Author: Advanced AI Editor
When industrial AI startup CVector meets with manufacturers, utility providers, and other prospective customers, the founders are often asked the same question: Will you still be here in six months? A year? It’s a valid concern in an environment where the biggest, richest tech companies are luring top talent with eye-watering salaries and increasingly targeting rising AI startups with elaborate acqui-hire deals. The answer that CVector founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles give every time is also the same: They’re not going anywhere. And that matters to their customers — a list that includes national gas utilities and a chemical manufacturer…
The App Store is designed to be a safe and trusted place for all ages, including children. The age rating system for apps and games has been updated in order to provide people with more granular age ratings. We’ve also introduced new age rating questions to help identify sensitive content in your app and added the ability to set a higher rating to reflect your app’s minimum age requirement. Ratings for all apps and games on the App Store have been automatically updated to align with this new system and will be reflected on Apple devices running beta versions of iOS 26, iPadOS 26,…
C3.Ai Inc AI shares are falling Thursday after the company announced a planned CEO transition. What To Know: C3.ai said it initiated a search for a new CEO to replace Thomas Siebel, who is battling health issues. The search will be led by a search firm that will report to a committee of C3.ai management and board members.“After being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in early 2025, I have experienced significant visual impairment,” Siebel said.“For C3 AI to reach its full potential – which I believe is spectacular – the board and I have initiated a search for a new…
Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly evolved, becoming integral to applications ranging from conversational AI to complex reasoning tasks. However, as models grow in size and capability, effectively evaluating their performance has become increasingly challenging. Traditional benchmarking metrics like perplexity and BLEU scores often fail to capture the nuances of real-world interactions, making human-aligned evaluation frameworks crucial. Understanding how LLMs are assessed can lead to more reliable deployments and fair comparisons across different models. In this post, we explore automated and human-aligned judging methods based on LLM-as-a-judge. LLM-as-a-judge refers to using a more powerful LLM to evaluate and rank responses…
Nvidia Corp.’s NVDA advanced AI processors worth over $1 billion were reportedly smuggled to China after the U.S. government’s efforts to restrict chip exports.What Happened: The shipments took place within three months of President Donald Trump’s tightened export controls. The B200, a chip widely used by U.S. tech giants for their AI systems, was the most sought-after chip in China’s black market for American semiconductors, according to a report by the Financial Times on Thursday.Check out the current price of NVDA stock here.Chinese distributors began selling the B200 to data center suppliers serving Chinese AI groups soon after the Trump administration restricted the sale of the H20,…
Meta is partnering with the US government to deploy Llama AI. A spokesperson for the social media giant insisted Mark Zuckerberg’s firm will not profit from the use of its language models by government agencies. This commitment aligns with Meta’s stated mission of making AI technology more accessible and beneficial to public institutions.“We’ve partnered with the US State Department to see how Llama could help address different challenges, from expanding access to safe water and reliable electricity, to helping support small businesses…been in touch with the Department of Education to learn how Llama could help make the financial aid process…
Big quote: We’ve heard plenty of warnings from CEOs about how generative AI will wipe out swathes of jobs, but these predictions are even more ominous when they come from Sam Altman. The OpenAI CEO said during his trip to Washington that the technology could erase entire job categories, with customer support roles the most at risk. Speaking at the Capital Framework for Large Banks conference at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Altman addressed one of the most hotly debated issues around generative AI: its impact on jobs. Altman said that while “no one knows what happens next,” he…
IBM (IBM) is down 7.6% today despite reporting some solid headline numbers. Revenue of $16.98 billion beat the $16.59 billion consensus, adjusted EPS of $2.8 cleared the $2.65 estimate, and full-year free-cash-flow guidance was nudged north of $13.5 billion. Despite that, IBM stock still fell. This is mainly due to IBM’s software segment, where sales of $7.39 billion came in about $40 million lower vs. expectations. It also showed that organic software revenue growth has decelerated to 5% from 8% in Q4. The market’s reaction feels harsh until you remember that IBM stock was up over 53% in one year…
Photo: Electrified Thermal Solutions MIT spinout Electrified Thermal Solutions has inked a deal with HWI, a member of Calderys and one of the biggest refractory suppliers in the US, to make electrically conductive firebricks – electric bricks, or E-bricks – that store and deliver extreme heat using renewable electricity. The innovative partnership is all about scaling up Electrified Thermal’s Joule Hive Thermal Battery, which conducts clean power and stores it as heat up to a scorching 1,800C (3,275F). That’s hot enough to drive even the most energy-hungry industrial processes like steelmaking, glass, or cement production. The E-bricks enable factories to ditch…
The automotive industry is undergoing a major shift as leading automakers are increasingly becoming AI-driven businesses. These automakers are leveraging AI across the entire value chain — optimizing logistics, personalizing in-car experiences, and advancing autonomous driving. Design teams use generative models to prototype more quickly, while smart factories deploy AI-powered robots to automate complex assembly processes. We analyzed the AI strategies of the 20 largest global automakers by market cap to identify who is winning the race for AI-powered vehicles and factories. Based on our analysis, we reveal 3 critical insights shaping the future of automotive AI: AI leaders deploy…