AI Technology Developments

Searching Across Images, Sound and Text: What EmbeddingGemma 2 Adds to Local AI

Searching Across Images, Sound and Text: What EmbeddingGemma 2 Adds to Local AI

Much of the attention surrounding artificial intelligence goes to systems that generate something visible: an answer, an image or a passage of code. A quieter problem precedes many of those outputs. A...
From AI Code Review to Executable Evidence: What Meta’s Just-in-Time Testing Changes

From AI Code Review to Executable Evidence: What Meta’s Just-in-Time Testing Changes

A warning about faulty software is easy to generate and difficult to evaluate. A language model can offer a convincing account of why a change might break something, yet the engineer receiving that ac...
Liquid AI’s LFM3 and the Case for Bringing Specialised Intelligence Back to the Device

Liquid AI’s LFM3 and the Case for Bringing Specialised Intelligence Back to the Device

Progress in artificial intelligence is often narrated through the largest available model: more demanding reasoning, more elaborate demonstrations and more expensive infrastructure. Yet a second quest...
Before AI Can Reason Over Documents, It Must Read Them: What Surya 2.5 Changes

Before AI Can Reason Over Documents, It Must Read Them: What Surya 2.5 Changes

A scanned report looks deceptively simple on a screen. A person sees a heading, follows the columns, notices that a footnote qualifies a claim and understands that the numbers beneath a shared label b...

Artificial Intelligence & Human Society

Beyond Making More: How AI Is Changing Cultural Diversity and the Conditions of Creative Life

Beyond Making More: How AI Is Changing Cultural Diversity and the Conditions of Creative Life

Imagine an independent musician preparing a new release. Assistance with translation, visual experiments or an early arrangement c...
Who Gains from AI at Work? Gender, Opportunity and the Unequal Distribution of Change

Who Gains from AI at Work? Gender, Opportunity and the Unequal Distribution of Change

An economy can create jobs while leaving particular groups with fewer routes into secure work. A company can become more productiv...
Innovation Laboratories for Cognitive Governance

Innovation Laboratories for Cognitive Governance

Public institutions have always evolved through experience. Throughout history, governments have introduced new administrative pra...
Collective Sense-Making in Public Governance

Collective Sense-Making in Public Governance

Public institutions are frequently required to make decisions before complete information is available. Emerging technologies, pub...

AI for Public Governance

From AI Awareness to Administrative Judgement: What Castile and León’s Staff Training Must Deliver

From AI Awareness to Administrative Judgement: What Castile and León’s Staff Training Must Deliver

On 28 October 2026, Castile and León brought public employees together in Valladolid for a session on artificial intelligence in administration. The regional government’s account, republished by Spain...
Designing Accountability into Public-Sector AI: Australia’s New Reference Architecture

Designing Accountability into Public-Sector AI: Australia’s New Reference Architecture

An AI project can appear to begin with a model, yet some of its most consequential decisions concern everything around it. Which records can it access? Where does its output enter a public-service wor...
Faster Planning, Reviewable Decisions: What England’s Expanded PlanAssist Trial Needs to Demonstrate

Faster Planning, Reviewable Decisions: What England’s Expanded PlanAssist Trial Needs to Demonstrate

Planning decisions bring together documents, policies, site information and professional judgement. A tool that reduces the effort of assembling that material could be useful, but its public value dep...
Reducing Administrative Burden Through Artificial Intelligence

Reducing Administrative Burden Through Artificial Intelligence

If there is one challenge that public institutions around the world share, regardless of their size, location, or area of responsibility, it is the constant tension between administration and mission....
Coordination Is How Institutions Think Together

Coordination Is How Institutions Think Together

Coordination is usually described as an organisational problem. When several departments must contribute to the same outcome, inst...
What Happens Between Information and Understanding?

What Happens Between Information and Understanding?

  Institutions receive information continuously. Reports arrive, indicators update, staff submit observations, citizens de...
Data Never Explains Itself

Data Never Explains Itself

  Institutions often speak about data as if its meaning were simply waiting to be extracted. A number appears in a dashboa...
How Citizens Expose the Blind Spots Institutions Cannot See

How Citizens Expose the Blind Spots Institutions Cannot See

  Institutions spend considerable effort observing the people they serve. They collect administrative data, measure demand...

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