Author: Advanced AI Editor

Falun Gong requests get broken software while everyone else gets the good stuff A new report claims China’s flagship AI outfit DeepSeek is sabotaging users if they happen to identify with groups Beijing doesn’t like. According to the Washington Post, security firm CrowdStrike ran a test that showed DeepSeek produced weaker or even insecure code when requests mentioned Falun Gong, Tibet, or Taiwan. The same tool, when asked for help in more neutral contexts, spat out cleaner and more reliable software. CrowdStrike said the biggest risks came from industrial control system code, where about 22.8 per cent of DeepSeek’s answers…

FILE PHOTO: OpenAI and Google announced that their reasoning AI models won gold medals at the International Collegiate Programming Contest or ICPC. | Photo Credit: Reuters OpenAI and Google announced that their reasoning AI models won gold medals at the International Collegiate Programming Contest or ICPC, a prestigious coding competition held in Baku, Azerbaijan on September 4. While OpenAI said GPT-5 achieved a perfect score, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Deep Think solved 10 of the 12 problems in the contest. Google DeepMind hailed the victory in a blog saying, “Together, these breakthroughs in competitive programming and mathematical reasoning demonstrate Gemini’s profound leap…

The founders who previously sold their livestreaming video startup Periscope to Twitter are back with a new startup — and no surprise, it’s an AI-focused company this time around. On Wednesday, former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour announced the launch of Macroscope, an AI system aimed at developers and product leaders that summarizes updates to a codebase and catches bugs, among other things. The startup was co-founded by Beykpour, now Macroscope CEO, in July 2023, along with childhood friend Joe Bernstein, also previously of Periscope and their prior enterprise startup, Terriblyclever, which was sold to Blackboard in 2009. They’re…

We hosted our second business summit in India where we showcased tools and features that will empower businesses of all sizes in establishing their presence, building better and delightful customer experiences, and growing their businesses.  Payments on WhatsApp Business App Building on our existing capabilities, we are introducing the ability for small businesses to offer a secure and convenient payment option directly within the WhatsApp Business app. Available on the app, small businesses can now quickly share QR codes in one tap for fast and efficient sales closures, enabling customers to pay directly within WhatsApp using their preferred payment method.…

What happens when the very tools designed to make writing easier start to erode the essence of what makes nonfiction compelling? Imagine a world where bookshelves, both digital and physical, are flooded with content that feels hollow, repetitive, and devoid of genuine insight. This isn’t a distant dystopia; it’s a reality unfolding as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a dominant force in nonfiction writing. While AI offers undeniable advantages, such as speed and efficiency, its misuse has led to a troubling surge in low-quality, cookie-cutter content that undermines the credibility of the genre. For writers and readers alike, this raises a…

On September 17, the Roewe M7 DMH, the world’s first car equipped with the Doubao Deep Thinking Large Model, was officially launched. The Roewe M7 DMH introduces an ‘AI smart cabin that can think deeply,’ which will redefine the interaction between humans and vehicles, achieving a revolutionary leap from command-based to natural human-like interaction. Currently, AI technology is profoundly driving the transformation of the automotive industry, with smart cabins becoming the core area of competition. The Roewe M7 not only possesses the capabilities of the Doubao Deep Thinking Large Model but also boasts the most open vehicle control ports in…

The success of DeepSeek’s powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model R1 — that made the US stock market plummet when it was released in January — did not hinge on being trained on the output of its rivals, researchers at the Chinese firm have said. The statement came in documents released alongside a peer-reviewed version of the R1 model, published today in Nature.R1 is designed to excel at ‘reasoning’ tasks such as mathematics and coding, and is a cheaper rival to tools developed by US technology firms. As an ‘open weight’ model, it is available for anyone to download and is…

Huawei Technologies unveiled hardware that it claimed could deliver world-class computing power without using Nvidia’s advanced chips, in a breakthrough that could potentially free the supply chokehold that constrains China’s aspirations in artificial intelligence.The Shenzhen-based telecoms equipment giant said it had developed the “world’s most powerful” supernode computing cluster using local chipmaking processes, providing a boost to the country’s self-reliance in AI computing and underpinning Beijing’s toughening stance towards Nvidia.“Huawei is seeking to build a ‘supernode + cluster’ computing solution using chip manufacturing processes available in China to meet the growing compute needs,” Xu Zhijun, Huawei’s deputy chairman and rotating…

SINGAPORE, Sept. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Pollo AI is thrilled to announce the launch of its groundbreaking AI product avatar video generator, which builds on the success of its recently introduced AI avatar video generator, enabling brands, marketers, and creators to produce studio–quality product videos in minutes. With Pollo AI Product Avatar, users simply upload a product image and choose from an extensive range of preset avatars tailored to diverse industries, including Beauty, Education, Gaming, Health, Marketing, News, Professional, and Sports. Alternatively, users have the flexibility to upload their own avatar images. No filming, pre–training, or pre-recorded footage is required; Pollo AI…

IBM and BharatGen on Thursday announced a strategic partnership to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in India through sovereign multimodal and large language models (LLMs) tailored for the country’s linguistic and cultural landscape. BharatGen is also likely to be selected for the second phase of the IndiaAI Mission, alongside seven other firms, marking a significant boost for its efforts to build open-source foundational models for Indian developers and researchers, sources in the department of science and technology told AIM. The collaboration combines IBM’s expertise in data, governance, and model training with BharatGen’s mandate to build inclusive, India-centric AI systems. The…