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South Korea’s government has posted a tender seeking suppliers to build a universal basic AI chatbot, and an AI agent for government services. The “AI for everyone” plan calls for private entities to create and operate the AI systems under contracts that expire in the year 2031. Bid documents reveal that Seoul will provide up to 256 Nvidia B200 GPUs to successful bidders. Winners must match government funding. The aim of the policy is to ensure that every resident of South Korea can access a free-to-use quality AI chatbot, a tool Seoul has decided no local should be without. The tender also calls for creation of an agentic system that allows citizens to interact with government services. South Korea’s government wants to ensure that residents can always access a locally hosted and operated service, to reduce reliance on overseas providers and ensure that AI services reflect local culture. Successful bidders must therefore use locally developed AI models as the foundation for the services. Bidders have until August 11th to file their proposals. South Korean media reports suggest local tech giants Kakao, Naver, SK Telecom, and LG are all keen to participate. The tender landed just weeks after the US government compelled Anthropic to prohibit all foreign nationals from accessing its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models. Because Anthropic has no idea which passports its US-based users hold, it was unable to comply and therefore took both models online. The incident sparked increased interest in sovereign AI capabilities that would mean netizens in each country can’t be cut off from AI services by policy decisions made abroad. South Korea’s lawmakers are surely aware that funding free local AI services will improve the nation’s sovereign capabilities. They also likely recognize that the country is fortunate to have a cohort of tech companies capable of doing the job. Messaging service Kakao is an equivalent to WhatsApp, while Naver is a Google analogue. Past policy decisions have those companies grow: South Korea has restricted Google’s ability to run a mapping service on national security grounds, leaving mapping apps from Naver and Kakao vastly superior and making their other services more attractive. ®

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has delivered a landmark speech outlining the nation’s AI policy, which will require datacenter builders to contribute more energy than they consume and mean AI companies must reach agreements with local artists and media before using their content. “Let me make this crystal clear – not everything produced in Australia is up for grabs,” Albanese said, a reference to both content and the nation’s energy and water resources. The PM said Australia will therefore legislate to require builders of large new datacenters to become net generators of energy, rather than consumers, by funding electricity generation projects to meet their needs and pay for associated work to bolster energy grids. The policy also requires datacenter operators to pay for water infrastructure and make minimal environmental impacts. The PM expects Australia’s states and territories to sign up to his plan so the nation can offer expedited approval processes for datacenter builds and consistent operating standards that apply across the country. Nationwide laws, Albanese argued, will make Australia a more attractive destination for inbound investment by making it easier for AI companies to plan new datacenters – and perhaps offset other elements of the policy that are more onerous than laws in other countries. “Australian writers, musicians, artists and journalists, must retain ownership and control of their work,” Albanese said. “Anything less is theft.” He said Australia’s approach “will ensure Australian writers, artists and journalists retain ownership over their work, meaning no company should use Australian creative works to train AI without the artist’s control.” The PM added his view that no country has given artists and rights-holders sufficient control of how AI companies use their works. Albanese didn’t say how he plans to enforce that control, but his speech framed the effort to do so as getting ahead of AI before big players get too much power. Albanese asked his audience to imagine how much better off Australia would be if it had regulated social media a decade before the 2024 introduction of a ban on children aged under 16 accessing such services. He also compared the AI plan to past landmark reforms won by the global labor movement, such as winning a minimum wage and fixed working week. The PM also said that without regulations of this sort, Australia will effectively outsource its security to big tech companies. “If we are always dependent on someone else, somewhere else, we will be vulnerable,” he said. The AI policy aims to instead make Australia stronger. Albanese argued that Australians should not see AI as a threat to jobs, but that strong policy can make the technology a means to create new ones – beyond employment created by a short-term datacenter construction boom. The PM wrapped his speech by suggesting AI can stand for “Australia’s Interest” as well as “artificial intelligence.” ®

block³ is a puzzle platformer adventure game.

The metroidvania genre has a rich history, and a long standing game jam Metroidvania Month. Puzzle oriented variants within the genre are sometimes called "metroidbrainia" games. block³ is a game in the metroidbrainia tradition that asks you so solve puzzles to grab coins and gems. Each new gem you find lets you create a new kind of block (using the mouse). Other useful tips: * press R to reset to the last flag you've touched and reset the world state. This can be useful when the block state you used to reach a flag is not what you need to proceed. * hold R for 8 seconds to return to the start. Mostly useful if you've softlocked yourself and a normal reset doesn't help. * use the mouse cursor to aim your block generation power.

Wie in een psychotische toestand een misdrijf pleegt, kan tbs krijgen. Wanneer is iemand ontoerekeningsvatbaar?
De rechter moet dat beoordelen, zegt de Hoge Raad. Maar wat is de rol van de psychiater?

Wat gebeurt er als artsen ongeoorloofd euthanasie verlenen vanwege psychisch lijden? Over de onomkeerbare dood van een depressieve vrouw, gereconstrueerd op basis van twee tuchtzaken. „Er was niks meer. Alleen de buren die haar eten brachten.”

Stereconoom Thomas Piketty heeft uitgerekend wat ervoor nodig is om alle mensen op aarde in 2100 een fatsoenlijk leven te geven: alleen armere landen mogen economisch blijven groeien; mensen in rijke landen moeten flink minder gaan werken en drastisch minder gaan kopen. Die nobele gedachtegang werkt alleen op papier.