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Google DeepMind’s new AI models
Google DeepMind is launching two new AI models designed to help robots “perform a wider range of real-world tasks than ever before.” The first, called Gemini Robotics, is a vision-language-action model capable of understanding new situations, even if it hasn’t been trained on them.
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Singapore grants bail for Nvidia chip smugglers in alleged $390M fraud
A judge in Singapore granted bail to three men suspected of deceiving suppliers of server computers that may contain Nvidia chips affected by U.S. export rules that bar the sale of them to certain countries, as a route to halting them being sold to organizations in China.
AI should replace some work of civil servants, Starmer to announce
AI should replace the work of government officials where it can be done to the same standard, under new rules that have prompted unions to warn Keir Starmer to stop blaming problems on civil servants.
Google unveils Gemma 3 multi-modal AI models
Google DeepMind has introduced Gemma 3, an update to the company’s family of generative AI models, featuring multi-modality that allows the models to analyze images, answer questions about images, identify objects, and perform other tasks that involve analyzing and understanding visual data.
Applied use cases
AI is changing insurance
As AI reshapes industries, its impact on underwriting and risk assessment in professional and executive liability insurance is becoming impossible to ignore. A study by Capgemini found that 62% of executives believe AI is improving underwriting quality and reducing fraud. But despite these benefits, only 43% of underwriters trust AI-generated decisions.
ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’
The company behind ChatGPT has revealed it has developed an artificial intelligence model that is “good at creative writing”, as the tech sector continues its tussle with the creative industries over copyright.
AI predicts adolescent mental health risk before symptoms emerge
A new study published in Nature Medicine demonstrates that artificial intelligence can identify adolescents at high risk for serious mental health problems before symptoms become severe.
Ethics
How on-device AI can help us cut AI's energy demand
The age of IT devices driven by artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived, much like the revolutions brought by personal computers and mobile devices. Each has brought undeniable and lasting impacts on society.
AI: Between Demons and God
An avatar priest, praying via app and artificial intelligence as a deity: UZH anthropologist Beth Singler researches the interplay between AI and religion.
Have AI and wildfires made electric utility bonds less of a safe haven?: Fridson
Rapid developments in artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency over the past few years and a series of high profile wildfires have raised questions about electric utilities’ traditional image as a stodgy but reliable defensive hedge.
Robotics
Making solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories
Charge Robotics, founded by MIT alumni, has created a system that automatically assembles and installs completed sections of large solar farms.
A springtail-inspired multimodal walking-jumping microrobot
Although legged robots have demonstrated effective mobility in some natural settings, as robot size decreases, obstacles in their environment become challenging to overcome. Small arthropods scale obstacles many times their size through jumps powered by mechanisms that overcome speed and power limitations of muscle alone.
Silk-inspired in situ web spinning for situated robots
Researchers at the Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, present a robotics concept in which temporary robot embodiments and movement pathways are spun in situ from a polymer solution. They demonstrate an ad hoc gripper for delicate handling and a bridge for crossing debris fields and natural terrain.
Research
AI risks becoming an environmental disaster
lthough the ambitious claims of AI and its benefits are compelling, it is no panacea. Health systems are some of the world’s greatest carbon polluters and the expansion of AI risks derailing the progress that has been made to meet net zero targets.
Hallmarks of artificial intelligence contributions to precision oncology
In this Review, we discuss ten AI hallmarks in precision oncology, organized into three groups: (1) cancer prevention and diagnosis, encompassing cancer screening, detection and profiling; (2) optimizing current treatments, including patient outcome prediction, treatment planning and monitoring, clinical trial design and matching, and developing response biomarkers; and (3) advancing new treatments by identifying treatment combinations, discovering cancer vulnerabilities and designing drugs.
Data-centric Artificial Intelligence: A Survey
In this survey, we discuss the necessity of data-centric AI, followed by a holistic view of three general data-centric goals (training data development, inference data development, and data maintenance) and the representative methods.
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