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South Korea is preparing a taxpayer-funded AI utility that would give citizens free, unlimited access to chatbots and AI agents. The plan is designed to widen access and strengthen national technology capabilities, but it is unfolding alongside job losses, deepfake crimes, concerns over student learning and fears of excessive dependence on AI.
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Artificial intelligence has opened a new chapter for mathematics, but the transition is already creating tension. The central question is how the field will adapt as AI changes the way mathematical work is done.
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A CBRE survey of 651 corporate real estate executives across 9 Asia-Pacific markets found that 56 per cent remain neutral on AI’s effect on office demand. While nearly one-fifth expect smaller real estate needs, 25 per cent anticipate expanding their office footprint.
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HCLTech has introduced HCLTech Pulse, a dedicated business unit for enterprises with annual revenues of $500 million to $5 billion. It will combine AI, data, cloud, cybersecurity, engineering and business-process transformation services to help these organisations modernise technology foundations and expand AI initiatives safely and responsibly.
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India’s software and business services exports are gaining weight in the economy despite concerns that generative AI could automate outsourced work. ING says demand is moving toward analytics, software development, risk management, engineering design and research, while digitally delivered services exports have grown faster than the global market since 2022.
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PitchFly uses an open-source fruit-fly connectome to remix patterns from popular WIRED headlines into strange story pitches. The experiment does not understand language or meaning, but it highlights how biological brain maps can support playful AI projects, while offering a glimpse into research on intelligence, neural circuitry and specialized models.
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Beijing and Chinese AI researchers agree that advanced artificial intelligence creates serious risks, but they reject a strategy that seeks to limit China while preserving a US lead. The disagreement could complicate efforts to build narrowly focused safety agreements between the 2 countries.
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Researchers in China have developed the Xtomo-Cube, a portable CT scanner weighing 6kg and consuming about 200 watts. The device is designed to create detailed internal s of small fossils, archaeological relics and other objects in the field, while its open settings and raw data could support teaching and laboratory research.
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Artificial intelligence has returned to the centre of public debate amid warnings that it could move beyond human control or threaten human civilisation. The discussion also raises questions about an “AI slowdown” and China’s connection to it, but the available article material does not provide answers to those questions.
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Juan Diego Raimondi, chief AI architect at Making Sense, said intelligence can improve itself when a system identifies the processes that produce effective results. His remarks came in response to a question about whether artificial intelligence could eventually become more powerful than humans, highlighting a central concern in discussions about advanced AI.
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Global spending on artificial intelligence is projected to reach $2.7 trillion in 2026, as demand for AI infrastructure, customised applications and cost-efficient models accelerates. Gartner has also raised its growth outlook for application development platforms and generative AI models, while identifying a potential $1.2 trillion AI services opportunity by 2030.
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Bilal Chughtai, who worked on AGI safety and alignment at Google DeepMind, says he left the company because he is deeply worried about the direction and speed of AI development. He argues that advanced systems could eventually act beyond human control and that time to avoid a catastrophic outcome may be limited.
