JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs have restricted employees outside the US from using advanced AI tools like Anthropic's Claude, citing concerns over governance and national security risks. This move reflects growing global fragmentation in AI access and regulation.
The European Commission is employing its own AI tool, GPT@EC, to assess candidate countries' laws for EU membership alignment, aiming to manage increased workload as Ukraine, Moldova, and others pursue accession. Officials from candidate countries express skepticism, suggesting AI should be limited to translation and basic tasks.
New research on Iron Age remains in Scotland reveals evidence of postmortem brain removal and sharpened limb bones possibly used as tools. The findings, from Loch Borralie, suggest complex funerary practices and highlight the interconnectedness of maritime communities.
MiniCPM5-1B, a 1 billion parameter AI model, is designed for on-device deployment, supporting native tool calling and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It outperforms comparable open-source models in its size class, offering a 128K token context window and efficient inference capabilities.
