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Submission + - No OpenAI IPO this Year (reuters.com)

Submitted by locater16
locater16 writes: "OpenAI will not go public in 2026, Chief Executive Sam Altman said in remarks published on Saturday, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence that render "unacceptable" even a 10% risk that AI could cause human extinction by decade's end... "I actually think that, given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, and we don't feel pressure on that," Altman told business magazine Fortune."

While Altman and other AI model company executives have been talking up "safety" concerns, there has been no mention of other AI model questions, such as multiple mathematicians accusing OpenAI of stealing their work and claiming it as their own, a charge OpenAI excuses rather denies in any way. Nor that spending billions of dollars a quarter to develop new AI models has made AI model companies like OpenAI deeply unprofitable, not traditionally a sales pitch seen in major IPOs.

Submission + - Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World

Submitted by locater16
locater16 writes: From IEEE Spectrum:
"The RxScanner is a handheld spectrometer that scans a pill with infrared light, then sends the item’s molecular profile to an AI model equipped with a pharmaceutical database. In seconds, the AI identifies the medication from its molecular profile—or reports that it’s phony.

Pharmacies were using the system in more than a dozen countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Myanmar, and Alonge’s native Nigeria. But that morning in South Africa, it didn’t work. “I was shocked,” Alonge says... So Alonge immediately asked his engineers to shrink the AI model down to a smaller, low-power, unconnected version that could run entirely on his Android phone. They produced it 2 hours later, and that saved the demo.

More importantly, the work birthed a new version of his device, which can authenticate a pill in places without broadband, computers, or even reliable electricity. It also turned Alonge into an advocate for this kind of “small AI.”..."

The article goes on to detail other immediately useful "small" AI applications without any subscription or billion dollar data centers needed.

Submission + - Study: HALEU nuclear fuel could be used for bombs

Submitted by locater16
locater16 writes: High Assay Low Enriched Uranium, a popular fuel for newer "small scale" nuclear reactors that have been much hyped as a safe alternative power source and part of a solution to climate change has been subsidized by US Government programs. However a new study has found that this uranium could be turned into nuclear weapons:

From the paper: HALEU contains between 10 and 20% of the isotope uranium-235. At 20% 235U and above, the isotopic mixture is called highly enriched uranium (HEU) and is internationally recognized as being directly usable in nuclear weapons. However, the practical limit for weapons lies below the 20% HALEU-HEU threshold.

The paper recommends an immediate security review of all government programs and export controls for HALEU.

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