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Chip stacking strategy is emerging as China’s innovative response to US semiconductor restrictions, but can this approach truly close the performance gap with Nvidia’s advanced GPUs? As Washington tightens export controls on cutting-edge chipmaking technology, Chinese researchers are proposing a bold workaround: stack older, domestically-producible chips together to match the performance of chips they can…
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Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London have established a frontier AI research lab to overcome historic deployment challenges. Speed and scale have defined the current AI boom. But for enterprises, the primary obstacles to deployment are different: trust, accuracy, and lineage. Addressing these barriers, Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London have announced a five-year partnership…
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Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a new class of artificial intelligence systems called "frontier agents" that can work autonomously for hours or even days without human intervention, representing one of the most ambitious attempts yet to automate the full software development lifecycle. The announcement, made during AWS CEO Matt Garman's keynote address at the…
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The AI browser wars are heating up. OpenAI and other AI companies like Perplexity have gotten a lot of attention with their new AI-first and agentic browsers. They're being positioned as direct competition to Google, which currently holds a 70% share of the market with its Chrome browser. As the incumbent, Google has been slower…
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AWS is leveraging automated reasoning, which uses math-based verification, to build out new capabilities in its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform as the company digs deeper into the agentic AI ecosystem. Announced during its annual re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS is adding three new capabilities to AgentCore: "policy," "evaluations" and "episodic memory." The new…
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Enterprise leaders are entering 2026 with an uncomfortable mix of volatility, optimism, and pressure to move faster on AI and quantum computing, according to a paper published by the IBM Institute for Business Value. Its findings are based on more than 1,000 C-suite executives and 8,500 employees and consumers. While only around a third of…
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Mistral AI, Europe's most prominent artificial intelligence startup, is releasing its most ambitious product suite to date: a family of 10 open-source models designed to run everywhere from smartphones and autonomous drones to enterprise cloud systems, marking a major escalation in the company's challenge to both U.S. tech giants and surging Chinese competitors. The Mistral…
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While artificial intelligence has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the global consulting industry—a $250 billion behemoth—has remained stubbornly analog. A London-based startup founded by former McKinsey consultants is betting $2 million that it can crack open this resistant market, one Excel spreadsheet at a time.…
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While tech giants pour billions into computational power to train frontier AI models, China’s DeepSeek has achieved comparable results by working smarter, not harder. The DeepSeek V3.2 AI model matches OpenAI’s GPT-5 in reasoning benchmarks despite using ‘fewer total training FLOPs’ – a breakthrough that could reshape how the industry thinks about building advanced artificial…
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Thrive Holdings’ push to modernise accounting and IT services is entering a new stage, as OpenAI prepares to take an ownership stake in the company and place its own specialists inside Thrive’s businesses. In doing so, OpenAI is testing an AI-driven model that pairs capital, sector expertise, and embedded technical teams. Thrive started its holding…