Author: Advanced AI Editor

Tesla is looking to make a big splash with Robotaxi in a new market, as the company was spotted testing validation vehicles in one region where it has not yet launched its ride-hailing service. After launching Robotaxi in Austin in late June, Tesla followed up with a relatively quick expansion to the Bay Area of California. Both service areas are operating with a geofence that is expansive: In Texas, it is 173 square miles, while in the Bay Area, it is roughly 400 square miles. Tesla has been transparent that it is prioritizing safety, but it believes it can expand…

Quack, an Israeli startup developing “proactive” artificial intelligence for customer service, has raised $7 million in Seed funding to accelerate its U.S. expansion and product development.The round was led by Hanaco Ventures and Storytime Capital, with participation from Fusion VC, Savyon Ventures, Seed IL, and several private investors, including WalkMe chief executive Dan Adika.Founded by Nadav Kemper and Aviram Roisman, Quack describes itself as the first platform to train and manage a network of AI “agents” capable of identifying and resolving customer problems before they escalate. The company argues that traditional customer support tools, from chatbots to help centers, are…

In this report, we introduce Hunyuan-MT-7B, our first open-source multilingual translation model, which supports bidirectional translation across 33 major languages and places a special emphasis on translation between Mandarin and several ethnic minority languages as well as dialects. Furthermore, to serve and address diverse translation scenarios and enhance model performance at test time, we introduce Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, a translation model inspired by the slow thinking mode. This model integrates multiple outputs generated by the Hunyuan-MT-7B model under varying parameter settings, thereby achieving performance superior to that of conventional slow-thinking models based on Chain-of-Thought (CoT). The development of our models follows a…

A 16th-century altarpiece by Vittore Carpaccio has been returned to the Slovenian town of Piran, where it was originally commissioned, drawing sharp criticism from Italian politicians who insist the work remains part of Italy’s cultural patrimony. Madonna and Child Enthroned with Six Saints (1518) was painted for Piran’s Church of St. Francis of Assisi, in Istria—an Adriatic region that was once under Italian control but is now divided among Slovenia, Croatia, and Italy. The painting was removed in 1940, when Istria lay entirely within Italy’s borders, and placed for safekeeping in Padua during World War II. It has hung in the…

Key Takeaways ASML’s €1.3B investment in Mistral AI marks a rare move by Europe’s semiconductor giant into the AI sector, raising the startup’s valuation to €11.7B. The partnership has dual motives: technically, to use AI for chip design and manufacturing optimization; politically, to keep Europe’s AI ecosystem independent of US influence. Opportunities are vast but risky: AI could make lithography more efficient, but Mistral is still unproven compared to OpenAI and Anthropic, while dependence on NVIDIA hardware persists. For Europe, it’s about sovereignty: linking ASML and Mistral signals a shift from being a follower to actively defending its role in…

Alibaba has introduced a new large language model, Qwen-3-Max-Preview, marking its most advanced release to date. The model, unveiled on the company’s cloud platform and through the AI marketplace OpenRouter, is equipped with more than one trillion parameters, placing it among the largest text-based AI systems currently available. The launch follows earlier entries in the Qwen3 series, first rolled out in May. Those models ranged from 600 million to 235 billion parameters, offering developers a spectrum of options depending on scale and resource requirements. With this new release, Alibaba is moving into the ultra-large category of AI models, where only…

Tempers are running hot at one of the most valuable private companies in history.The leaders of OpenAI, which was launched in 2015 as a non-profit with the goal of building AI for the good of humanity, are growing anxious that their dream of reorganizing as a for-profit company might be dead in the water.As reported by the Wall Street Journal, a coalition of some of the most powerful tech companies, NGOs, non-profits, and labor groups in OpenAI’s operating states of California and Delaware are lobbying attorneys general to crack down on the tech giant’s restructuring efforts. OpenAI’s ambitions, they say,…

OverviewIn this episode of DEMO, host Keith Shaw sits down with Neil Leblanc (watsonx.governance Go-To-Market Lead, IBM) and Eduardo Fronza (Partner Solutions Architect, AWS) to showcase a powerful integration between IBM watsonx.governance and Amazon SageMaker AI.Together, they demonstrate how enterprises can automate AI governance, streamline collaboration across teams, and ensure compliance and trust throughout the AI model lifecycle. Whether you’re a data scientist, ML engineer, or a chief privacy or information officer, this solution empowers organizations to go beyond proof-of-concept and deploy AI at scale — securely and responsibly.See how the platform: * Enables seamless integration between AI governance and…

MIT physicists propose a “neutrino laser,” a quantum-driven burst of neutrinos that could revolutionize communication and medical technology. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT; Adapted by SciTechDaily.com Super-cooling radioactive atoms could create a laser-like neutrino beam, potentially opening a new avenue for studying these elusive particles and even enabling novel forms of communication. Every instant, torrents of neutrinos pass through our bodies and the objects around us without leaving a trace. Smaller than electrons and lighter than photons, these ghostlike particles are the most abundant massive particles in the universe. The exact mass of a neutrino remains unknown. Because they are minute…

Two taste-making dealers—one based in New York, the other in Los Angeles—will merge their galleries, forming a new operation with spaces in both of those cities. Bridget Donahue and Hannah Hoffman will combine their eponymous enterprises in New York and LA, respectively, to create Hoffman Donahue. The newly formed gallery’s 43-person roster boasts a range of celebrated artists, from Puppies Puppies to Lynn Hershman Leeson. Both dealers are known for spinning rising talents into stars. Donahue’s gallery, opened in New York’s Chinatown neighborhood in 2015, was among the first to offer solo shows to artists such as Martine Syms and…