An AI tool built with the UK government to speed up routine home-planning checks is expanding to more councils in England after early trials.
At a glance
Short summaries of the day’s AI news, each with a link to the original reporting.
Apple is bringing its earlier AI features to China through a coming iOS update, adding support for Alibaba’s chatbot but leaving out its new Siri.
Source: The Verge
A proposed artificial intelligence pledge ahead of the COP31 climate talks is under fire from critics who say it sets no firm goals and leaves signatories to police themselves.
Source: AI Now Institute
An Nvidia employee used the company’s open AI models to turn a garage door into a grumpy talking character that greets trick-or-treaters and softens when they say please.
Source: Hugging Face
Universities, research groups and Hugging Face are teaming up to release publicly funded datasets, models and code in formats that people and AI systems can readily find and reuse.
Source: Hugging Face
IBM has released a small patch to its modular Granite Switch model, adding a better speech recognizer and decision tool without retraining the base model.
Source: Hugging Face
On The Verge’s Decoder, a SemiAnalysis analyst walks through Anthropic’s filing to go public, which finally shows how a leading AI lab makes and spends its money.
Source: The Verge