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The biggest company in agentic finance may not have the best autonomous agents. It may be the company that best understands how to earn enough trust from ordinary people that they'll actually let AI touch their money.

Yesterday was a real cracker of an event @devfolio around the theme of sovereign AI. @rashmivabbigeri got speakers from @SarvamAI (India's frontier models) and @PeoplePlusAI (integrating LLMs into workflow) It started with the definition sovereign AI = Data + Model + Inference The 1st parameter is simply whether data from orgs is safe & whether they have control over the product long term. This is a dealbreaker for sectors like defence & important for heavily regulated ones like finance or healthcare 2. The 2nd part on the model is most useful for localization. For eg people plus ai used sarvam in their pilot with Gujarati cooperative dairy farmers from amul simply because it understood gujarati the best, not because it was Indian. It's also unrealistic to expect every country to make its own frontier model, so the best we could hope for is; a. Every country gather's it's own indigenous language data b. A frontier model can then be trained on the local data & made useful for the local context AI4Bharat is an example of such a program with $10 million allocated to collecting local speech data, since frontier labs would not find it profitable to do so (although they would use the data if it were open) 3. The final part on inference brought forth some unique stories in working with governments. For eg some departments required installation on premises & then airgapping the servers so they don't interact with the internet and leak any info; in other cases they had to optimize with the existing hardware of a government department since we couldn't expect them to acquire blackwells or H100s. In one case they even needed edge models able to use the phone as hardware since internet access isn't guaranteed (such as with rural health workers or soldiers on a mission) Overall the vision of every country building its own frontier model felt a bit like the failed economic theory of import substitution. What was more realistic was every country building out its own corpus of speech data and then forking a frontier model to let it work in their language. I'm hopeful that sarvam can carve out a space for themselves in the developing world with this niche, and that people plus ai can go the whole mile and actually deliver the productivity benefits that AI is supposed to bring society at large

The Bulgarian government has signed this week a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bulgarian leading space company EnduroSat. In the Dobroslavtsi industrial zone, on the disused former military airfield, the company will build a large-scale production centre for satellites.🚀

Unless I’ve mistaken this is a first-of-kind regulated insurance policy covering crime to such an extent in DeFi. It was a huge effort to get here with over 12 months of work from Teo Kithara-Bigot, Adam Wickens, Alex Krasnow and guest appearances from Christian Ogden-Davies. We feel this is the most robust regulated product out there in the market for DeFi lending markets and we hope this can provide foothold for more cover to grow as we expand.

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so nice to be back in the space age ground.news/article/nasa-rel…

honestly great to see what a longstanding partner UNICEF has been for blockchain this call for applications gives $100k to solutions - improving transparency & accountability of public goods funding - new financing models for digital public goods deadline is march 10th

Nice work @nashpointfi. Been following along closely for almost a year now. The progress has been incredible

bro the fact that there's a liquid prediction market on whether the US government will blacklist an AI company for refusing mass surveillance is the most cyberpunk thing that actually happened today

This is a huge opportunity for Europe. Welcome Anthropic with open arms. Roll out the red carpet. Visa for all employees. Europe already controls the AI hardware bottleneck through ASML. Add the world's leading AI safety lab and you have the foundations of an AI superpower.

This hits home

openai.com/index/introducing… @OpenAI just dropped EVMbench. TL;DR - Codex 5.3 hits 72.2% score, compared to 31.9% on 5. - On both Detect and Detect and Patch modes it's far from human security experts working on smart contract. - Full papers linked inside.