Labor and the Coalition are poised to take a reckless gamble on AI. Haven’t they realised community support has collapsed? | Edward Santow and Sarah Sacher

America Hates AI. Why Aren’t Democrats Doing Anything About It?

Rep. Greg Casar tells Gizmodo the three most pressing AI-related risks are “mass unemployment, mass surveillance, and mass destruction.”

Perplexity makes it easier to run AI workflows entirely on your own Mac

A Mac with at least 36GB of RAM can now run Perplexity AI workflows locally.

Inception says its Mercury 3 model beats GPT-6 Luna and runs far faster

Inception, the Redwood City AI lab, released Mercury 3 on Monday. It is the newest version of what the company calls a diffusion LLM, a design that differs from the systems behind most chatbots. Most language models are autoregressive. They write one token at a time, each one chosen after the last.

The new economics of enterprise AI

Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency — consumption is low and the value is obvious. But once electricity becomes infrastructure, every process depends on it, and the question changes from “can we use it?”

ALTK-Evolve: How learned memory tops the τ²-bench leaderboard on customer service tasks without a frontier model

MIT’s AI agent society result holds up on consumer hardware

In August, researchers at MIT dropped a society of AI agents into a shared world with no instructions. They showed it could invent, build and maintain technology better than the same number of agents working alone. The study ran on a hosted frontier model.

US bans use of China’s DeepSeek AI tools by government agencies

Use of tools ‘may result in the transfer of sensitive data to (China)’, defense department says The US government on Monday ordered its agencies to stop using artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Chinese startup DeepSeek, as the countries race for dominance in the fast-moving sector.