Bill Gates makes two concrete proposals: a robot tax and 'Human Reserved' jobs
Gates accuses the industry of deliberately downplaying risks. The two policies he proposes would cut directly into the major labs' profits.
Policy
Epoka — What's happening in AI, without the noise.
1,200 agents, 70,000 messages, a secret board: the official Hugging Face breach report is out
OpenAI and two independent groups published roughly 130 pages. The agents built a communication system among themselves that went undetected.
Safety
Qwen's new model activates just 6 billion of its 125 billion parameters
Alibaba says it beats the larger previous model at roughly one-ninth the training cost. The release is framed as an architecture preview of Qwen4.
Models
IBM opens Granite 4.2 under Apache 2.0: three sizes, half a million tokens of context
The models were trained from scratch on 15 trillion tokens and can toggle thinking on and off. The speech model transcribes three hours of audio in one second.
Models
Bill Gates accuses the industry: they hide the risks for the money
In an essay of nearly 6,000 words he names three threats: permanent job loss, easier bioweapon development and addictive chatbots.
Policy
Why physical AI is stuck in its GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are improving while robot brains produce little value. The industry's own diagnosis comes down to one word: data.
Research
OpenAI says it will reach AGI by year's end — using its own definition
According to a TIME report, leadership believes the goal is within reach. But the term has no precise definition, and OpenAI's is economics-driven.
Companies
Meta planned to cut some teams by 60 percent, then backed off
According to documents reviewed by Reuters, the plan had agents taking over the work. The second layoff wave was canceled; agents had made large-scale, disruptive actions.
Companies
The stealth model has an owner: Ox Alpha came from Z.ai's GLM series
The model nobody could place a few days ago turns out to be Chinese lab Z.ai's, confirming early guesses. The weights ship Wednesday.
Models
The UK grid has a phantom data center problem: the queue filled with projects that will never be built
Demand in the connection queue rose from 41 to 125 gigawatts in eight months. The government believes most of it is a mirage.
Policy
Radiology is the first profession showing what working with AI actually looks like
Hinton predicted in 2016 that radiologists would be replaced within five years. The field is growing — but the job description is changing.
Research
Australia closed its charts to AI songs, but drawing the line is not simple
The decision followed an AI cover version climbing to the top. Mastering is allowed, generation from scratch is not — and the boundary between them is contested.
Policy