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Demand in China is soaring for the repair of banned Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) artificial intelligence chipsets, including H100 and A100 GPUs, despite U.S. export restrictions aimed at curbing Chinese technological and military advancements. Around a dozen boutique firms in Shenzhen now specialize in repairing these high-end GPUs, which continue to enter China through smuggling channels. The H100, prohibited from sale to China since September 2022, remains highly sought after for training large language models, outperforming locally developed alternatives such as Huawei’s AI chips. Repair companies report servicing up to 500 GPUs monthly, offering diagnostics, memory and PCB repairs, and testing…

Thousands of educational institutions that use popular ed-tech platform Canvas to assign coursework, score tests, and design lesson plans will soon receive even more AI features in coming months.Part of a series of industry-wide collaborations, the platform’s parent company, Instructure, has signed on to a new partnership with OpenAI, an initiative that will see the learning software leverage OpenAI’s tech to build out more AI experiences for users.Teachers, for example, will gain access to AI-powered personalization, feedback, and assessment data, the companies explain. “Routine and low-value tasks,” will be automated, and students will experience more “personalized, adaptable learning journeys” with…

MacArthur Fellow and Leader in Common Sense AI to Continue Her Groundbreaking Research at Stanford HAI STANFORD, Calif., January 16, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) today announced the appointment of NVIDIA’s Yejin Choi as the Dieter Schwartz Foundation HAI Professor, Professor of Computer Science, and Stanford HAI Senior Fellow. In this role, Choi, a MacArthur Fellow and a leader in natural language processing (NLP) focusing on aligning AI with societal values and human intentions, will continue her groundbreaking study of common sense AI and the shift from LLMs to SLMs. Choi joins the esteemed Stanford HAI team,…

SHARES of International Business Machines declined the most since April 2024 after the company reported weaker-than-expected sales in its closely watched software segment disappointing investors who have grown increasingly optimistic about the business. Second-quarter software unit sales increased 10 per cent to US$7.39 billion, the company said in a statement on Wednesday, slightly below analysts’ average estimate of US$7.49 billion. The company’s consulting business, which has been experiencing a growth slump, generated a revenue bump of 3 per cent to US$5.31 billion.Investors have been enthusiastic about IBM’s software business and the potential for future growth from artificial intelligence tools and quantum…

Google on Thursday is launching a new AI-powered feature called Web Guide for organizing Google Search results. Web Guide is a Search Labs experiment that leverages AI technology to organize the search results page by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the search query. Search Labs experiments are a way for Google to test out new ideas by letting users opt in to those they find interesting. The experiments can be turned on or off at any time and include things like Google’s AI Mode, Notebook LM, filmmaking tool Flow, and other, more niche ideas, like an audio show…

Aidan Gomez-backed startup still unsure if it will follow Cohere CEO’s advice on remaining in Canada. Anthony Azrak and Jai Mansukhani know how to capitalize on coincidences.  When they found themselves in the same Next Canada accelerator, they decided to build OpenSesame, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup. When they co-hosted a hackathon with AI company Cohere, they secured an angel cheque from CEO Aidan Gomez by slipping a handwritten Christmas card into a custom hockey jersey.   When the co-founders met a partner from venture capital (VC) firm Andreessen Horowitz at New York Tech Week, they asked whether they’d be…

C3.ai stock sank today after the company announced that CEO Tom Siebel will be stepping down. C3.ai (AI -10.82%) stock got hit with big sell-offs today after the company announced a major leadership change. The company’s share price ended the daily session down 10.8% C3.ai announced today that CEO Tom Siebel would be stepping down and that the company was in the process of looking for its next chief executive. With today’s pullback, the company’s stock is down roughly 24.5% across 2025’s trading. Image source: Getty Images. C3.ai stock sank following news of Siebel’s exit C3.ai published a press release…

Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence chips worth at least $1 billion were smuggled to China in the three months after Washington tightened chip export controls, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The AI chip designer’s high-end B200 processors, banned for sale in China, is widely available on a thriving Chinese black market for US chips, the report said, citing sales contracts, company filings and multiple people with direct knowledge of the deals. Nvidia told Reuters that building data centers with smuggled products is inefficient both technically and financially, as the company only offers service and support for authorized products. Story continues…

YouTube (Image via Getty) Video streaming giant YouTube announced that it is launching AI video tools to cater to Short content creators on its platform. YouTube’s rollout of AI video aids comes in the wake of the platform’s parent company, Alphabet’s Q2 earnings report in 2025, which notes that YouTube is set to surpass $40 billion in ad revenue in 2025, as per Dexerto. In a post announcing its new AI offerings for Shorts creators, YouTube noted that its video generation model, Veo 2, will now enable creators to transform any still photograph into a video Short. The feature, called…

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When models attempt to get their way or become overly accommodating to the user, it can mean trouble for enterprises. That is why it’s essential that, in addition to performance evaluations, organizations conduct alignment testing. However, alignment audits often present two major challenges: scalability and validation. Alignment testing requires a significant amount of time for human researchers, and it’s challenging to ensure that the audit has caught everything.  In a paper, Anthropic researchers said…