Australia plans binding AI data-centre rules and rejects copyright carve-out for AI training
A new Office of AI starts immediately. Proposed standards that would force data centres to fund their own power and minimise water use go to National Cabinet in August, with legislation expected in early 2027. Australia plans to place binding legal obligations...
Apple's new on-device speech engine tops Whisper on English accuracy, benchmark finds
Inscribe's own tests put SpeechAnalyzer ahead of every Whisper model it ships at roughly three times the speed — but a...
Google's SensorFM: one wearable model beats bespoke health baselines on 34 of 35 tasks
Pretrained on a trillion minutes of Fitbit and Pixel Watch data from five million people, its learned representations outperform hand-crafted supervised...
New York Becomes First State to Impose a Data Center Moratorium
Hochul's executive order pauses permits for 50 MW-plus projects for up to a year, a narrower move than the...
Sixteen Nobel laureates warn AI could upend the economy within years
A four-sentence statement backed by 16 Nobel laureates and signatories from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic warns that the window to prepare...