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Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The Children’s Place stores have been neglected for years, but all of that is about to change.  “I believe that the appearance and poor condition of TCP’s stores detract from the shopping experience of store customers and convey a single, unfortunate reality: our stores have become an orphan channel,” Turki AlRajhi, executive chairman of The Children’s Place, wrote in a Friday note to shareholders. The children’s apparel retailer said that over the past several years the company has had no significant capital…

A new paper co-authored by the former CEO of Google has outlined a future where AI training data centers could be blown up by foreign nations.Eric Schmidt, along with Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and the Center for AI Safety’s Dan Hendrycks, warned that “destabilizing AI developments could rupture the balance of power and raise the odds of great-power conflict.”The paper lays out the concept of Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM), modeled on nuclear mutual assured destruction (MAD), where any “aggressive bid for unilateral AI dominance is met with preventive sabotage by rivals.”This could involve espionage, cyberattacks, or kinetic strikes…

C3 AI continues its accelerated growth through leadership in Enterprise AI REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– C3 AI (NYSE: AI), the leading Enterprise AI application software company, today announced it has been named one of The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies of 2025 by The Financial Times. “C3 AI’s continued recognition as a top growth company underscores the strength of our vision, leadership, and execution in the Enterprise AI space,” said Thomas M. Siebel, Chairman and CEO, C3 AI. “As the demand for AI-driven solutions accelerates, our more than 15 years of experience, vast partnerships, and strategic focus on AI applications have…

Chinese tech giants like Alibaba (BABA), Tencent (TCEHY), and ByteDance have placed over $16 billion in orders for Nvidia’s (NVDA) H20 AI chips during the first quarter of 2025, according to The Information. The rush in demand comes amid concerns that the U.S. may soon ban the sale of these chips to China. While Nvidia has not commented, these orders could significantly boost revenue if the company manages to deliver the chips before any restrictions take effect.Don’t Miss Our End of Quarter Offers: The H20 is currently allowed in China, but it’s less powerful than Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which are…

Scientific equation discovery is a fundamental task in the history of scientific progress, enabling the derivation of laws governing natural phenomena. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained interest for this task due to their potential to leverage embedded scientific knowledge for hypothesis generation. However, evaluating the true discovery capabilities of these methods remains challenging, as existing benchmarks often rely on common equations that are susceptible to memorization by LLMs, leading to inflated performance metrics that do not reflect discovery. In this paper, we introduce LLM-SRBench, a comprehensive benchmark with 239 challenging problems across four scientific domains specifically designed to…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Lowe’s has agreed to acquire Artisan Design Group for $1.3 billion, the home improvement retailer announced Monday. ADG provides interior design, distribution and installation services for interior surface finishes including flooring, cabinets and countertops.  The retailer will purchase Artisan Design Group with cash on hand. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of this year, pending regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions.  The acquisition will expand Lowe’s pro services, the retailer said. Dive Insight: Lowe’s aims to…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A committee of unsecured Forever 21 creditors has objected to a bankruptcy plan by its debtors and is investigating what it describes as a transfer of the fast-fashion brand’s intellectual property assets, according to documents filed last week with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. “The prospects of a going concern sale are grim given that the Debtors appear to have sold their valuable Forever 21 intellectual property assets to a subsidiary of Authentic Brands Group, an affiliate of…

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…

In today’s industry news roundup: French AI specialist to identify new use cases and develop tailor-made models with shipping and logistics firm; Juniper Research expects telco AI investments to hit $22bn per year by 2029; African telco giant MTN is developing a streaming platform with Synamedia; and much more! Mistral AI, the Paris-based generative AI developer, has agreed a €100m multi-year contract with French shipping and logistics company CMA CGM to identify new AI use cases within the business and develop tailor-made models and agents. Sifted reports that as part of the five-year deal, Mistral AI will embed a dedicated…