2025

Duolingo is restructuring parts of its workforce as it shifts toward becoming an “AI-first” company, according to an internal memo from CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn that was later shared publicly on the company’s LinkedIn page. The memo outlines a series of planned changes to how the company operates, with a particular focus on how artificial intelligence will be used to streamline...

If you’re building with AI, or trying to defend against the less savoury side of the technology, Meta just dropped new Llama security tools. The improved security tools for the Llama AI models arrive alongside fresh resources from Meta designed to help cybersecurity teams harness AI for defence. It’s all part of their push to make developing and using AI a bit safer for everyone...

The UK has cut the ribbon on a pioneering electron beam (E-Beam) lithography facility to build the semiconductor chips of the future. What makes this special? It’s the first of its kind in Europe, and only the second facility like it on the planet—the other being in Japan. So, what’s the big deal about E-Beam lithography? Imagine trying to draw incredibly complex patterns, but thousands of...

If you’ve ever tried to get your cybersecurity news picked up by media outlets, you’ll know just how much of a challenge (and how disheartening) it can be. You pour hours into what you think is an excellent announcement about your new security tool, threat research, or vulnerability discovery, only to watch it disappear into journalists’ overflowing inboxes without a trace. The cyber PR...

At the Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, hosted by Alibaba Cloud, China’s AI startups emphasised their efforts to develop large language models. The companies’ efforts follow the announcement of OpenAI’s latest LLMs, including the o1 generative pre-trained transformer model backed by Microsoft. The model is intended to tackle difficult tasks, paving the way for advances in science, coding, and...

Baidu has unveiled ERNIE X1 Turbo and 4.5 Turbo, two fast models that boast impressive performance alongside dramatic cost reductions. Developed as enhancements to the existing ERNIE X1 and 4.5 models, both new Turbo versions highlight multimodal processing, robust reasoning skills, and aggressive pricing strategies designed to capture developer interest and marketshare. Baidu ERNIE X1 Turbo:...

As of April 2025, Solana price trends – hovering near $141 – are attracting renewed attention from investors and developers. While market fluctuations are typical in the cryptocurrency space, Solana’s price movements are tied increasingly to its evolving role as an infrastructure layer for artificial intelligence. Solana’s technical architecture can handle high-speed, low-cost...

AI-powered scams are evolving rapidly as cybercriminals use new technologies to target victims, according to Microsoft’s latestCyber Signals report. Over the past year, the tech giant says it has prevented $4 billion in fraud attempts, blocking approximately 1.6 million bot sign-up attempts every hour – showing the scale of this growing threat. The ninth edition of Microsoft’s Cyber Signals...

Researchers have introduced RAGEN, an AI framework designed to counter LLM agent instability when handling complex situations. Training these AI agents presents significant hurdles, particularly when decisions span multiple steps and involve unpredictable feedback from the environment. While reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in static tasks like solving maths problems or generating...

A coalition of experts, including former OpenAI employees, has voiced strong opposition to the company’s shift away from its nonprofit roots. In an open letter addressed to the Attorneys General of California and Delaware, the group – which also includes legal experts, corporate governance specialists, AI researchers, and nonprofit representatives – argues that the proposed changes...