Author: Advanced AI Editor

How human should an AI tutor be? What does ‘good’ teaching look like? Will AI lead in the classroom, or take a back seat to human instruction? Will everyone have their own personalized AI tutor? Join Research Lead, Irina Jurenka, and Professor Hannah Fry as they explore the complicated yet exciting world of AI in education. Further reading Towards Responsible Development of Generative AI for Education: An Evaluation-Driven Approach: Timecodes: 00:06 Intro 01:37 Breaking into education 04:08 AI tutor 08:12 The future 10:38 Irina’s journey 13:53 Reasoning and teaching 15:05 The optimal strategy for teaching 17:54 Good pedagogy 21:15 GenAI…

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NVIDIA has announced a foundation AI model for humanoid robots called NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1, aka GR00T N1. The chip maker announced that this pre-trained AI model is available as open-source. The announcement came at the company’s annual GTC conference, which took place in San Jose, California, on March 18. NVIDIA has announced the GR00T N1, a foundation AI model for humanoid robots NVIDIA reportedly trained the GR00T N1 AI model on existing datasets and synthetically generated data. For those unaware, synthetic data is artificially created using computational methods and simulations and mimics the statistical properties of real-world data. The…

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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…

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Mint Images | Mint Images Rf | Getty ImagesElectricity grid demands are on the rise in part due to energy-hungry technology like AI, and while experts believe renewable energy alone is not enough, it is essential to a broader supply equation. But with funding freezes, subsidy walk backs and tariffs on key components all on the table, solar, wind, and hydrogen companies are working harder than ever to make their business models work, even if they never intended to rely on federal support for the long term. “One of the hats I used to wear was planning for the City…

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C3.ai experienced a 5% price increase last week, potentially driven by its recent strategic alliance with PwC. This partnership aims to implement AI-powered business transformation across industries such as banking, financial services, and manufacturing. The focus includes tailored solutions like C3 AI Reliability and C3 AI Anti-Money Laundering. Amid broader market downturns, where the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq experienced declines of up to 1.5%, C3.ai’s gains appear noteworthy. While major indexes saw negative sentiment driven by economic concerns and high-profile events in the tech sector, the company’s strategic moves and industry-specific offerings possibly provided positive investor sentiment and…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appears to have struck a deal with the Trump administration to avoid export restrictions on the company’s H20 AI chips. The H20, the most advanced Nvidia-produced AI chip that can still be exported from the U.S. to China, was reportedly spared thanks to a promise from Huang to invest in new AI data centers in the U.S. According to NPR, Huang made the proposal during a dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort sometime last week. Nvidia declined to comment. Many in the semiconductor industry feared H20s, which are modified to have lower performance than other Nvidia chips,…

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Emerging technology, when first being presented to the public-at-large, is bound to get people fearful and protective of the status quo. Such is the current case with AI and its practical application in multiple industries, particularly in the space of visual media arts, but rather than turn away, renowned filmmaker and technological innovator James Cameron is choosing to lean in. Last year, he joined the board of the generative AI company Stability AI and during a recent interview on the “Boz to the Future” podcast, he explained how the tech’s ability to shorten VFX workflow could truly be a game-changer…

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I don’t care who you are, where you’re fromWhat you did, As long as you love me! — Backstreet Boys Wow! They really love AI in China! Across regions, across pockets!  So, Tencent, from China, has announced its latest Hunyuan-T1—the first Mamba-powered ultra-large model! Well, well, well! Seems the Chinese are in love with AI! First, came DeepSeek, then Baidu ERNIE 4.5, and now, Tencent with Hunyuan-T1, with Google Gemma, in-between, along with OpenAI’s O-series models. That’s really a lot of development done within a space of very little time! Didn’t I remark earlier that AI models will come up thick…

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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…

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