State of AI right now.

With all of the attention being paid to the compute resources required to power AI, connectivity is sometimes overlooked. This poses a new dynamic for those planning their next phase of AI deployment. Those who modernize their IP networks can unlock new revenue from AI-driven services, while those who delay risk losing competitive relevance. To…

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July 8 (Reuters) – OpenAI will launch GPT-5.6, its most advanced AI model, on Thursday after a delay prompted by U.S. ‌government concerns over the potential national security risks posed by ‌increasingly powerful AI systems. The release comes amid intensifying competition among AI developers who are ​racing to improve model performance, cut costs and expand…

Sakana AI has added a new feature called Sakana Translate to its chat service, Sakana Chat. It handles bidirectional translation across Japanese, English, and Chinese. The translation engine is Namazu, the company’s model series adapted for Japanese. Sakana Translate ships as a free web app. A single account unlocks all…

Last week, thousands of SamKnows routers were bricked after a government program ran its course. In 2020, as part of a program conducted by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian government’s chief competition regulator, thousands of volunteers received routers to help test and report on the typical speed and performance of broadband plans…

President Lee Jae-myung has formalized plans to create a “Future Response Fund” that will convert the massive additional tax revenue anticipated from the artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor boom into strategic investment resources for the nation’s future. The strategy aims to secure national growth engines by aggressively deploying the government’s fiscal capacity during a critical window…