Author: Advanced AI Editor
Google is rolling out new tools for advertisers to get in front of shoppers as artificial intelligence reshapes the upcoming holiday season, the company announced today.One of the most notable parts of Google’s announcement is the ability for advertisers to turn on AI-driven search ads through AI Max. AI Max is now available globally in beta, which promotes products alongside AI search summaries rather than simply responding to specific search terms. That means that brands brands can appear in complex, multi-intent searches, explained Dan Taylor, vice president of global ads at Google, during a press event outlining the new suite…
Tesla is officially ditching the development of a key Cybertruck charging feature, and the reason is very obvious, all things considered. The Cybertruck is among the most unique vehicles available on the market, and, like all Tesla vehicles, it has continued to improve through Over-the-Air software updates that enhance performance, safety, and other technological features. However, the development of some features, while great on paper, turns out to be more difficult than expected. One of these features is the presence of wireless charging on the all-electric pickup, a capability Tesla has been working to integrate across its entire vehicle lineup.…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Ralph Lauren launched Ask Ralph, an generative AI-powered conversational shopping assistant for Ralph Lauren app users on Apple and Android devices, the company announced Tuesday. Ask Ralph can respond to conversational prompts with styling tips and product inspiration. Customers can then refine its recommendations with additional questions. The tool currently suggests in-stock products from Polo Ralph Lauren, with plans to add more Ralph Lauren brands in the future. The company also plans to introduce new features and improve personalization capabilities…
FILE PHOTO: Google has said they will be expanding AI Mode in Search to five new languages including Hindi. | Photo Credit: Reuters Google has said they will be expanding AI Mode in Search to five new languages including Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese. The company had first announced AI Mode as an experimental feature in Search in March this year in English, to take on emerging AI-powered search platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search and Perplexity AI.“Building a truly global Search goes far beyond translation — it requires a nuanced understanding of local information. With the advanced multimodal…
“Spotify honors our users’ privacy rights, including the right of portability,” Spotify’s spokesperson said. “All of our users can receive a copy of their personal data to use as they see fit. That said, UnwrappedData.org is in violation of our Developer Terms which prohibit the collection, aggregation, and sale of Spotify user data to third parties.” But while Spotify suggests it has already taken steps to stop Unwrapped, the Unwrapped team told Ars that it never received any communication from Spotify. It plans to defend users’ right to “access, control, and benefit from their own data,” its statement said, while…
After doing multiple contract AI deals with vendors such as Evisort, Harvey, Dioptra, and most recently Thomson Reuters, CLM company Icertis has now launched its own contract AI tool – Vera. But not just that, it comes with a host of related tools, including a bunch of agents as well. So, what is Vera? They explain that it is a ‘smarter AI for contracts…powered by one of the largest repositories of contract data in the world, Icertis Vera reflects the true intent of agreements with unmatched accuracy through deep contextual understanding of the business relationships captured in contracts’. I.e. it…
Unified multimodal models (UMMs) unify visual understanding and generation within a single architecture. However, conventional training relies on image-text pairs (or sequences) whose captions are typically sparse and miss fine-grained visual details–even when they use hundreds of words to describe a simple image. We introduce Reconstruction Alignment (RecA), a resource-efficient post-training method that leverages visual understanding encoder embeddings as dense “text prompts,” providing rich supervision without captions. Concretely, RecA conditions a UMM on its own visual understanding embeddings and optimizes it to reconstruct the input image with a self-supervised reconstruction loss, thereby realigning understanding and generation. Despite its simplicity, RecA…
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is a global provider of financial markets data and infrastructure. It operates the London Stock Exchange and manages international equity, fixed income, and derivative markets. The group also develops capital markets software, offers real-time and reference data products, and provides extensive post-trade services. This post was co-authored with Charles Kellaway and Rasika Withanawasam of LSEG. Financial markets are remarkably complex, hosting increasingly dynamic investment strategies across new asset classes and interconnected venues. Accordingly, regulators place great emphasis on the ability of market surveillance teams to keep pace with evolving risk profiles. However, the landscape is…
Two new Chinese artificial intelligence models have broken into a top 10 leaderboard for both open- and closed-source models, highlighting China’s progress in closing the gap with leading US developers.Alibaba Group Holding’s 1 trillion-parameter Qwen3-max-preview model debuted in sixth place in the latest “text arena” ranking by LMArena – an AI model evaluation platform started by University of California, Berkeley researchers – making it the top Chinese model.Meanwhile, Alibaba-backed start-up Moonshot AI’s updated Kimi-K2 model tied for eighth place with seven other models, including DeepSeek R1 and xAI’s Grok 4, reinforcing its status as one of the premier open-source models…
Adrian Cheng, CEO of New World Development.New World Development Meta Media Holdings’ stock skyrocketed more than 201% over the past week after the Chinese media company appointed Adrian Cheng as a co-chairman and announced a partnership with the ChatGPT-like bot developed by Chinese search giant Baidu. Meta Media said late Thursday that Cheng is joining the company as a non-executive director and a co-chairman. Cheng, who is the son of Hong Kong billionaire Henry Cheng Kar-shun, has been at the helm of real estate giant New World Development since 2017. Investors cheered news of the appointment, sending Meta Media’s Hong…