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Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet's Demis Hassabis offered tentative…
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From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back slowdown on ‘reckless’ AI development Editorial: controlling AI – humanity cannot outsource its survival The safety…
I’ve spent enough time inside the build process of digital products to know the moment accessibility usually gets raised: near the end, as a compliance checklist item, after the design is locked and the deadline is close. In most sectors, that’s a missed opportunity. In digital…
The Successes and Failures in Telehealth conference will mark its 25th anniversary when SFT-26 is held in Brisbane on 5-6 November. The conference will feature more than 75 presentations covering telehealth and virtual care, bringing together researchers, clinicians, health…
US President Donald Trump likened critics of artificial intelligence to “very negative forces” bringing up scenarios that will not happen, and said he wanted to make sure that the US remains the industry leader. “We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in…
NeuroEndocrine Cancer Australia (NECA) has expanded its national telehealth service to include counselling and dietitian support for people affected by neuroendocrine cancer. The free services are available to patients, families and carers by telephone or Microsoft Teams and…
On Equity, we discussed the AI industry's latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.
Disturbing and AI-generated versions of Dr Seuss character have been used to threaten schools and communities Schools and law enforcement authorities in the US are issuing warnings against a viral “Cat in the Hat” social media trend in which disturbing or AI-generated versions…
The US president said "negative forces" were airing concerns about "things that won't happen".
While pacing AI development might sound like a quick fix, it is far from an easy solution.
Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.
Ex-president urged party at closed-door fundraiser to create sweeping framework, from safety ‘slow-down’ to job losses Barack Obama urged Democrats to prioritize a “public conversation” about AI management and safety in a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser last week. The comments…
This intimacy economy is tapping into the deepest parts of our intimate psychological infrastructure The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work Michael* is an engineer whose company embraced the AI wave. He enjoys testing…
It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.
Inspiren, a company selling an AI-powered senior living platform, raised $70 million in Series C funding led by NewView Capital. The platform uses ambient sensors and computer vision to predict falls before they happen.
Rare show of unity from rival developers after safety warnings from Anthropic boss and AI researchers Analysis: critics perplexed and suspicious of call for a slowdown The Guardian view: humanity cannot outsource its survival Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the…
ElevenLabs has released Music v2.5 for its AI music generator. In a blind test with nearly 48,000 comparison pairs, listeners preferred the new version over its predecessor. The company says the model was trained only on licensed music. The article Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5…
The problem is not that companies have failed to make easy-to-use applications. Rather, it’s that there have been limitations to what software can realistically do in a modern healthcare environment.
The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents built on Qwen models that lead benchmarks among open-weight models in their size classes. According to the paper, the training data and models also improved performance on tasks they were never…
Technology is going to drastically reshape the economy, and it’s within our power to decide what that looks like The idea that autonomous, thinking machines may one day destroy property, hierarchy and inequality is as old as western political thought. In Aristotle’s Politics…
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