A group of Swiss institutions has released a new open AI model, designed to serve as a foundation for future research and applications. Built by EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the model is called Apertus – Latin for “open.” The name reflects its core principle: every part of its design and training process is accessible to the public.Developers and...
The promise of AI remains immense – but one thing might be holding it back. “The infrastructure that powers AI today won’t sustain tomorrow’s demands,” a recent CIO.com article leads. “CIOs must rethink how to scale smarter – not just bigger – or risk falling behind.”CrateDB agrees – and the database firm is betting on solving the problem by being a ‘unified data layer for analytics,...
A new AI tool – built to help companies find and fix their own security weaknesses – has been snatched up by cybercriminals, turned on its head, and used as a devastating hacking weapon exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities.According to a report from cybersecurity firm Check Point, the framework – called Hexstrike-AI – is the turning point that security experts have been dreading, where the sheer...
Meta is revising how its AI chatbots interact with users after a series of reports exposed troubling behaviour, including interactions with minors. The company told TechCrunch it is now training its bots not to engage with teenagers on topics like self-harm, suicide, or eating disorders, and to avoid romantic banter. These are temporary steps while it develops longer-term rules.The changes follow a Reuters...
Millions of US federal government workers are about to get a new AI assistant on their devices for free in the form of Microsoft Copilot. The move is part of a deal between Microsoft and the US General Services Administration (GSA) that’s also expected to save taxpayers $3.1 billion in its first year.The centrepiece of this huge new agreement is a full year of Microsoft 365 Copilot at no extra cost for...
The vast majority (92%) of marketing professionals are using AI in their day-to-day operations, turning it from a buzzword into a workhorse.According to SAP Emarsys – which took the pulse of over 10,000 consumers and 1,250 marketers – while businesses are seeing real benefits from AI, shoppers are becoming increasingly distrustful, especially when it comes to their personal data. This divide could...
Agentic AI is being talked about as the next major wave of artificial intelligence, but its meaning for enterprises remains to be settled. Capgemini Research Institute estimates agentic AI could unlock as much as US$450 billion in economic value by 2028. Yet adoption is still limited: only 2% of organisations have scaled its use, and trust in AI agents is already starting to slip.That tension – high...
In Google’s sleek Singapore office at Block 80, Level 3, Mark Johnston stood before a room of technology journalists at 1:30 PM with a startling admission: after five decades of cybersecurity evolution, defenders are still losing the war. “In 69% of incidents in Japan and Asia Pacific, organisations were notified of their own breaches by external entities,” the Director of Google Cloud’s Office of...
Swarm Network, a platform developing decentralised protocols for AI agents, recently announced the successful results of its first Swarm, a tool (perhaps “organism” is the better term) built to tackle disinformation. Called Rollup News, the swarm is not an app, a software platform, nor a centralised algorithm. It is a decentralised collection of AI agents that collaborate to solve a bigger problem. The...
A team at Tencent’s Hunyuan lab has created a new AI, ‘Hunyuan Video-Foley,’ that finally brings lifelike audio to generated video. It’s designed to listen to videos and generate a high-quality soundtrack that’s perfectly in sync with the action on screen.Ever watched an AI-generated video and felt like something was missing? The visuals might be stunning, but they often have an eerie silence...
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