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French tech startup Mistral AI has signed a €100m ($110m) multi-year partnership with shipping and logistics company CMA CGM to develop tailored AI solutions for the Marseille-based conglomerate’s operations, Reuters reported. The five-year agreement will explore new AI applications within CMA CGM’s core logistics services and its French media businesses, with a specific focus on enhancing customer service and implementing AI-powered factchecking tools. The deal will contribute to CMA CGM’s AI-related investment, which is projected to reach €500m over the duration of the partnership. Founded in 2023, Mistral AI provides alternatives to solutions offered by leading US companies in the…

  Texas Texas became the first state to ban DeepSeek as of Jan. 31, 2025, with a handful of other applications, including Lemon8 and RedNote, that it deemed to be security threats.  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a statewide ban of DeepSeek that forbids it from being downloaded or used on any government networks or devices as of Feb. 10, 2025.  Virginia The Commonwealth became the third state to ban DeepSeek on Feb. 11, 2025, with Gov. Glenn Youngkin calling it “a threat to the security and safety of the citizens.” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds sent a directive to…

Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE BABA) co-founder Jack Ma appeared at Alibaba Cloud’s campus in Hangzhou on Thursday to celebrate its 15th anniversary, SCMP reports. On Wednesday, Alibaba’s cloud unit showcased its Blossom project, which aims to accelerate AI adoption by providing its clients with infrastructure, AI models, data, and other services. The company upgraded global AI tools with Qwen-Max, a new reasoning model, and $1/year developer kits. Also Read: China’s DeepSeek Teams Up With Tsinghua University To Raise AI Bar, Boost Reasoning Capabilities Alibaba committed at least 380 billion yuan ($52 billion) in cloud computing and AI infrastructure over the…

A group of ten law professors have submitted a so called amicus brief as part of the AI copyright legal battle between several authors and Meta setting out the arguments for why training AI models with existing content does not qualify as ‘fair use’ under American copyright law. It follows the recent submission of another amicus brief by four different professors who argued the opposite. The new brief insists that Meta’s use of the authors’ work when training its Llama AI model is “a commercial use that takes the expression in those works”, is “not transformative” and does not qualify as…

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Like finding the best solution in a game of chess or the board game Go, artificial intelligence could help accelerate the discovery of drugs from a decade to potentially weeks, according to Nobel laureate and Cambridge alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis.The chief executive officer and co-founder of Google DeepMind described a new era of ‘digital biology’ – and offered his insights into a future of artificial general intelligence, helping us to understand our place in the universe.Sir Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind. Picture: GoogleSir Demis was speaking at a special event in Cambridge, exploring how AI can accelerate scientific discovery, bringing “digital…

OpenAI is reportedly developing its own social media platform. The Verge, which has broken the news, describes the project as “X-like” in nature. Little is known about the new site beyond the fact that it exists. The Verge writes that the company is working on an “internal prototype” that involves a “feed” feature and may be built around the company’s image-generation capabilities. There doesn’t appear to be a name for the platform, and it’s also unclear whether it would be separate from ChatGPT or would be integrated into the company’s existing automation service. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has been quietly…

[Submitted on 15 Apr 2025] View a PDF of the paper titled Single-Input Multi-Output Model Merging: Leveraging Foundation Models for Dense Multi-Task Learning, by Juan Garcia Giraldo and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Model merging is a flexible and computationally tractable approach to merge single-task checkpoints into a multi-task model. Prior work has solely focused on constrained multi-task settings where there is a one-to-one mapping between a sample and a task, overlooking the paradigm where multiple tasks may operate on the same sample, e.g., scene understanding. In this paper, we focus on the multi-task setting with single-input-multiple-outputs (SIMO)…

I test AI tools for a living and have had my fair share of “wow” moments. But nothing quite prepared me for what Google’s new Veo 2 can do. Let me just say this: if you’ve ever dreamed of directing a movie scene without touching a camera, this tool comes pretty close.With so many free tools available from Gemini, it’s understandable why Veo 2 is part of Google’s latest rollout for Gemini Advanced users. It’s worth the subscription. This tool lets you generate 8-second, 720p cinematic videos using a single prompt.Think ChatGPT, but instead of spitting out action figures, it…

Researchers from Stanford University early today published the latest edition of their annual AI Index Report, detailing the growing influence of artificial intelligence technologies on our society and the global economy. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, known as Stanford HAI, has been publishing its annual reports on the state of the AI industry since 2017. This year’s edition, the eighth, is the “most comprehensive” report to date, spanning more than 430 pages. The authors say it’s arriving at a critical juncture as the influence of AI across society rapidly accelerates with the emergence of increasingly capable and sophisticated…