Author: Advanced AI Editor
General view of the Google headquarters in King’s Cross as the tech giant faces a 5 billion pound lawsuit in the UK for allegedly abusing its online search dominance.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesGoogle owner Alphabet on Tuesday announced a £5 billion ($6.8 billion) investment in the U.K.’s artificial intelligence development, just as the country prepares for U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit this week.The U.S. president is scheduled to arrive in Britain on Tuesday evening, before the pomp and pageantry gets underway on Wednesday. His visit is expected to coincide with a flurry of business deals.Google’s two-year investment…
Isaacus, a legal AI foundation model builder for legal tech companies, has gained $700,000 in pre-seed funding from leading Australian investors Aura Ventures and Galileo Ventures. It aims to provide models that will ‘outperform everything currently in use by legal tech practitioners today’. (Meanwhile, in other funding news, MarqVision, an AI-powered IP platform, has bagged a Series B funding round of $48m, bringing its total funding to date to $90m. Salesforce Ventures and Y Combinator took part, among others.) Right, back to Isaacus….The Australian company said that its mission is to provide ‘best-in-class, sovereign, affordable foundational legal AI models’. At…
Google is transforming nearly all its services with artificial intelligence, and Search is no exception. On the Search, the company’s most visible experiment is AI Overviews, which generate instant summaries at the top of search results. But these summaries have now landed Google in fresh legal trouble. Penske Media Corporation which is the parent company of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter has filed a lawsuit. The lawsuit argues that the AI-powered feature takes off traffic away from original publishers and cuts into their affiliate revenue.According to the complaint, AI Overviews push direct links further down the results page, discouraging…
A new analysis by McKinsey & Company projects a massive 3.5-fold increase in the global demand for AI-specific data center capacity by 2030, potentially creating a multi-trillion-dollar market opportunity for chipmaker Nvidia Corp. NVDA.The report forecasts that the power demand for AI workloads will surge from 44 gigawatts (GW) in 2025 to 156 GW by the end of the decade.McKinsey Projects Data Center Capacity At 219GW In 5 YearsThe McKinsey report, titled “Scaling bigger, faster, cheaper data centers with smarter designs,” provides the foundation for these bullish projections.It shows total data center capacity demand, including non-AI workloads, growing from 82…
Google DeepMind recently released a new language model named VaultGemma, which focuses on protecting user privacy. VaultGemma is not only open source but also the largest language model to date with differential privacy capabilities, boasting up to 1 billion parameters. This release marks a significant advancement in the field of artificial intelligence regarding the protection of user data privacy. Traditional large language models may inadvertently memorize sensitive information during training, such as names, addresses, and confidential documents. To address this challenge, VaultGemma introduces differential privacy technology, which adds controllable random noise during training to ensure that the model’s outputs cannot…
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way developers write, test, and review code. OpenAI has now taken a major step forward by upgrading Codex – the model powering its AI coding assistant – with a specialized new version of GPT-5. The rollout of GPT-5-Codex promises smarter, more reliable, and more flexible coding assistance, while also raising questions about how AI might soon become an indispensable part of every developer’s toolkit. Survey ✅ Thank you for completing the survey! Also read: What is VaultGemma: World’s most privacy conscious AI LLM explained From GPT-3 to GPT-5 When OpenAI first released Codex in…
Mishaal Rahman / Android AuthorityTL;DR Gboard’s Writing Tools, an on-device AI feature, is reportedly being rolled out to the Pixel 8 series. A user with a Pixel 8 Pro running the latest Gboard beta release has received the feature. The feature’s expansion suggests that Google may gradually add more older devices to the list of supported phones. AI features formed some of the Pixel 10 series‘ core new highlights, one of which was Writing Tools in Gboard. Thanks to its integration into the keyboard app, this tool allows users to use on-device AI to proofread or rephrase their text in…
Understanding Perplexity AI: Your Intelligent Search Companion Searching for information online used to mean wading through endless links, ads, and distractions. But what if your next answer could be smarter—delivered directly, based on the nuance in your queries, and even supported by credible sources, all in one place? In the fast-evolving digital age, professionals are constantly seeking more efficient, trustworthy ways to access key data. Enter Perplexity AI, a groundbreaking smart search companion transforming how we explore and interact with knowledge online. By blending advanced AI with intuitive usability, Perplexity AI is making intelligent search a seamless part of daily…
On Wednesday, Cathie Wood-led Ark Invest made notable trades, including the sale of shares in Meta Platforms Inc. META. This move comes as Meta’s AI model, Llama, reached a significant milestone of 1 billion downloads, while the company faces ongoing privacy scrutiny.The Meta Trade: Ark Invest’s ARK Innovation ETF ARKK sold 7,361 shares of the Mark Zuckerberg-led company. The sale was valued at approximately $4.3 million, based on Meta’s closing price of $584.06. This decision follows a previous sale of over $7 million worth of Meta shares on Monday as the company deals with privacy challenges and global expansion efforts. Notably, Ark also offloaded $1.26 million…
OpenAI has appointed Mike Liberatore, former Chief Financial Officer at Elon Musk’s xAI, as its new business finance officer, according to a report by CNBC. Liberatore officially joined the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence company on Tuesday, marking a major addition to OpenAI’s executive team during a period of rapid expansion and heightened competition in the AI sector. Liberatore left xAI in July after just three months, with his exit reported by the Wall Street Journal earlier this month. His short stint was part of a wave of senior-level departures at Musk’s AI startup. Before joining xAI, he built a strong track…