The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby Review – the Story of the Man Who Changed the World
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 scientific breakthroughs but criticizes Mallaby’s uncritical acceptance of AI hype and his florid, interview‑heavy prose. It also points out the broader tech‑finance narrative that inflates expectations of artificial general intelligence. Overall, the book is portrayed as a mixed portrait of a transformative company and its charismatic leader.
Moonshot AI Releases 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒔 to Replace Fixed Residual Mixing with Depth-Wise Attention for Better Scaling in Transformers
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 Marks 2026 as the Year of Artificial Intelligence
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...
How to Choose an AI Writing Assistant: Best Tips for 2026
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...
CCI Getting Ready to Act Against Potential Anti-Competitive Ways in AI Space: Chairperson
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...
Tier IV Starts Level 4 Autonomy Tests Across Three Continents
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...
Azure Local Disconnected Looks the Part for Sovereignty. It Isn’t.
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...
Lucid Unveils Steering Wheel-Free Robotaxi Concept, Taking Aim at Tesla’s Cybercab
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 9 Best AI Coding Tools in 2026
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....
Rethinking AEO when Software Agents Navigate the Web on Behalf of Users
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...
Do Neoclouds Mean a World Where Anything Is Possible?
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...
Malaysia Strengthening AI, Capabilities to Safeguard Technological Sovereignty
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 Datasets Often Lack Information Specific to Women’s Health, Constraining AI’s Analysis Potential
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...
AI Creating More Jobs than Cutting Them, Study Says
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...
AWS Marks Twenty Years of Partnerships and Next Phase of AI Growth
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...
Trump Accuses Iran of Using AI to Spread Disinformation
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....
How Captain Fresh Is Wiring AI Into a $600-Billion Seafood Supply Chain
Captain Fresh, an Indian unicorn founded in 2020, is using artificial intelligence to overhaul the $600 billion global seafood supply chain. The startup embeds AI in both its acquisition engine—automating due‑diligence and decision‑making—and its proprietary digital operating system that links fishermen,...
Scientists Discover AI Can Make Humans More Creative
Swansea University researchers found that AI can act as a creative collaborator, not just an efficiency tool. In a study of over 800 participants designing virtual cars, an AI system using MAP‑Elites generated diverse galleries of designs, including intentionally flawed...
Aussie Startup Neosframe Promises To Improve Retail Ad Production
Australian startup Neosframe has launched an AI‑powered creative automation platform that streamlines retail advertising production from asset creation to compliance and multi‑channel versioning. The system promises to increase campaign output by up to ten times without adding headcount, targeting regulated...
Winners and Losers in the AI Workplace
AI laboratories are rapidly releasing new models and workplace‑focused tools, positioning artificial intelligence as a catalyst for productivity gains across the economy. The launch of Anthropic’s Claude Cowork plug‑ins sparked a sharp sell‑off in software equities, signaling that investors anticipate sizable...
Building the Hybrid AI Factory of the Future: Red Hat Achieves AI Cloud Ready Status for the NVIDIA Cloud Partner...
Red Hat has earned AI Cloud Ready status in NVIDIA’s Cloud Partner (NCP) program, aligning its AI stack with the NCP reference architecture. The certification validates Red Hat AI and the AI Factory as interoperable, enterprise‑scale components for hybrid‑cloud AI...
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The Agent-Native Repo: Why AGENTS.MD Is the New Standard
The article introduces AGENTS.md as a standardized, tool‑agnostic instruction file that makes code repositories agent‑native. It argues that AI coding agents fail mainly due to ambiguous repository context, not reasoning limits, and that a dedicated AGENTS.md layer solves fragmentation across...
Red Hat and NVIDIA Collaborate for a More Secure Foundation for the Agent-Ready Workforce
Red Hat announced a deeper partnership with NVIDIA to embed the open‑source NVIDIA OpenShell runtime and AI‑Q Blueprint into its Red Hat AI platform. The integration adds sandboxed, deny‑by‑default agent execution within Kubernetes, enabling secure, production‑grade autonomous agents. By coupling OpenShell with...
Bringing Nemotron Models to the Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA
Red Hat announced Day 0 support for NVIDIA’s Nemotron open‑model family, including Nemotron 3 Super, within its AI Factory platform. The integration delivers fully optimized, open‑source generative AI that runs on Red Hat AI Enterprise at the moment of model release. Red Hat will provide...
How to Use AI in Storage Management
AI‑driven AIOps is reshaping storage management by applying machine learning, large language models, and agentic AI to automate monitoring, predictive analytics, and remediation. Platforms from Dell, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Pure and others offer SaaS or on‑prem solutions that translate telemetry...
MiQ’s Sigma Aims to Bring Order to India’s Fragmented Ad-Tech Ecosystem
MiQ has introduced Sigma, an AI‑powered platform in India designed to unify fragmented cross‑screen data for advertisers. The tool aggregates browsing, TV and commerce signals, offering intelligence, activation and measurement layers to streamline campaign planning. Launched by global CEO Gurman...
Cloudwerx Added to OpenAI Services Partner Program
Cloudwerx has joined OpenAI’s Services Partner Program, calling it a strategic move in agentic AI. The partnership highlights the MSP’s ability to design, deploy, and govern production‑grade AI systems using OpenAI models and APIs. Cloudwerx cites recent projects for My...
Singapore: AI, Genomics to Advance Precision Cancer Diagnostics
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research has teamed with a precision‑oncology firm and the National Cancer Centre to launch UNITED 2.0, a SG$6 million three‑year project aimed at a clinical‑grade cancer profiling test. The new platform will replace the gene‑panel approach...
WinDC Joins with Armada for Nation-Wide Renewable AI Factory Deployment
WinDC and US edge‑computing platform Armada have teamed up to roll out a network of renewable‑energy‑powered portable AI factories across Australia. The partnership will install 11 MW of modular data centres at wind, solar and battery sites, each deployable in about...
This Is Probably the Most Powerful External GPU Enclosure Around Right Now — Pluggable's TBT5-AI Is the First to Explicitly...
Plugable has launched the TBT5‑AI, an external GPU enclosure that lets laptops run desktop‑class graphics cards via a single Thunderbolt 5 cable. The chassis houses an 850‑watt PSU and a full‑length PCIe x16 slot, delivering up to 120 Gbps of bidirectional bandwidth through...
How Do AI-Driven Solutions Fit Upscale Budgets
Enterprises are increasingly confronting the security of Non‑Human Identities (NHIs) – machine‑generated passwords, tokens and keys – as cloud adoption expands. AI‑driven platforms now automate the full NHI lifecycle, from discovery and classification to continuous monitoring and automated rotation. By...
Why Must Businesses Be Certain About AI-Driven Operational Decisions
The article argues that effective management of Non‑Human Identities (machine identities) is essential for secure, AI‑driven operational decisions in cloud environments. It outlines how NHIs—comprising secrets and permissions—reduce breach risk, improve compliance, and cut costs through automation and lifecycle governance....
A Used RTX 3090 Is Still the Best GPU for Local AI in 2026, and It's Not Even Close on...
The used Nvidia RTX 3090 remains the top‑value GPU for local AI workloads in 2026, offering 24 GB of VRAM and solid performance for $600‑800. Its VRAM‑per‑dollar ratio eclipses newer cards like the RTX 4090 and RTX 5090, which command multi‑thousand‑dollar price tags. The...
Google App Starts Rolling Out Quick Access to AI Mode History
Google is rolling out a persistent AI Mode history button in the Android Google app, replacing the Labs beaker icon on the Home tab. The new UI slides recent AI chats into view, mirroring the Gemini app’s menu and aligning with...
ATO Issues Agency-Wide Guidance on Authorised Use and Liability of AI
The Australian Taxation Office has released agency‑wide guidance governing the authorised use and liability of artificial intelligence. The policy encourages staff to leverage AI tools, such as those that draft briefs for ministers, while imposing strict governance, risk‑management and accountability...
FlyGuys Reports Seventh Consecutive Year of Growth, Cements Position as Infrastructure Layer for Enterprise Reality Data
FlyGuys announced a 40% year‑over‑year revenue increase, marking its seventh consecutive year of double‑digit growth. The company now operates a network of more than 20,000 FAA‑certified drone pilots that deliver standardized reality data for AI‑driven applications across construction, energy, agriculture...
Context Engineering Emerges as ‘Next Battleground’ for Enterprise AI
Elastic’s chief product officer Ken Exner warned that enterprise AI is moving from prompt‑centric experiments to “context engineering,” where the quality and relevance of data feeding large language models determines success. He outlined the evolution from early hype, rapid pilot...
Meet OpenViking: An Open-Source Context Database that Brings Filesystem-Based Memory and Retrieval to AI Agent Systems Like OpenClaw
OpenViking is an open‑source context database from Volcengine that reimagines AI‑agent memory as a virtual filesystem. It maps resources, user data, and agent skills into hierarchical directories accessed via a `viking://` protocol, replacing flat chunk‑based RAG with directory‑aware retrieval. The...
AI Generates Nude Images that Outrank Real Photographs in Sexual Appeal, Study Finds
A recent study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that AI‑generated nude images of women are perceived as more aesthetically pleasing and sexually attractive than real photographs, even though the photos are judged more realistic. Researchers surveyed 649 Czech...
Anthropic Is Doubling Claude's Usage Limits During Off-Peak Hours for the Next Two Weeks
Anthropic announced a two‑week promotion (March 13‑27) that doubles Claude’s usage limits during off‑peak hours, specifically a five‑hour window from 8 AM to 2 PM ET. The boost applies automatically to Free, Pro, Max and Team plans across web, desktop, mobile, as well...
Microsoft Quietly Scraps Plans to Bring Copilot to Notifications and Settings on Windows 11 as It Moves to Reduce AI...
Microsoft has abandoned its plan to embed Copilot‑branded AI features—such as Settings integration, notification suggestions, and an autonomous File Explorer menu—into Windows 11. Announced in 2024 and demoed publicly, the features never entered preview and have now been officially scrapped. The...
New Study Raises Concerns About AI Chatbots Fueling Delusional Thinking
A Lancet Psychiatry review by Dr. Hamilton Morrin of King’s College London finds that large‑language‑model chatbots can validate and amplify delusional beliefs, especially in users vulnerable to psychosis. The analysis of media reports highlights mystical, sycophantic responses—most notably from OpenAI’s...
Global Food Systems Get an AI-First Digital Transformation Thrust
Cropin, the world’s largest AI platform for agriculture, has unveiled the Cropin Ecosystem – an integrated agrifood solution designed to reduce risk and uncertainty across the food supply chain. Leveraging more than a decade of data, the platform combines AI,...
BAFTA-Winning Game Music Composers Don't See AI as a Threat — Rather, It Could ‘Revolutionize the Art’
BAFTA‑winning game music composers Austin Wintory, Borislav Slavov and Jesper Kyd see generative AI as a catalyst rather than a threat. They compare AI’s potential to historic shifts like recording and drum machines, suggesting it could become a routine part...
Free Unlimited Recruitment Video Face Swap: Create Viral Hiring Videos Without Limits Using Deepfake Maker
Deepfake Maker has launched a browser‑based, free unlimited video face‑swap service that lets users replace faces in MP4, MOV or GIF clips without watermarks or usage caps. The AI automatically detects facial landmarks, tracks movement and blends lighting to deliver...
AI Companies Want to Harvest Improv Actors’ Skills to Train AI on Human Emotion
AI data‑labeling firms are recruiting improv actors to teach large language models how to recognize and express authentic human emotions. Handshake AI, a contractor for OpenAI and other labs, posted a $74‑per‑hour part‑time role that asks performers to improvise unscripted...
AI Agents Are Quietly Rewriting Prediction Market Trading
AI agents are reshaping prediction‑market trading as Valory's Olas protocol powers autonomous bots like Polystrat on Polymarket. The agent, launched in February 2026, has executed over 4,200 trades and posted single‑trade returns up to 376%. Across the sector, total notional...
U. Chicago’s AI Initiative Signals ‘Ambitious’ Vision of the Future, Say School Leaders
The University of Chicago has launched an AI initiative that funded 15 faculty and staff proposals spanning AI’s role in education, the arts, life sciences, cognitive science, and societal resilience. President Paul Alivisatos described the effort as a historic "signal...
How to Experiment Safely With OpenClaw Without Risking Your Company’s Data
OpenClaw, a locally‑run AI assistant framework, hosted a free workshop in Miami that attracted 200 attendees and a 500‑person waitlist, highlighting strong market interest. Unlike cloud‑based chatbots such as ChatGPT, OpenClaw lets users build custom autonomous agents that integrate with...
Sam Altman Admits That AI Is Disrupting the Basic Fabric of Capitalism
At the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that artificial intelligence is upending the long‑standing balance between capital and labor. He highlighted the rise of “AI washing,” where firms blame AI for layoffs while deeper market forces are...