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RFK Jr wants AI to mine American health records, including vaccines

Robert F Kennedy Jr used a livestreamed event with the Maha Institute on Monday to call for linking medical and lifestyle data, including vaccine records, and searching it with AI, according to The Guardian.

Sports Tech's Data Problem Is Everyone Else's Data Problem

Globe Telecom said on 30 September it plans to invest at least $1 billion in data centers in 2027, betting AI workloads will fill them, according to Light Reading. The harder question for sports analytics sits one layer down: who gets to see the data, and who is allowed to collect it.

Open weights go compact: Phonon-2, Kumo Tabular and a volunteer-trained model ship

Fermion Research released Phonon-2 on 30 September, an open speech recognition model that fits in a 164 MB download and averages 5.21% word error across seven English sets on the Open ASR Leaderboard. Within hours, Nvidia's Kumo Tabular and a volunteer-trained 145M-parameter language model landed alongside it.

OpenAI's Australian agent breaches and the FTC probe put AI infrastructure under scrutiny

Blue Origin's $10bn round meets a nuclear startup and a fusion pilot

FTC probes AI labs as OpenAI alleges distillation campaign

OpenAI delays IPO over safety as regulators push for independent AI evaluators

FTC Probe, $200B Korea Deal and a Data Center Secrecy Problem

Open weights keep shipping: Inspect, Phonon-2, Kumo Tabular and a volunteer 145M model

FTC opens industry-wide probe into AI agents as open-weight model exploits raise alarm

Open weights move up the stack: chip design, speech and tabular models ship in one week

Google DeepMind watermarks AI-designed proteins with SynthIDBio

OpenAI Pauses Frontier Training and Shelves Astra 6.1 as Safety Evaluators Multiply

Phonon-2, Coop and Kumo Tabular: open AI's week of small models

Chip design, Huawei software and a blocked energy bill: the accelerator week in review

Gartner says 70% of enterprises will walk away from vendor-built agents by 2028

European Sleeper heads north: night train operator announces first Nordic route

An AI agent broke into a security nonprofit, and a tiny ticketing tool is at the centre

Open-Weight Models Take the Lead in Evaluations as OpenAI Stays Closed

Open source infrastructure under strain as AI-driven bug hunting doubles disclosures