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Anthropic will roll out its Claude artificial intelligence application to U.S. government agencies under a partnership with Palantir Technologies (PLTR, Financials), the companies announced. Claude for Enterprise will be made available through Palantir’s FedStart program, allowing federal agencies to access the AI tool under Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program High and Department of Defense Impact Level 5 security standards. The deployment is expected in the coming months. FedStart helps companies meet government compliance standards quickly by running products within Palantir’s accredited environment. Anthropic said the partnership will allow federal workers to use Claude for writing, data analysis and complex…

Earlier this week, the TIME magazine released its coveted list of 100 Most Influential People from around the world. Among those featured was Demis Hassabis, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Google DeepMind — the tech giant’s artificial intelligence research lab.Earlier this week, the TIME magazine released its coveted list of 100 Most Influential People from around the world. Among those featured was Demis Hassabis, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Google DeepMind — the tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) research lab. In a post on the social media platform X, Hassabis said he was “honoured” to be on TIME’s…

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman. Image: Creative Commons OpenAI has rolled out two new AI models, o3 and o4‑mini, that can literally “think with images,” marking a big step forward in how machines understand pictures. These models, announced in an OpenAI press release, can reason about images the same way they do about text — cropping, zooming, and rotating photos as part of their internal thought process. At the heart of this update is the ability to blend visual and verbal reasoning. “OpenAI o3 and o4‑mini represent a significant breakthrough in visual perception by reasoning with images in their chain of…

arXiv:2504.12682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most recent web agent research has focused on navigation and transaction tasks, with little emphasis on extracting structured data at scale. We present WebLists, a benchmark of 200 data-extraction tasks across four common business and enterprise use-cases. Each task requires an agent to navigate to a webpage, configure it appropriately, and extract complete datasets with well-defined schemas. We show that both LLMs with search capabilities and SOTA web agents struggle with these tasks, with a recall of 3% and 31%, respectively, despite higher performance on question-answering tasks. To address this challenge, we propose BardeenAgent, a…

Vanessa Parley, director of research at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AII, speaks in a video about the 2025 AI Index. Image: Stanford HAI The AI industry is undergoing a complex and transitional period, according to Stanford University’s 2025 AI Index, published by the Institute for Human-Centered AI. While AI continues to transform the tech sector, public sentiment remains mixed, underscoring the rapidly shifting nature of the field. Below are key takeaways from Stanford’s latest findings on the current state of artificial intelligence — both generative and not generative. Investment in AI increases Investment in AI is growing. Private investors poured…

A techie took to Reddit to share his “horrible” interview experience with IBM Bengaluru. He claimed that a recruiter reached out to him for a mid-senior Application Developer role and assured him that his salary expectations would be considered. The candidate, currently earning a CTC of Rs 16 LPA, said he had clearly stated a minimum expectation of Rs 24 LPA. The recruiter, according to him, mentioned that the company’s budget was up to Rs 22 LPA, but if he performed well in the interviews, he could be offered Rs 23 LPA along with a Rs 1.4 lakh joining bonus.…

An MIT student has sued the federal government over its abrupt termination of her international student record in a federal database managed by the Department of Homeland Security.The student, an MIT senior set to graduate in May, learned her record in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS, was abruptly deleted in early April, putting her at risk of detainment by immigration enforcement agents.Several dozen international students in Massachusetts, and over a thousand nationwide, had their visas revoked and SEVIS records expunged by the federal government in recent days. The reason behind the moves remain unclear, and federal…

Image: hoangpts/Envato Elements The trajectory of enterprise technology has often been marked by fragmentation. In the past, the rapid expansion of data platforms led to a fragmented ecosystem as vendors rushed to support various data types and tools. For instance, organizations often manage structured data with relational databases like MySQL or Oracle, semi-structured data with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, and unstructured data with data lakes implemented with Hadoop or Amazon S3. Big data processing frameworks like Apache Spark were then layered on top to manage large-scale data analytics. The result? Complex, costly systems that were difficult to maintain and…

AsianFin — The global venture capital (VC) transaction volumes plunged in the first quarter of 2025, according to global research institutions Crunchbase and PitchBook-NVCA.Despite a decline in overall deal volume, artificial intelligence (AI) investments have experienced the most robust quarter in the first quarter of 2025 since mid-2022.Global VC transactions in Q1 2025 reached 7,551 deals, a 32% year-over-year decline, as per PitchBook. However, the total transaction value surged to $126.3 billion, representing a 53.46% increase compared to the same period in 2024.AI and machine learning led the charge, with 2,101 transactions worth $73.1 billion, making up 57.87% of the…

Some ChatGPT users have noticed a strange phenomenon recently: Occasionally, the chatbot refers to them by name as it reasons through problems. That wasn’t the default behavior previously, and several users claim ChatGPT is mentioning their names despite never having been told what to call them. Reviews are mixed. One user, software developer and AI enthusiast Simon Willison, called the feature “creepy and unnecessary.” Another developer, Nick Dobos, said he “hated it.” A cursory search of X turns up scores of users confused by — and wary of — ChatGPT’s first-name basis behavior. “It’s like a teacher keeps calling my…