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Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules ‘utterly stupid’ as Linux drops its tag

“Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?” Linus Torvalds wrote this on the Linux kernel mailing list on 13 October. He was replying to a developer who wants contributors to keep declaring when they use AI tools. The Register first reported the exchange. The rule in question is the […]

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MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come

“Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. Is capable of out-thinking us.” Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October. He was giving his annual threat update at MI5’s London headquarters. In the same speech, he announced a new […]

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Ramp passes $2bn in revenue as its Europe chief confirms the $60bn round

“Today, Ramp raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation,” Eric Oancea, who leads Ramp in Europe, wrote on LinkedIn. His post confirms the round that Bloomberg reported on 10 October. Ramp’s co-founders, Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh, marked the new valuation with a blog post on 15 October, titled “Ramp at $60B: The End of the […]

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Geoffrey Hinton tells the Guardian humans are creating ‘alien beings’

“Now we’re creating alien beings … And the reality is, we only have a couple of years to adapt to that.” Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate often called a “godfather” of AI, said this to the Guardian. The interview ran on 13 October. Leyland Cecco interviewed him in Toronto. Hinton also answered Nvidia chief Jensen […]

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Poland tells tech platforms to curb violent content after school attacks

Poland summoned Google, Meta, TikTok, Discord, and Telegram on Friday and told them to do more to stop violent content from spreading after knife attacks at schools, Reuters reported. Elon Musk’s X was also invited but did not attend. The attacks took place over four days last week in Ostrołęka, near Wyszków, and in Warsaw. […]

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CERN and Mistral plan an AI foundation model for particle physics

CERN and French AI company Mistral signed a statement of intent on 15 October to build a “Large Physics Model“, which CERN calls the first foundation model for collider physics. It will be trained on simulated Large Hadron Collider data to help reconstruct and identify particles. No budget or timeline was disclosed. CERN and Mistral […]

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Germany to announce AI partnership with Nvidia next week, sources say

Germany plans to announce an agreement with Nvidia next week to help its industry make more use of AI, Handelsblatt reported. The sources said the deal will be a big boost for AI in industry, and that other partners besides Nvidia will join. The German government has not commented publicly, and we have not independently […]

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Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will build their next driving systems on Nvidia

Mercedes-Benz will develop its next generation of driver assistance and automated driving systems with Nvidia, the two companies said on Friday. The announcement came a day after Volvo Cars expanded its own Nvidia partnership for automated driving. Both carmakers will build on the same Nvidia self-driving stack. It combines the Hyperion computer and sensor architecture, […]

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EU says it is in talks with Google over changes after €890M DMA fine

The European Commission is in talks with Google about the steps the company may take following the EU’s €890M (about $1bn) fine in July. The Commission confirmed the talks on Wednesday to Reuters. The fines were issued under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU law that sets rules for the largest online platforms. In […]

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Norrsken and Nvidia to open Stockholm AI Lab for founders in 2027

Norrsken Foundation and Nvidia will open a hub for AI startups in central Stockholm in 2027. The Stockholm AI Lab will host a select group of European founders who use AI to address problems in climate, health, food and society, and it will also be home to Nvidia’s Stockholm office. The lab will sit in […]

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