Author: Advanced AI Editor

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…

If you follow AI news, or even tech news, you might have heard of DeepSeek by now, the powerful Chinese Large Language Model that has capabilities rivaling ChatGPT while having dramatically lower training costs. DeepSeek is designed for advanced reasoning, with general purpose natural language and ChatBot abilities, task competency, research, while also being excellent for coding, code generation, and logic, making it a powerful AI tool in general, and potentially for your workflow. While you can run DeepSeek anywhere through the web, and you can also download and run DeepSeek through an app on your iPhone or iPad using…

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…

Silver Lining: Nvidia has been significantly impacted by the tariffs introduced by Donald Trump on April 2. The company sources nearly all of its GPU products from TSMC and is likely to face price increases in the near future. However, according to market analysts, data center servers for AI workloads could partially avoid the new tariffs. The technology industry is still grappling with the aftermath of the new economic policy imposed by the US administration on its traditional partners and competitors. Meanwhile, analysts are trying to determine whether some of the most popular tech stocks could show resilience in the…

In a blog post last July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that “selling access” to Meta’s openly available Llama AI models “isn’t [Meta’s] business model.” Yet Meta does make at least some money from Llama through revenue-sharing agreements, according to a newly unredacted court filing. The filing, submitted by attorneys for the plaintiffs in the copyright lawsuit Kadrey v. Meta, in which Meta stands accused of training its Llama models on hundreds of terabytes of pirated e-books, reveals that Meta “shares a percentage of the revenue” that companies hosting its Llama models generate from users of those models. The filing…

n8n has announced the integration of native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), introducing MCP server and client nodes into its workflow automation platform. This development allows for seamless communication between large language models (LLMs) and external systems, empowering users to create advanced, AI-driven workflows. Developed by Anthropic, MCP is gaining recognition as a potential standard for AI interoperability. However, its necessity compared to established protocols like REST APIs continues to be a subject of industry debate. But what exactly is MCP, and why should you care? Developed by Anthropic, the creators of Claude AI, MCP is designed to…

AI is already transforming fields like graphic design, movie making, and computer programming, but it might soon upturn the hard sciences as well. David Silver, a prominent researcher at Google Deepmind and the lead researcher at AlphaGo, has offered some compelling insights into the future of mathematics and the role of artificial intelligence. He hints at a future where AI mathematicians not only solve some of the world’s most challenging mathematical puzzles but fundamentally reshape the field itself. “The Clay Mathematics Institute, in the year 2000, offered a million-dollar prize for seven different mathematical problems,” Silver was asked in an…

After a final autopsy report in February concluded that 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji had died by suicide in his San Francisco apartment on November 26 last year, his family rejected the findings, calling them riddled with “tons of inconsistencies”. His mother, Poornima Ramarao, has now shared a video of a San Francisco Police Department officer handling evidence at the scene without wearing gloves. “This is the video of SFPD touching the evidence without gloves. They contaminated the crime scene instead of collecting fingerprints, DNA and footprints,” Poornima Ramarao wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter).  She asked, “Were they…

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…