Author: Advanced AI Editor

Aussie collaboration software provider Atlassian has cut 200 customer support jobs in Europe.The move is the latest example of how some companies are restructuring their customer support functions as AI does more of the work.According to Bloomberg, the job cuts in France and the Netherlands are part of Atlassian’s push to strengthen customer support through smarter routing and AI-powered assistance tools. The company has also integrated AI into its customer contact form.Atlassian is best known for its software tools like project management platform Jira, workflow task board Trello, and shared workspace Confluence. It has over 300,000 customers worldwide, ranging from…

Art lovers attending New York Fashion Week might notice reference to a familiar figure in Jason Wu‘s Spring 2026 collection. For the line, Wu collaborated with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in honor of the anniversary of the late artist’s 100th birthday. “Collage”, as the collection is called, draws on ten works that incorporate fabric from the foundation’s holdings. To do so, Wu was granted rare access to closely study the artist’s work, with a particular focus on pieces from the “Hoarfrost” series (1974–76) of transferred and collaged images on translucent fabric and Airport Suite (1974), a collection of layered prints…

At a hearing Monday, US district judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic’s rampant piracy of books to train AI. The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages after Alsup certified a class that included up to 7 million claimants whose works were illegally downloaded by the AI company. Instead, critics fear Anthropic will get off cheaply, striking a deal with authors suing that covers less than 500,000 works and paying a small fraction of its total valuation (currently $183 billion) to get away with the…

In this position paper, we address the persistent gap between rapidly growing AI capabilities and lagging safety progress. Existing paradigms divide into “Make AI Safe”, which applies post-hoc alignment and guardrails but remains brittle and reactive, and “Make Safe AI”, which emphasizes intrinsic safety but struggles to address unforeseen risks in open-ended environments. We therefore propose \textit{safe-by-coevolution} as a new formulation of the “Make Safe AI” paradigm, inspired by biological immunity, in which safety becomes a dynamic, adversarial, and ongoing learning process. To operationalize this vision, we introduce \texttt{R$^2$AI} — \textit{Resistant and Resilient AI} — as a practical framework that…

As organizations scale their AI infrastructure to support trillion-parameter models, they face a difficult trade-off: reduced training time with lower cost or faster training time with a higher cost. When they checkpoint frequently to speed up recovery time and minimize lost training time, they incur in substantially higher storage cost. And when they checkpoint infrequently, they reduce costs at the risk of losing valuable training progress when failures occur. This challenge is exacerbated in large distributed training environments, with thousands of accelerators, where issues can occur frequently. According to an article released by Meta, one failure happened every 3 hours…

OpenAI, the tech startup behind ChatGPT and other AI tools released in the past three years, has set its sights on Hollywood. The company wants to turn “Critterz,” a short, animated film OpenAI made with AI tools in previous years, into a full animated feature. According to The Wall Street Journal, the OpenAI project will have a budget of up to $30 million. It should be done in nine months as the company attempts to secure a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2026. The ambitious project aims to prove that OpenAI’s…

ASML, a leading Dutch chipmaking equipment maker, is investing 1.3 billion euros ($1.5 billion) into French AI startup Mistral AILONDON — ASML, a leading Dutch maker of chipmaking gear, is investing 1.3 billion euros ($1.5 billion) into French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI, the two said on Tuesday, announcing a partnership between two of Europe’s top technology companies. ASML Holding, based in Veldhoven, Netherlands, holds an important role in the global tech industry because it makes equipment used to manufacture semiconductors, including the most advanced microchips used for cutting-edge AI systems.Mistral was founded two years ago in Paris by former…

OpenAI is no longer just shaping the future of work and productivity and it’s now stepping into the entertainment world with full force. OpenAI is supporting the creation of a full-length animated movie that leans heavily on artificial intelligence. Titled “Critterz,” the film tells the story of forest animals embarking on a journey after an outsider unsettles their village. Producers said in a Monday statement that they are targeting a May 2026 premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, ahead of an international theatrical rollout. The film is being produced on a budget of under $30 million with a nine-month turnaround,…

Memory and network bottlenecks are increasingly limiting AI system performance by reducing GPU utilization and overall efficiency, ultimately preventing infrastructure from reaching its full potential despite enormous investments. At the core of this challenge is a fundamental trade-off in the communication technologies used for memory and network interconnects. Datacenters typically deploy two types of physical cables for communication between GPUs. Traditional copper links are power-efficient and reliable, but limited to very short distances (< 2 meters) that restrict their use to within a single GPU rack. Optical fiber links can reach tens of meters, but they consume far more power and fail up to 100 times as often as copper. A team working across Microsoft aims to resolve this trade-off by developing MOSAIC, a novel optical link technology that can provide low power and cost, high reliability, and long reach (up to 50 meters) simultaneously. This approach leverages a hardware-system co-design…

Citigroup has tapped Shobhit Varshney, a longtime IBM executive, as its new head of AI, the latest sign of how Wall Street is racing to bring artificial intelligence deeper into banking.Varshney comes from IBM, where he was the head of data and artificial intelligence for the technology pioneer’s consulting business. At Citi, he will report to Anand Selva, the bank’s chief operating officer; and will work closely with the firm’s chief technology officer, David Griffiths, to scale AI across the company, according to a memo sent to Citi employees on Tuesday morning seen by Business Insider.Citi has already given about…