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SUZHOU, China, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On 26 March, Suzhou Pudu Co-Intelligence Technology Company, a joint venture between Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Baidu Group, was launched as China’s first AI-focused joint venture co-founded by Baidu and a university. AI+education: Redefining learning Through AI-driven innovation, Pudu Co-Intelligence seeks to transform the whole education value chain, empower industrial evolution and cultivate localised service ecosystems. The company will soon launch the Pudu Co-Intelligence AI Forum, bringing together Baidu’s chief scientists, XJTLU’s AI researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders to share their thinking on cutting-edge technologies, AI research, interpretation of relevant policies, and personal experience…

The Nintendo Switch 2 will support Nvidia DLSS upscaling technology and ray tracing in games, Nintendo has said after fully unveiling its next console. The Switch 2’s technical specifications confirm that the hybrid console utilises a custom Nvidia processor. Nvidia, too, confirmed DLSS and ray-tracing support for the Switch 2 on Thursday, and said its custom GPU would bring “next-level visuals” and “smoother gameplay” on the new platform.DLSS, Ray Tracing on Nintendo Switch 2Nintendo confirmed Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) ray tracing technology on the Switch 2 in a roundtable Q&A in New York following the Nintendo Direct broadcast…

(TNS) — Northeastern University is pioneering the use of a new artificial intelligence tool created for higher education institutions, according to a Wednesday announcement.The tool, called Claude for Education, was created by AI safety and research company Anthropic. It isn’t designed to provide students with answers. Rather, it is created to question and guide students through a reasoning process that helps to develop their critical thinking skills.The AI tool also helps administrative staff and faculty to create rubrics for specific learning outcomes, provide individualized feedback efficiently or convert dense policy documents into accessible FAQ formats.“AI is a tool that will…

An artificial intelligence (AI) system has for the first time figured out how to collect diamonds in the hugely popular video game Minecraft—a difficult task requiring multiple steps—without being shown how to play. Its creators say the system, called Dreamer, is a step towards machines that can generalize knowledge learn in one domain to new situations, a major goal of AI.“Dreamer marks a significant step towards general AI systems,” says Danijar Hafner, a computer scientist at Google DeepMind in San Francisco, California. “It allows AI to understand its physical environment and also to self-improve over time, without a human having…

Image: James Tamim/Creative Commons OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has just completed the largest private tech funding round in history — raising $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. The deal, led by Japan’s SoftBank with backing from Microsoft and other investors, solidifies OpenAI as one of the world’s most valuable private companies, trailing only SpaceX and rivaling TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. A historic deal in tech funding The scale of this funding round is unprecedented. Before OpenAI, the largest private tech deal was Ant Group’s $14 billion raise in 2018. This new funding more than doubles that record and highlights…

Amazon on Monday released a new AI model that can take actions in a web browser on a user’s behalf, a move that puts it in more direct competition with OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies that have developed the so-called “agents.”The new model, called Nova Act, is designed to help developers build agents, or AI software that can complete multi-step tasks for users without supervision. Amazon showed Nova Act searching for “apartments by biking distance to the train station” as one example of a task it can complete.A growing number of companies are building AI agents as they look beyond text and image generators.Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI…

Stay up to date with everything that is happening in the wonderful world of AM via our LinkedIn community.A research team from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new software tool that makes it easier to design and make cable-driven 3D printed objects. The tool, called Xstrings, can be used to produce a variety of products with embedded actuation, from robotic hands with gripping capabilities to interactive sculptures with animal-like movement.Cable-driven mechanisms are frequently used by engineers to create components that can move fluidly like a human or animal. This movement is generated by pulling…

Enhanced Hole Insights offers more detailed analysis around historic, in-Tournament and projected play for every hole on course AI Narration in English and Spanish returns, along with revamped Masters Tournament app on Apple Vision Pro ARMONK, N.Y., April 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Masters Tournament today announced a series of digital fan features returning to the award-winning Masters app and Masters.com ahead of this year’s Tournament. The watsonx AI-powered capabilities – the latest in a 30-year collaboration between IBM and the Masters – aim to deliver a more personalized and engaging experience for millions of new…

From left to right: Research intern Ankush Dhawan and Lincoln Laboratory staff members Chad Council and Nathaniel Hanson test a vine robot in a laboratory setting. | Source: Glen Cooper, MIT News Researchers at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame, have created a vine-like robot that can squeeze between rubble. The robot could ease emergency responders’ burden following disastrous structural collapses. When a major disaster hits, emergency responders are responsible for searching for people trapped under rubble and carefully extricating these victims from dangerous environments. This grueling, around-the-clock work can stretch for days or…

New reports out today from Crunchbase Inc. and PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor reveal that global venture capital rebounded sharply in the first quarter of 2025, posting its strongest performance since mid-2022. However, both datasets point to a growing division in the startup ecosystem where a small set of companies and sectors, particularly artificial intelligence, are capturing an outsized share of investment. According to Crunchbase, total global startup funding reached $113 billion in the first quarter, up 17% from the previous quarter and an impressive 54% year-over-year. Though the headline figure is positive, the number was slanted by one single deal: OpenAI’s…