Author: Advanced AI Editor

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…

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…

DeepSeek’s bargain-bin AI model wiped nearly $100 billion off global markets. The Chinese firm’s R1 chatbot, built on the promise of cheap and fast performance, turned out to be riddled with security flaws. That set off a financial chain reaction. Nvidia (NVDA) tanked 17% in a single day. Bitcoin sank below $100,000. Tech stocks crumbled. Crypto followed.Stay Ahead of the Market: U.S. officials stepped in fast. They warned that DeepSeek’s rise could hand China an edge in the AI arms race. The price for cutting corners? Sky-high. DeepSeek AI Growth Fuels Global Cybersecurity Panic At first glance, DeepSeek looked like…

Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) plans to release Qwen 3, an upgraded version of its flagship AI model, by April. China’s tech leaders have flooded the market with affordable AI services since a domestic AI startup, DeepSeek, showcased a robust model that it said cost just several million dollars to build, Bloomberg reports. OpenAI, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google and Anthropic have similarly released new models. Also Read: Alibaba’s March Expo Sparks 27% Jump In US Small Business Orders The wave of new Asian models is questioning the sustainability of the high-end U.S. offerings from  OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT). Last week, Alibaba launched…

BIDU-SW (09888.HK) (BIDU.US) has released the “Baidu AI Innovation and Patent White Paper 2025” and the “AI Intellectual Property +” action plan 2.0.The white paper highlights Baidu’s current achievements in AI patents across areas such as AI foundation models, software frameworks, AI agents, generative search, intelligent documents, autonomous driving, as well as smart finance and industry.Related NewsM Stanley: If CN-US Tariff War Diminishes Sharply, CN Dotcom/ Consumer Goods/ Healthcare Sectors Expected to Boom, but ST Patience/ Balanced Strategy AdvisedAgainst the backdrop of the generative AI industry’s rapid growth, Cui Lingling, general manager of Baidu’s patent affairs department, said that the…

Chinese internet companies, including ByteDance, Alibaba Group Holding BABA, and Tencent Holding TCEHY, hoarded billions of dollars worth of Nvidia Corp NVDA H20 artificial intelligence (AI) chips as the U.S. semiconductor sanctions kicked in. Nvidia tailor-made the H20 chips to comply with U.S. semiconductor sanctions. However, the Chinese companies started hoarding them in 2024, fearing potential shipment restrictions, Nikkei Asia reported on Wednesday. Also Read: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Meets Japanese PM To Discuss AI’s Growing Energy Needs They aimed to snap up 1 million H20s before the latest U.S. semiconductor sanctions. The companies reportedly placed over $16 billion in orders…

Meta Platforms Inc. has teamed up with Booz Allen Holding Corp., a U.S. government contractor, to develop an artificial intelligence system for the International Space Station. The companies detailed the project today. Space Llama, as the AI system is called, is based on a fine-tuned version of Meta’s Llama 3.2 language model series. It’s designed to support science projects in the ISS National Laboratory, a research lab located aboard the station. Certain types of materials are easier to mix in low-gravity conditions. As a result, astronauts use the ISS National Laboratory to study material combinations that would be difficult to…

ChatGPT went viral in late 2022, changing the tech world. Generative AI became the top priority for every tech company, and that’s how we ended up with “smart” fridges with built-in AI. Artificial intelligence is being built into everything, sometimes for the hype alone, with products like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini having come a long way since late 2022.As soon as it became clear that genAI would reshape technology, likely leading to advanced AI systems that can do everything humans can do but better and faster, we started seeing worries that AI would negatively impact society and doom scenarios where…

“Whatever you want to do, whatever excites you, AI can make you a superhuman at that… it is such a tremendous tool to augment you.” Manish Gupta, Senior Director, Google DeepMind, is sure Google Gemini can help take Indian creativity to the next level, especially in light of a new Kantar study which found that a majority of Indians are seeking to boost productivity (72 per cent), enhance creativity (77 per cent), and communicate more effectively (73 per cent) using GenAI tools. “India is a country of enviable talent and energy and entrepreneurial spirit, but it’s being somewhat held back…