An AI tool aims to wade through mountains of government feedback and understand what the public is trying to say. UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said: “No one should be wasting time on something AI can do quicker and better, let alone wasting millions of taxpayer…
The Sequence Opinion #542 : Some Ideas About the Future of MCP
Better discovery, networking models, memory and others….
Alibaba Wan2.1-VACE: Open-source AI video tool for all
Alibaba has unveiled Wan2.1-VACE, an open-source AI model designed to shake up how we create and edit videos. VACE isn’t appearing out of thin air; it’s part of Alibaba’s broader Wan2.1 family of video AI models. And they’re making a rather bold claim for it, stating…
AI Is Giving Pets a Voice: The Future of Feline Healthcare Begins with a Single Photo
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the way we care for animals. Once limited to reactive treatments at vet clinics, animal healthcare is evolving into a proactive, data-driven field where AI can detect pain, monitor emotional states, and even forecast disease risk—all before symptoms become visible to the…
Getting Language Models to Open Up on ‘Risky’ Subjects
Many top language models now err on the side of caution, refusing harmless prompts that merely sound risky – an ‘over-refusal’ behavior that affects their usefulness in real-world scenarios. A new dataset called ‘FalseReject’ targets the problem directly, offering a way to retrain models to respond…
Scite AI Review: Instantly Spot Trustworthy Studies
What if you could instantly tell whether a study was trustworthy without reading hundreds of pages? Academic research can be a real struggle: wading through endless PDFs, trying to make sense of conflicting studies, and wondering if a citation means support or just a casual mention….
FDA AI deployment: Innovation vs oversight in drug regulation
The US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has stated that it wants to accelerate the deployment of AI across its centres. FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary has announced an aggressive timeline to scale use of AI by 30 June 2025 and is betting big on the…
Locking Up Phones, Logging Into AI: Classrooms Navigate New Tech Amid Public Debate
School policies around phone use are changing—and fast. In Ontario, Canada students are already being asked to keep their phones out of sight during class. Several European countries have taken steps in that direction, and now discussion is building in the U.S. as well. Lawmakers are…
How Real-Time Volumetrics Are Rewriting Film Narratives
There was a time when volumetric effects were concealed from everyone on a film stage except the VFX supervisors huddled around grainy, low-resolution preview monitors. You could shoot a complex scene with enveloping fog swirled through ancient forests, crackling embers danced in haunted corridors, and ethereal…
Vasu Murthy, SVP and Chief Product Officer at Cohesity – Interview Series
Vasu Murthy is the SVP and Chief Product Officer at Cohesity, bringing over 25 years of enterprise software experience across data security, protection, and analytics. Prior to joining Cohesity, he held leadership roles at Rubrik, Oracle, and DataScaler, contributing to product growth and large-scale innovation. Cohesity is…