Author: Advanced AI Editor

Alibaba Cloud has bolstered its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for international customers, unveiling a suite of new models, tools and infrastructure upgrades. Announced at the company’s Spring Launch 2025 online event, the new offerings focus on providing scalable AI offerings, particularly in the rapidly evolving field of generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs). “We are launching a series of platform-as-a-service [PaaS] and AI capability updates to meet the growing demand for digital transformation from across the globe,” said Selina Yuan, president of international business at Alibaba Cloud. “These upgrades allow us to deliver even more secure and…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Nvidia has said it expects to take a $5.5bn blow after the US clamped down on the Silicon Valley group’s ability to export artificial intelligence chips to China. The group said in a regulatory filing late on Tuesday that the H20 chip, which is tailored for the Chinese market to comply with export controls that already prevent the sale of its most powerful chips in China, will now also require a special license to sell to customers in the country. Nvidia said…

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and WhatsApp, is stepping up its efforts to transform citizen service delivery in India by partnering with State governments through its AI model Llama and the widely used WhatsApp messaging platform. Sandhya Devanathan, Meta’s India head, disclosed the plan, highlighting the company’s aim to make government services more accessible, integrated, and efficient through digital tools, as per a Moneycontrol report. Since January 2025, Meta has been working with the State government of Andhra Pradesh to streamline citizen interactions through a WhatsApp-based chatbot. This bot functions as a single-window access point for a wide range…

J Studios/Getty ImagesFor better or worse, AI tools have steadily become a reality of the academic landscape since ChatGPT launched in late 2022. Anthropic is studying what that looks like in real time. On Tuesday, shortly after launching Claude for Education, the company released data on which tasks university students use its AI chatbot Claude for and which majors use it the most. Also: The work tasks people use Claude AI for most, according to AnthropicUsing Clio, the company’s data analysis tool, to maintain user privacy, Anthropic analyzed 574,740 anonymized conversations between Claude and users at the Free and Pro…

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…

Context.ai, a startup building evaluations and analytics for AI models, announced Tuesday that its co-founders will join OpenAI.  Context.ai plans to wind down its products following the acqui-hire, per a message on the company’s website. When reached for comment, OpenAI declined to reveal the terms of the deal. “Evals are a requirement to building high-performing AI applications, but they’re hard to get right today,” reads the message. “We spent two years building evals and analytics for [models] at Context.ai — with a few pivots along the way. We couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter of our journey at…

Two former supply chain managers at Tesla have started their own AI inventory firm, which aims to make demand and inventory planning more efficient. Neal Suidan, Tesla’s former Senior Manager of Global Demand Planning, and Michael Rossiter, former Director of Sales Operations and Senior Manager of Business Planning, announced the launch of Atomic on Tuesday, an AI platform geared toward supply planning. The launch was made alongside the announcement of a $3 million seed funding round from former DVx Ventures, the capital fund run by former Tesla President Jon McNeill, as well as the firm Madrona. “Planners are the unsung…

[Submitted on 20 Nov 2020 (v1), last revised 14 Apr 2025 (this version, v4)] View a PDF of the paper titled Seismic Facies Analysis: A Deep Domain Adaptation Approach, by M Quamer Nasim and 4 other authors View PDF Abstract:Deep neural networks (DNNs) can learn accurately from large quantities of labeled input data, but often fail to do so when labelled data are scarce. DNNs sometimes fail to generalize ontest data sampled from different input distributions. Unsupervised Deep Domain Adaptation (DDA)techniques have been proven useful when no labels are available, and when distribution shifts are observed in the target domain…

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…

An IBM Z employee (left) shows launch event attendees the new z17 mainframe via a plexiglass prototype model (right) at IBM’s One Madison office.Melinda Huspen/American Banker IBM says its latest mainframe comes with the ability to run artificial intelligence models at high speeds and to provide quantum-grade encryption on transactions and data.The IBM z17 features expanded on-chip AI capabilities and upgraded hardware and software designed to assist in fraud prevention and quantum security. The “Z” stands for zero downtime, according to IBM Z Chief Product Officer Tina Tarquinio.The z17 model was unveiled during a launch event for IBM Z clients…