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UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power

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'Sunrise' beast will run AI-heavy simulations of plasma behavior and reactor physics

The UK government is splashing out £45 million (c $60 million) on a new AI-driven supercomputer designed to help scientists model the chaotic physics of nuclear fusion, with the system expected to come online this summer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Culham campus.…

Carly Page

Bank built its own threat hunting agent because vendors can’t keep pace with new threats

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AI helped send weekly threat signal count from 80 million to 400 billion, then helped response time shrink from two days to 30 minutes

Australia’s Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools, because vendors are too slow to develop tools that can cope with emerging AI-powered threats, according to General Manager of Cyber Defence Operations Andrew Pade.…

Simon Sharwood