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The platform will test AI applications in roads, healthcare, education, water management and grievance redressal before scaling.

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Asian stocks slipped broadly in choppy Tuesday trading as doubts over the durability of a Middle East ceasefire blunted the boost from AI optimism. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.6%, having fluctuated between gains and losses as trading commenced. Regional declines were led by Korean shares tumbling as much as ... The post Global stocks slide as Middle East anxiety offsets AI optimism appeared first on Central Chronicle .

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SINGAPORE, June 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Life science research is entering an AI era, but most discovery teams still cannot use frontier models at scale. Advanced AI models, molecular simulation tools, scientific databases, inference optimization and GPU infrastructure remain fragmented across separa...

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DuckDuckGo's No AI search engine is now easier to access for people to set as their default. Here's how to do it.

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Anthropic confidentially files for a US IPO, eyes going public after SEC review, valued at 965 billion after Series H, rival OpenAI valued at 852 billion amid surging AI demand

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Florida becomes first state to sue OpenAI - claiming ChatGPT helped criminals including school shooters Sky News OpenAI let ChatGPT aid and abet mass shooters, Florida lawsuit claims BBC Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for ‘hurting’ children Financial Times 'Happy [and safe] shooting!' AI chatbot's chilling message Australian Broadcasting Corporation Florida becomes first state to sue OpenAI over child safety risks Reuters

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Finastra has brought together industry leaders in Sydney for its Innovating Finance Together Summit focused on driving real world impact through AI platform modernization and industry wide collaboration

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Qualcomm Technologies has announced the Qualcomm DragonwingTM IQ10 Robotics Reference Design (RRD), a comprehensive full-stack robotics platform designed to help developers and OEMs accelerate the transition from prototype development to large-scale commercial deployment of intelligent robotic systems. Set to be officially showcased at Computex 2026, the Dragonwing IQ10 RRD integrates... The post Qualcomm Unveils Dragonwing IQ10 Robotics Reference Design to Accelerate Next-Generation AI-Powered Robotics appeared first on DEVICENEXT .

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Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said South Korea should use rising tax reve..

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Reuters reports Anthropic is weighing a round at a valuation above $900 billion, with the raise expected near $50 billion, a mark that would make it the most valuable private AI company in the world to date. The round is

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Employees will be able to handle HR and finance tasks inside Gemini Enterprise, reducing the need to switch between workplace apps.

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Asian share markets remain underpinned by demand for semiconductors and AI-related gear, with Japan's Nikkei up a further 0.5 per cent, having risen almost 5 per cent last week to all-time highs

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US takes step to halt Nvidia AI chip shipments to Chinese firms outside China melissa_fernan... Mon, 1 Jun 2026 - 09:37 THE U.S. Department of Commerce on Sunday moved to close a potential loophole that may have led companies to export the world's most advanced chips - like Nvidia's most sophisticated Blackwell processors - to subsidiaries of Chinese companies located outside China. The unexpected guidance suggests that the United States' best AI chips may have been making their way to the subsidiaries of Chinese AI firms based in places such as Malaysia despite broader U.S. efforts to starve Chinese firms of semiconductors needed to develop critical AI capabilities. The new guidance was posted on the Commerce Department's website on Sunday after a paper about the loophole circulated in Washington, according to people familiar with the matter. The paper, a copy of which was seen by Reuters , says "the floodgates have quietly opened." Dated Friday, the paper does not list any author. It is unclear how many of the chips have been exported in the year that the Trump administration left the door open. One chip industry source with deep supply-chain knowledge estimated it was in the hundreds of thousands. In the unusual weekend guidance, the department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) said it would enforce license requirements for advanced chips to entities headquartered in China when the entities were located outside China. “BIS issued guidance clarifying export license requirements that have been in place since 2023,” a bureau spokesperson said. “BIS will continue to enforce export controls rigorously to safeguard critical American technology.” The new guidance does not change anything for Nvidia, a company official said, adding that it could not ship the chips because the Commerce Department had clearly imposed a license requirement on Nvidia in a letter. AMD, another big producer of sought-after AI chips, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Commerce Department created the opening when it announced in May 2025 that it would not be enforcing the AI Diffusion rule issued in the last days of the Biden administration. The rule had licensing requirements governing global access to AI chips. Former State Department official Chris McGuire, an expert on technology and national security, said in a social media post on Sunday that the loophole allowed the overseas subsidiaries of Chinese companies to buy Nvidia Blackwell chips without a license. "This is a HUGE problem," he said. "Chinese companies have been buying these chips, very likely at scale," McGuire said. McGuire said the guidance closes the loophole, but leaves another open. That loophole drops the requirement that Taiwan-based TSMC and other foundries do extra due diligence to ensure the high-end AI chips they are making are not for Chinese front companies. He said that issue was not fixed by the guidance. A spokesman for TSMC declined comment. In addition, the new guidance does not require data centers to stop using the chips or cut off servicing of the advanced computing items such as servers. Disable Ads Off Brand Safe On THE U.S. Department of Commerce on Sunday moved to close a potential loophole that may have led companies to export the world's most advanced chips - like Nvidia's most sophisticated Blackwell processors - to subsidiaries of Chinese companies located outside China. The unexpected guidance suggests that the United States' best AI chips may have been making their way to the subsidiaries of Chinese AI firms based in places such as Malaysia despite broader U.S. efforts to starve Chinese firms of semiconductors needed to develop critical AI capabilities. The new guidance was posted on the Commerce Department's website on Sunday after a paper about the loophole circulated in Washington, according to people familiar with the matter. The paper, a copy of which was seen by Reuters , says "the floodgates have quietly opened." Dated Friday, the paper does not list any author. It is unclear how many of the chips have been exported in the year that the Trump administration left the door open. One chip industry source with deep supply-chain knowledge estimated it was in the hundreds of thousands. In the unusual weekend guidance, the department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) said it would enforce license requirements for advanced chips to entities headquartered in China when the entities were located outside China. “BIS issued guidance clarifying export license requirements that have been in place since 2023,” a bureau spokesperson said. “BIS will continue to enforce export controls rigorously to safeguard critical American technology.” The new guidance does not change anything for Nvidia, a company official said, adding that it could not ship the chips because the Commerce Department had clearly imposed a license requirement on Nvidia in a letter. AMD, another big producer of sought-after AI chips, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Commerce Department created the opening when it announced in May 2025 that it would not be enforcing the AI Diffusion rule issued in the last days of the Biden administration. The rule had licensing requirements governing global access to AI chips. Former State Department official Chris McGuire, an expert on technology and national security, said in a social media post on Sunday that the loophole allowed the overseas subsidiaries of Chinese companies to buy Nvidia Blackwell chips without a license. "This is a HUGE problem," he said. "Chinese companies have been buying these chips, very likely at scale," McGuire said. McGuire said the guidance closes the loophole, but leaves another open. That loophole drops the requirement that Taiwan-based TSMC and other foundries do extra due diligence to ensure the high-end AI chips they are making are not for Chinese front companies. He said that issue was not fixed by the guidance. A spokesman for TSMC declined comment. In addition, the new guidance does not require data centers to stop using the chips or cut off servicing of the advanced computing items such as servers. 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Operating large language model (LLM) services like ChatGPT requires a server infrastructure on the scale of tens of thousands of units. However, constructing actual equipment every time a new AI semiconductor or system architecture needs to be verified incurs massive costs and time.

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Google AI Ultra turns Gemini into a far more expensive AI workspace built around AI agents, video generation, and advanced productivity tools. The launch also shows how AI companies are increasingly separating casual users from high-paying power users. The post Google AI Ultra turns Gemini into a premium AI subscription appeared first on Memeburn .

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The UK government has selected a vendor for facial age estimation. Worth £322,000 ($433,745), the three-year contract begins on June 1, 2026 and runs for three years. The contract award notice lists established British IT provider Akhter Computers Limited as the main contractor, with biometrics services subcontracted to German facial recognition specialists Cognitec . The award moves facial age estimation from pilot and policy discussions into operational use within the UK's asylum system. It also places the technology at the center of a contentious debate over migration, children's rights and the role of AI in government decision-making. The contract comes as the Home Office formally incorporates facial age estimation into its asylum age-assessment framework. Newly published guidance explains how facial age estimation can be used to support immigration officers making initial decisions about whether undocumented arrivals should be treated as children or adults. The document outlines how facial age estimation can be used to classify asylum seekers. “Asylum seekers frequently arrive at the UK border with no official identity documents and so it can sometimes be difficult to know for sure which are children,” it says. “A child might look like an adult when they are not, and vice versa. Adult migrants sometimes claim to be children to prevent their removal and to take advantage of protections designed for minors. Sometimes children say they are adults to avoid being separated from friends. In some cases, a person simply doesn’t know their actual chronological age.” “If there is reason to doubt someone is the age they say they are, immigration officers must make an initial age decision to determine whether to treat them as a child or an adult. Facial age estimation , or FAE, can help the officials whose job it is to make these important decisions.” The guidance quotes a November 2025 Home Office policy paper, which stated, “early assessment suggests that facial age estimation is effective and could produce workable results much quicker than other potential methods, such as bone X-rays or MRI scans, and at a fraction of the cost.” The move comes as the Home Office faces scrutiny over the accuracy of existing age assessment processes. Home Office figures released this month showed that 326 people initially assessed as adults were later found to be children, raising questions about whether AI tools can improve consistency while avoiding new forms of error or bias. Vendors take bias, accuracy seriously Efficiency and cost-saving measures are all well and good. And the Home Office promises that FAE would “be used only as a supplementary tool for immigration officers, providing additional information to help them make initial age decisions.” Nonetheless, the use of biometrics and AI in immigration enforcement has historically attracted significant scrutiny from civil society groups and privacy advocates. The government appears to have foreseen criticism; the guidance includes a section addressing “misconceptions over how FAE will be used.” It distinguishes facial age estimation from facial recognition — "FAE estimates how old someone is. Facial recognition determines who someone is" — and insists that AI is not replacing human decision-making. The question that remains is, how much will this assuage those who will see “asylum seekers” and “biometrics” and immediately draw worrying conclusions ? The guidance also acknowledges that “there is evidence in testing data that FAE performance can vary depending on ethnicity, skin tone, gender, place of birth and quality of input image. NIST found that error rates were almost always higher for female faces, although it didn’t find out why as testing was purely on performance rather than how algorithms work.” “Vendors take bias seriously and commercial FAE technology is trained to be representative of the broadest possible demographic range of potential users.” Home Office takes different tone in defiant post Appeals to fairness and technical efficiency, however, lose some of their tang when the same government publishes an article on LinkedIn boasting of “cutting-edge AI tech to curb fake under-18 claims and boost removals and deportations.” While one hand assures, the other makes aggressive gestures in the direction of “small boat arrivals posing as children.” The UK now sees 111,000 asylum seekers a year, and the issue has become a sore point in the country’s political landscape. “For too long, adult migrants making false age claims have exploited the system and diverted vital support away from children at risk,” says Minister for Border Security and Asylum, Alex Norris. “That is why we are rolling out AI technology to put a stop to this, ensuring those who game the system are identified, detained and removed without delay, and those who deserve support and protection are given it.” “We will continue to do whatever it takes to secure our borders.” The rhetoric contrasts with recently published Home Office figures showing that hundreds of asylum seekers initially assessed as adults were later determined to be children. Those findings have intensified debate over whether new technologies can reduce errors without creating new risks. Facial age estimation is being positioned as a way to improve consistency and reduce errors in asylum age assessments. Whether the technology can achieve that while satisfying concerns about bias, transparency and the treatment of vulnerable migrants is likely to determine how broadly it is accepted.

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Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores The Verge This startup wants to clean your dirty dishes and clutter for free to help train AI Business Insider Physical AI Data Is So Valuable This Startup Cleans Your Home For Free (To Train Robots) Forbes This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots The Verge Pronto charges for cleaning, Shift does it free. Both are chasing the same AI prize Firstpost

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“CSI” creator Anthony Zuiker got a phone call about six months ago from his former CAA colleague David Freeman, who left his role as the agency’s digital media chief to found the startup Kynetic Media Ventures, who wanted to figure out a project about “real-time true crime.” But while Zuiker wasn’t interested in another vertical video [...]

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Box CEO Aaron Levie coined "AI psychosis" to describe executives who grow overconfident after seeing demos but never encounter the hard steps needed to make AI reliable in production. His fix: use the tools long enough to find out what breaks.

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The Small Business Development Center hosted by College of the Canyons will offer a free webinar, "AI for Product Research: Find Winning Products Before Your Competition," on Wednesday, June 3 from 10-11 a.m.

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Amazon MGM Studios' GenAI Creators' Fund, aimed at producing three animated series using AI, has drawn criticism after acclaimed director Jorge R. Gutierrez announced his departure from the Punky Duck project due to social media backlash over AI use in filmmaking. Gutierrez issued an apology and stepped away, while Amazon continues with two other AI-powered shows, Cupcake & Friends and Love, Diana Music Hunters. The move highlights ongoing tensions between technological innovation and creative community concerns in the animation industry.

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City Lights theater in San Jose is presenting Lauren Gunderson’s hyper-timely stage thriller.

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As previewed last week, Gemini Spark is now available in the US for Google AI Ultra subscribers. more...

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Company Blew $500M On Claude AI In One Month Due To No Usage Limit On Licenses For Employees Yahoo Finance AI sticker shock hits corporate America Axios Tokens or humans? The new corporate trade-off CNBC Microsoft reports are exposing AI's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees Fortune Client Accidentally Burns $500 Million on Claude AI in One Month: Here’s How Yahoo Finance

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Ravie LakshmananMay 29, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence An unknown threat actor has been observed using a large language model (LLM) agent to conduct post-compromise actions after obtaining initial access following...

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