The Philippines just became AI's newest battleground.
A US-PH megaproject to build AI chips in Clark, the training gap Filipino workers are living, and three more that moved today.
A 4,000-acre AI city rises in Clark
The US and the Philippines are building the first "AI-native industrial acceleration hub" on 4,000 acres in New Clark City, Tarlac. It will assemble and package computer chips under a US-led program called Pax Silica.
78% of us use AI at work. 35% were taught.
Sprout Solutions surveyed 3,516 Filipino employees across 13 industries from May 8 to 29. Nearly 8 in 10 use AI every workday, but only about 1 in 3 got any training for their actual role.
An AI just flew a real F-16 fighter jet
DARPA and the US Air Force let an AI fly a standard F-16 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. A human pilot stayed in the cockpit the whole time, watching. They announced it on July 16.
Baidu's free tool reads any document
Baidu released Unlimited-OCR, which pulls the text out of photos, scans and full PDFs in a single pass. It is free, the code is public, and the MIT license means you can use it in a business.
Block built a Slack where AI has an account
Buzz, from the company behind Cash App, is the most popular new project on GitHub today with over 7,100 followers. It is a team chat where people and AI assistants sit in the same channels and do the work together.