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Artificial intelligence has basically taken over and replace traditional web search engines. You’ve already seen it with AI overviews in Google Search, followed up with OpenAI going the way of SearchGPT. Even alternative search engines like DuckDuckGo are starting to incorporate AI into their platforms, and things aren’t slowing down. Well, now we can add another to the pile: Microsoft just released Copilot Search, which is sort of like an AI-infused Bing Search. It takes in data from sources all over the web, then uses Copilot’s AI powers to synthesize a summary for you. You may have seen something similar…

Stay up to date with everything that is happening in the wonderful world of AM via our LinkedIn community.A research team from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new software tool that makes it easier to design and make cable-driven 3D printed objects. The tool, called Xstrings, can be used to produce a variety of products with embedded actuation, from robotic hands with gripping capabilities to interactive sculptures with animal-like movement.Cable-driven mechanisms are frequently used by engineers to create components that can move fluidly like a human or animal. This movement is generated by pulling…

Haitian sculptor Ti Pèlen, whose birth name is Jean Salomon Horace, died last month at the age of 66. His cause of death remains undisclosed. His family will preserve the remaining artworks in his possession, according to a spokesperson for Pioneer Works, which featured his work in a 2018 exhibition on Port-au-Prince artists. Pèlen’s carved stone sculptures—oversized heads with serene expressions—were a centerpiece of Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince, a survey of contemporary Haitian artists. A New York Times review described the presence of the carvings as a “carnivalesque antidote to the classical sculpture courts of Western museums.” Related…

Tech major International Business Machines Corporation IBM has broadened its cloud offerings in Canada with new innovations tailored to help organizations expand their artificial intelligence capabilities and adhere to regulatory standards. The company has inaugurated its newest Cloud Multizone Region (MZR) in Montreal, providing Canadian enterprises with advanced cloud solutions. This expanded infrastructure is designed to assist clients in navigating regulatory changes while integrating AI within a secure and scalable cloud environment. The newly launched MZR in Montreal is a key component of IBM’s broader North American growth strategy, enabling organizations to implement AI-powered solutions while adhering to stringent data…

Video AI firm Runway has reportedly been valued at $3 billion after raising $308 million. The deal is set to be announced Thursday (April 3), Bloomberg News reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. The report noted that Runway set off a frenzy around artificial intelligence (AI) video generators in 2023 after it debuted a model that could produce — in Bloomberg’s words — “slightly choppy-looking” developed from prompts like “drone footage of a desert landscape.” Runway co-founder/CEO Cris Valenzuela told Bloomberg that the company plans to use the funding to boost its research into AI models and add to…

When you think of attacking or defending computer systems, you probably think of software viruses and the corresponding anti-virus software. But MIT’s 6.5950 class teaches secure hardware design — how to attack and defend CPUs from bad actors. Interested? The course is open source, so you can follow along as long as you don’t mind not getting a grade. Browsing some of the lecture slides shows that the material isn’t as stuffy as you might imagine. A slide about side channel attacks, for example, features an article called “And Bomb the Anchovies,” which says that Washington DC pizza places know…

Good data quality is crucial for successful data and analytics initiatives and is increasingly pivotal to artificial intelligence impact. D&A leaders, including chief data and analytics officers, are also having to contend with an ever-more complex business environment, with ever-more complex data needs and challenges. This is being further compounded by the growing need for AI-ready data. The demand for AI-ready data is adding fresh impetus to investment in data quality improvement, although making the business case for this is notoriously challenging. With this in mind, D&A leaders must take tangible and pragmatic steps to understand, address and control data…

Rumors claim Trump consulted chatbots On social media, rumors swirled that the Trump administration got these supposedly fake numbers from chatbots. On Bluesky, tech entrepreneur Amy Hoy joined others posting screenshots from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok, each showing that the chatbots arrived at similar calculations as the Trump administration. Some of the chatbots also warned against the oversimplified math in outputs. ChatGPT acknowledged that the easy method “ignores the intricate dynamics of international trade.” Gemini cautioned that it could only offer a “highly simplified conceptual approach” that ignored the “vast real-world complexities and consequences” of implementing such a trade…

Pages, Keynote, and Numbers have all received updates. Apple has updated its iWork suite of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote to version 14.4, bringing more Apple Intelligence and other changes and improvements to its productivity software. On Thursday, Apple rolled out updates to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. This time around, many of the updates are identical for each app, as Apple tries to keep its productivity suite consistent across the three products. The most notable update is powered by Apple Intelligence. Users on Mac, iPad, and iPhone can now make text edits using Writing Tools directly in their documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Users can…

New reports out today from Crunchbase Inc. and PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor reveal that global venture capital rebounded sharply in the first quarter of 2025, posting its strongest performance since mid-2022. However, both datasets point to a growing division in the startup ecosystem where a small set of companies and sectors, particularly artificial intelligence, are capturing an outsized share of investment. According to Crunchbase, total global startup funding reached $113 billion in the first quarter, up 17% from the previous quarter and an impressive 54% year-over-year. Though the headline figure is positive, the number was slanted by one single deal: OpenAI’s…