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A survey by Skills.law of what legal AI tools ‘major law firms’ would most recommend has found some very interesting results, with focused solutions generally doing better than ‘genAI convergence’ ones that offer a bit of everything. The survey, which in effect provides a NPS, i.e. net promotor score, looked at just over 40 products offering legal AI – i.e. genAI – capabilities, with users asked to provide a score based on multiple criteria (see below). Around 100 law firms, mostly in the US, UK and Canada, plus a handful of legal tech consultants, had their inputs measured. Here are…

C3.ai (NYSE: AI) stock has been in a tailspin this year as fears related to a recession have been on the rise. A slowdown in spending could result in companies slashing budgets for investments, including artificial intelligence (AI) projects. And for a business such as C3.ai, which provides AI solutions, the worry is that may slow down its growth.Year to date, the stock is now down more than 40% as of Monday’s close. Investors have been aggressively dumping shares of the company. But with much more growth still out there, could now be a good time to buy C3.ai stock,…

These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of April 14 – April 20.Huawei unveils new AI chip just one day after US bans Nvidia’s H20 exportsJust one day after the US banned exports of Nvidia’s H20 AI chip to China, Huawei launched its Ascend 920 on April 10. Slated for mass production in late 2025, the chip delivers over 900 TFLOPS, 4,000 GB/s bandwidth, and supports HBM3—offering a domestic alternative as China accelerates efforts to localize its AI compute infrastructure.Tariff maze deepens: US duties on Chinese goods up to 245% amid policy whiplashThe Trump administration has issued…

We introduce TAPIP3D, a novel approach for long-term 3D point tracking in monocular RGB and RGB-D videos. TAPIP3D represents videos as camera-stabilized spatio-temporal feature clouds, leveraging depth and camera motion information to lift 2D video features into a 3D world space where camera motion is effectively canceled. TAPIP3D iteratively refines multi-frame 3D motion estimates within this stabilized representation, enabling robust tracking over extended periods. To manage the inherent irregularities of 3D point distributions, we propose a Local Pair Attention mechanism. This 3D contextualization strategy effectively exploits spatial relationships in 3D, forming informative feature neighborhoods for precise 3D trajectory estimation. Our…

Emerging technology, when first being presented to the public-at-large, is bound to get people fearful and protective of the status quo. Such is the current case with AI and its practical application in multiple industries, particularly in the space of visual media arts, but rather than turn away, renowned filmmaker and technological innovator James Cameron is choosing to lean in. Last year, he joined the board of the generative AI company Stability AI and during a recent interview on the “Boz to the Future” podcast, he explained how the tech’s ability to shorten VFX workflow could truly be a game-changer…

If you are interested in building your very own local deep research AI assistant, you might be interested in Google’s Gemma 3 AI models. They represent a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, offering a compact yet robust solution tailored for local deployment. Derived from the larger Gemini series, these models combine high performance with a strong emphasis on privacy and accessibility. Featuring multimodal capabilities, support for 140 languages, and the ability to generate structured outputs, Gemma 3 is engineered to meet diverse AI research assistant and productivity demands. These models are open source and optimized for local use, allowing you…

One pressing question at the artificial-intelligence (AI) summit in Paris this week was this: is Mistral AI’s assistant a cat, or a chat? Called Le Chat and developed by a French startup as a competitor to ChatGPT, it launched as a smartphone app on February 6th. To the English speaker, Le Chat looks like a French twist on AI chat, which it conducts in English (and other languages). Yet at the jamboree President Emmanuel Macron plugged it using a soft “sh”, rendering Le Chat distinctly feline. Arthur Mensch, Mistral’s 32-year-old boss, says his baby is indeed four-legged. Look carefully at…

Image: iStock/BeeBright A bipartisan report, recently issued by the US Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), accuses DeepSeek of a series of subversive, illegal, and immoral practices. Moreover, the tech giant NVIDIA is also catching the ire of US government officials for supplying DeepSeek with the chips needed to create the AI models. Investigating DeepSeek The report, titled “DeepSeek Unmasked: Exposing the CCP’s Latest Tool for Spying, Stealing, and Subverting U.S. Export Control Restrictions,” was published in April 2025. It levies numerous accusations against DeepSeek, including: Actively suppressing more than 85% of responses that are related to human…

Startup Deep Cogito Inc. launched today with a series of language models that it claims can outperform comparably sized open-source alternatives.  According to TechCrunch, the company was founded last June by former Google LLC staffers Drishan Arora and Dhruv Malhotra. Arora worked as a senior software engineer at the search giant. Malhotra, in turn, was a product manager at the Google DeepMind machine learning lab. The duo have raised an undisclosed amount of funding from South Park Commons. Deep Cogito’s lineup of open-source language models is known as the Cogito v1 series. The algorithms are available in five sizes ranging…

On 26 March, Suzhou Pudu Co-Intelligence Technology Company, a joint venture between Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Baidu Group, was launched as China’s first AI-focused joint venture co-founded by Baidu and a university. SUZHOU, China, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On 26 March, Suzhou Pudu Co-Intelligence Technology Company, a joint venture between Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Baidu Group, was launched as China’s first AI-focused joint venture co-founded by Baidu and a university. AI+education: Redefining learning Through AI-driven innovation, Pudu Co-Intelligence seeks to transform the whole education value chain, empower industrial evolution and cultivate localised service ecosystems. The company will…