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Facebook Tweet Email Link Reuters  —  Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek spent just $294,000 on training its R1 model, much less than reported for US rivals, it said in a paper that is likely to reignite debate over Beijing’s place in the AI race. The rare update from the Hangzhou-based company – the first estimate it has released of R1’s training costs – appeared Wednesday in a peer-reviewed article in the academic journal Nature. DeepSeek’s release of what it said were lower-cost AI systems in January prompted global investors to dump tech stocks as they worried the new models could…

India’s largest IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd on Friday, September 19, said it is integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing to help global retailers rapidly and efficiently adopt next-generation AI capabilities at lower costs. TCS said it is incorporating the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into its retail products and solutions for retailers across the world.  TCS said this partnership will give its network of retailers a competitive edge by deriving actionable insights, attaining precision and agility, building intelligent automation, and driving more evidence-based decisions. “TCS is infusing NVIDIA’s advanced AI, computer vision, and digital twin capabilities into its retail offerings,” TCS…

Artificial intelligence has often faced criticism for producing “hallucinations,” where systems confidently provide incorrect answers. But OpenAI’s latest research highlights a deeper concern: AI that intentionally misleads. In collaboration with Apollo Research, the company has revealed early findings on a method designed to reduce such behavior, which it calls “scheming.” In a paper released this week, OpenAI defines scheming as situations where an AI appears helpful on the surface but secretly pursues hidden objectives. The researchers likened it to a broker who bends the rules to maximize profits—errors not by accident, but by design. Unlike hallucinations, scheming involves deliberate misdirection,…

Cluster Reply Supports Riverty’s AI-first Strategy for Omnichannel, Human-centric Customer Service Cluster Reply, the Reply company specialised in digital platform solutions leveraging Microsoft technologies, has partnered with fintech company Riverty to accelerate the rollout of a pioneering customer service platform – delivered in record time of just 100 days. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250919101836/en/ The initiative is part of Riverty’s broader strategy to become a leader in AI-powered financial services. The new solution empowers Riverty to deliver efficient, empathetic customer support across all channels while creating a robust foundation for future AI-driven automation. The…

Google announced Thursday that it’s rolling out Gemini in Chrome to all Mac and Windows desktop users in the U.S. after previously limiting the capability to Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers. The tech giant also announced that it’s bringing agentic capabilities to Chrome in the future, adding its AI Mode search feature to the address bar, launching new Gemini features, using AI to combat AI-generated scams, rolling out automatic password resets, and more. U.S. users who have their language set to English can now ask Gemini to clarify complex information on any web page they’re reading using…

Tech Desk19 September 2025, 12:30 PM ISTUsers can edit images directly within WhatsApp chats using text prompts Perplexity has made Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, commonly known as Nano Banana, available through its WhatsApp bot. The new integration allows users to edit images directly in WhatsApp chats using AI-powered prompts. “Nano Banana is available on Perplexity WhatsApp bot,” wrote Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity. How does it work? Users can start WhatsApp chats with the Perplexity AI engine and request it to edit images, much like they do directly with Google’s Gemini AI. Once the conversation begins, users…

In a surprise move, Thomson Reuters has formed a tech-sharing partnership with Supio, an AI-driven personal injury startup. It’s part of the growing ‘Small Law empowerment’ trend, which will impact larger firms that defend against insurance claims. The deal will see TR’s customers gain access to Supio’s CaseAware system, which helps lawyers prepare claims, primarily for personal injury, a market in America that they reckon is worth $61.3 billion….which, if AL can remember is larger than the entire UK legal market…! The system ‘automates personal injury and mass tort law use cases, helping to manage vast volumes of complex medical…

Smarter AI doesn’t always mean better AI.OpenAI published new research this week, in conjunction with AI safety organization Apollo Research, that shows that its AI models are capable of “scheming.”Scheming, by the researchers’ definition, is when AI pretends to be aligned with human goals but is surreptitiously pursuing another agenda. The researchers used behaviors like “secretly breaking rules or intentionally underperforming in tests” as examples of a model’s bad behavior.Right now, the company says, the stakes are still low.”Models have little opportunity to scheme in ways that could cause significant harm,” OpenAI said in a blog post on Wednesday. “The…

Welcome back to Neural Notes, a weekly column where I look at how AI is affecting Australia. In this edition: does AI have a place in the government’s Future Made in Australia push? At the National Tech Summit this week, Industry and Innovation Minister Tim Ayres pitched bringing AI inside the government’s Future Made in Australia (FMIA) strategy.  Related Article Block Placeholder Article ID: 297093 Until now, FMIA has largely meant hardware and heavy industry such as hydrogen, critical minerals, grid transmission and defence manufacturing. And it’s been backed handsomely by big finance.  But according to Ayres, AI should have…

If you can’t resist the urge to check your phone over and over, even if you’re out with friends, Meta has a solution: check your glasses instead. “The promise of glasses is to preserve this sense of presence that you have with other people,” said CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Meta Connect 2025 keynote. “I think that we’ve lost it a little bit with phones, and we have the opportunity to get it back with glasses.” In reality, Meta wants its own hardware to eat into the marketshare of Apple and Google so that it doesn’t have to keep siphoning…