Author: Advanced AI Editor

Determining how best to incorporate AI in your reporting can be daunting. For journalists and small newsrooms navigating tight deadlines and limited resources, harnessing AI tools to carry out time consuming tasks can be pivotal. For students developing a foundational skill set for future reporting careers, the technology can’t be ignored. Think of AI tools similarly to how you do common applications like Microsoft Excel or Adobe Photoshop: AI can help free up time, which you can in turn dedicate to more in-depth reporting, and more creative writing, visuals and marketing, among other perks. However, a 2024 survey by the…

C3.ai, Inc. (AI) is one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com visitors lately. So, it might be a good idea to review some of the factors that might affect the near-term performance of the stock. Shares of this company have returned -12.6% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite’s -3.6% change. The Zacks Computers – IT Services industry, to which C3.ai belongs, has lost 7.8% over this period. Now the key question is: Where could the stock be headed in the near term? While media releases or rumors about a substantial change in a company’s business…

Robert Legato – the respected VFX innovator who won Oscars for “Titanic,” “Hugo” and “The Jungle Book” – has joined Stability AI at chief pipeline architect. In doing so, he reteams with James Cameron, an influential board member for the AI firm. Legato is credited with creating the virtual cinematography pipeline for Cameron’s “Avatar,” which went on to surpass the director’s “Titanic” as the highest grossing film of all time with $2.8 billion at the worldwide box office. Legato’s pioneering work has also included “Apollo 13,” “The Aviator,” and the virtual production of “The Lion King.” He’s also held roles…

If you are interested in building your very own local deep research AI assistant, you might be interested in Google’s Gemma 3 AI models. They represent a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, offering a compact yet robust solution tailored for local deployment. Derived from the larger Gemini series, these models combine high performance with a strong emphasis on privacy and accessibility. Featuring multimodal capabilities, support for 140 languages, and the ability to generate structured outputs, Gemma 3 is engineered to meet diverse AI research assistant and productivity demands. These models are open source and optimized for local use, allowing you…

One pressing question at the artificial-intelligence (AI) summit in Paris this week was this: is Mistral AI’s assistant a cat, or a chat? Called Le Chat and developed by a French startup as a competitor to ChatGPT, it launched as a smartphone app on February 6th. To the English speaker, Le Chat looks like a French twist on AI chat, which it conducts in English (and other languages). Yet at the jamboree President Emmanuel Macron plugged it using a soft “sh”, rendering Le Chat distinctly feline. Arthur Mensch, Mistral’s 32-year-old boss, says his baby is indeed four-legged. Look carefully at…

Alibaba Cloud is broadening its international artificial intelligence offerings with enhanced tools as the company seeks to grow its global customer base, reports Bloomberg,Per the report, the cloud division’s expansion includes new platform-as-a-service options and advanced proprietary large language models, such as Qwen-Max and the QwQ-Plus reasoning model, which shares similarities with DeepSeek. The company is delivering these services through its Singapore availability zones, signalling its intent to attract AI users and developers globally.The Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing giant has maintained a swift pace of AI product launches since DeepSeek’s January introduction. Its offerings include developer-focused business intelligence tools…

The U.S. government is investigating if American semiconductor giant Nvidia (NVDA) may have helped China’s DeepSeek AI in creating powerful artificial intelligence (AI) chips. According to the New York Times, the U.S. House Select Committee on China initiated a probe to determine if Nvidia knowingly sold H20 AI chips to DeepSeek. The administration is also considering penalties to block DeepSeek from buying U.S. technology, while also wondering if it should ban Americans from using its models.Stay Ahead of the Market: Nvidia has got caught in the crosshairs of the intensified U.S.-China trade war. The company’s stock dropped another 7% yesterday,…

Chinese tech giant Huawei has made a bold move that could potentially change who leads the global AI chip race. The company has unveiled a powerful new computing system called the CloudMatrix 384 Supernode that, according to local media reports, performs better than similar technology from American chip leader Nvidia. If the performance claims prove accurate, the AI hardware breakthrough might reshape the technology landscape at a time when AI development is continuing worldwide, and despite US efforts to limit China’s access to advanced technology. 300 petaflops: Challenging Nvidia’s hardware dominance The CloudMatrix 384 Supernode is described as a “nuclear-level…

The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, a modestly size but formidable institution dedicated to the medium, has named Carlos Basualdo as its next director. He succeeds longtime director Jeremy Strick, who retired in June 2024, and will start at the Nasher on May 12, according to the New York Times, which first reported the news. For two decades, Basualdo had been a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He joined as a senior curator in 2005 and was promoted to deputy director and chief curator at the end of 2022, becoming the museum’s first ever chief curator. Related Articles…

A high-profile legal case has unearthed a trove of internal Meta communications, and one particular document has caught the eye of some AI researchers.This reveals new insights into how models are built and could influence who gets to share in the spoils of this new technology.Buried in these court filings is a description of how Meta researchers used a process called ablation to identify which data helped improve the company’s Llama AI models.Ablation is a medical technique that purposely destroys tissue to improve things like brain function. In AI, it involves removing parts of a system to study how those…