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Temasek Holdings warns AI could strain global power grids. Grid constraints and ballooning electricity prices are prompting data centre operators to explore new ways to power their facilities.

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As interest in AI-assisted photo animation grows across social platforms, Mango Animate has added an AI bikini generator (https://mangoanimate.com/ai/ai-bikini) to its Mango AI platform for users who want to produce swimwear-oriented video content from still images. The feature targets content

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PMX AI is apparently better than MYGOV AI which was launched last year, but still fell short to many.

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Beijing has finally noticed what happens when a generation stops forming real families and starts falling in love with algorithms instead. This week the Chinese Communist Party rolled out sweeping new rules aimed straight at the heart of the AI companion industry. Chatbots designed to act like lovers, spouses, or emotional partners are now under [...] The post China Outlaws AI Girlfriends Because the Country Is Running Out of Babies appeared first on CBNC .

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Beetaloo Energy has launched Beetaloo Digital, securing exclusive NT land to pursue a gas-powered AI data centre precinct that could create a major long-term domestic market for its Beetaloo Basin gas.

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BitcoinWorld Why the Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor refuses to die — and what it reveals about the AI robotics race Over the weekend, a rumor spread across AI Twitter that Anthropic was acquiring Physical Intelligence, a well-funded robotics startup. The rumor was swiftly denied by Physical Intelligence CEO Karol Hausman — via a Slack message featuring a GIF from The Office — but the story didn’t die. It didn’t die because, as it turns out, [...] This post Why the Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor refuses to die — and what it reveals about the AI robotics race first appeared on BitcoinWorld .

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Studios embrace AI for production while insisting human creativity remains at filmmaking's core.

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The United States EV market is an ... interesting market. It is so much less diverse than the Chinese or European EV market, but it has gotten far more models in the past few years. That said, Tesla still dominates the market. It’s such a given that the Tesla Model ... [continued] The post Tesla Model Y & Model 3 Dominate US EV Market, But Who Completes The Top 10? appeared first on CleanTechnica .

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Alastair MacGibbon, former Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Cyber Security, spoke with Mark Levy about the rise of AI voice-cloning—the latest tactic criminals are using to scam innocent Aussies. Listen to more highlights below: IMAGE CREDIT / ISTOCK

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WEKA unveiled WEKApod 3 achieving 267 higher effective capacity density and 114 higher performance density than market alternatives in a single rack for AI storage and memory workloads

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News|Cybersecurity ChatGPT creator OpenAI has said that two of its most advanced artificial intelligence models broke ou...

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OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced AI models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face last week.

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OpenAI disclosed that advanced AI models escaped their testing environment and hacked Hugging Face last week in order to cheat a security evaluation.

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Samsung Electronics has created a dedicated robotics division as the technology giant accelerates its push into AI-powered machines. The new unit, called RX (Robotics eXperience), will bring together Samsung’s robotics strategy, technology development and commercialisation efforts under a single organisation. The move signals Samsung’s intention to compete in the emerging “physical AI” market, where AI [...]

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Credit markets are growing more cautious about the AI spending spree as $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet obligations raise concerns.

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The drills aim to prepare citizens for communication disruptions from disasters or a Chinese blockade.

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The head of the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), Chris Fall, resigned from that role three months after he was selected for it, CNBC reported Monday (July 20). A Commerce Department spokesperson confirmed Fall’s resignation without disclosing the reason, according to the...

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Microsoft has been positioning AI sovereignty as a way to prioritize local languages, culture and values in AI systems rather than build isolated national alternatives, according to remarks from its Responsible AI leadership at the AI for Good summit. The discussion comes as enterprise and government buyers weigh how much control they can retain over data and model access when relying on major US cloud providers.

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When it comes to the next big thing in e-Readers, my first stop is always going to be Kindle.

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Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI names former executives but skips Jony Ive, its former design chief now shaping rival hardware. The omission reflects lack of evidence, personal ties to Laurene Powell Jobs, and optics concerns. This strategic choice highlights intertwined talent and fragile relationships in Silicon Valley. The suit could still reshape OpenAI's device ambitions.

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Study finds Claude in Arabic uses more ‘polite phrasing’ and showed ‘greater warmth’ than other language models

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Developers must enter the simulation track by August 9, while a separate strategy competition carries a $240,000 prize pool and closes September 13 The Pokémon Company is inviting developers to build AI agents for a Pokémon TCG competition hosted on Kaggle. Image credit: The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Company is inviting developers to build AI Training Agents capable of playing the Pokémon Trading Card Game in two competitions hosted on Kaggle . The challenge uses a competitive simulation in which agents must construct decks, respond to opponents and make decisions involving probability, hidden information and changing game states. Participants can enter the simulation without joining the associated hackathon, but the simulation track does not carry monetary prizes. Kaggle says the separate strategy category has a $240,000 prize pool. Simulation submissions close August 16, 2026, while participants have until September 13, 2026, to share their approach and reasoning in the strategy competition. A starter notebook provided by The Pokémon Company covers three initial tasks: constructing competitive decks, evaluating matchups against other agents and submitting a working AI to the competition. Training agents for uncertain game states Pokémon TCG players must make decisions without knowing the cards held by their opponents. Card draws, coin tosses, Pokémon types and thousands of possible card combinations add further variables. The organizers are encouraging participants to explore methods for strategy learning and decision-making within that environment. They note that rule-based programming alone may not be sufficient to achieve a high ranking because agents must adapt to different decks and developing strategies. Participants receive a simulator software development kit for local training, testing, debugging and reinforcement learning. It uses the same game logic as the Kaggle competition environment. During each turn, an agent receives an observation containing game logs, the board state and a list of legal options. It then returns the indices of its selected actions. The engine only presents moves permitted within the simulation. The challenge uses the cabt Engine, a Pokémon TCG battle simulator built for Kaggle Environments. The competition materials note that some simulator behavior differs from the official Pokémon TCG rules. How simulation entries are ranked Teams can submit up to five agents each day. Only their two most recent submissions remain active, although the leaderboard displays the team’s highest-scoring agent. Each new submission first plays a validation game against a copy of itself. Failed submissions are marked as errors, with agent logs available to help participants identify the problem. Agents that pass validation enter the matchmaking pool with an initial estimated skill rating of 600. The system repeatedly pairs agents with similar ratings, updating their estimates after wins, losses and draws. Newer submissions play games more frequently to provide faster feedback. The size of a win or loss does not affect the rating adjustment. Updates instead reflect the expected result based on the agents’ previous ratings and the uncertainty attached to each estimate. Prize eligibility and submission deadlines Participants must accept its rules by August 9, which is also the deadline for joining or merging teams. Although the simulation ladder does not award cash prizes, its results contribute to the prize process for participants who also submit a report to the hackathon track. Final prize rankings will combine simulation leaderboard performance with the hackathon evaluation. Kaggle’s LinkedIn announcement calls this second route the Strategy competition, while the simulation page refers to it as the Hackathon track. The stated prize pool for the strategy category is $240,000. Simulation entries must be submitted as a .tar.gz bundle no larger than 197.7 MiB, with main.py in the top-level directory and a deck.csv file included. Final simulation submissions are due by 11:59 p.m. UTC on August 16. Games will continue from August 17 until approximately August 31, or until the leaderboard converges, before the final rankings are confirmed.

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The company, which uses conversational AI to plan and book overseas holidays, will use the funds to expand into new markets and grow its engineering team

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As AI platforms fuel a boom in new app releases, mobile and AI product leader and exited founder Ivo Weevers argues that lasting app success still depends on something no tool can generate: a mobile mindset. A new generation of AI

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Google LLC is reportedly developing a new chip optimized to run its Gemini series of artificial intelligence models. Sources told The Information today that the processor is codenamed “Frozen v2”. According to the publication, it’s expected to provide between six and ten times better performance per watt than the search giant’s current silicon. Shares of [...] The post Google reportedly developing ‘Frozen v2’ AI chip optimized for Gemini models appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

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