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AI major focus as Hong Kong funds record 12 university research projects

Hong Kong’s main public research funding body for universities has approved a record 12 projects worth about HK$478 million in its latest financing round, with artificial intelligence featuring in more than a third of successful proposals…

Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential

It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.

Atlassian tightens tracking of staff AI use as other technology firms encourage ‘tokenmaxxing’

Some companies reportedly using leaderboards for employees who used the most AI in their work Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Software firm Atlassian has sought to tighten tracking of its staff’s AI spending by…

Icac hits paydirt as Reformers’ ‘shit sheets’ are given a very public airing

Dirt files are always damaging – not least those originating in the secretive rightwing Reformers sub-faction of the party Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast From time to time, dirt files – crudely known as shit…

Google will let Mac users talk to Gemini simply by pressing the 'fn' key

Users only have to long-press the 'fn' key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac.

Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches an AI browser aimed at knowledge work

Polar has come out with an AI-first browser aimed at knowledge workers, and it has now raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona.

I watched Tom Holland's new Marvel movie Spider-Man

Light spoilers follow for Spider-Man: Brand New Day . Spider-Man: Brand New Day was meant to signal a fresh era for Tom Holland’s Peter Parker. With 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home effectively clearing the narrative slate and stripping away…

Fish Audio gives its voice AI away, and charges for the latency

Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a round it still calls a seed, first reported by TechCrunch. It arrives at a company with an unusual shape. It gives its best models away, and charges for the wiring around them…

OpenAI says rogue AI agent attack hit other companies

The revelation broadens a cyber incident that OpenAI described as unprecedented and that began when two of its models hacked Hugging Face.

AI agents can browse the web. Now they need a way to pay for it.

For the past two years, the AI industry has focused on making models smarter. Every new release promises better reasoning, longer context windows, or more capable autonomous agents. Increasingly, people assume that software won’t just…

UPSC Key: Cauvery Water Dispute, Eco-Sensitive Zones and Rupee Overvalued

Kiev cannot compensate for loss of Odessa export routes — expert

Ilya Grashchenkov described the situation around the Odessa ports not as a blockade per se, but rather as a de facto halt to shipping