Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Global IT spending is expected to rise by 7.9 percent to a total of $5.43 trillion in 2025, driven by digital transformation and AI.

Neuralink projects to implant brain chips in 20,000 people annually by 2031, aiming for $1 billion in revenue and five large clinics to support growth.

"AI is positively impacting every part of the business, driving strong momentum," said Pichai.

The Trump administration's AI action plan identifies more than 90 federal policy actions aimed at accelerating innovation, building infrastructure, and leading in international diplomacy and security.

A thing that terrifies me is apparently there are still some financial institutions that will accept the voiceprint as authentication for you to move a lot of money or do something else, that is a crazy thing to still be doing ... AI has fully defeated that.

Avaya is integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) into its Avaya Infinity CX platform to enhance customer experience environments based on real-time customer insights.

"We're glad we built a benchmark that is actually hard. Benchmarks should be hard if they're going to matter."

Standing between 2.5 and 5 meters tall, 25AP-263-43 immediately catches the eye with its vertical presence and sense of natural order.

The MCP C# SDK, now supporting protocol version 2025-06-18, introduces a new authentication protocol that enhances security and flexibility for AI applications.

AI tools are not currently made with small businesses in mind. While AI promises improved productivity, many small and midsize businesses find the reality unfulfilling.

Tan Su Shan, CEO of DBS, emphasizes that AI can replace even the CEO role, urging staff to focus on the 'four Rs' for future relevance.

An AI model demonstrated that seemingly meaningless data can transmit 'evil tendencies' to other models, raising concerns over AI safety and development practices.

"Every piece of content that we train on is something that we have acquired the license of, or that is published under a verifiable and known license," says Greenfield.

Even when the legislation emerges, a major concern is that the government is committed to a domain-specific approach to the regulation of AI.

Here's the uncomfortable truth that every AI agent company is dancing around: error compounding makes autonomous multi-step workflows mathematically impossible at production scale. Let's do the math. If each step in an agent workflow has 95 percent reliability, which is optimistic for current LLMs, then five steps equal a 77 percent success rate, ten steps is a 59 percent success rate, and 20 steps is a 36 percent success rate.

The plan and related executive orders are expected to include some familiar tech lobby pitches. That includes accelerating the sale of AI technology abroad and making it easier to construct the energy-hungry data center buildings that are needed to form and run AI products.

The Trump White House intends to remove regulations perceived as hindrances to innovation in AI, including diversity, equity, and inclusion measures, and climate change initiatives.

Businesses have a wealth of unstructured data, such as emails and reports, which traditional tools struggle to analyze or utilize effectively. This creates significant challenges in data management.

The internal spreadsheet from Surge AI identifies specific websites to use and avoid while fine-tuning Anthropic's AI, revealing the complexities of content selection.

Anadol's team created nine AI algorithms, including a motion-tracking framework that mapped seventeen points of Messi's body to reconstruct his physical form and kinetic expression.

Amazon has acquired AI startup Bee, which develops wearable devices that summarize conversations and provide personal insights. This acquisition aims to enhance personal agentic AI for consumers.

Dr. Saffron Huang's custom rig for using Stable Diffusion consists of eight NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs, costing over £20,000. 'There's a profound irony here,' she states, emphasizing that while the code is freely available, the required computational resources establish a new technological aristocracy.

Alphabet's revenue for the second quarter was $96.43 billion, surpassing the estimated $94 billion, with earnings per share of $2.31 compared to an estimation of $2.18.

We report comprehensive evaluation results on summarization tasks for the 7B parameter models trained on 200B and 500B tokens of natural language. The performance of these models on various summarization tasks demonstrates significant improvements over previous benchmarks.

The revamped Dynatrace platform features Grail, a data lakehouse that unifies different data types, allowing for efficient telemetry analysis within organizations.

EX.CO's AI taxonomy solution has allowed us to deeply tag our extensive video library with a fraction of the necessary time. This gives the product team confidence in the recommendations being powered by this new technology.

The prediction difficulty of different tokens in natural text varies greatly, affecting the training efficacy of language models. Some tokens require minimal context to predict, while others demand significant reasoning.

"We find a lot of people have walked up to a bin and just don't know where things are supposed to end up, and that's again where Oscar becomes the hero across five continents. We're diverting waste away from landfill," he said.

"The printed circuit boards, or PCBs, that power most devices on our planet, from smartphones to drones, can be slow and costly to produce..."

Microsoft launched a major update for Windows 11 24H2 on Tuesday, known as KB5062660, featuring AI-powered tools and numerous enhancements and bug fixes.

Mistral has released Voxtral, a large language model aimed at speech recognition (ASR) applications that seek to integrate more advanced LLM-based capabilities and go beyond simple transcription.

"Sir, he has 100%," they said. "Who the hell is he? What's his name?" "His name is Jensen Huang, Nvidia." I said, "What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before." "You don't want to know about it, sir."

Nima Nabavi’s exhibition, Roswell2223, showcases an 18-foot-long hand-drawn canvas that embodies spiritual intensity and meditative clarity through intricate geometrical forms.

"Getting to really high voltages is the key thing," Langtry, Avalanche's co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch. And given that the company is building small reactors - targeting anywhere from 5 kilowatts to several hundred kilowatts - the density of that voltage, 6 million volts per meter, is important. "That's the real unlock for us," he said.