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The White House has reversed course and restored the UK's AI Security Institute's early access to AI models from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI. In September, the Trump administration had told the companies to stop sharing their models with the British agency. Diplomatic…
Microsoft’s Maia 300 chip. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI…
Технологический проект Network School, штаб-квартира которого находится в Казахстане, объявил о привлечении инвестиций при оценке бизнеса в $2 млрд. В раунде участвуют крупные международные игроки венчурного и криптовалютного рынков, включая Polychain Capital, Andreessen…
Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and now at Anthropic, sees a widening knowledge gap in AI. About 75 percent of the world's population has barely touched LLMs. Roughly 5,000 people, meanwhile, have access to internal frontier systems whose agent swarms do work that would…
One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better it will be able to assist them with tasks and make appropriate suggestions, which, if you'll believe the tech companies, requires apps and devices to listen, watch, or record users' activity all…
King Philippe of the Belgians addressed the Kazakh people with the traditional national blessing. The European monarch emphasized the country’s rich heritage, rooted in the era of the Golden Horde, noted the traditions of hospitality and called Kazakhstan a vanguard in the development of artificial...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind The US and China are racing to build bases on the moon, with NASA hoping to establish…
Николас Кейдж рассказал о разногласиях с Amazon, которые возникли во время работы над сериалом «Паук-Нуар». Теперь актер сомневается, что когда-нибудь снова будет работать с компанией. Kursiv LifeStyle рассказывает, что произошло за кулисами проекта. На New York Comic Con Кейдж…
Сервисы «Яндекс» могут быть восстановлены уже в ближайшее время. Об этом рассказал министр искусственного интеллекта и цифрового развития Жаслан Мадиев. По словам министра, «Яндекс» в Казахстане уже работает. Однако специалисты компании продолжают устранять последствия сбоев.…
Welcome to the second space race. You can be forgiven for experiencing déjà vu. Last time, it was the Soviet Union and the United States vying to be the first to plant some flags. Now it’s a sprint to the lunar surface between America and China—alongside a host of varyingly…
Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus solved dozens of open math problems, including nine Erdős problems two of which were unsolved for 56 years, per a study in Science. The publication comes as OpenAI faces a boycott for dumping AI proofs on GitHub without peer review. Deepmind…
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s startup ecosystem is moving from a period of rapid expansion toward a more demanding stage focused on revenue, international customers and global growth, according to the…
Американский рэпер Soulja Boy намекнул, что может побороться за пост президента США в 2028 году. В Instagram он опубликовал лозунг «SOULJA BOY 2028» и рассказал, какие темы хотел бы сделать приоритетными. Похоже, артист решил, что музыкальной карьеры для громких заявлений уже…
Генеральная прокуратура Казахстана отчиталась о пресечении деятельности крупного нелегального кредитора — интернет-платформы Alem Credit. По факту незаконной микрофинансовой деятельности Департамент экономических расследований по Алматы ведет досудебное расследование.…
Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date.
Корпоративные ИИ-агенты могут нарушать правила, несмотря на точность выполнения задач.
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When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley's most powerful are falling…
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
В министерстве ИИ и цифрового развития РК уведомили, что серверы хранения персональных данных казахстанских пользователей «Яндекса» работают штатно. Как отметили в ведомстве, перебои в работе сервисов «Яндекса» вызвали обоснованные вопросы относительно надежности цифровых…
Teams of AI agents barely outperform solo agents but cost up to 5.1x more, according to Vals AI. Only one out of four tests with GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 showed a measurable gain. Anthropic's own data backs this up: beyond ten agents, quality plateaus while token costs keep…
Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break
Epoch AI and Anthropic independently found the same thing: current AI models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 can run experiments but lack scientific self-criticism and genuine creative thinking. At best, Sol reached 15 percent of the human reference score, and even that came…
The Atlas humanoid robot doing a cartwheel. | Source: Boston Dynamics Robots have captured our imagination. We have seen humanoids balancing on one leg, doing backflips, folding laundry, and moving smoothly over difficult terrain. This is all behavior that only a few years ago…
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Baby’s first local AI agent. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it's increasingly…
Data from a16z shows a Jevons paradox in the AI market: token prices keep falling, but H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or climb. Cheaper AI drives demand faster than costs drop. If that demand flattens, the chain from chip makers to cloud providers takes a hit. The article…
Starting October 2026, arXiv will cap submissions at two per person per month. Monthly submissions have doubled in two years, and in the cs.AI category they've grown more than sixfold. According to arXiv, a small fraction of authors are flooding the platform with low-quality…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now calls artificial intelligence "super intelligence" instead of artificial intelligence, falling in line with Trump's preferred language. In his latest blog post, he frames AI models as insider security threats, taking yet another shot at OpenAI and…
Odyssey is making its world model Odyssey-3 available as a public research preview. The 14-billion-parameter model generates interactive environments from text prompts in real time and can reportedly control robots, drones, and even GTA V. Odyssey claims top scores on physics…