4+ hour, 13+ min ago   (289+ words) Tencent Holdings is urging big tech firms to work together to enhance the way chatbots and digital assistants engage with senior citizens, children left behind, and other vulnerable populations that depend more and more on these tools for emotional support…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (801+ words) Japan's second largest city, Osaka, has begun testing autonomous AI agents in local government in an attempt to ease the country's shrinking work force. Osaka Prefecture has launched a public-private consortium that will experiment with AI Agents designed to provide…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (660+ words) China is ramping up efforts to wean itself off European weather data as it seeks to become a leader in the global field of meteorology and climate science. Officials are promoting a homegrown data set designed for the era of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (390+ words) Google's DeepMind will be launching its first research lab in its new search for new materials, such as those used in batteries and semiconductors, as part of a wider push to push artificial intelligence into research in science." The facility,…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (626+ words) TU Wien study shows LLMs do not drift into randomness when idle but form stable behavior patterns. GPT-5 and o3 always built projects, Opus turned philosophical, while Grok showed all behaviors. A new study from TU Wien shows that LLMs do…...