Author: Art Ryan

Credo AI, a global pioneer and leader in AI governance for the enterprise, today launched an integration with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. First announced in November, the next step in this collaboration bridges a long-standing divide between technical development and AI governance teams—empowering enterprises to innovate with AI at speed and scale while simultaneously ensuring trust, safety, and compliance. A recent Gartner report predicted that 60% of GenAI projects will fail after proof-of-concept due to gaps in governance, data, and cost control. Governance teams often lack the technical context to define or interpret AI evaluation results, while developers lack clarity on how to meet…

Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab plans to sell a technology that will tie chips together to speed up the chip-to-chip communication needed to build and deploy artificial intelligence tools, it said on Monday. The company launched a new version of its NVLink tech called NVLink Fusion that it will sell to other chip designers to help build powerful custom AI systems with multiple chips linked together. CEO Jensen Huang made the announcement about NVLink Fusion at the Taipei Music Center, site of the Computex AI exhibition that runs from May 20 to 23. Marvell Technology (MRVL.O), opens new tab and MediaTek plan to adopt…

We’ve entered the era of AI agents. Thanks to groundbreaking advancements in reasoning and memory, AI models are now more capable and efficient, and we’re seeing how AI systems can help us all solve problems in new ways. For example, 15 million developers are already using GitHub Copilot, and features like agent mode and code review are streamlining the way they code, check, deploy and troubleshoot. Hundreds of thousands of customers are using Microsoft 365 Copilot to help research, brainstorm and develop solutions, and more than 230,000 organizations — including 90% of the Fortune 500 — have already used Copilot Studio to build AI agents…

Saudi Arabia’s artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions were boosted following US president Donald Trump’s recent trip to the Middle East. The Trump administration’s import tariffs and AI chip export restrictions appear to have been behind the decision by Saudi Arabian datacentre operator DataVolt to sign a major server deal with US firm Supermicro. The company’s selection of the US firm for its $20bn investment in AI datacentre technology will secure graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware currently seen as the best way to provide the accelerated processing power AI workloads require. “Partnering with Supermicro guarantees us a US-made supply chain for critical GPU…

Italy’s data protection agency has fined the developer of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot company Replika 5 million euros ($5.64 million) for breaching rules designed to protect users’ personal data, the authority said on Monday. Launched in 2017, San Francisco-based startup Replika offers users customised avatars that can have conversations with them. The ‘virtual friend’ is marketed as being able to improve the emotional wellbeing of users. Italian privacy watchdog Garante ordered Replika to suspend its service in the country in February 2023, citing specific risks to children. Following an investigation, it found that Replika lacked a legal basis for processing users’ data…

erSe Innovation, the parent company of Dailyhunt and Josh, announced on Saturday that it will reduce its workforce by approximately 350 roles this month as part of a strategic transformation aimed at aligning operations with long-term business priorities. This marks the company’s first major layoff since it let go of 150 employees over two years ago. “This strategic transformation is a part of a well thought through comprehensive plan and is geared at accelerating investments in AI, streamlining operations, and taking concerted actions to align the company’s strategy and structure to its long-term priorities and growth,” said a company spokesperson…

Found in knee replacements and bone plates, aircraft components, and catalytic converters, the exceptionally strong metals known as multiple principal element alloys (MPEA) are about to get even stronger through to artificial intelligence. Sanket Deshmukh, associate professor in chemical engineering, and his team have designed a new MPEA with superior mechanical properties using a data-driven framework that leverages the supercomputing power of explainable artificial intelligence (AI). Their findings, supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, were recently published in Nature’s npj Computational Materials. “This work demonstrates how data-driven frameworks and explainable AI can unlock new possibilities in materials design,” said Deshmukh, the Erin…

Smarter Technologies is a new automation platform developed for hospitals and health systems. It brings together three companies: revenue cycle management (RCM) services businesses Access Healthcare, AI-powered revenue cycle automation platform Thoughtful.ai, as well as clinical insights AI business SmarterDx, all recently acquired by New Mountain Capital. Smarter Technologies CEO Jeremy Delinsky, the former CTO of athenahealth and founding COO of Devoted Health, who will be doing a fireside chat at MedCity INVEST on May 20th in Chicago with Editor-In-Chief Arundati Parmar, offered an overview of the newly formed business and the factors behind its launch. Could you give an overview of how Smarter Technologies’ platform…

U.K. chip designer Arm is making an aggressive move into the personal computer (PC) market long dominated by Intel, as the rise of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personal computing reshapes the industry and opens new opportunities for the company. “We think that 40% of PCs and tablets will be based on the Arm architecture that ship this year,” said Chris Bergey, senior vice president and general manager of Arm’s client line of business, in an interview with PYMNTS. “That’s actually a growing number.” Bergey said that while Arm already dominates the smartphone market — its architecture powers about 99% of smartphones — it is now…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a slew of announcements and revealed new products on Monday that are aimed at keeping the company at the center of artificial intelligence development and computing. One of the most notable announcements was its new “NVLink Fusion” program, which will allow customers and partners to use non-Nvidia central processing units and graphics processing units together with Nvidia’s products and its NVLink. Until now, NVLink was closed to chips made by Nvidia. NVLink is a technology developed by Nvidia to connect and exchange data between its GPUs and CPUs. “NV link fusion is so that you can…

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a “programming error” to explain why it said it was “sceptical” of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under fire for bombarding users with the far-right conspiracy theory of “white genocide” in South Africa. Last week, Grok was asked to weigh in on the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. It said: “Historical records, often cited by mainstream sources, claim around 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. However, I’m skeptical of these figures without primary evidence,…

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang will make a keynote speech on Monday, the eve of Computex, as the tech sector grapples with the impact of US tariffs and disrupted supply chains. The four-day event will draw computer and chip companies from around the world to Taiwan, whose semiconductor industry is critical to the production of everything from iPhones to the servers that run ChatGPT. Taiwan produces the bulk of the world’s most advanced chips, including those needed for the most powerful AI applications and research. “I have many amazing announcements to make,” Huang told reporters in Taipei on Friday. “We are…

Mobility platform inDrive has integrated artificial intelligence (AI) into its local operations to enhance driver onboarding, personalize user experience, and improve safety and efficiency. Operating in major cities including Metro Manila, Bacolod, Baguio, Iloilo, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro and Cebu, inDrive said over the weekend that its AI tools have streamlined internal processes while improving both driver and passenger experiences. On the passenger side, the app interface has been powered by AI to adapt to user habits, destinations and preferences. The company said this has resulted in a quicker, more intuitive booking experience. Additionally, AI has supported customer service by…

Youth, professionals, and the workforce are being increasingly equipped with digital skills that thrive in the ever-increasingly competitive global landscape, the Malaysian ambassador said in a keynote address at the AI-Powered Digital Tech Talk workshop. AI-Powered Digital Tech Talk workshop was conducted on Friday by Malaysian-founded Digital Marketing Consultancy (DMC) to equip youth, professionals and the workforce with the digital skills needed to thrive in the ever-increasingly competitive global landscape. The main speaker was Charles Struart Gregory, the founder of DMC. As a renowned AI & Digital Transformation expert, he touched on the potential of AI technology in Cambodia and…

A research team at a university in northwest China has used DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence model to generate automatic military simulation scenarios in what has been called a “disruptive” change to how commanders make decisions in battle. The AI-based simulation system can generate 10,000 military scenarios in just 48 seconds, something that used to take a commander 48 hours to plan, according to Fu Yanfang, who led the team from Xian Technological University’s school of computer science and engineering. They shared their findings on the university’s website on Wednesday. She said large language models (LLMs) and combat simulation scenarios had redefined the future…

Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google One subscription service, which charges consumers for cloud storage and artificial intelligence features, recently crossed 150 million subscribers, the company told Reuters. That represents a 50% increase since February 2024, when Google One crossed 100 million subscriptions nearly six years after the service launched. The same month, Google introduced a $19.99 a month plan with access to AI capabilities unavailable for free users. The company continues to offer Google One subscription tiers for file storage, but without most AI features, at lower prices. The new AI tier accounted for “millions” of subscriptions, according to Shimrit Ben-Yair, a vice…

The United Arab Emirates and the United States have signed an agreement for the Gulf country to build the largest artificial intelligence campus outside the US, one of several deals around AI made during Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East. But the agreement has also raised concerns, since it would have faced restrictions under the previous administration over Washington’s fears that China could access the technology. The agreement to build the campus would give the UAE expanded access to advanced AI chips. The US and the UAE did not say which AI chips could be included in the data centers, but sources told Reuters…

The White House and congressional officials have been scrutinizing Apple’s (AAPL.O), opens new tab plan to strike a deal with Alibaba (9988.HK), opens new tab to make the Chinese company’s AI available on iPhones in China, The New York Times reported on Saturday. U.S. authorities were concerned that the deal would help a Chinese company to improve its artificial intelligence capacities, broaden the reach of Chinese chatbots with censorship limits and deepen Apple’s exposure to Beijing laws over censorship and data sharing, the paper said, citing three people familiar with the matter. Apple and Alibaba did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.…

If Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang were a student again, he’d take advantage of generative AI to have a successful career. “The first thing I would do is to learn AI,” Huang said in a January episode of the “Huge Conversations” show with Cleo Abram, mentioning tools like ChatGPT, Gemini Pro and Grok. “Learning how to interact with AI is not unlike being someone who’s really good at asking questions,” he added. “Prompting AI is very similar. You can’t just randomly ask a bunch of questions. Asking AI to be an assistant to you requires some expertise and artistry of how to prompt…

Annual policing tech expo offers glimpse of law enforcement future as Beijing ramps up domestic security drive amid ‘lone wolf’ attacks The future of policing in China will be powered by artificial intelligence surveillance tools that can monitor Telegram and VPN users, as well as DeepSeek-inspired models that can analyse leads for investigations, according to exhibitors at an annual policing expo in Beijing. The surveillance equipment was showcased this week at the 12th China International Exhibition on Police Equipment, which ended on Saturday. The event – the largest policing technology expo of its kind – offered police and defence equipment suppliers from…