Anxiety is growing among Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) in security operation centres, particularly around Chinese AI giant DeepSeek.AI was heralded as a new dawn for business efficiency and innovation, but for the people on the front lines of corporate defence, it’s casting some very long and dark shadows.Four in five (81%) UK CISOs believe the Chinese AI chatbot requires urgent regulation...
Malaysia’s race to build a homegrown AI workforce has entered a new phase with Huawei’s pledge to train 30,000 local professionals, as the country’s freshly minted National Cloud Computing Policy (NCCP) creates the regulatory foundation for a sovereign yet globally-competitive digital economy.Speaking at the Huawei Cloud AI Ecosystem Summit APAC 2025, Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo emphasised that...
Alibaba is moving into the smart glasses market with a device powered by its own AI models, part of a wider $52.4 billion furthering of AI and cloud computing. The Quark AI Glasses marks the company’s first step into the wearables category and is due to launch in China by the end of 2025.The glasses will run on Alibaba’s Qwen large language model and its AI assistant, Quark. Quark is already available...
While AI might feel ubiquitous, it primarily operates in a tiny fraction of the world’s 7,000 languages, leaving a huge portion of the global population behind. NVIDIA aims to fix this glaring blind spot, particularly within Europe.The company has just released a powerful new set of open-source tools aimed at giving developers the power to build high-quality speech AI for 25 different European languages....
Market disruption and shockwaves through Silicon Valley marked Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch, challenging some of the fundamental assumptions of how artificial intelligence companies had operated and scaled.In less than a couple of years, the Beijing-based newcomer has accomplished what many thought impossible: creating AI models that compete with industry giants while spending only a fraction of...
DeepSeek’s plan to train its new AI model, R2, on Huawei’s Ascend chips has failed and forced a retreat to Nvidia while delaying launch.For months, the narrative pushed by Beijing has been one of unstoppable technological progress and a march towards self-sufficiency. However, reality has a habit of biting back. The recent troubles of Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is a textbook example of where ambition...
Anthropic has detailed its safety strategy to try and keep its popular AI model, Claude, helpful while avoiding perpetuating harms.Central to this effort is Anthropic’s Safeguards team; who aren’t your average tech support group, they’re a mix of policy experts, data scientists, engineers, and threat analysts who know how bad actors think.However, Anthropic’s approach to safety isn’t a single...
A week after Huawei announced its decision to open-source the CANN (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks) software toolkit, the tech industry is still processing what this move means for the future of AI development.By making its Huawei CANN open source alternative to CUDA freely available to developers worldwide, the Chinese tech giant has fired what many consider a significant shot in the battle...
NVIDIA’s latest RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU will soon be available in enterprise servers.Systems from Cisco, Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro will ship various configurations in 2U servers. Nvidia says they will offer higher performance and efficiency for AI, graphics, simulation, analytics, and industrial applications, and support tasks like AI model training, content...
SoundHound AI, already a major player in voice assistants, is now giving its technology a pair of eyes.Imagine driving past a landmark and, without pulling out your phone, asking your car, “What’s that building over there?” and getting an instant answer. That’s what SoundHound AI is building. With the launch of Vision AI, SoundHound’s new system combines sight with sound to create a much smarter...
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