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In the first quarter of 2026, four African countries have advanced significant AI governance instruments. South Africa’s Cabinet approved a Draft National AI Policy for public comment on 2 April. […] The post Rapid Response Webinar Series: AI Governance in Africa appeared first on Research ICT Africa .
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The EU Commission’s policy on data centers keeps information on the energy and water use of individual centers under wraps. Research by Corporate and Europe Observatory and AlgorithmWatch, published by Investigate Europe, reveals the Commission copied and pasted an amendment suggested by Microsoft and the lobby group Digital Europe. The aim: To prevent NGOs from obtaining information on energy-hungry data centers in the face of growing resistance.
When their key product was faced with unfavorable scientific evidence and the risk of regulation, most businesses in the 20th century defended themselves by sowing doubt on an industrial scale. Big AI is doing something radically different: it floods the zone with potential future risks.
In this episode, Rashmi Shetty, senior director of enterprise generative AI platform at Capital One, joins us to explore how the company is designing, deploying, and scaling multi-agent systems in a highly regulated environment. Rashmi walks us through Chat Concierge, a multi-agent chat experience for auto dealerships that handles intent disambiguation, tool invocation, and human handoffs to deliver safer, more personalized customer journeys. We discuss Capital One’s platform-centric approach to AI agents and how it separates design from runtime governance, embedding policies, guardrails, and cyber controls across agent threat boundaries. Rashmi shares how the team approaches the developer experience for agent builders, observability, and evals for stochastic, multi-agent workflows; and strategies for model specialization, including fine-tuning and distillation. We also cover standards and abstraction, closed-loop learning from production telemetry, and key lessons for enterprises building agentic systems. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at https://twimlai.com/go/765.
Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks
Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling. The post How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Aarathi Krishnan, CEO of Raksha Intelligence Futures, discusses the political, economic, and technological dynamics shaping this moment of uncertainty and transition in the global system.
President Trump said during an interview aired yesterday by Fox Business that “there should be” when asked if AI needs […]
Autonomous driving is not just a big tech or closed-source game, it's becoming accessible through open innovation and real-world deployment. Dan and Chris sit down with Harald Schäfer, CTO at Comma AI, to explore how OpenPilot is bringing self-driving to everyday vehicles using open source AI. We dive into the intersection of machine learning, robotics, and simulation, including how world models are enabling training at scale and shaping the future of autonomy. Featuring: Harald Schäfer – LinkedIn Chris Benson – Website , LinkedIn , Bluesky , GitHub , X Daniel Whitenack – Website , GitHub , X Links: Comma Upcoming Events: Register for upcoming webinars here !
Organizations face growing pressure to adopt artificial intelligence, but often lack practical guidance on how to do so effectively. This report bridges the gap between high-level principles and real-world implementation, offering actionable steps across the AI adoption life cycle. Drawing on over 1,200 resources, this reference guide provides practitioners with the knowledge required to operationalize AI safety, security, and governance practices within their organizations. The post Operationalizing AI Guidance: A Reference Guide for Translating High-Level Goals into Practical Implementation appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .
What I expect to come next and why, focused on the open-closed gap.
Weaviate Shared Cloud is now generally available on AWS in US East and Europe, giving teams a fully managed, AI-native database on the provider and region that works best for them.
Modal is an official sandbox provider for the OpenAI Agents SDK.
Using importance sampling with fine-tuned donor prefills to predict reward hacking emergence during training
How Bytedance Volcano Engine LAS (Lake for AI Service) leverages Lance as the core storage format, rapidly constructing a next-gen AI data lake to efficiently store, manage, and process multimodal data (text, images, audio/video).
This guest post comes from IDC’s Dr. William Lee, Senior Research Director, Service Provider and Core Infrastructure Research. MongoDB commissioned IDC to explore the connection between legacy infrastructure, data challenges, and AI across Asia Pacific, and today we’re happy to share that work. For more, see the full MongoDB-sponsored IDC InfoBrief, Modernizing Legacy: Winning in the Age of AI, Doc #AP242555-IB, April 2026. AI ambition is everywhere across Asia/Pacific. But ambition alone does not determine success. Organizations are discovering that AI outcomes are directly tied to the quality, accessibility, and modernity of their underlying technology stack and associated data technology foundations. Organizations that have managed to stay abreast of technical and data management changes across the application and infrastructure stacks, by embedding modernization into their organizational DNA, are experiencing 3x more digital revenue growth than those that are bound up in technical and data debt. To better understand this connection, IDC surveyed 1,400 organizations across eight Asia/Pacific markets. The findings reveal that modernization is no longer a side initiative. It is the core of a sustainable AI strategy. The AI readiness divide: Leaders versus mainstream IDC’s latest Asia/Pacific Modernization Survey, sponsored by MongoDB, identifies two distinct groups: The Mainstream Cohort: organizations still burdened by technical debt, siloed data, and skills gaps The Leade…
Autoresearch automates AI research. Modal automates AI infrastructure.
Here is what happened in AI in Africa this week: 1. South Africa Releases New Draft National AI Policy […]
Here are fresh AI opportunities you can still apply for right now: 1. Data Science Africa AI & Machine […]
Was fire equivalent to a singularity for people at the time?
Gemma 4 is our newest family of open models. You can now run advanced reasoning, native vision and audio, and agentic tool-use on anything from high-end workstations to mobile phones. Learn more → https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/
Two benchmarks developed at Ai2 – ScienceWorld and DiscoveryWorld – reveal that even incredibly strong AI science agents struggle with problems human scientists solve routinely.
But Dr Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute and a former OpenAI safety engineer, is sceptical. She notes Anthropic provides no comparison with existing automated security tools, nor any false-positive rates. “It also serves their ‘safety first’ image, as they’re able to justify the lack of public release, even a limited one for independent evaluation, as a public service – when it simply obscures experts’ abilities to independently validate their The post ‘Safety first’ puts Anthropic ahead in game of AI spin appeared first on AI Now Institute .
And yes, I hate consortia too.
Anthony Aguirre, President and CEO of the Future of Life Institute, issued the following statement in response to the attack […]
Lance's JSONB storage, scalar indexing, data evolution, and full-text search already deliver what most users want from Variant — with explicit control, schema consistency, and no vendor lock-in.
Learn how LanceDB benchmarks storage and how we achieved one million disk reads per second.
Tech leaders want you to believe that AI is the key to a new golden age. The reality looks more like a bold, government-backed heist. The post The Great AI Grift appeared first on AI Now Institute .
Access this report from the Uehiro-Carnegie Endowment for Future Generations study tour, in which Carnegie Council fellows and staff reflect on their trip to Japan.
[…] over effectiveness: This expansion follows ongoing criticism of Instagram’s safeguards. A September 2025 report found that 64% of teen safety tools were ineffective, defunct, or easily bypassed, as 13 out […]
The Brazilian automotive landscape has established itself as a global powerhouse, currently ranking as the world’s sixth largest market for cars and light commercial vehicles. A report from strategy consultancy Mirow & Co explores the industry’s growth and trends – a roundup of the key findings in six charts.
Introducing the Multimodal Lakehouse - a unified platform for managing AI data from raw files to production-ready features, now part of LanceDB Enterprise.
This is a linkpost for MirrorCode, a project that METR funded and co-developed with Epoch AI . See Epoch AI’s blog post for more detail: https://epoch.ai/publications/mirrorcode-preliminary-results/
Butter, a San Francisco-based AI sandbox technology, is joining Modal.
Another dance around fears of open-source.
How will AI systems obtain and share information in the future? A lot hangs on this. I see three distinct architectures, each with its own logic and consequences. The choice between them will determine not just how AI systems function, but what kind of information economy will be possible. The position I want to defend […] The post What Is “Network Sourced” AI? appeared first on OpenMined .
Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep495-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/lars-brownworth-transcript CONTACT LEX: Feedback – give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey AMA – submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama Hiring – join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring Other – other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact EPISODE LINKS: Lars’s Website: https://larsbrownworth.com/ The Sea Wolves (book): https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Wolves-History-Vikings/dp/1909979120 Lars’s Books: https://amzn.to/4sHY0xw 12 Byzantine Rulers Podcast : https://12byzantinerulers.com/ Norman Centuries Podcast: https://apple.co/4sgSxNi
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Amid Trump's fiery rhetoric and debates over "realism," Professor Jason Ralph writes that "pragmatism" may offer a better alternative for the American public.
AI is shaping the world young people are growing up in. But how do teachers confidently introduce AI and machine learning in the classroom? Experience AI is a free educational program from Google DeepMind and the Raspberry Pi Foundation that helps teachers introduce school-aged students to AI and machine learning. The program uses research-backed pedagogies to empower teachers to cover foundational AI and responsible, ethical use with their students—supporting learning even for educators without a computer science background. Experience AI provides free lessons, videos, worksheets, and training, designed to give young people the knowledge they need to understand how AI works and how it is changing the world. To date, it has been delivered by educators in over 165+ countries, expanding access to essential AI learning for students worldwide. Find the lessons @ experience-ai.org ___ Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/@googledeepmind Find us on X https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/googledeepmind Add us on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepmind/
The post These 3 Agreements Secured AI Protections for 30,000 Union Workers appeared first on Partnership on AI .
Uzemi × AI4AI Outreach Date: 1 April 2026 Venue: Immaculate Heart College, Maryland, Lagos On 1 April 2026, the AI4AI […]
In this fully connected episode, Dan and Chris break down the Anthropic Claude Code leak, what went wrong and what it reveals about agentic systems, AI architecture, and AI safety. They also explore how the open source community is responding and why this moment could reshape how AI systems are built and secured. Featuring: Chris Benson – Website , LinkedIn , Bluesky , GitHub , X Daniel Whitenack – Website , GitHub , X Upcoming Events: Register for upcoming webinars here !
What does it mean for democracy if our political leaders and government officials allow AI to shape their decisions?
What does it mean for democracy, if our political leaders and government officials allow AI to shape their decisions?
For musicians everywhere, streaming is indispensable, but so is the belief that it simply doesn’t pay fairly.