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AI, Canada

The Canada AI Strategy Task Force was officially launched in September 2025

Colin Henderson

The Canada AI Strategy Task Force was officially launched in September 2025 by Minister Evan Solomon, marking a renewed effort to update and advance the country’s National AI Strategy. This initiative comes at a critical juncture as technological transformation and geopolitical forces reshape national priorities. Government of Canada launches AI Strategy Task Force and public engagement on the development of the next AI strategy From: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Key facts about the AI Strategy Task Force Source perplexity.ai In summary: The Task Force represents Canada’s commitment to leading in responsible and ambitious AI deployment, with emphasis on broad … Continue reading The Canada AI Strategy Task Force was officially launched in September 2025

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AI helped recover £500m lost to fraud -UK government

Colin Henderson

A theme is developing in business that AI contributes business value by eliminating one of the moost pervasive data issues, one which Banks reallly suffer but all businesses do a large extent: that issue is co-relating customer data from disparate sources and producing a novel profile which can be used to create value through customer activity, inadvertent or deliberate, by identifying items such as missed opportunities, fraudulent activity or customer ignorance which resulted in losses or missed new business. The UK givernment has develpoed an AI tool to create a picture of citizen activity related to government payments, much of … Continue reading AI helped recover £500m lost to fraud -UK government

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OECD report on AI provides thoughtful and relevant context for current state

Colin Henderson

Intersting report from OECD. I focussed here in diffusion, i.e. the spread and systemic adoption of AI. With an eye on the eventual improvements in productivity effective diffusion is essential. The full report can be found at end of post.. For Bankers, consider this quote. This is the beginnings of the holly grail to address the elephant in the room of Banks data worries. Applications can transform customer relationships and marketing, by improving market segmentation and raising capacity to “Know Your Customer” (KYC), by automating basic customer services and enabling a 24/7 attendance, or by supporting content creation at lower … Continue reading OECD report on AI provides thoughtful and relevant context for current state

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Follow up to “Transformative AI, existential risk, and real interest rates” (Chow, Halperin, Mazlish, 2025) – Test and Conclusion

Colin Henderson

introduces a novel approach for forecasting the timelines for transformative AI by analyzing macro-financial markets—specifically, the behavior of long-term real interest rates. TEST: apply this framework to current situation and explain what the output tells us about transformative AI timelines. Analysis Follows: (Perplexity.ai) 1. Theoretical Mechanism 2. Empirical Analysis Empirical evidence provided in the paper (across 59 countries, 35 years): Table: Key Relationships Macro Variable Empirical Finding Long-term GDP growth expectations Positively correlated with real interest rates Long-term growth volatility Slightly negative effect on real rates Short-term (0–5 yr) GDP growth forecasts Negative/ambiguous effect Country risk (CDS spreads) Positively correlated … Continue reading Follow up to “Transformative AI, existential risk, and real interest rates” (Chow, Halperin, Mazlish, 2025) – Test and Conclusion

AI, AI_factories, AI_research, Infrastructure

A comprehensive comparison between ‘compute’ and ‘inference’ in AI

Colin Henderson

An integrated analysis of technological, infrastructural, and operational factors including AI Factories, Data Centres, development practices, chips, and overall infrastructure. The following report—structured in APA format—presents a formal, detailed comparative overview, incorporating relevant business, academic, and technical sources.Source: Perplexity.ai Compute and Inference: Definitions and Context Compute generally refers to the computational resources required for both training and running AI models, whereas inference is the process by which a trained model makes predictions or decisions on new data. Compute is foundational for both the intensive process of AI model training and the comparatively lightweight process of model inference. AI inference utilizes … Continue reading A comprehensive comparison between ‘compute’ and ‘inference’ in AI

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Behind Wall Street’s Abrupt Flip on Crypto

Colin Henderson

The reversal risks declawing a century of consumer financial protections and replacing the backbone of bank accounts. By Rob Copeland Rob Copeland has been covering Wall Street’s posture on cryptocurrency for more than a decade. Aug. 13, 2025Updated 6:12 p.m. ET Sign up for the Audio newsletter, for Times subscribers only.  Our editors share their favorite listens from the New York Times Audio app. Get it sent to your inbox. Listen to this article with reporter commentary 13:45 Not long ago, bank executives would compete with one another to be the loudest critic of cryptocurrencies. Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, once … Continue reading Behind Wall Street’s Abrupt Flip on Crypto

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What is behind the staggering ascent of Palantir?

Colin Henderson

The unorthodox firm is profiting from the AI and Trumpian revolutions Source The Economist May 8th 2025|PALO ALTO|5 min readListen to this story ALEX KARP acts like everyone hates him. As the boss of Palantir strutted the stage at a recent gathering of clients, he got a kick out of sounding perverse, in his tousle-haired, punk-professor way. He used words like “masturbation” and “self-pleasuring”. He berated Silicon Valley, though he was speaking in Palo Alto, its heartland. At the last minute, he cancelled an interview with The Economist, though he used to sit on its parent company’s board; he did not like … Continue reading What is behind the staggering ascent of Palantir?

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Technology Trends, Product Launches, and Innovations from the Past Week (August 5-11, 2025)

Colin Henderson

Source perplexity.ai with presentation from Sonnet 4 Based on the latest technology developments from the past week, here are the most significant trends, product launches, and innovations: Major Big Tech Developments OpenAI and AI Advancements OpenAI launched GPT-5, its latest and most advanced AI model, making it available to all ChatGPT users. The company also announced that Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration will use GPT-5 starting with iOS 26, though users will need to wait for this integration.theverge+1 Microsoft’s AI Integration Expansion Microsoft quietly launched Copilot 3D as an experimental feature that converts 2D images into 3D models. The company is … Continue reading Technology Trends, Product Launches, and Innovations from the Past Week (August 5-11, 2025)

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Making sense of the AI revolution

Colin Henderson

AUTHOR Iskander Rehman https://engelsbergideas.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9abbef4a5715ca7b3fef001ad&id=d1577c2abf&e=e1b990f871 Iskander Rehman is a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. In order to understand the profound transformations, and boundless potential, unleashed by artificial intelligence, we need to expand our own intellectual horizons into the realms.The sense of being overwhelmed and constantly listracted is nothing new. Historians anc policymakers should look to the 17th century for guidance on how to grapple with information.. ——————————————– In 1961, the Brookings Institution produced an advisory report for NASA, which pondered, among other things, the societal ramifications of the discovery of intelligent extraterrestrial life. The announcement of such a dramatic … Continue reading Making sense of the AI revolution

AI_factories, AI_research, Business Models, Palantir

Palantir Advocates for Balanced Data Privacy Legislation in RFI Response

Colin Henderson

This blog post highlights Palantir’s response to a Request for Information from the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Privacy Working Group, which is exploring the creation of a national data privacy law. For more information about Palantir’s contributions to AI Policy, visit our website here. Introduction In April, Palantir submitted a response to a Request for Information from the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Privacy Working Group regarding its efforts to develop a federal comprehensive data privacy and security law. How the federal government finally works to resolve the challenges of a patchwork of consumer privacy legislation is not just … Continue reading Palantir Advocates for Balanced Data Privacy Legislation in RFI Response