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Shares of Snowflake Inc. popped in extended trading after the cloud-based data storage giant reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and revenue and issued upbeat guidance for the rest of the year. The company reported adjusted earnings of 35 cents per share, easily topping Wall Street’s consensus view of 27 cents per share. Revenue for the period came to $1.1 billion, up 32% from a year earlier and ahead of the $1.09 billion analyst target. Product revenue, which is derived from Snowflake’s customer’s consumption of compute, storage and data bandwidth, accounted for $1.09 billion of the company’s total sales, also up 32%.…

Shutterstock.com Soon “agentic” AI will not only answer customer questions but also predict buying behavior: that’s going to help retailers exceed customer expectations, says CM.com’s Yasin Hadnan. The playing field is changing More and more retailers are seeing potential in applying artificial intelligence. The possibilities in that area are evolving rapidly: indeed, the recent emergence of so-called “agentic AI” in particular is changing the playing field, says account executive Yasin Hadnan of CM.com, the Benelux market leader in “AI-driven conversational software.” AI agents can take steps and perform actions without constant human intervention. An example? “You can ask ChatGPT: I’m…

Paris-based Mistral AI has achieved Europe’s largest fundraising round in artificial intelligence to date, securing €1.7 billion and bringing Dutch semiconductor giant ASML on board as a strategic partner in a deal seen as bolstering Europe’s drive for technological sovereignty.France’s homegrown artificial intelligence champion Mistral has cemented its place among Europe’s tech leaders, announcing on Tuesday that it has raised €1.7 billion in fresh capital – a record for a French start-up.The fundraising drive has brought the value of the company to €11.7 billion, almost double its worth just over a year ago.The deal also brings in a heavyweight new…

In this week’s Law Punx blast, Horace Wu says that law firms don’t really know why they’re buying AI tools. Wu, who runs legal tech company Syntheia, argues that many firms are wasting money on AI tools without a clear understanding of their return on investment (ROI). He emphasises the importance of training staff to leverage AI effectively rather than relying on external platforms. The Law Punx episode also touches on the balance between convenience and the actual value provided by these technologies, questioning whether firms are truly gaining a competitive edge or simply keeping up with the market. You…

We present Llama-GENBA-10B, a trilingual foundation model addressing English-centric bias in large language models. Built on Llama 3.1-8B and scaled to 10B parameters, Llama-GENBA-10B is continuously pretrained on 164B tokens (82B English, 82B German, and 80M Bavarian), balancing resources while preventing English dominance. Targeted at the German NLP community, the model also promotes Bavarian as a low-resource language. Development tackled four challenges: (1) curating a multilingual corpus despite Bavarian scarcity, (2) creating a unified tokenizer for English, German, and Bavarian, (3) optimizing architecture and language-ratio hyperparameters for cross-lingual transfer, and (4) establishing the first standardized trilingual evaluation suite by translating…

Andreessen Horowitz a16z Fuels AI and Biotech Innovations with Strategic Investments All these indicate the commitment a16z has in shaping the future of technology and healthcare through strategic investments. Both platforms use Stability AI’s models to bring creators’ visions to life and Story’s blockchain technology to enable provenance and attribution throughout the creative process. These real-world applications highlight how creators can safeguard their intellectual property while thriving in a shared creative economy. Raspberry AI offers brands and manufacturing creative teams technology solutions, which can help accelerate each stage of the fashion product development cycle to increase speed to market and…

Alibaba Group Holding Limited BABA BABAF shares climbed 2.4% to HK$140.60 ($18.05) on the Hong Kong Exchange on Tuesday, building momentum after the Chinese tech giant unveiled its most advanced artificial intelligence model to compete with OpenAI and Alphabet Inc. GOOGL GOOG.Qwen-3-Max AI Model BreakthroughThe Hangzhou-based company introduced Qwen-3-Max-Preview on Friday, featuring over 1 trillion parameters in its first model of this scale. The text-only AI system outperformed Alibaba’s previous flagship Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 model in internal testing.Parameters determine AI system intelligence and require extensive computational resources. The Qwen3 series, initially launched in May with models ranging from 600 million to 235…

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: AI-generatedYou may have missed the AI movie Critterz when it appeared as a short animation a couple of years ago. It didn’t exactly set the world on fire, with comments on YouTube including “I’d call this garbage, but that’d be an insult to garbage” and “This was the worst 5 minutes I will never get back”.Nevertheless, it seems OpenAI, the maker of Chat GPT, saw potential in the ‘nature documentary turned comedy’. It’s putting its name behind the experimental short’s expansion into a…

Too Long; Didn’t Read:Top 10 AI tools for Lebanese customer service in 2025: WhatsApp‑first, Lebanese Arabic‑tuned agents and enterprise governance (Zendesk, Salesforce, Webspot). Pilot 10–20 tickets; expect 30–60s saved per request, up to 80% routine automation, 67% baseline automation and sub‑30s first responses. Lebanon’s customer service ecosystem is shifting fast in 2025: local innovators like Webspot’s Lebanon-trained AI agents now handle sales and support in Lebanese Arabic across WhatsApp and other channels, while global studies show AI is already mission‑critical for CX – powering faster triage, predictive routing and 24/7 self‑service (Zendesk’s AI customer service statistics) and generative models can…

A Shopify merchant’s detailed account of attempting to resolve a technical issue has sparked widespread discussion across the platform’s largest community forum, highlighting what appears to be a systematic breakdown in the company’s customer support infrastructure. The September 8, 2025 incident, documented by user np819 in the r/shopify subreddit with over 300,000 members, involved a 20-attempt effort to reach human support through multiple AI interfaces that repeatedly redirected users back to automated systems.According to the merchant’s account, the process began with a straightforward notification requiring an Authorize.net payment gateway update by September 19. “We got a notification in Shopify that…