Author: Art Ryan

Singapore – April 2025 — 🇸🇬 In an electrifying three-day experience filled with game-changing innovation, global networking, and visionary announcements, GITEX ASIA x AI Everything Singapore 2025 proved to be nothing short of unforgettable. With over 180+ hours of tech talks, demonstrations, and future-defining moments, the event cemented Singapore’s status as a true powerhouse of digital transformation and AI advancement in Southeast Asia. 2025 Highlights: A Festival of Firsts and Big Wins More than 75% of participating tech companies introduced new-to-Southeast-Asia digital and AI innovations, showcasing solutions that pushed the boundaries of what’s possible across industries — from healthcare and…

Chinese artificial intelligence service DeepSeek became available again on South Korean app markets on Monday for the first time in about two months, when downloads were suspended after authorities cited breaches in data protection rules. South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission said on Thursday that DeepSeek transferred user data and prompts without permission when the service first launched in South Korea in January. Downloading the app was suspended in February after the questions over personal data protection surfaced, but the service was available for download again on South Korea’s app market including via Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store. “We process…

Nestled between an elementary school and a public library in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood sits a new kind of “luxury” coworking space. Dubbed the Chat Haus, this space has many of the elements you’d find in a traditional coworking office: people hammering away at their computer keyboards, another person taking a phone call, someone else pausing by their computer to take a sip of coffee. There is, however, one key difference: Chat Haus is a coworking space for AI chatbots, and everything — including the people — is made out of cardboard. More specifically, the Chat Haus is an art exhibit…

Mphasis is seeing tangible business transformation from its artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, reporting efficiency gains of 20-30% and a clear shift from a people-based services model to a technology-based one, MD & CEO Nitin Rakesh told FE. He said these improvements are not only changing how the firm delivers services but are also fundamentally reshaping deal structures and client outcomes. “From a contribution perspective, I think you can see efficiencies of 20-25%, 30% sometimes, and then you can use those to also help the client, let’s say do application modernisation,” Rakesh explained. “It gives us the ability to fundamentally change the narrative, move away…

MSMEs in India recognize AI’s potential for growth, but face challenges in adoption due to limited resources and expertise. This article explores the need for affordable, tailored AI solutions, industry-specific ecosystems, and partnerships to accelerate AI integration and drive tangible business outcomes. Programmes such as the MSME Champions portal set up by the government are also helping the MSMEs to become aware of the relevant approaches to AI adoption applicable to them. MSMEs that account for 30% of India’s GDP and employ close to 10 million people, have been constrained with limited access to technology, skills and the financial wherewithal…

Leidos (NYSE:LDOS), an information technology company for governments, and Moveworks, an agentic artificial intelligence assistant for enterprises, are collaborating with the aim of increasing efficiency of government workers in the U.S., U.K., and Australia. Agentic AI are digital personal assistants that make decisions and automate daily work processes. The companies said the Leidos-Moveworks partnership will allow government agencies to adopt the technology with assured security and compliance. “For decades, Leidos has been at the forefront of helping government agencies achieve their mission objectives with speed and precision,” said Steve Hull, president of digital modernization at Leidos. “Our expertise in AI and…

China will mobilise the country’s resources to spur advances in the theory and core technologies of artificial intelligence, President Xi Jinping has told the Communist Party’s inner circle. Addressing a Politburo study session on Friday, Xi said China would leverage its “new whole national system” to target bottlenecks such as high-end chips, state media reported on Saturday. China is seeking to overtake the United States in AI to become a world leader in a field seen as critical to moving the country up the industrial value chain. Despite some progress, much work still needed to be done in China to “achieve self-reliance”…

One month after initial release, the company has launched upgrades to its foundation model, ERNIE 4.5, and reasoning model, ERNIE X1, at its developer conference. An industry analyst Friday offered a lukewarm response to a series of announcements from Chinese tech giant Baidu around upgrades to its multimodal foundation model, ERNIE 4.5, and reasoning model, ERNIE X1, first released last month. During his keynote at the firm’s annual developer conference in Wuhan, China, CEO Robin Li launched ERNIE 4.5 Turbo and ERNIE X1 Turbo, which, according to a release, feature “enhanced multimodal capabilities, strong reasoning, low costs and are available for…

A recent report from Israel’s Kan News, based on an investigation by The New York Times, offers a revealing look into how deeply artificial intelligence (AI) has been integrated into Israel Defense Forces (IDF) battlefield operations, particularly during the ongoing conflict with Hamas terrorists in Gaza. Drawing on conversations with American and Israeli security officials, the report highlights how the IDF increasingly relies on advanced AI systems and big data analysis to carry out precision strikes, minimize civilian casualties, and accelerate battlefield decision-making. One noteworthy example occurred in late October 2023, when Israel carried out an airstrike in Jabaliya, resulting…

AI-driven hazard detection is coming to timber manufacturing, thanks to a new agreement worth nearly half a million dollars between WorkSafe New Zealand and a major player in the wood processing industry. Claymark, New Zealand’s largest manufacturer and exporter of premium pine products, is putting $481,000 into a range of initiatives. It comes after a worker had two fingers amputated in a machine at Claymark’s Rotorua factory in February 2023. WorkSafe’s investigation found the machine was unguarded and there was an ineffective system for maintenance. Training and supervision of workers also fell short. WorkSafe has now accepted an enforceable undertaking…

China’s Huawei Technologies is preparing to test its newest and most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) processor, as it hopes to replace some higher-end products of US chip giant Nvidia, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Huawei has approached some Chinese tech companies about testing the technical feasibility of the new chip, called the Ascend 910D, the United States newspaper reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Chinese company is hoping that the latest iteration of its Ascend AI processors will be more powerful than California-based Nvidia’s H100, and is due to receive the processor’s first batch of samples…

Government drives forward use of innovative artificial intelligence in hospitals as trials show dramatic reduction in admin with more time for patient care. NHS clinicians will be supported to use groundbreaking artificial intelligence tools that bulldoze bureaucracy and take Source: https://www.miragenews.com

The pretraining efficiency and generalization of large language models (LLMs) are significantly influenced by the quality and diversity of the underlying training corpus. Traditional data curation pipelines often treat quality and diversity as separate objectives, applying quality filtering followed by domain balancing. This sequential optimization overlooks the complex interdependencies between these factors. High-quality datasets frequently exhibit domain biases, while diversified datasets may compromise quality. In the context of fixed training budgets, there is a critical need to simultaneously optimize for both dimensions to maximize model performance. However, defining and jointly optimizing quality and diversity remain non-trivial challenges. ByteDance Introduces QuaDMix…

US President Donald Trump’s administration is putting pressure on Europe to ditch a rulebook that would compel developers of advanced artificial intelligence to follow stricter standards of transparency, risk-mitigation and copyright rules. The US government’s Mission to the EU reached out to the European Commission to push back against the AI code of practice in the last few weeks. The letter argues against the adoption of the code in its current form, and also went out to several European governments, people familiar with the matter said. In response to Bloomberg questions, commission spokesman Thomas Regnier confirmed the reception of the letter. While the…

AI memory demand has catapulted SK Hynix to a top position in the global DRAM market, overtaking longtime leader Samsung for the first time. According to Counterpoint Research data, SK Hynix captured 36% of the DRAM market in Q1 2025, compared to Samsung’s 34% share. HBM chips drive market shift The company’s achievement ends Samsung’s three-decade dominance in DRAM manufacturing and comes shortly after SK Hynix’s operating profit passed Samsung’s in Q4 2024. The company’s strategic focus on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, essential components for artificial intelligence applications, has proven to be the decisive factor in the market shift. “The is…

A coalition of experts, including former OpenAI employees, has voiced strong opposition to the company’s shift away from its nonprofit roots. In an open letter addressed to the Attorneys General of California and Delaware, the group – which also includes legal experts, corporate governance specialists, AI researchers, and nonprofit representatives – argues that the proposed changes fundamentally threaten OpenAI’s original charitable mission. OpenAI was founded with a unique structure. Its core purpose, enshrined in its Articles of Incorporation, is “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity” rather than serving “the private gain of any person.” The letter’s signatories contend…

Google has introduced an AI reasoning control mechanism for its Gemini 2.5 Flash model that allows developers to limit how much processing power the system expends on problem-solving. Released on April 17, this “thinking budget” feature responds to a growing industry challenge: advanced AI models frequently overanalyse straightforward queries, consuming unnecessary computational resources and driving up operational and environmental costs. While not revolutionary, the development represents a practical step toward addressing efficiency concerns that have emerged as reasoning capabilities become standard in commercial AI software. The new mechanism enables precise calibration of processing resources before generating responses, potentially changing how organisations manage financial and…

Huawei is expected to begin large-scale shipments of the Ascend 910C AI chip as early as next month, according to people familiar with the matter. While limited quantities have already been delivered, mass deployment would mark an important step for Chinese firms seeking domestic alternatives to US-made semiconductors. The move comes at a time when Chinese developers face tighter restrictions on access to Nvidia hardware. The US government recently informed Nvidia that sales of its H20 AI chip to China require an export licence. That’s left developers in China looking for options that can support large-scale training and inference workloads.…

Every day, hundreds of chat messages flow between pilots, crew, and controllers of the Air Mobility Command’s 618th Air Operations Center (AOC). These controllers direct a thousand-wide fleet of aircraft, juggling variables to determine which routes to fly, how much time fueling or loading supplies will take, or who can fly those missions. Their mission planning allows the U.S. Air Force to quickly respond to national security needs around the globe. “It takes a lot of work to get a missile defense system across the world, for example, and this coordination used to be done through phone and email. Now, we are…

The Government of India has been pointing towards an indigenous Large Language Model (LLM) for the past few months. To recall, earlier this year, Union Minister of Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw, announced that an AI model would be ready in 10 months, which will compete with big players, like ChatGPT and DeepSeek. But this is not it. In February, during the Paris AI Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that India is on its way to developing its Large Language Model (LLM). And now the country is taking steps to make it happen. The Government, under the IndiaAI Mission, has finally selected…