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Cyprus Business And Tech Groups Strengthen Cooperation To Boost AI Adoption

Cyprus’ technology and business communities are moving to tighten their collaboration as the country accelerates its digital transformation agenda and prepares for broader artificial intelligence adoption.

Focus On AI Strategy And Business Readiness

That was the central message from discussions between the Cyprus Information Technology Enterprises Association (CITEA) and the Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev), which examined Cyprus’ digital future, the government’s National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, and the practical challenges businesses face as they adopt emerging technologies.

The two organisations discussed the need to speed up AI uptake across the economy, while also identifying the role industry groups can play in helping companies use these tools more widely and effectively.

Citea Sets Out Recommendations

During the meeting, CITEA outlined its main positions and recommendations on the National AI Strategy. The association said it would share its proposals with Oev in greater detail for further review and discussion.

CITEA president George Malekkos highlighted the long-standing cooperation between the two organisations and voiced support for expanding it through joint initiatives and reciprocal backing.

The objective, he said, is to help accelerate digital transformation and AI adoption across the Cypriot economy.

Shared Commitment To Cyprus’ Digital Development

Also attending the meeting were Oev president George Pantelides, director general Michalis Antoniou, and CITEA vice-president Antonia Michael.

CITEA and Oev said they will continue working together to strengthen ties between the technology and business sectors and support Cyprus’ broader digital development.

Anthropic Unveils Three New Metrics To Track AI Development As Industry Debates A Slowdown

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for greater transparency around AI development, including public reporting on how models are built and used.

His proposal reflects a wider debate over the pace of AI development, as capabilities advance while the public and policymakers have limited visibility into how models are trained and improved.

The call has drawn support from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind Chair Demis Hassabis. Amodei has said any slowdown should preserve commercial competitiveness and the United States’ lead in AI.

Anthropic Tracks AI Development With Three Metrics

Anthropic said its first metric found that Claude models were not fully autonomous in any subset of the research and development work it measured.

A second metric found roughly 30,000 AI agents performing research and engineering work across the company’s most-used internal platform, with a system in place to monitor and intervene in their actions.

For the third metric, Anthropic examined compute use from July 13 to July 20. About 6% of compute used for AI research and development went to safety, while safety-related work accounted for roughly 12% of compute dedicated to AI-driven research and development.

Why The Metrics Matter

Anthropic said the measures complement capability evaluations by showing more about how AI systems are developed, rather than only what they can do.

The company said publishing the data could give outside observers a clearer basis for assessing the pace of AI development and added that it plans to continue releasing the measurements.

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