Author: Advanced AI Editor

Google is testing a new “Web Guide” feature that uses AI to organize the search results page.While complex Search algorithms organize traditional results page, Web Guide results will be sorted by a custom version of Gemini AI. The latter will make it easier to find information and “group web links in helpful ways,” Google says. Web Guide also uses AI Mode’s fan-out technique, meaning it will present results for related queries alongside your main query. Unlike AI Overviews and AI Mode, which take over the top half of the page, this seems intended to offer AI-curated answers while retaining Search’s familiar…

Stability AI lost its VP of audio Ed Newton-Rex in November 2023 after he disagreed with the company’s views on ‘fair use’ and training materials. Since then there has been a change of CEO, and the current boss Prem Akkaraju has been holding out some olive branches to the creative industries in an interview with the Financial Times. While he did come out with some of the familiar talking points of fair use defences – AI’s learn from art like humans do, etc – he also talked about a positive project within his company. “I think that a marketplace for people to opt into…

Alibaba has launched Qwen-MT on July 24, its latest machine translation model built on the Qwen3 foundation, offering faster and more affordable translation across 92 global languages. The lightweight model, Qwen-MT-Turbo, is now available via the Qwen API. Designed to serve high-concurrency environments, Qwen-MT claims to outperform other compact LLMs like GPT-4.1 mini and Gemini 2.5 Flash, while holding its own against larger models, including GPT-4.1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. With reinforcement learning applied to billions of multilingual training tokens, the model is optimised for both linguistic fluency and cross-domain adaptability. In benchmark tests, Qwen-MT reportedly excelled in Chinese-English and…

In brief: There’s a strange situation occurring in China: despite Nvidia’s high-end AI chips being restricted from export to the country, businesses that repair these GPUs are experiencing a boom in demand. One company now handles up to 500 AI chip repairs every month. The US has restricted the export of Nvidia’s most powerful AI chips to China since 2022 over fears that they could be used for military purposes. Although these chips aren’t officially available in the Asian nation, a booming repair business has emerged. Reuters reports that one firm in the country, which began fixing gaming GPUs 15…

Tesla has warned customers about its incentive strategy for qualifying electric vehicles, as the days of both the $7,500 EV tax credit for new EVs and the $4,000 credit for used EVs are coming to a close. Both tax credits, which impact some of the vehicles in the Tesla lineup, are set to be eliminated at the end of Q3. The phase out of these consumer credits was always in the plans of the Trump Administration, but now we’re in the final quarter of their existence. As a result, EV companies are scrambling to see how they can reduce costs…

Anthropic has built an army of autonomous AI agents with a singular mission: to audit powerful models like Claude to improve safety.As these complex systems rapidly advance, the job of making sure they are safe and don’t harbour hidden dangers has become a herculean task. Anthropic believes it has found a solution, and it’s a classic case of fighting fire with fire.The idea is similar to a digital immune system, where AI agents act like antibodies to identify and neutralise problems before they cause real harm. It saves researchers from relying on overworked human teams playing an endless game of…

Google announced USD 7 million (about KSh 905 million) artificial intelligence (AI) funding initiative for four African countriesThe Google funding will support local academic institutions and nonprofits to deliver AI training programmesGoogle also launched an AI Community Centre in Ghana to serve as a regional hub for research, collaboration, and experimentation in AI across AfricaElijah Ntongai, an editor at TUKO.co.ke, has over four years of financial, business, and technology research and reporting experience, providing insights into Kenyan, African, and global trends.Kenya is one of four African countries set to benefit from a massive artificial intelligence (AI) funding push by Google.A…

The Gist Proactive by design. Agentic AI shifts customer experience from reactive responses to anticipating needs before customers even ask. Human-AI partnership. Rather than replacing people, agentic AI frees up human agents to focus on empathy and complex problem-solving. Trust is essential. For agentic AI to succeed, companies must prioritize transparent governance, ethical oversight and calibrated customer trust. Customer experience (CX) is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The rise of agentic AI marks a shift from reactive, prompt-based support to proactive, anticipatory engagement, where systems take initiative based on real-time insights. Unlike conventional AI, which waits for commands, agentic AI autonomously identifies and…

AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own. Makers of these so-called “vibe-coding” tools are a hot commodity at the moment, with startups like Lovable and Cursor fending off buyers and investors keen to tap a hot trend. Google’s now become the latest to hop on this bandwagon: the company is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal, available to users in the U.S. through Google Labs, which the company uses as a base to experiment with new tech. Opal lets you create…

Shares in Alphabet (GOOGL) edged higher today despite technology giant Samsung Electronics looking to give its customers more AI variety in its future mobile phones.Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. AI Diversity According to a report in Bloomberg, South Korea’s Samsung is seeking other options outside of Alphabet’s AI Assistant Gemini for its Galaxy devices. In an interview with Choi Won-Joon, president and chief operating officer of Samsung’s mobile division, it was reported that it is already in…