UK government
King's Speech: Labour sets out cybersecurity rules, but fails to introduce 'AI Bill'
Tories criticise "mystery bill that creates months of uncertainty and loses the UK jobs and investment just as it has in the EU.”
Microsoft
UK regulator launches 'new merger inquiry' into Microsoft’s hiring of AI luminaries
Watchdog probes decision to bring 'certain former employees' of Inflection AI into the Microsoft fold
News
AWS brings anti-hallucination Guardrails to Bedrock, promises 'grounding' in reality
Cloud giant wants to make sure model responses are useful and founded on a firm foundation of enterprise data, rather than wild flights of fancy
artificial intelligence
California pushes forward with AI regulations targeting Big Tech
"The regulation of AI R&D is predicated on the illusion of 'existential risks' pushed by a handful of delusional think tanks."
News
Anthropic dangles funding for AI model risk and capability evaluation tools
AI firm says "a robust, third-party evaluation ecosystem is essential for assessing AI capabilities and risks" but warns that the current "landscape is limited.”
open source
Linux Foundation tool reveals the truth about "open" AI models
A new "isitopen" tool has not yet identifed a single model that meets the Foundation's highest standard of openness
Microsoft
Don't worry software engineers: Bill Gates says your job is safe
Microsoft's engineers won't need to retrain just yet, although Gates does believe that AI will generate "so much extra productivity" that it will "surprise people and require us to rethink.”
conservative
Tory manifesto tech promises: More high-end compute, NO mobiles in schools, cyber-national service
Tories tell voters that “AI will accelerate human progress in the 21st century" just like steam and electricity did in the Victorian Era
datacentre
Pure DC CEO Dame Dawn Childs talks people, planning and power
“The market is buoyant. So, demand is buoyant. Satisfying that demand is challenging.”
datacentre
Surging AI business means datacentres could switch on “no vacancy” signs
Enterprise users dwarfed by AI and hyperscalar demand
hugging face
Hugging Face left with split lip after someone punches way into Spaces secrets
"We pledge to use this as an opportunity to strengthen the security of our entire infrastructure"
boomi
Boomi boss says AI means enterprise apps must learn to reason or die
Leads users to the mile high city to prep for AI boom