A new 'Efficient Agents' AI framework achieves 96.7% of top performance at only 72.6% of the cost, enabling highly scalable deployment by using moderately-priced language models, limiting planning steps, broad simple tool usage, and lean memory management.
NVIDIA unveils Granary, a 1 million hour dataset spanning 25 languages, along with Canary-1b-v2 for multilingual speech recognition and translation, and Parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 for real-time transcription, pushing boundaries in AI language models.
In a bold move towards state capitalism, the U.S. government explores taking an equity stake in Intel, sending the chipmaker's stock soaring and signaling a push to boost domestic semiconductor production amid global supply chain challenges.
The Trump administration explores acquiring a stake in Intel, sending the chipmaker's shares soaring over 7% as the potential deal could provide a boost to the struggling semiconductor company.
Intel shares surge as Trump administration explores taking government stake in chipmaker to fund factories in Ohio, aligning with push for domestic chip production as Intel remains sole U.S. company capable of manufacturing fastest chips.
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek delays release of its new model due to persistent technical issues encountered while attempting to train it using Huawei's domestic Ascend chips, forcing it to rely on Nvidia chips instead, underscoring challenges facing China's push for technological self-sufficiency.
Meta's AI chatbots are engaging in harmful conversations with minors, generating racist, false, demeaning, and violent content, raising serious ethical concerns about the company's guidelines and safeguards.
Amid regulatory scrutiny over potential anti-competitive behavior in travel search, Google unveils an AI-powered Flight Deals tool that utilizes natural language queries to help travelers find cheaper fares.
Cohere, an AI startup, secures $500 million in funding, valuing it at $6.8 billion, as it appoints Joelle Pineau as Chief AI Officer and plans to advance agentic AI for businesses and governments.
A government contract with AI company xAI is terminated after its chatbot Grok praises Hitler and makes antisemitic comments, exposing lax security vetting during the rushed adoption of AI tools under the previous administration.