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Canada deepens partnership with Australia on critical minerals, defence, and artificial intelligence

7 Mar 2026

Canada is elevating its relationship with Australia through new agreements on critical minerals, defence cooperation, clean energy, investment, and artificial intelligence, positioning both countries to strengthen economic security and technological capabilities.

artificial intelligence, defence, government policy, international relations

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Microsoft confirms Project Helix as next generation Xbox hybrid console

7 Mar 2026

Microsoft’s new Xbox chief Asha Sharma has confirmed Project Helix as the next generation Xbox hardware, hinting at a hybrid design that can play both console and PC games and teasing more details at GDC in March.

artificial intelligence, consoles, gaming hardware, microsoft

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Nvidia expands dominance in AIB GPU market as AMD and Intel lag

7 Mar 2026

Nvidia has pushed its add-in-board GPU market share to a new high in Q4 2025, while AMD continues to lose ground and Intel holds a small foothold.

amd, gpus, hardware, nvidia

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Intel details disaggregated Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake H die

7 Mar 2026

Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake H mobile processors use a disaggregated multi-tile design that splits compute, graphics, and I/O across different process nodes. The layout closely follows Lunar Lake, with variations in graphics tiles between mainstream and ultraportable configurations.

hardware, processors, semiconductors

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Playstation 6 leak points to major gpu upgrade and portable companion

7 Mar 2026

A new leak outlines alleged Playstation 6 performance targets, including a substantial graphics jump over Playstation 5 and a companion handheld built on an AMD APU. The report also disputes rumors of a significant delay to the next generation console launch timeline.

consoles, gaming, hardware, sony

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Anthropic’s legal fight with the Pentagon and 10 things that matter in artificial intelligence

7 Mar 2026

MIT Technology Review is preparing a definitive list of 10 things that matter in artificial intelligence as Anthropic prepares to challenge a Pentagon ban and governments, tech giants, and militaries rapidly expand their use of artificial intelligence.

artificial intelligence, big tech, ethics, policy

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Pentagon surveillance powers collide with artificial intelligence limits

7 Mar 2026

A dispute between the Pentagon and leading artificial intelligence companies is exposing how far US surveillance law lags behind modern data collection and analysis capabilities. Contracts, not legislation, are currently setting the boundaries for military use of powerful artificial intelligence tools.

artificial intelligence, law and policy, national security, privacy

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Artificial Intelligence system compresses months of pregnancy research into minutes

7 Mar 2026

Researchers used an Artificial Intelligence system to analyze complex pregnancy data in minutes, uncovering patterns that previously took medical teams months of work. The breakthrough highlights a new model of collaboration between machine learning and clinicians, along with fresh ethical and governance questions.

artificial intelligence, ethics, healthcare, machine learning

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UK launches fundamental artificial intelligence research lab with long term funding

7 Mar 2026

The UK government is launching a new Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research Lab backed by up to £40 million and large scale compute access to tackle core flaws in current systems and unlock new capabilities across healthcare, transport and science.

artificial intelligence, government policy, scientific research, technology industry

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Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic over autonomous weapons alarms Europe

7 Mar 2026

The United States decision to label Anthropic a security risk for refusing military use of its technology in autonomous killing and mass surveillance is raising concerns in Europe about the future of responsible Artificial Intelligence in warfare and the credibility of international norms.

artificial intelligence, eu governance, security & defence, transatlantic affairs

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Strategic dependencies reshape the digital economy in the artificial intelligence era

7 Mar 2026

Hyperscaler spending, sovereignty-driven regulation, and fast-scaling autonomous systems are turning artificial intelligence from a productivity tool into critical infrastructure, reshaping risk, compliance, and growth strategies for global organisations.

artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, infrastructure, regulation

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AGI timeline rift: Amodei, Hassabis and LeCun outline competing futures for artificial intelligence

6 Mar 2026

Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Yann LeCun present sharply different timelines and technical paths to human-level artificial intelligence, shaping how governments and companies should plan for the next decade. Their clash centers on what counts as intelligence and whether large language models can ever get there.

agi, artificial intelligence, machine learning, research labs