Author: Art Ryan

The excitement is building as we approach one of the most anticipated tech events of the year — the inaugural Web Summit Vancouver, happening in just two days! With its global reputation for bringing together the brightest minds in technology, business, and innovation, Web Summit is finally making its Canadian debut — and the energy is palpable. Set against the stunning backdrop of Vancouver’s vibrant tech scene and natural beauty, #WebSummitVancouver promises to deliver groundbreaking talks, unmatched networking opportunities, and a showcase of cutting-edge startups and technologies shaping the future. Whether you’re a founder, investor, engineer, or simply a tech…

The Linux Foundation and Meta are putting some numbers behind how open-source AI (OSAI) is driving innovation and adoption. The adoption of AI tools is pretty much everywhere now, with 94% of organisations surveyed already using them. And get this: within that crowd, 89% are tapping into open-source AI for some part of their tech backbone. A paper released this week by Meta and the Linux Foundation stitches together academic brainpower, industry frontline stories, and global survey data to showcase an ecosystem that’s buzzing thanks to being open and affordable. If there’s one thing that jumps off the page, it’s…

Dell Technologies used the Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas to announce the latest generation of AI acceleration servers which come equipped with Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra GPUs. The systems claim to deliver up to four times faster AI training capabilities compared to previous generations, as Dell expands its AI Factory partnership with Nvidia amid intense competition in the enterprise AI hardware market. The servers arrive as organisations move from experimental AI projects to production-scale implementations, creating demand for more sophisticated computing infrastructure. The new lineup features air-cooled PowerEdge XE9780 and XE9785 servers, designed for conventional data centres, and liquid-cooled XE9780L and XE9785L…

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), especially large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and open-source counterparts, are reshaping how people communicate daily. These AI systems generate human-like text, answer questions clearly, and even help automate customer service tasks. But now, scientists have found a surprising new use for AI chatbots: securely sending secret messages that can’t be detected by cybersecurity systems. A recent study, posted on the scientific database arXiv, introduced a novel method that turns AI-generated text into hidden carriers for encrypted messages. This innovative approach offers a crucial alternative for secure communication, especially as governments worldwide seek ways to detect,…

IN just a few years, rapid advances in artificial intelligence have reshaped nearly every industry, including cybersecurity. The fast-moving evolution of AI has prompted IT and business leaders to revisit core aspects of their operations — ranging from workload management and DevOps to workplace mobility and security.Understanding how to plan for the continued growth of AI and cloud adoption — and how to incorporate agentic AI into cybersecurity defenses while protecting against its misuse — has become a critical priority for today’s enterprises. For the C-suite, securing a constantly shifting digital infrastructure is no longer just a technical challenge —…

Businesses are turning to artificial intelligence tools to help them navigate real-world turbulence in global trade. Several tech firms told CNBC say they’re deploying the nascent technology to visualize businesses’ global supply chains — from the materials that are used to form products, to where those goods are being shipped from — and understand how they’re affected by U.S. President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs. Last week, Salesforce said it had developed a new import specialist AI agent that can “instantly process changes for all 20,000 product categories in the U.S. customs system and then take action on them” as needed, to help navigate changes…

As artificial intelligence increasingly reshapes global media landscapes, a key international conference held in Hanoi focused on AI’s transformative impact on Vietnamese journalism. The event, organised by the Academy of Journalism and Communication (AJC) in partnership with the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), gathered experts and stakeholders to discuss how journalism must evolve in response to rapid technological advances and the digital age’s new demands. Permanent Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Le Hai Binh opened the conference with a strong message on the dual-edged nature of AI in media. He emphasised that AI offers powerful tools to enhance the…

The fall of Builder.ai marks one of the most dramatic failures in the AI startup world to date, as the once high-flying company backed by tech giant Microsoft and other major investors has filed for bankruptcy following explosive fraud allegations and financial disarray. From Billion-Dollar Promise to Bankruptcy Filing Builder.ai, a UK-based software development platform that promised to revolutionize app creation using artificial intelligence, captivated the tech industry with its bold vision. Prominent backers, including Microsoft and the Qatar Investment Authority, poured over half a billion dollars into the startup, driving its valuation close to $1 billion. Fraud Allegations Rock…

The Navy is working with the Defense Innovation Unit to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to process the vast quantity of data it receives and make sense of it for commanders. In a May 22 notice, DIU said it is looking for AI and machine learning applications that can speed up data processing times at the Navy’s Marine Operations Centers, which take in information gathered by platforms in space, at sea, in the air and through intelligence reports and other means. “Currently, Maritime Operations Centers (MOCs) must manage and analyze large volumes of multi-source data generated across the fleet…

NETCLASS TECHNOLOGY INC. (Nasdaq: NTCL; “the Company” or “NetClass”), a leading B2B smart education IT solutions provider with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, today provided an update on its proprietary AI Foreign Language Teaching System. The Language Teaching System has been launched at 71 colleges across 20 provinces and municipalities in China and serves over 20,000 teachers and students. The program covers 500+ courses and has generated over 300,000 contextual dialogues. The deployment of this program reinforces NetClass’s commitment to its long-term strategic goals in becoming a market leader in the smart education industry. “We are proud…

Artificial intelligence continues to be the thing in tech—whether consumers are interested or not. What strikes me most about generative AI isn’t its features or potential to make my life easier (a potential I have yet to realize); rather, I’m focused these days on the many threats that seem to be rising from this technology. There’s misinformation, for sure—new AI video models, for example, are creating realistic clips complete with lip-synced audio. But there’s also the classic AI threat, that the technology becomes both more intelligent than us and self-aware, and chooses to use that general intelligence in a way that does not benefit humanity.…

OpenAI is updating the AI model powering Operator, its AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and use certain software within a cloud-hosted virtual machine to fulfill users’ requests. Soon, Operator will use a model based on o3, one of the latest in OpenAI’s o series of “reasoning” models. Previously, Operator relied on a custom version of GPT-4o. By many benchmarks, o3 is a far more advanced model, particularly on tasks involving math and reasoning. “We are replacing the existing GPT‑4o-based model for Operator with a version based on OpenAI o3,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post. “The API version [of Operator] will remain…

One of Microsoft’s latest AI models can accurately predict air quality, hurricanes, typhoons, and other weather-related phenomena, the company claims. In a paper published in the journal Nature and an accompanying blog post this week, Microsoft detailed Aurora, which the tech giant says can forecast atmospheric events with greater precision and speed than traditional meteorological approaches. Aurora, which has been trained on more than a million hours of data from satellites, radar and weather stations, simulations, and forecasts, can be fine-tuned with additional data to make predictions for particular weather events. AI weather models are nothing new. Google DeepMind has released a handful over the past…

Hybrid data platform company Cloudera announced the latest release of Cloudera Data Visualization that extends its AI capabilities for on-premises environments. The offering is an AI tool designed to democratize insights across the data lifecycle, enabling data engineers, business analysts, and data scientists to seamlessly communicate, collaborate, and share insights, without compromising data security or governance – all through the common language of visualization. Enterprises often struggle to appropriately visualize data due to silos across multiple platforms, complex integrations, and data governance limitations. Without a unified view, data visualization can be incomplete or misleading, often resulting in ineffective decision-making. Cloudera…

Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab shares jumped 4% on Thursday, rising for a second straight day, as investors cheered the Google parent’s artificial intelligence updates including the rolling out of “AI Mode” to all its U.S. users. A $249.99-a-month subscription for its AI power users, teased at its annual developer conference, also allayed concerns over funding the huge costs of the company’s AI development. After the conference, “we are incrementally confident that Google can deliver continued search growth while ramping monetization suggesting improving execution,” Citi analyst Ronald Josey wrote in a note.CEO Sundar Pichai said the rise of generative AI was not at…

Everything over the last 30 years, according to Sir Jony Ive, has led to this moment: a partnership between the iPhone designer and the developer of ChatGPT. Ive has sold his hardware startup, io, to OpenAI and will take on creative and design leadership across the merged businesses. “I have a growing sense that everything I have learned over the last 30 years has led me to this place, to this moment,” he says in a video announcing the $6.4bn (£4.8bn) deal. The main aim will be to move on from Ive’s signature achievement designing Apple’s most successful product, as well as the iPod,…

Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system and give it sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the decision, the company said in a safety report released Thursday. During pre-release testing, Anthropic asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant for a fictional company and consider the long-term consequences of its actions. Safety testers then gave Claude Opus 4 access to fictional company emails implying the AI model would soon be replaced by another system, and that the engineer behind the change was cheating on their spouse.…

During its inaugural developer conference Thursday, Anthropic launched two new AI models that the startup claims are among the industry’s best, at least in terms of how they score on popular benchmarks. Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, part of Anthropic’s new Claude 4 family of models, can analyze large datasets, execute long-horizon tasks, and take complex actions, according to the company. Both models were tuned to perform well on programming tasks, Anthropic says, making them well-suited for writing and editing code. Both paying users and users of the company’s free chatbot apps will get access to Sonnet 4…

The team behind Vercel’s V0, an AI-powered platform for web creation, has developed an AI model it claims excels at certain website development tasks. Available through an API, the model, called “v0-1.0-md,” can be prompted with text or images, and was “optimized for front-end and full-stack web development,” the Vercel team says. Currently in beta, it requires a V0 Premium plan ($20 per month) or Team plan ($30 per user per month) with usage-based billing enabled. The launch of V0’s model comes as more developers and companies look to adopt AI-powered tools for programming. According to a Stack Overflow survey last year, around 82%…

Sebastian Siemiatkowski is leaning all the way into the idea that his buy-now-pay-later, IPO-bound startup Klarna is an AI company. When Klarna delivered updated quarterly earnings on Monday, it was his AI avatar (pictured above) that presented the highlights, according to the company’s YouTube video. Other than AI Siemiatkowski’s admission, it wasn’t obvious that this was AI. There were only a few subtle signs: AI Siemiatkowski didn’t blink as much as most humans do. The voice sync was good, but not perfect. The AI was also wearing a brown jacket that looked a lot like the one from a widely circulated corporate…