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According to Alibaba, Quark is the most popular AI assistant in China. The insight comes a few weeks after the Chinese company transformed the service into a “super AI assistant” that can generate images as well as help with research and coding. Quark is based on Alibaba’s Qwen models. Previously, the name was a cloud storage service with a search function and not a comprehensive AI app. The app now has the same range of functions as common AI services in Germany. As reported by the South China Morning Post (SCMP), Quark has 150 million monthly active users worldwide. ByteDance’s…

Cohere released Embed 4, an artificial intelligence (AI) embedding tool, last week. The Toronto-based AI firm pitched the new search and retrieval tool to businesses building and deploying AI applications and agents. The company, which builds enterprise-focused AI models and tools, claims that Embed 4 can understand complex, multimodal documents and efficiently surface information that an AI system requires to complete a task. The AI model is also said to help businesses save on data storage costs by sharing compressed embeddings instead of full documents.In a blog post, Cohere announced the launch of Embed 4 and detailed the new product.…

The latest version of the Perplexity app on iOS recently got a massive performance boost from the company. In this new update, it now allows its AI chatbot to also serve you as an assistant for your many needs.With these latest features, Perplexity is now challenging Apple’s Siri when it comes to assisting users on iOS and performing tasks natively on the device, but it currently has limitations on what it can do on your iPhone.Perplexity AI Voice Assistant Now Available on iOSPerplexity has recently announced that its promised AI Voice Assistant feature on iOS is now available to experience…

ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) spiked 15.5% at 9.55am, as the company posted a blowout Q1 and raised its full-year outlookjust enough to get analysts nodding and investors leaning back in. Subscription revenue clocked in at $3.01 billion, up 19% year-over-year, and current remaining performance obligations (cRPO) hit $10.3 billion, beating expectations and signaling sticky enterprise demand. Management lifted full-year subscription guidance to $12.7 billion, despite macro jitters tied to tariffs and federal budget shifts. The stock’s still down 24% year-to-datebut this print might be the spark that shifts the narrative. Behind the scenes, ServiceNow’s AI game is moving fast. The company doubled…

A Reddit user suspected her boyfriend might be a bot due to his flawlessly structured messages — no typos, no grammatical slip-ups, just eerily perfect responses on a dating app. She only felt reassured of his humanity after speaking with him on the phone and meeting in person. “Over time, his texts became more natural, with slang and typos making conversations feel genuine. But one evening, when I sought comfort, his response felt robotic — neutral, polished, and detached. I’m 99% sure he used AI. It was the ‘perfect’ response,” she shares.In the age of AI, relationships are undergoing an…

Sifting through countless of stocks in the Software industry can be tedious, and sometimes two stocks are just too similar to judge which is the better investment. If you’re on the fence about investing in C3.ai, Inc. or Bitdeer Technologies Group because you’re not sure how they measure up, it’s important to compare them on a few factors before making your decision.Read on to learn how C3.ai, Inc. and Bitdeer Technologies Group compare based on key financial metrics to determine which better meets your investment needs. About C3.ai, Inc. and Bitdeer Technologies Group C3.ai, Inc. operates as an…

China’s leading tech firms, including ByteDance, Alibaba (HK:9988), and Tencent (HK:0700), have reportedly stockpiled close to one million units of Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) H20 AI chips in anticipation of tightened U.S. export restrictions, according to Nikkei Asia. The bulk purchases—valued at over $12 billion—aimed to secure nearly a year’s supply before the April export ban took effect. The H20 chip, a scaled-down version of Nvidia’s high-performance H100, is tailored to meet U.S. export controls and is widely used for AI inference tasks. Demand for AI computing in China is soaring, driven by the rapid growth of AI-powered applications like DeepSeek, now…

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETWith AI, one can now produce thousands of high-quality illustrations and videos. But that is only part of the story.Last August, a group of artists took AI imaging tools providers to court, which ruled against Stability AI and MidJourney’s motion to dismiss the artists’ copyright infringement claims. The case has moved to discovery and is set to begin in September 2026. Also: Can AI supercharge creativity without stealing from artists?”In reaching this decision, the judge found both direct and induced copyright infringement claims to be plausible,” explains Zach Schor in the NYU Journal of Intellectual Property…

I don’t care who you are, where you’re fromWhat you did, As long as you love me! — Backstreet Boys Wow! They really love AI in China! Across regions, across pockets!  So, Tencent, from China, has announced its latest Hunyuan-T1—the first Mamba-powered ultra-large model! Well, well, well! Seems the Chinese are in love with AI! First, came DeepSeek, then Baidu ERNIE 4.5, and now, Tencent with Hunyuan-T1, with Google Gemma, in-between, along with OpenAI’s O-series models. That’s really a lot of development done within a space of very little time! Didn’t I remark earlier that AI models will come up thick…

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…