No industry is immune to fraud, with cases rising in finance, retail, and loyalty programmes. From fake invoices and falsified receipts to identity fraud and synthetic accounts, traditional fraud detection methods struggle to keep up. Many businesses still rely on manual reviews, which are slow and error-prone, often detecting fraud only after the damage is…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When I was a kid there were four AI agents in my life. Their names were Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde and they tried their best to hunt me down. This was the 1980s and the…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today, virtually every cutting-edge AI product and model uses a transformer architecture. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o, LLaMA, Gemini and Claude are all transformer-based, and other AI applications such as text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, image…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Perplexity has shattered the AI market’s status quo today by launching Deep Research, a tool that generates comprehensive research reports in minutes and opens advanced AI capabilities to users at a fraction of typical enterprise costs.…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Large language models (LLMs) can learn complex reasoning tasks without relying on large datasets, according to a new study by researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Their findings show that with just a small batch of…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI reasoning models — those that produce “chains-of-thought” in text and reflect on their own analysis to try and catch errors midstream before outputting a response to a user — are all the rage now thanks…

Europe has no intention of playing catch-up in the global AI race, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared at the AI Action Summit in Paris. While the US and China are often seen as frontrunners, von der Leyen emphasised that the AI race “is far from over” and that Europe has distinct strengths…

Tech giants are beginning an unprecedented $320 billion AI infrastructure spending spree in 2025, brushing aside concerns about more efficient AI models from challengers like DeepSeek. The massive investment push from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta signals the big players’ unwavering conviction that AI’s future demands bold infrastructure bets, despite (or perhaps because of) emerging…

The advent of more powerful processors in the early 2000’s started the computing revolution that led to what we now call the cloud. With single hardware instances able to run dozens, if not hundreds of virtual machines concurrently, businesses could offer their users multiple services and applications that would otherwise have been financially impractical, if…

Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, has warned that AI misuse poses an “extreme risk” and could do catastrophic harm. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Schmidt cautioned that AI could be weaponised by extremists and “rogue states” such as North Korea, Iran, and Russia to “harm innocent people.” Schmidt expressed concern that rapid…