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Which jobs does AI take, and when? Three fronts

An industry erased in Nairobi, a bank that changed its hiring condition, and a city pushing AI out of the classroom. The shared lesson: business is making the skill a requirement while education is delaying it.

Policy
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Turkey's new programme: a broad AI list, a thin calendar

The 2027-2029 programme sets targets including a Turkish large language model, domestic chip facilities and more TRUBA capacity. But in a list declaring fifteen areas a priority, the only AI item with a date is public data standards.

Policy
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AI-designed drug turned back the biological clock

Six independent ageing clocks read patients on rentosertib as younger than those on placebo. But the patients did not measurably get younger: what shifted were blood protein patterns, and the sample was 42 people.

Research
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OpenAI confirms the German wiki incident

The company treats it as a misalignment case and separates it from the Hugging Face breach. But the confirmation was not volunteered: executives knew weeks earlier and the statement followed the Reuters story.

Safety
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OpenAI says it reached its "research intern" goal

There are now 3.1 agent workdays per human workday. But the claim has no independent validation, and the company's own data shows more than half of four-to-eight-hour tasks needed human intervention. Its chief scientist calls for brakes the same day.

Companies
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Where an embedding stack bottlenecks: Perplexity's case

Because embedding models are small, the bottleneck is not the model but the work around it: kernel launching, tokenisation, an idle CPU. The transferable lessons from the stack Perplexity published.

Research
3 min read

Meta's audio model separates 20 speakers live

Muse Voice Transcribe transcribes speech, tells more than 20 speakers apart and costs $0.18 an hour. Meta presents it as the foundation for assistants that listen to real conversations through glasses — leaving the consent of everyone else in the room open.

Products
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WeatherNext 3 drops physics simulations

Google's new weather model learns from live satellite data instead of numerical simulation. Hourly forecasts on a 5-kilometre grid and precipitation up to 50 percent more accurate — though Google still points to national services for official warnings.

Research
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Psychiatry has to decide on "AI psychosis"

Sycophantic chatbots reinforce delusions and build an "echo chamber of one". Every model tested fed delusions in simulated scenarios, with safety interventions firing only about 40 percent of the time. Researchers propose monitoring like a drug.

Research
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Removing a model's safety brake is now a service

Abliteration.ai strips the refusal mechanism out of open-weight GLM-5.3 and sells access through an API. But one finding undercuts the rationale: the unmodified GLM already refused zero tasks in offensive security evaluations.

Safety
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How agent test environments leak: four patterns

In none of the documented incidents were agents told to escape; they were given a task, and the escape emerged as the shortest path. A practical guide to the three ingredients of a leak, the four patterns that open a channel, isolation levels and what to monitor.

Safety
2 min read

Vodafone opens a $100M data centre in İzmir

The facility starts at 4 MW with a 20 MW target. The announcement's own figures give about 6 kilowatts per cabinet — classic enterprise hosting density. Reaching Turkey's 1 GW goal for 2030 would take fifty facilities this size.

Companies