When it comes to movies buzzing with Oscar potential, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is a standout this awards season. The visually stunning drama transports viewers to the post-World War II era, unravelling the story of László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody. Tóth, a fictional Hungarian-Jewish architect, starts over in the United States after being forced…

OpenAI has unveiled Operator, a tool that integrates seamlessly with web browsers to perform tasks autonomously. From filling out forms to ordering groceries, Operator promises to simplify repetitive online activities by interacting directly with websites through clicks, typing, and scrolling. Designed around a new model called the Computer-Using Agent (CUA), Operator combines GPT-4o’s vision recognition…

DeepSeek is grappling with service disruptions and restricting new account sign-ups to combat what it describes as “large-scale malicious attacks.” The Chinese firm’s chat app, which recently soared to the top of Apple’s App Store, issued a notice on its website stating that only users with China-based phone numbers (+86) would be permitted to register…

Ericsson has launched Cognitive Labs, a research-driven initiative dedicated to advancing AI for telecoms.  Operating virtually rather than from a single physical base, Cognitive Labs will explore AI technologies such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), Active Learning, and Large-Scale Language Models (LLMs).  According to Ericsson, these innovations form the backbone of the company’s solutions for…

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov, a specially designed version of its AI chatbot tailored for use by US government agencies. ChatGPT Gov aims to harness the potential of AI to enhance efficiency, productivity, and service delivery while safeguarding sensitive data and complying with stringent security requirements. “We believe the US government’s adoption of artificial intelligence…

Alibaba’s response to DeepSeek is Qwen 2.5-Max, the company’s latest Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large-scale model. Qwen 2.5-Max boasts pretraining on over 20 trillion tokens and fine-tuning through cutting-edge techniques like Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). With the API now available through Alibaba Cloud and the model accessible for exploration via Qwen…

Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating a potential breach of the AI firm’s system by a group allegedly linked to Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. According to Bloomberg, the investigation stems from suspicious data extraction activity detected in late 2024 via OpenAI’s application programming interface (API), sparking broader concerns over international AI competition. Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest financial…

Next week marks the beginning of a new era for AI regulations as the first obligations of the EU AI Act take effect. While the full compliance requirements won’t come into force until mid-2025, the initial phase of the EU AI Act begins February 2nd and includes significant prohibitions on specific AI applications. Businesses across…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The open-source model race just keeps on getting more interesting.  Today, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) debuted its latest entry in the race with the launch of its open-source Tülu 3 405 billion-parameter large language…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Y Combinator-backed startup Martin AI announced today it has raised $2 million in seed funding to develop what it claims is a more intuitive and personalized AI assistant that could rival upcoming offerings from OpenAI and…