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By Amber Hickman | 25 July 2025 As part of the Microsoft for Startups and Nvidia Inception programme, Basecamp Research has been provided with the tools and resources needed to drive its research. The Basecamp Research team aims to digitise nature and transform biological material into data to bridge the gap between biotechnology and biodiversity. Its aim is to create the world’s largest database of biological protein sequences. By combining Microsoft Azure’s scalable cloud foundation with Nvidia’s full-stack AI, Basecamp Research can process and analyse data generated from DNA sequencing and biological analysis at increased speeds, further…
Meta just escalated the AI talent war with OpenAI.Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of ChatGPT and former lead scientist at OpenAI, is joining Meta as chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs.CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Zhao’s appointment on Friday in a social media post, and called him a “pioneer” in the field who has already driven several major AI breakthroughs.Zhao previously helped build GPT-4 and led synthetic data efforts at OpenAI. According to the post, Zhao will now work directly with Zuckerberg and Meta’s newly appointed chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, the founder and CEO of Scale AI.The new hire comes during…
NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2022 — Accenture has announced its membership in the Corporate Affiliate Program of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), an organization dedicated to guiding and building the future of artificial intelligence (AI). “Serving as an inaugural member of the Stanford HAI Corporate Affiliate Program amplifies our commitment to human-centric responsible AI that aligns with our value system and helps to achieve business and societal outcomes,” said Lan Guan, global lead of Cloud First Data & AI at Accenture. “Our collaboration with Stanford HAI is key because it enables Accenture to stay abreast on the…
Perplexity AI is blowing up in India. The app has consistently dropped new features and has become increasingly visible owing to its aggressive marketing campaigns. Most recently, it teamed up with comedian Tanmay Bhat, who gave it a shout-out in his latest reaction video. The impact of its marketing drive has been noticeable. Within a day of Airtel offering a free Perplexity Pro subscription worth ₹17,000, the app saw a surge in iOS downloads. The AI search engine quickly climbed to the top spot on the App Store charts in India, overtaking OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “India is the second largest market…
Jul 25, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Data Privacy A recent analysis of enterprise data suggests that generative AI tools developed in China are being used extensively by employees in the US and UK, often without oversight or approval from security teams. The study, conducted by Harmonic Security, also identifies hundreds of instances in which sensitive data was uploaded to platforms hosted in China, raising concerns over compliance, data residency, and commercial confidentiality. Over a 30-day period, Harmonic examined the activity of a sample of 14,000 employees across a range of companies. Nearly 8 percent were found to have used…
A booming underground repair industry in China is breathing new life into banned Nvidia Corp. NVDA AI chips, raising alarms in Washington over enforcement gaps and national security risks.What Happened: Despite a U.S. export ban on Nvidia’s advanced H100 and A100 graphics processing units (GPUs), Chinese tech firms are repairing hundreds of the restricted chips each month, reported Reuters on Thursday.Two repair companies in Shenzhen confirmed they service up to 500 Nvidia AI chips monthly, including H100s that were never legally sold in China, the report said.”There is really significant repair demand,” said a co-owner of one repair firm, who…
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher and co‑creator of GPT‑4, as the Chief Scientist of its newly created Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). The announcement was made Friday by Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, noting Zhao will lead the lab’s scientific agenda alongside him and Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI who Meta recently brought onboard as Chief AI Officer. “I am very excited to take up the role of chief scientist…
By Brenda GohSHANGHAI (Reuters) -Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Saturday proposed establishing an organisation to foster global cooperation on artificial intelligence, calling on countries to coordinate on the development and security of the fast-evolving technology.Speaking at the opening of the annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Li called AI a new engine for growth but said governance is fragmented and emphasising the need for more coordination between countries to form a globally recognised framework for AI.The three-day event brings together industry leaders and policymakers at a time of escalating technological competition between China and the United States – the…
New York CNN — For Silicon Valley giants, getting ahead in the artificial intelligence race requires more than building the biggest, most capable models; they’re also competing to get third-party developers to build new applications based on their technology. Now, Meta is teaming up with Amazon’s cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services, on an initiative designed to do just that. The program will provide six months of technical support from both companies’ engineers and $200,000 in AWS cloud computing credits each to 30 US startups looking to build AI tools on Meta’s Llama AI model. The partnership is set to…
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Singapore-based AI startup Sapient Intelligence has developed a new AI architecture that can match, and in some cases vastly outperform, large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks, all while being significantly smaller and more data-efficient. The architecture, known as the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM), is inspired by how the human brain utilizes distinct systems for slow, deliberate planning and fast, intuitive computation. The model achieves impressive results with a fraction of the data and memory…