Author: Advanced AI Editor
A hand triumphantly holds a gold medal aloft against a backdrop of clear blue sky. Image: Envato By mohdizzuanbinroslan Google DeepMind’s latest Gemini Deep Think artificial intelligence model has achieved gold-medal level performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad. The IMO is known as the most prestigious and challenging mathematics competition for high school students in the world. Only about 10% of this year’s competitors received gold medals, and numerous recipients of the Fields Medal, the highest honour in mathematics, have won it in the past. Various AI companies tried out the IMO 2025 questions on their models, hoping to get…
getty LegalOn Technologies, a Tokyo and San Francisco-based startup that uses AI to speed up contract reviews, has raised $50 million in a funding round led by the growth equity team at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The Series E round also attracted participation from U.S. and Japan-based venture capital firm World Innovation Lab and Japanese law firm Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, as well as Mizuho Bank and Shoko Chukin Bank, LegalOn said in a statement on Thursday. The round brought the startup’s total funding raised to $200 million, according to LegalOn. LegalOn was founded in Japan in 2017 by former Mori…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Macy’s this week brought back its Black Friday in July sales event that started on Wednesday and runs through Sunday, according to a press release. Consumers can shop deals on clothing for men, women and kids, accessories, jewelry, beauty and home. Shoppers can access deals in stores, online or on the Macy’s app. As part of the event, Macy’s is also celebrating Christmas in July beginning Friday with “holiday-inspired deals, exclusive offers and curated selections that evoke the spirit of…
Commercial contextTelecom call centers are under strain from rising volumes of routine customer calls such as billing inquiries, service faults, and upgrade requests. These low-complexity issues account for a large share of interactions. They still, however, require human handling due to the limits of legacy systems.Alternatives, such as traditional chatbots and scripted flows don’t support multi-turn dialogue or access to real-time customer data. As a result, contact centers face growing backlogs, inconsistent resolution quality, and high support costs.CSPs need to find a solution that reduces cost-to-serve while also protecting customer data. Most genAI tools are cloud-based and resource-heavy, which raises…
This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out our June entry here. A host of funded startups caught our attention this month, ranging from a flu vaccine developer to a startup identifying AI deepfakes to another mapping underground utilities. Let’s take a closer look. Startup eyes $96M Series B to help see underground Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there. In fact, when it comes to things like underground utility lines or pipes, knowing they exist before you start excavating…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Toy company Mattel reported net sales in its second quarter were down 6% year over year to a little over $1 billion, according to a Wednesday press release. Net income was also down around 6% to $53.4 million. The company revised its full-year guidance. Net sales are now expected to be up 1% to 3%, compared to its previous outlook of between 2% to 3%. The company doesn’t expect any additional price increases this year, Chief Financial Officer Paul Ruh…
Category Artificial Intelligence Date July 25, 2025 Picture walking into your office tomorrow morning and finding that overnight, your customer service backlog disappeared, inventory got optimized perfectly, and three new market opportunities were identified and analyzed. That’s how AI Agents work! This scenario plays out daily at companies deploying AI agents, with Gartner’s latest research showing that these will autonomously take care of almost 80% of customer service issues commonly existing in the industry, that too, without any human intervention. The numbers tell a compelling story about transformation happening right now. Yet despite this momentum, confusion persists about ‘What are…
AI writing is everywhere now, flooding social media, websites, and emails—so you’re probably encountering it more than you realize.That email you just received, the product review you’re reading, or the Reddit post that sounds oddly corporate might all be generated by tools like AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude. The writing often appears polished, maybe too polished, hitting every point perfectly while maintaining an unnaturally enthusiastic tone throughout. While AI detectors promise to catch machine-generated text, they’re often unreliable and miss the subtler signs that reveal when algorithms have done the heavy lifting. You don’t need fancy software or…
Washington CNN — Dozens of AI industry leaders, academics and even some celebrities on Tuesday called for reducing the risk of global annihilation due to artificial intelligence, arguing in a brief statement that the threat of an AI extinction event should be a top global priority. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” read the statement published by the Center for AI Safety. The statement was signed by leading industry officials including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman; the so-called “godfather” of AI, Geoffrey Hinton; top executives…
DMOSpeech 2 optimizes duration prediction and introduces teacher-guided sampling to enhance speech synthesis performance and diversity. Diffusion-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have made remarkable progress in zero-shot speech synthesis, yet optimizing all components for perceptual metrics remains challenging. Prior work with DMOSpeech demonstrated direct metric optimization for speech generation components, but duration prediction remained unoptimized. This paper presents DMOSpeech 2, which extends metric optimization to the duration predictor through a reinforcement learning approach. The proposed system implements a novel duration policy framework using group relative preference optimization (GRPO) with speaker similarity and word error rate as reward signals. By optimizing this…