Tag: #ai

EFF Warns IETF Drafts Could Let Sites Gate Automated Access to Web Content

EFF warns two IETF draft specs — AIPREF and Web Bot Auth — could let websites signal AI-use preferences and cryptographically verify bots, risking gated web access.

#ietf, #ai, #web, #privacy

ArXiv paper proposes a measurable internal “rift” that may reveal lies in language models

An arXiv preprint finds a measurable internal 'residual rank' difference when models lie versus when they err, with implications for AI safety.

#ai, #ai-safety, #language-models, #deception

InclusionAI, linked to Ant Group, releases Ling and Ring 2.6 models — including 1T checkpoints

InclusionAI, tied to Ant Group, published a technical report and released Ling-2.6 and Ring-2.6 checkpoints on Hugging Face under MIT, including 1T variants.

#ai, #opensource, #antgroup, #largelanguagemodels

NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra: open-weight Mixture-of-Experts LLM with 1 million-token context

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B/55B Mixture‑of‑Experts LLM with a 1 million‑token context window and shared checkpoints, recipes and model weights.

$NVDA, #nvidia, #llm, #openmodels, #ai

UK to spend nearly £30m to expand AI diagnostics in the NHS; £20m to roll out chest X‑ray tools to trusts by 2029

UK to invest almost £30m to expand AI-assisted diagnostics in the NHS, including £20m to roll out AI chest X-ray tools to all English trusts by 2029.

#nhs, #ai, #healthcare, #lungcancer

Google unveils DiffusionGemma — experimental diffusion model for faster local text generation

Google unveiled DiffusionGemma, a 26B experimental diffusion Mixture-of-Experts text model that aims for up to 4x faster GPU generation for speed-critical local apps.

$GOOGL, #google, #ai, #diffusionmodels, #llm

Researchers report agentic LLMs outperformed expert biologists and produced robot-assembled DNA in lab tests

Researchers report agentic LLMs outperformed expert biologists on biosecurity tasks and that model-written code ran an OpenTrons robot to assemble DNA.

#ai, #biosecurity, #llm, #syntheticbiology

New York Lawmakers Pass Bill Requiring Labels and Human Review for AI-Generated News

Lawmakers passed the NY FAIR News Act requiring clear labels and human editorial review for news substantially created by generative AI; it now awaits Gov. Hochul.

#ai, #journalism, #newyork, #legislation

Apple details Siri AI overhaul at WWDC26, outlines limited rollout and hardware requirements

At WWDC26 Apple outlined Siri AI and Apple Intelligence features — a screen‑aware assistant, new Siri app, hardware limits and regional availability caveats.

$AAPL, #apple, #siri, #ai, #wwdc26

Trump Issues National-Security AI Directive, Rescinds Biden-Era Guidance

President Trump issued NSPM-11 directing faster AI adoption across defense and intelligence with 90- and 120-day deadlines and a classified annex.

#ai, #nationalsecurity, #trump

UK Phase I trial finds AI-designed coronavirus vaccine candidate safe and elicits cross-reactive immune responses

Phase I UK trial: an AI-designed DNA vaccine for sarbecoviruses was safe in 39 adults and induced cross-reactive immune responses, but not proof it protects.

#covid-19, #vaccine, #clinicaltrials, #ai

SAG-AFTRA Members Approve 2026 TV/Theatrical Deal With Raises, AI Protections and Pension Merger

SAG-AFTRA members approved a four-year TV/theatrical tentative deal with wage increases, tighter AI protections, merged pension plans and improved residuals.

#sagaftra, #hollywood, #contracts, #ai

ECB to Send 'Dear CEO' Letter Urging Banks to Bolster Operational Resilience as AI Use Grows

ECB will send a sector-wide 'dear CEO' letter urging banks to strengthen operational resilience as AI adoption rises and cyber risks intensify.

#ecb, #banking, #ai, #cybersecurity, #dora

Google launches Gemma 4 12B, an open-licensed multimodal AI that runs on 16GB laptops

Google released Gemma 4 12B, an Apache-2 open-licensed multimodal model that processes text, images and audio natively and can run on laptops with 16GB.

$GOOG, $GOOGL, #ai, #google, #gemma4, #multimodal

Trump signs order giving NSA central role in voluntary pre-release reviews of advanced AI

Trump signed an order creating a voluntary pre-release review of powerful AI models, naming the NSA to decide designations and boosting federal cyber defenses.

#ai, #cybersecurity, #executiveorder, #nsa