to move...
South African universities—including UJ, UNISA, UP and UCT—are confronting a surge in generative AI‑assisted cheating, especially in take‑home assignments, online quizzes and coding tasks. Detection tools alone prove unreliable, prompting institutions to overhaul assessment designs and tighten AI usage policies....
AI is moving fast and many people are asking the wrong question. It’s not about quitting the job you love or everyone suddenly becoming a plumber. The real shift is this: AI will change how we work far more than what we...
𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗮𝘄 𝗝𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘀, 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆. This is something I see surprisingly often in AI systems. JSON works well for software systems. But for LLMs, it carries a lot of unnecessary structure. Recently I...
Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, told "The Axios Show" that the United States holds an "extremely small" lead over China in the artificial‑intelligence race. He argued that authoritarian regimes can copy open‑source models, accelerate deployment, and embed AI in...
The legal risks of AI-driven #recruitment and redundancy (and how to govern them properly) @HRZone https://t.co/EFZosuqPhM #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Everyone is debating which AI model is best. Meanwhile, data orchestration quietly grew to $1.3B and is heading for $4.3B by 2034. The boring infrastructure layer is where the real money is being made. https://t.co/zWaqlCpPc0
Marriott Bonvoy has completed a major re‑platforming of its core systems, creating a flexible, cloud‑native architecture that readily accommodates artificial‑intelligence solutions. Executives say AI is now embedded across finance, HR, marketing and other functions, with partnerships to OpenAI and Google...
When "AI in insurance" meets InsurTech revamping insurance distribution. → https://t.co/kcythS7tvu The Boston Consulting Group recently published an article exploring how the rise of personal AI assistants might revamp how people buy insurance. https://t.co/P7X5Q1mtQx
Two U.S. federal courts issued landmark decisions on the use of generative AI in litigation. In Warner v. Gilbarco, the Eastern District of Michigan held that AI‑assisted work directed by counsel remains protected under the work‑product doctrine. Conversely, the Southern...
ChatDOC is an AI‑powered platform that lets users upload PDFs and interact with the content via a chat interface, offering summaries, searches, and citation‑linked answers. The tool’s free tier permits up to five files and twenty queries per day, while...
Artificial intelligence is reshaping meteorology, with AI‑driven models now surpassing the best physics‑based systems by up to 20% in accuracy. These models learn directly from decades of global observations, delivering longer‑range hurricane track predictions and operating on a fraction of...
Butter Payments CEO Charles Rosenblatt argues that in volatile markets, subscription firms must shift focus from acquisition to data‑driven retention. Machine‑learning models can analyze vast anonymized data to pinpoint churn drivers, payment failures, and high‑LTV prospects. By operationalising these insights,...
Leah, an enterprise agentic AI platform, announced a partnership with Ulster University to embed its Leah Legal solution into the university’s Legal Innovation and Technology Law master’s program. The integration gives students practical exposure to AI‑driven contract review, document analysis,...
Excello unveiled an AI‑powered executive intelligence platform that turns a founder’s long‑term vision into disciplined weekly actions. The system blends strategic planning, performance tracking, and personalized AI coaching calibrated through a DISC‑based assessment. Users can set North Star goals, cascade...
QuikBot Technologies, a Singapore robotics and AI startup, has built QuikSync – an "Ambient Permission Plane" that lets autonomous machines communicate with elevators, access‑control and building‑management systems. The platform, marketed as an Autonomous Final‑Mile Delivery PaaS, enables robots to perform...
Centro Escolar University hosted the Mendiola Consortium’s Academic Conference on AI in education on March 11, 2026, marking the consortium’s 50th anniversary. The event gathered educators, administrators, and industry experts to explore AI’s role in learning, leadership, and service while...
The guide compares ChatGPT and Gemini for everyday users, highlighting that neither tool is universally superior. ChatGPT shines in creative writing, tone flexibility, and cross‑platform integrations, while Gemini excels at research, Google Workspace connectivity, and handling large documents and images....
JobLand AI announced the launch of a fully automated job‑search platform that continuously scans U.S. listings, tailors resumes to bypass applicant tracking systems, and submits applications around the clock. The service targets high‑pay, remote roles in tech sales, UX design,...
A prospective longitudinal study compared Google Gemini Pro and xAI Grok‑1 on Turkish oral‑cancer patient queries over seven days. Both models delivered moderate‑to‑high scientific accuracy (Gemini 3.52, Grok 3.39) and high referral safety (90‑92%). Grok generated longer sentences but readability...
Staff+ engineers are seeing their role transform as AI coding agents take over most implementation work. By feeding documentation and high‑level intent to large language model agents, engineers can generate, test, and iterate on code in days instead of weeks....
Intelligent logistics systems are reshaping global trade by integrating AI, IoT, big data, and automation. These technologies deliver real‑time visibility, predictive routing, and automated warehousing, cutting transit times and operational expenses. The shift improves supply‑chain resilience, reduces carbon footprints, and...
10 months in a row at the top for active users. Agentic AI will run on infrastructure that can scale.
