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(Dave Hoeek/Shutterstock) Gartner says the average company spent around $1.9 million on GenAI last year, yet fewer than 30% of AI leaders think their CEOs are satisfied with the results. That gap between spending and satisfaction is concerning. After a stretch of buzz and experimentation, business leaders are moving past flashy demos and proof-of-concept hype. They’re asking harder questions now. What can AI really do inside a complex business? What works at scale, and what breaks when real-world systems get involved? You can see that shift clearly in Gartner’s latest Hype Cycles for Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI. These reports…

This article was written byFollowJulian Lin is a financial analyst. He finds undervalued companies with secular growth that appreciate over time. His approach is to look for companies with strong balance sheets and management teams in sectors with long growth runways. Julian is the leader of the investing group Best Of Breed Growth Stocks where he only shares positions in stocks which have a large probability of delivering large alpha relative to the S&P 500. He also combines growth-oriented principles with strict valuation hurdles to add an additional layer to the conventional margin of safety. Features include: exclusive access to…

We present NER Retriever, a zero-shot retrieval framework for ad-hoc Named Entity Retrieval, a variant of Named Entity Recognition (NER), where the types of interest are not provided in advance, and a user-defined type description is used to retrieve documents mentioning entities of that type. Instead of relying on fixed schemas or fine-tuned models, our method builds on internal representations of large language models (LLMs) to embed both entity mentions and user-provided open-ended type descriptions into a shared semantic space. We show that internal representations, specifically the value vectors from mid-layer transformer blocks, encode fine-grained type information more effectively than…

This post was written with Mohamed Hossam of Brightskies. Research universities engaged in large-scale AI and high-performance computing (HPC) often face significant infrastructure challenges that impede innovation and delay research outcomes. Traditional on-premises HPC clusters come with long GPU procurement cycles, rigid scaling limits, and complex maintenance requirements. These obstacles restrict researchers’ ability to iterate quickly on AI workloads such as natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, and foundation model (FM) training. Amazon SageMaker HyperPod alleviates the undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in building AI models. It helps quickly scale model development tasks such as training, fine-tuning, or inference across a…

Image created by Oiwan Lam via Canva Pro. Since its roll-out in January 2025, Chinese generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), DeepSeek R1, has challenged existing assumptions about AI development, cost efficiency, and global competition, with some even going so far as to claim that it has levelled the playing field of AI development. As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promotes DeepSeek abroad, making cutting-edge AI technology accessible to the Global South, this comes with hidden risks and human-rights-related consequences. Previously, experts had believed that cutting-edge AI innovation would take place in the wealthiest nations, furthered by powerful corporations due to the…

On September 5, IT Home reported that Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen has launched the latest Qwen-3-Max-Preview model on its official website and OpenRouter. According to the official deion, this model is the most powerful language model in the Tongyi Qianwen series. IT Home provides the following relevant links: Official Website:Qwen Chat OpenRouter:Qwen3 Max – API, Providers, Stats The introduction of the model on OpenRouter is summarized as follows: Input:$1.20 (approximately 8.6 RMB at current exchange rates) per million tokens Output:$6 (approximately 42.8 RMB at current exchange rates) per million tokens Qwen3-Max is an update based on the Qwen3 series, providing significant…

Four artworks by Jean-Michael Basquiat, Diane Arbus, and Pablo Picasso surrendered to the US Department of Justice in connection with the multibillion-dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal collectively netted some $36 million in an online auction conducted by the US Marshals Service.  Jean Michel Basquiat’s Self Portrait (1982) sold for $8,332,500, while his collage Red Man One (1982) fetched $22,002,790.00. Pablo Picasso’s Tête de taureau et broc (1939), and Diane Arbus’s Child with a Toy Hand Grenade, left the block for $5,007,502 and $500,150, respectively. Gaston and Sheehan, an auction house in Pflugerville, Texas, was contracted by the US government to…

Tesla’s Board of Directors has proposed a new pay package for company CEO Elon Musk that would result in $1 trillion in stock offerings if he is able to meet several lofty performance targets. Musk, who has not been meaningfully compensated since 2017, completed his last pay package by delivering billions in shareholder value through a variety of performance-based “tranches,” which were met and resulted in the award of billions in stock. Elon Musk’s new pay plan ties trillionaire status to Tesla’s $8.5 trillion valuation However, Musk was unable to claim this award due to a ruling by the Delaware…

Warner Bros. is suing AI startup Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that the company allows users to generate images and videos of characters like Superman, Batman, and Bugs Bunny without permission. As first reported by Reuters, Warner Bros. says that Midjourney knowingly engaged in wrongful conduct, noting that the company previously restricted subscribers from generating content based on infringing images but recently lifted those protections. “Midjourney has made a calculated and profit-driven decision to offer zero protection for copyright owners even though Midjourney knows about the breathtaking scope of its piracy and copyright infringement,” the complaint reads. The lawsuit seeks…

America’s new ambassador to Britain, Warren Stephens, has turned Winfield House, the official residence in Regent’s Park, into something closer to a private museum. Stephens, a financier from Little Rock, Arkansas, and a long-time Republican donor, arrived in London this summer with his wife, Harriet, and a portion of the family’s art collection, according to The Times. The couple have installed several Cézannes, a Renoir, and a Degas across the house. The centerpiece is Monet’s Effet de soleil couchant sur la Seine à Port-Villez (1883), hung above the drawing-room mantelpiece. A Pissarro canvas of Kensington Gardens has also been placed on the walls.…