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APPLIED AI
The FCA's position is that you don't need a new rulebook to regulate a new technology when your existing rules already ask what the technology does to people and markets, and it is applying that position to AI in UK...
APPLIED AI
Labour-market forecasts have assumed that automation removes tasks one at a time and leaves the occupation standing. Agentic AI, which completes whole workflows, invalidates that assumption, and a new composite...
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Financial services has spent 20 to 25 years treating modernisation as a project with an end date. Opening the Oracle Financial Services Summit in London, Dr. Leda Glyptis argued that the industry's weaker record is...
APPLIED AI
An AI assistant worked on two problems about progression-free sets: an argument for the reciprocal-sum problem, and a quasipolynomial bound for every fixed progression length. It used Bloom and...
APPLIED AI
At the Economist Enterprise Physical AI and Robotics Summit in London, aerospace and manufacturing leaders dismantled the silicon-valley narrative of the general-purpose humanoid robot. While venture capital pours billions into bipedal forms, industrial reality proves that form must strictly follow function.
APPLIED AI
Physical AI cannot scale on 700W data-centre GPUs. At the Economist Enterprise Physical AI and Robotics Summit, Mythic AI Chairman and CEO Taner Ozcelik demonstrated how in-memory compute and chiplet modularity collapse the Von Neumann memory wall to deliver biological-grade efficiency at the physical edge.
APPLIED AI
Robotics development has historically been gated behind six-figure hardware and brittle, hand-crafted kinematics. At the Economist Enterprise Physical AI and Robotics Summit, Hugging Face LeRobot lead Pepijn Kooijmans demonstrated how open-source foundation models and $200 hardware are breaking the industry wide open.
APPLIED AI
Deploying autonomous physical machines alongside human workforces introduces acute psychological and legal hazards that pure software never encountered. At the Economist Enterprise Physical AI and Robotics Summit, leaders from Kier Group and the British Standards Institution (BSI) established the governance blueprint for physical AI.
APPLIED AI
Foundations of Machine Learning, second edition, defines learning as using experience to make accurate predictions, and then builds a whole curriculum around the quantities that decide whether it works: data,...
APPLIED AI
A collection of results from an internal OpenAI model spans mathematics and theoretical computer science, and its sharpest result is exact: the asymptotic strength of the Cohn-Elkies linear program is now known,...
APPLIED AI
A detector for alignment failures that answers many typed questions in one call, with calibrated probabilities, ranks failures well and costs 63× less than LLM-judge scorers. But those probabilities don't transfer...
APPLIED AI
MIT's ad hoc committee on AI doesn't treat generative AI as a tooling problem to be patched with a policy. Its report treats it as a pressure test on what an MIT education is for, and argues that uncertainty can't be...
