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Why Karl Friston is betting on cultivating curiosity for sustainable AGI

The ARC-AGI-3 challenge launches today as the first interactive reasoning benchmark which stumps current frontier LLMs. Karl Friston, one of the most cited neuroscientists alive and Chief Scientist at VERSES AI, argues that his active inference framework can compete where LLMs fail because it does something they structurally cannot: encode uncertainty and be curious. The questions Friston is asking may outlast the answers Big AI is selling.

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The Secretary of War didn’t really mean it, contends US government lawyer as Anthropic gets its first day in court over Trump 2.0’s risk to the nation designation. So what did he mean?

A "supply chain risk designation in search of a rationale"! Anthropic might try to sabotage military systems when they do sofware upgrades! Claim and counter-claim - and it's only day one of a long running series of court appointments....

US politics

Anthropic's (first) day in court against Trump 2.0, and the Judge has some difficult questions for Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to answer...

Did Hegseth and Trump 2.0 in general over-step in its punative actions towards US tech champion Anthropic? We won't find out today by any manner of means, but the conflict is moving into a new phase...

AI law

Monday Morning Moan - Big Govt props up Big Tech. Why Trump 2.0's Federal landgrab is a regulatory win for the AI Bros, but a loss for society as a whole

Now we know - and it's pretty much what we feared. Control of AI regulation is to sit with Washington, but there will be no Federal regulatory body created to manage this. Instead, OpenAI, Google, Palantir, et al will be left to 'mark their own homework'!

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How do you launch a multi-million pound UK Government IT project? Without properly scoping the cost or the potential savings, of course!

The plans for a UK digital ID must not be another government IT failure, but the backers of the plan admit to having no clue right now as to how much the whole thing will cost the taxpayer or what the fiscal ROI might be.

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Monday Morning Moan - Metro Bank’s AI-enabled trashing of its customer service reputation is a timely reminder of the need for human intelligence

We all make mistakes. I did back in 2015 when I bigged up Metro Bank’s CRM. Times have changed and not for the better, although there are useful learnings for others to pick up...

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