Author: Advanced AI Bot

In today’s industry news roundup: French AI specialist to identify new use cases and develop tailor-made models with shipping and logistics firm; Juniper Research expects telco AI investments to hit $22bn per year by 2029; African telco giant MTN is developing a streaming platform with Synamedia; and much more! Mistral AI, the Paris-based generative AI developer, has agreed a €100m multi-year contract with French shipping and logistics company CMA CGM to identify new AI use cases within the business and develop tailor-made models and agents. Sifted reports that as part of the five-year deal, Mistral AI will embed a dedicated…

  Texas Texas became the first state to ban DeepSeek as of Jan. 31, 2025, with a handful of other applications, including Lemon8 and RedNote, that it deemed to be security threats.  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a statewide ban of DeepSeek that forbids it from being downloaded or used on any government networks or devices as of Feb. 10, 2025.  Virginia The Commonwealth became the third state to ban DeepSeek on Feb. 11, 2025, with Gov. Glenn Youngkin calling it “a threat to the security and safety of the citizens.” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds sent a directive to…

Ukrainian artist Margarita Polovinko, whose drawings and photography excavated her post-Soviet reality and later, the Russian invasion, died at age 31 while serving as a combat medic. Her death was announced on April 8 by her sister, who wrote in an Instagram post, “Margarita died defending Ukraine.” Margarita Polovinko was born March 24, 1994, in Kryvyi Rih, an industrial city in central Ukraine, and the cultural peripherality of her time and place informed her early artistic preoccupations. “My mother worked at the Kryvyi Rih steel plant all her life,” she told the Ukrainian online news outlet Suspilne Kultura in 2023.…

Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba Group Holdings BABA restructured artificial intelligence (AI) assistant app Quark topped ByteDance’s Doubao to become China’s most popular AI app in March. Quark clocked close to 150 million monthly active users (MAUs) worldwide, followed by ByteDance’s Doubao and DeepSeek, which had almost 100 million and around 77 million users, respectively, SCMP reported Monday, citing Aicpb.com. Alibaba stock is trading higher on Monday. Also Read: Use AI Responsibly, It Should Serve Humanity, Not Replace It: Alibaba’s Jack Ma Alibaba previously said that Quark had 200 million users. U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz’s March report ranked Quark as the sixth-most popular AI…

Chip manufacturer Nvidia has officially started production of AI supercomputers at multiple U.S. factories operated through partnerships, marking the first such hardware to be built within the country. On Monday, Nvidia announced that its Blackwell chips have begun production at a factory operated in partnership with TSMC in Phoenix, Arizona, as detailed in a press release. The chip maker also continues to work on the construction of two future factories to be operated in Texas, in partnership with Foxconn in Houston and Wistron in Dallas. Nvidia says that mass production of the Blackwell GPUs is expected to ramp up at…

On 26 March, Suzhou Pudu Co-Intelligence Technology Company, a joint venture between Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Baidu Group, was launched as China’s first AI-focused joint venture co-founded by Baidu and a university. SUZHOU, China, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On 26 March, Suzhou Pudu Co-Intelligence Technology Company, a joint venture between Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Baidu Group, was launched as China’s first AI-focused joint venture co-founded by Baidu and a university. AI+education: Redefining learning Through AI-driven innovation, Pudu Co-Intelligence seeks to transform the whole education value chain, empower industrial evolution and cultivate localised service ecosystems. The company will…

Nvidia said it is working with its manufacturing partners to design and build factories that, for the first time, will produce Nvidia AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. Together with leading manufacturing partners, the company has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test Nvidia Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas. Nvidia’s ecosystem partners will spend $500 million on the AI infrastructure. The Santa Clara, California-based company, which has been leading the development of AI chips and the ecosystem around them, declined to say if it will own and operate the…

In a blog post last July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that “selling access” to Meta’s openly available Llama AI models “isn’t [Meta’s] business model.” Yet Meta does make at least some money from Llama through revenue-sharing agreements, according to a newly unredacted court filing. The filing, submitted by attorneys for the plaintiffs in the copyright lawsuit Kadrey v. Meta, in which Meta stands accused of training its Llama models on hundreds of terabytes of pirated e-books, reveals that Meta “shares a percentage of the revenue” that companies hosting its Llama models generate from users of those models. The filing…

J Studios/Getty ImagesFor better or worse, AI tools have steadily become a reality of the academic landscape since ChatGPT launched in late 2022. Anthropic is studying what that looks like in real time. On Tuesday, shortly after launching Claude for Education, the company released data on which tasks university students use its AI chatbot Claude for and which majors use it the most. Also: The work tasks people use Claude AI for most, according to AnthropicUsing Clio, the company’s data analysis tool, to maintain user privacy, Anthropic analyzed 574,740 anonymized conversations between Claude and users at the Free and Pro…

AI is already transforming fields like graphic design, movie making, and computer programming, but it might soon upturn the hard sciences as well. David Silver, a prominent researcher at Google Deepmind and the lead researcher at AlphaGo, has offered some compelling insights into the future of mathematics and the role of artificial intelligence. He hints at a future where AI mathematicians not only solve some of the world’s most challenging mathematical puzzles but fundamentally reshape the field itself. “The Clay Mathematics Institute, in the year 2000, offered a million-dollar prize for seven different mathematical problems,” Silver was asked in an…