Author: Advanced AI Editor
With its plan for a “European AI continent”, the EU Commission wants to catch up with other AI locations around the world: In terms of cloud infrastructure, Europe is currently equipped with three times fewer data centers than the USA, according to Commission circles. Corresponding capacities should therefore be created throughout Europe. The Commission wants to boost the development of AI in the EU with up to 200 billion euros. Of this, 20 billion euros are to be made available for up to five new “AI Gigafactories”. However, it is unclear how much of this will actually be provided from…
Subdivisions.com Subdivisions.com Sets New Standards in AI-Driven Real Estate Miami, FL, April 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Subdivisions.com, a leader in AI-enhanced real estate intelligence, has announced a significant expansion of its mission. Following its successful launch as South Florida’s premier subdivision search platform, the company is now evolving into the essential intelligence layer that will power its AI real estate copilot, redefining how homebuyers and investors discover properties. Since its debut in late 2023, Subdivisions.com has curated and structured thousands of South Florida’s residential subdivisions. This effort delivers hyperlocal insights into pricing trends, inventory dynamics, community lifestyles, and comparable…
Researchers from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), MIT’s Media Lab, the Brazilian university UFABC, and the pandemic prevention non-profit SecureBio have found that leading artificial intelligence models can outperform experienced, PhD-level virologists in troubleshooting complex laboratory procedures. The findings, detailed in a new study introducing the Virology Capabilities Test (VCT), demonstrate AI’s proficiency in specialized scientific tasks but also highlight serious dual-use concerns, suggesting these tools could lower the barrier for creating dangerous biological agents. The VCT benchmark, consisting of 322 questions and detailed further in its research paper, was designed specifically to measure an AI’s ability to assist…
The App Store is designed to make it easy to sell your digital goods and services globally, with support for 44 currencies across 175 storefronts.From time to time, we may need to adjust prices or your proceeds due to changes in tax regulations or foreign exchange rates. These adjustments are made using publicly available exchange rate information from financial data providers to help make sure prices for apps and In-App Purchases stay consistent across all storefronts. Tax updates as of October:Your proceeds from the sale of eligible apps and In‑App Purchases have been increased in: Nepal: Apple no longer remits Nepal value-added…
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…