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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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Vibe coding uses natural‑language prompts to generate functional code via AI platforms such as ChatGPT Codex, Claude Code and Google AI Studio. By allowing clinicians to describe desired behavior in plain English, development cycles shrink from weeks to hours. This democratizes software creation, letting physicians build custom tools for chronic‑disease monitoring, pre‑procedure preparation, and post‑operative care. The shift could move healthcare IT from large vendor‑driven suites toward physician‑crafted solutions.
The next big AI debate may not be about intelligence. It may be about boundaries. Reports say some OpenAI advisers are worried that allowing explicit conversations could push chatbots into dangerous psychological territory, even creating scenarios no one intended. As AI becomes more...
Preezie has introduced an AI Shopping Assistant that transforms Australian retail websites into virtual sales associates, delivering conversational, context‑aware guidance. By ingesting product catalogs, size charts and policy data, the assistant can answer natural‑language queries, suggest bundles, and recommend fit....
Google quietly removed its AI‑driven "What People Suggest" feature, which had displayed crowdsourced medical advice from ordinary users. The tool, launched earlier this year on U.S. mobile search, aimed to complement expert health content with lived‑experience insights. Its removal was...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening legal and financial pressure on states with what he calls “burdensome” AI regulations, singling out California’s Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 53). SB 53, effective January 2026, obliges large developers of frontier AI...
Integrating AI into semiconductor design is compelling companies to revamp data management, moving from passive file repositories to active, machine‑readable data lakes enriched with metadata and ontologies. The surge in training and inference workloads makes data movement, congestion, and energy...
Sebastian Mallaby’s new biography, *The Infinity Machine*, chronicles Demis Hassabis’s rise from chess prodigy to DeepMind founder, highlighting milestones such as AlphaGo’s 2016 victory over Lee Sedol and AlphaFold’s Nobel‑winning protein predictions. The review praises the book’s detailed chronicle of DeepMind’s...
Moonshot AI introduced Attention Residuals (AttnRes), a drop‑in replacement for standard residual connections in PreNorm Transformers that applies softmax attention over previous layer outputs. The approach includes a full version that attends to all earlier layers and a Block AttnRes...
Saudi Arabia’s cabinet has proclaimed 2026 the “Year of Artificial Intelligence,” cementing the Kingdom’s AI push under Vision 2030. The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) drives a six‑pillar national strategy, propelling the country to 14th place in the 2025...
A new benchmark called SWE‑CI, developed by Sun Yat‑sen University and Alibaba, reframes AI coding evaluation from single‑snapshot bug fixes to continuous maintenance of evolving repositories. The benchmark tracks 233 days and an average of 71 commits per project, simulating...
What If AI Isn’t A Bubble, But It Still Crashes The Economy? What if the biggest threat from #artificialintelligence is not failure, but success, as powerful #AI drives job losses, weakens consumer spending, and concentrates wealth in the hands of...
Choosing an AI writing assistant hinges on matching the tool to specific writing goals, whether for academic research, marketing copy, or creative storytelling. The guide stresses evaluating core features such as grammar correction, content generation, and personalization, while also weighing...
A Hong Kong artist is doing something fascinating with AI. Victor Wong uses an AI-powered robotic arm to create landscapes inspired by traditional Chinese ink painting. It’s not replacing the artist, it’s extending the brush. When technology starts collaborating with centuries-old art forms,...
Anomaly detection is emerging as a critical technology across sectors, enabling firms to shift from reactive to predictive operations. The global market is projected to reach $26.16 billion by 2035, growing at a 15.1% CAGR, driven by rising IoT, AI, and...
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) announced it is preparing to intervene against anti‑competitive behavior emerging in the artificial‑intelligence sector, citing risks such as algorithmic collusion, targeted price discrimination, self‑preferencing and opacity. Chairperson Ravneet Kaur highlighted that the regulator has...
I really do love these interactions. 1. Claude writes the code. 2. Codex reviews the code and provides feedback. 3. Claude acknowledges the bug and fixes it. 4. Codex says it is not fixed. 5. Claude acknowledges it is still not fixed correctly and fixes...
In this episode, Don Hicks, CEO of OptiLogic, explains how AI‑native platforms are reshaping supply chain design by running planning and network design in parallel, turning supply chains from brittle, cost‑centric structures into resilient, flexible networks. He contrasts fast, heuristic‑driven...
Tier IV has released hardware‑agnostic Level 4 autonomous‑driving software stacks through the open‑source Autoware platform, offering both hybrid perception‑planning and fully end‑to‑end configurations. The company began real‑world validation tests across three continents, deploying a Toyota JPN Taxi in Tokyo, a Hyundai Ioniq 5...
📌 The Rise of Deformable Part Models in Object Detection Imagine trying to detect a person walking 👣. Their arms move, legs bend, head turns - rigid detectors couldn’t handle this flexibility. In 2008, researchers introduced Deformable Part Models (DPM), a...
Microsoft announced Azure Local Disconnected Operations as generally available, positioning it as the flagship of a new Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud. In reality, the offering is a controlled‑access preview that requires a Microsoft‑approved business need and explicit purchase approval. Technical...
https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/lecturers-in-four-singapore-universities-use-ai-to-grade-students-work University to students: Don’t use AI to do your homework ah. Also the University: (What the Shakespeare. Using AI to grade the Humanities. Wonderful, just wonderful.)
Lucid unveiled a two‑seater robotaxi concept without a steering wheel or pedals, alongside new self‑driving subscription plans ranging from $69 to $199 per month. The vehicle promises 40% lower operating costs and an efficiency of about 5.5 miles per kilowatt‑hour,...
The article ranks the nine leading AI coding assistants for 2026, outlining each tool’s strengths, pricing, and ideal use cases. Cursor leads for complex, multi‑file projects with agentic workflows, while Claude Code shines on massive codebases with a 1 M‑token context window....
The rise of AI‑powered agents that browse the web on users' behalf is eroding the long‑standing assumption that every click, scroll or purchase funnel step reflects a conscious human decision. While the raw data—page views, button clicks, time on page—remains...
Neocloud providers are emerging as fast‑moving alternatives to the big three hyperscalers by offering GPU‑as‑a‑service compute built on crypto‑mining and liquid‑cooling expertise. They can stand up dedicated GPU clusters in weeks to months, far quicker than the years‑long procurement cycles...
Tech companies keep blaming layoffs on AI. But the data suggests something more structural: the traditional workplace pyramid is flattening. Routine analytical and administrative work, once done by large junior teams, is increasingly handled by AI, while experienced professionals who use these...
Delivered my first @SXSW keynote in 7 years. It was a proud moment. I promised everyone in the room that I'd upload the deck, and as promised, here you go! "Augmented IQ And The New Human Advantage" ➡️ https://briansolis.com/2026/03/augmented-iq-and-the-new-human-advantage/
Malaysia announced a comprehensive drive to boost domestic AI, semiconductor and digital technology capabilities, aiming for greater technological sovereignty. Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Chang Lih Kang linked the initiative to lessons from the Middle East conflict, emphasizing national resilience...
Large‑scale neuroimaging studies largely omit women‑specific health information, limiting AI’s ability to model female brain dynamics. Only about 0.5 % of neuroscience papers address women’s health, and few datasets capture menstrual, pregnancy, or menopause data. Recent precision‑imaging work and the Women’s...
By 2026, AI is transitioning from a pure automation tool to an autonomous decision partner across enterprises. The World Economic Forum predicts over 50 % of organizations will embed AI into core decision processes, with autonomous systems handling up to 40 %...
A new Snowflake study of 2,050 leaders across ten countries finds AI is generating more jobs than it eliminates, with 77% of firms reporting net hiring and only 46% seeing cuts. The strongest gains appear in IT operations, cybersecurity and...
Amazon Web Services celebrates its 20‑year milestone by highlighting the pivotal role of its Partner Network, which has expanded from 50 partners in 2012 to nearly 150,000 today. AWS reported a 24% revenue surge in Q4 2025, reaching a $142 billion annualised...
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Iran is deploying artificial intelligence as a disinformation weapon, citing fabricated images of kamikaze boats, a false attack on the USS Abraham Lincoln, and a non‑existent rally of 250,000 supporters for Iran’s new Supreme Leader....
Is it me or is doing mind numbing evals sometimes the way you learn? Feels like hand to hand combat with LLMs, as you are looking at every answer and learning so much about how things get answered, assumed, right...
Spent hours and hours vibe coding something that pulled answers to prompts like "I'm comparing company A and company B for xyz product or service tell me which is better for my use case" I've been manually doing evals and...
Senator Bernie Sanders announced a bill to halt construction of new data centers, arguing that unchecked AI growth threatens jobs, democracy, and could lead to superintelligent systems beyond human control. Critics contend that a temporary moratorium would barely delay frontier...
Hey Excel agents from Claude, OpenAI & MS Copilot: "make me a working strategy game in excel, it should have some form of graphics" Claude made a board and acted as game master, Copilot created a board but no game, ChatGPT...
Claude code has over eagerly done enough stupid stuff that I'm coming around to codex.
The latest semi‑monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici surveys AI’s rapid penetration of finance, highlighting six research strands. It examines how large language models influence bargaining games, maps AI‑driven fiscal actions across 64 countries, and cites Anthropic’s warning that hedge‑fund...
SaaS for “actioning a target”: DoD/DoW AI chief demos Palantir’s Maven Smart System via @kimmonismus #militaryAI https://t.co/dshzBT5HRh
In my 12 years in AI drug discovery, I have not heard of this company, have you? Original Bloomberg post by @AmberTongPW https://t.co/9C4LY1c5Um and full text by China Dailly https://t.co/z3xG5Y5HBI https://t.co/fnddeGtdEW
The post introduces a private Claude plugin marketplace built on a single GitHub repository, consolidating all Claude skills for personal and team use. It details the folder structure, build process, and how to handle public versus private repositories. By centralizing...
The #AI Imperative: Resilience Reimagined-Protecting the Agentic Enterprise & #Data - today's organisations demand more than just incremental improvements to existing data protection strategies; it calls for a wholesale reimagining of resilience itself. https://t.co/TWAXIQbUE0
Upgrading your gstack setup in Claude Code is now as easy as just calling /gstack-upgrade. "Markdown as code" in action https://t.co/KdLt6hIMCO
.@TXInstruments has added its home-grown NPU, TinyEngine, to a third MCU family that will go into sensor edge applications. It's not a scaled-down version of the C7, the accelerator in some of TI's bigger processors, which has a DSP component: https://t.co/fZU4XOsdBF
#TimTalk – What is a ecosystem of reference in AI and why do salespeople need one? with Bertrand Godillot https://t.co/lrqN7V4Ua0 via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #Leadership #Marketing #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews
📚 Reading instruction doesn’t live in one subject area. 🎧 In this post, I share seven ways AI can support student readers across the curriculum. 🧩 The examples show how to pair learning goals with the right tools. https://t.co/wbBHRu0pke
There is a poetic depth to the term "latent space" that transforms vector coordinates into a frontier of pure possibility
AI made work lonely. We used to design & code together but now it feels faster to just prompt. But why not prompt together? Well, that’s a hard problem. Who’s prompt go first? What if they’re conflicting? How do you merge? Agent 4 fixes...
Playing with a new tool that allows you to generate copy variations in Claude Code and cycle between them directly on the page and then apply to save the changes https://t.co/q5bTH4fScm
