Government & Policy Highlights
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U.S. Considers New AI Chip Export Controls
The U.S. Commerce Department unveiled a draft rule to curb shipments of Nvidia’s advanced AI processors to Malaysia and Thailand, key transshipment points potentially feeding China’s AI efforts, while maintaining strict bans on direct sales to China .
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South Australia Invests in Green-Powered AI Data Centers
Adelaide’s state government allocated A$28 million over four years to seed hyperscale AI data centers powered entirely by renewables, potentially up to 1 GW of green capacity, aimed at speeding up applications like clinical voice transcription and planning automation .
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Industry & Corporate Moves
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PwC Warns CEOs: Embrace AI or Fall Behind
Dan Priest, PwC’s Chief AI Officer, cautioned that without a clear AI strategy, encompassing both cutting-edge models and workforce reskilling, up to 40 percent of existing business frameworks risk obsolescence within a decade .
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Goldman Sachs Rolls Out Enterprise AI Assistant
According to an internal memo seen by Reuters, Goldman Sachs has deployed a generative-AI assistant across its 46,000 employees to streamline data analysis and document review, part of a broader push that may reshape hundreds of thousands of roles in finance .
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Meta’s Billion-Dollar Talent War
Meta is reportedly offering compensation packages exceeding US $100 million to lure three top OpenAI researchers, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, as it plows a US $65 billion budget into its superintelligence ambitions .
Meta Poaches Three OpenAI Researchers (WSJ). Read more
Ethics, Society & Education
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Academic Cheating Sparks “AI-Free Cloisters”
An essay in The Times lays out a radical proposal borrowed from monastic learning: create device-free study “cloisters” to preserve deep analytical skills, while permitting AI only in designated labs, as universities grapple with pervasive AI-assisted plagiarism .
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European Publishers Lodge Complaint Over Google AI Summaries
Independent European news outlets have filed an EU antitrust grievance against Google’s AI-generated Overviews, arguing these “zero-click” summaries are cannibalizing web traffic and ad revenue .
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Wimbledon’s AI Line-Call Controversy
After replacing all human line judges with the Hawk-Eye Live AI system, Wimbledon has faced criticism over call accuracy and the loss of traditional pageantry, despite officials pointing to ATP-mandated standards .
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Research & Development
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AGI Testing Disagreement: OpenAI vs. Microsoft
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft executives are at odds over how to benchmark true artificial general intelligence, OpenAI favors real-world task performance, while Microsoft wants rigorous, standardized protocols outside of easily “benchmarked” scenarios .
OpenAI and Microsoft are dueling over AGI. These real-world tests will prove when AI is really better than humans. Read more -
Sam Altman Predicts AGI Workforce Entry
In a recent interview, Altman forecasted that “virtual employees” or AI agents capable of autonomous decision-making could join the workforce by the end of 2025, reshaping job roles and productivity models .
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