Japan's plan for a shrinking workforce: 10 million robots by 2040, for elder care, factories, even Fukushima cleanup. The harder half is Noetra, a new SoftBank/NEC/Sony/Honda consortium building the physical AI to actually run them.
https://t.co/RFK05xO8OF
The Bank of England floated a market wide 'kill switch' to halt trading if AI agents destabilise markets. Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden says existing rules weren't built for autonomous agents, and 52% of finance firms already use them.
https://t.co/7mlryYHDCN
The Meta brain-to-text result is easy to over-read. Non-invasive decoding went from ~8% to ~61% word accuracy: the accuracy, long the hard part, is starting to give. But it's a room-sized MEG scanner at a 39% error rate. Impractical, not hopeless, and impractical problems tend to yield.
https://t.co/MVYyHrhuLs
Meta FAIR's Brain2Qwerty v2 reconstructs typed sentences from brain activity with a non-invasive MEG scanner, no implant. Real leap (~8% to ~61% word accuracy), but honest limits: a 39% word error rate, MEG is a room-sized lab machine. Assistive-comms research, not a product.
https://t.co/lmKt962x3W
Gustave, our concierge, can assist you by suggesting prompts with our "Surprise me" ๐ช button, like this one for @Kling_ai 3 Pro: "A playful fox bounding through falling cherry blossoms in a vibrant garden. Sunlight filters through pink petals, illuminating the fox's russet fur."
South Korea unveiled its 'Three Mega Projects': a decade-long bet on memory chips, AI data centers, and humanoid robots. Samsung+SK Hynix ~$518B in new fabs, SK/GS/Naver building 8.4GW of data centers, and a push from ~1% to 20% of the humanoid robot market.
https://t.co/YwBBiEJtnb
TIDAL just stopped paying royalties on fully AI-generated music. Notably it's not a ban: AI tracks stay, get an 'AI' badge for listeners, but earn zero and can't do direct-to-fan sales. The line it's drawing isn't fraud, it's royalties to humans.
https://t.co/lrjarc96Q9
Happy International Day of the Tropics! Did you know tropical regions make up about 40% of the Earth's surface and are home to roughly 80% of the world's biodiversity? ๐
"Three grey aliens standing in front of a desktop computer and looking at the screen, obviously in awe of what they're seeing" by @alibaba_cloud's Wan 2.6
The Ford story isn't 'AI failed.' It's subtler and more important: you can't fire the experienced people whose judgment the AI needed to learn from, then expect the software to have it. Institutional knowledge in people's heads doesn't transfer to a model for free.
https://t.co/LKxeRMqeiC
Ford rehired ~350 veteran engineers after its AI quality tools fell short. Its own diagnosis: the AI wasn't broken, the experienced people left before their judgment was captured, so the tools amplified weak inputs instead of catching the flaws.
https://t.co/JcFq3vqk5g
The DeepSeek DSpark detail that matters: they open-sourced DeepSpec, the toolkit to train these speedups, and made it work on Gemma and Qwen too. Speculative decoding is the unglamorous lever that quietly makes open models cheaper to run, and DeepSeek just handed it to everyone.
https://t.co/15dSWriZ64
DeepSeek released DSpark, a speculative-decoding framework that speeds up DeepSeek-V4 inference and beats Eagle3 and DFlash. The bigger move: it open-sourced DeepSpec, the training toolkit, which works on Gemma and Qwen too, not just DeepSeek.
https://t.co/ZyxebxZqe0
A report that OpenAI may delay its IPO to 2027 knocked ~12% off SoftBank in a day, no decision, just the report. SoftBank has ~65B dollars in OpenAI plus a 40B dollar bridge loan due March 2027.
https://t.co/FxYb5x7TQN