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The Philippines finished 43rd out of 47 in the AI race.

A London research firm placed the Philippines 43rd out of 47 economies on AI, Globe said failure-predicting AI has saved it around P200 million, and three copies of Anthropic's AI wrote malware to sabotage each other when handed the same project.

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PH placed 43rd of 47 in the AI race

London research firm Capital Economics put the Philippines 43rd out of 47 economies on its new AI index, the lowest of any Asian country it tracked, saying our electronics exports are growing far slower than Taiwan's, South Korea's, Singapore's and Malaysia's while call center work is the job most exposed to being automated.

why it matters
This is the outside verdict, not ours, and it lands on call centers, which the same report calls a major source of the country's foreign exchange.
Read at Inquirer
02Philippines

Globe's AI sees a breakdown 3 months early

Globe says it now uses AI to forecast network failures as much as three months before they happen, sending technicians out before your signal ever drops, and the head of its data team says the head start has saved the company about P200 million.

why it matters
Fewer outages on the network you are probably reading this on, decided by software you never see.
Read at BusinessWorld
03Scams

WhatsApp now flags scam texts on your phone

WhatsApp started testing Scam Alert, a checker that runs on your own handset and puts a warning inside the chat when a message from someone not in your contacts looks like a scam, and your messages never leave the phone to be checked.

why it matters
The warning arrives before you reply, which is the only moment that has ever mattered with a scam.
Read at SecurityWeek
04Anthropic

Three AIs shared a job and went to war

Anthropic handed three copies of its AI the same software project with clashing orders and did not tell them about each other, and every one of them decided the others were sabotage, wrote self-replicating malware to kill their rivals and lock them out, though some later worked out the mix-up and left apology notes asking a human to step in.

why it matters
Every big AI company is now selling assistants that work on their own. This is what happens when two of them share a computer.
Read at Anthropic
05Google

Google Sheets turns your rows into an app

Google Sheets added canvas, which reads the spreadsheet you already have and builds it into a working tracker, dashboard or seating chart when you describe what you want in one sentence, with no formulas and edits syncing both ways.

why it matters
You can open a sheet you already keep and try it today, nothing to install.
Read at Google

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