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Firebird launches largest AI factory in Commonwealth of Independent States region in Armenia with 70000 processing units and 300 megawatts of computing power

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Firebird, the emerging provider of cloud computing specialized in artificial intelligence, announced the launch of the largest AI factory in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region in Armenia, a step that places the South Caucasus on the global AI infrastructure map. The

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From Artificial Intelligence to Arab National Security why waiting is no longer an option

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In the investigation The bomb that makes itself, we discussed how artificial intelligence has transformed from a tool to boost productivity into a focal point for competition among major powers, and how the outlines of a new international system are taking shape around

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OpenAI halts development of Astra after model reaches critical threshold in cybersecurity capabilities

Listen to this article Read by Anchor OpenAI announced that it has halted part of the development work on its upcoming model “Astra” after internal assessments revealed a notable advance in programming and cybersecurity capabilities, bringing the model close to the threshold the company classifies as “critical” within its readiness

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Cohere and Waterloo Build an AI Transformation Certificate

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Canadian company Cohere, a leader in sovereign AI, has announced a partnership with the University of Waterloo to develop a new certificate in “AI Transformation and Change Management”. The move reframes how talent is prepared to lead technology adoption within organisations, rather than

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WeatherNext model gives an extra day of hurricane warning and Google opens the code

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In a step that redraws the limits of extreme weather forecasting, Google DeepMind announced that its new model, WeatherNext, has achieved a breakthrough in predicting hurricane tracks and intensity, giving relevant authorities an average of 24 additional hours of early warning, before the

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UK AI Security Institute Reports First Autonomous Incident: Advanced Models Targeted Open Projects and Real People

Listen to this article Read by Anchor On July 28, 2026, monitoring systems at the UK AI Security Institute, AISI, detected unusual data traffic leaving one test environment through the Tor network to conceal its source. What followed in the first hour was the first documented incident of an advanced

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Two Third-Party Evaluation Incidents Show That Test Boundaries Are Part of Model Safety

Listen to this article Read by Anchor A test may begin inside a lab, then affect the real internet because its technical boundaries did not match what its operators assumed. That is what OpenAI disclosed on August 4 when it detailed two incidents during cyber evaluations carried out by independent

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A $100 Million Plan to Redistribute US Research Capacity: Can Scientific Computing Become Regional Infrastructure?

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What if advanced computing were no longer a resource monopolised by a large laboratory or cloud company, but a service shared by universities, local governments and institutions across an entire region? That is the question opened by a US programme worth $100 million.

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Cohere Signs EU Code of Practice on AI Content Transparency, an Early Step Toward AI Act Compliance

Listen to this article Read by Anchor At a moment when the global regulatory race around AI is accelerating, Cohere, one of the few open-weight model companies competing for enterprise business, has chosen to become an early signatory to the European Code of Practice on transparency for AI-generated content. The

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Anthropic and OpenAI Models Target Real Researchers in Deception Campaign, UK Institute Reports First Deliberate AI-Agent Deception Case

Listen to this article Read by Anchor In what it describes as a first in the history of advanced AI model evaluations, the UK AI Security Institute, AISI, disclosed a serious security incident in late July. Two agents based on Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol

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China’s GLM-5.2 Nears Frontier Performance as the Safety Gap Widens

Listen to this article Read by Anchor GLM-5.2, from Chinese company Z.ai, achieved performance close to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 in cyber and biological capability tests, but refused none of the dangerous tasks it was given. That is the stark conclusion

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Saudi Cabinet Approves Statute for UNESCO-Sponsored AI Ethics Centre in Riyadh

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The Saudi Cabinet approved at its meeting today the statute of the International Center for AI Research and Ethics, which will be based in Riyadh and operate under the auspices of UNESCO. This is not a routine administrative step. It is an explicit

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Anthropic’s $10 Billion Volta Deal Brings Nvidia’s Newest Chips to Norway

Listen to this article Read by Anchor A $10 billion, six-year contract that will place Nvidia’s latest Vera Rubin chips in a Norwegian data centre run by a former cryptocurrency miner. That is what Bloomberg revealed and a TechCrunch report confirmed on August 4. Anthropic, the maker of Claude,

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Washington Finalises Frontier Model Review Framework, Keeps Rules Private

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The US administration has completed a framework intended to govern the government's early access to the most powerful AI models. But it has not published the text, identified the companies that have seen it or said when it will be used.

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Qatar's Courts Put Arabic and Judicial Independence at the Centre of AI Governance

Listen to this article Read by Anchor What happens when an AI system enters a courtroom with a better command of English than Arabic? The question may sound technical, but it affects the accurate interpretation of evidence, procedural fairness and judicial independence. On August 3, UNESCO published a later official

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Who Controls AI’s Brakes? Silicon Valley Is Split

Listen to this article Read by Anchor The dispute over open-weight models is no longer a technical debate confined to developers. Over the past few hours, it has emerged as a question of power: who has the right to run the most capable models, and who can slow their development

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When AI Treats Books as Disposable Training Data

Listen to this article Read by Anchor If everything else is changing, books were hardly going to be spared. They had to change too. But the question is how? We have heard about the problems AI companies, particularly Anthropic, have faced with publishers and intellectual property owners, and about lawsuits

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Europe Makes AI Content Labelling a Legal Obligation

Listen to this article Read by Anchor As of today, the question in Europe is no longer whether people should be told they are interacting with an AI system, but how that disclosure will reach them clearly from the first interaction. On August 2, 2026, Article 50 of the EU

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Europe Offers €10 Billion to Build Seven AI Gigafactories

Listen to this article Read by Anchor At least 100,000 advanced chips at each site, seven proposed locations and €30 billion to be raised from public and private capital. These are not the specifications of an ordinary data centre. They are Europe's attempt to move technological sovereignty

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SSI Gets Ten Times More Compute as NVIDIA Enters Its Closely Guarded Lab

Listen to this article Read by Anchor A company whose stated goal is to build safe superintelligence, and which offers no commercial product, is about to receive ten times more compute. That is the confirmed development in a long-term partnership announced by Safe Superintelligence Inc., known as SSI, and NVIDIA.

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The Bomb That Builds Itself

Listen to this article Read by Anchor Investigation More than 1,200 engineers from inside the AI industry are asking Washington for brakes on a machine they are building with their own hands. This is the story of the Pacing the Frontier petition, and how the world reached the night

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Europe delays high-risk system deadlines and expands the AI Office’s authority

Europe’s package simplifying AI rules has entered into force with later deadlines for high-risk systems and wider testing spaces, without abandoning oversight or bans on harmful uses.

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China opened its models to the world, then marked a door that will not open

A new signal from state media suggests that core AI capabilities should remain available, while the most dangerous capabilities are placed behind controls and tests.

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Hyundai Charts a Path for Physical AI, From the Factory to the City

Hyundai links robots, factories and operational data into a physical-AI roadmap that reaches city scale. The regional lesson: compute needs a local industrial data loop.

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Britain moves AI leadership to the centre of government

A new AI taskforce will report directly to the British prime minister, while the security institute moves to the centre of government. The step offers a practical benchmark for comparing governance structures in the region.

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