Author: Art Ryan

Midjourney has announced the alpha release of its V7 image generation model for testing by the AI community. The new model packs improvements in text prompt understanding, image quality, and feature coherence. “V7 is an amazing model. It’s much smarter with text prompts, image prompts look fantastic, image quality is noticeably higher with beautiful textures, and bodies, hands, and objects of all kinds have significantly better coherence on all details,” Midjourney explained. A key innovation in V7 is the default activation of model personalisation. Users must initially unlock this feature, a process that takes approximately five minutes. This personalisation can be…

coveted Generative AI (GenAI) Competency, is proud to announce its participation as an exhibitor at the Dubai AI Festival 2025, scheduled for April 23–24 at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. With a proven track record in cloud innovation and enterprise transformation, Integra is set to showcase how generative AI is redefining how businesses operate, innovate, and scale. Leading the GenAI Movement in the Cloud Integra has earned its place among the global elite by combining cloud-native architectures with cutting-edge GenAI capabilities, helping clients across industries—from finance and healthcare to logistics and retail—leverage AI to generate value from their data. Through its AWS…

Dubai, UAE – April 2025 – The Society for International Executive Facilitation (SIEF), a globally respected non-profit and non-partisan organization based in China, will be among the distinguished exhibitors at the Dubai AI Festival 2025, taking place on April 23–24 at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. Since its founding in 2008, SIEF has served as a trusted convener of influential business leaders across industries, continents, and cultures—and now it steps into the AI spotlight to foster global dialogue on the ethical, inclusive, and strategic development of artificial intelligence. Building Bridges in a Divided Digital World SIEF’s core mission is to bridge gaps…

Dubai, UAE – April 2025 – SENEN, a UK-based innovator in artificial intelligence and digital transformation, has announced its participation as an official exhibitor at the upcoming Dubai AI Festival 2025, taking place April 23–24 at the prestigious Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai. The company’s presence at the event signals its growing global influence and commitment to shaping the future of intelligent technologies. Driving Digital Excellence from the UK to the World Founded on the belief that AI should drive meaningful change, SENEN specializes in cutting-edge AI systems that optimize business operations, enhance decision-making, and unlock new growth opportunities across industries.…

Dubai, UAE – April 2025 – Al Fardan Exchange, a pioneer in cross-border payment solutions, is set to take center stage as one of the key exhibitors at the highly anticipated Dubai AI Festival 2025. Known for its commitment to financial innovation and digital transformation, Al Fardan Exchange will spotlight how artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of money movement across borders. Bridging Finance and AI As the global remittance industry undergoes a technological revolution, Al Fardan Exchange remains at the forefront by integrating AI-powered solutions into its operational backbone. From intelligent fraud detection systems to personalized customer experiences driven…

Cognition, the startup behind the viral AI programming tool Devin, has introduced a new low-cost plan to incentivize signups. When Cognition released Devin last year, the tool quickly blew up on social media for its ability to perform certain software development tasks autonomously. But it soon became apparent that Devin struggled with more complex coding work. Nevertheless, the tool garnered praise from AI founders including Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, which substantially raised Cognition’s profile. Devin became generally available for teams at the eye-watering price of $500 per month. On Thursday — conspicuously weeks after the company reportedly raised hundreds of millions of dollars in fresh…

Dubai, UAE – April 2025As the world converges in Dubai to explore the future of artificial intelligence, Presight AI Ltd, a leading big data analytics company headquartered in the UAE, is set to make a powerful impact as one of the official exhibitors at the Dubai AI Festival 2025. The company will be showcasing its cutting-edge GenAI-powered analytics solutions at Booth A8 at the Madinat Jumeirah from April 23 to 24, 2025. A Pioneer in GenAI-Driven Analytics Presight AI has emerged as a trailblazer in applying Generative AI (GenAI) to solve some of the world’s most complex data challenges. By…

Artificial intelligence is set to bring sweeping change to modern life, but at an industrial fair in Germany many companies wonder how they fit into the tech revolution. “We use ChatGPT a bit,” shrugged one business representative, from a metals processor based in southern Germany, at this week’s Hannover Messe. The expo grouping 4,000 firms promised visitors ways to “experience the future” and explore AI’s “practical applications in areas such as production, robotics and energy, all at their own pace”. Artificial intelligence is set to bring sweeping change to modern life, but at an industrial fair in Germany many companies…

Amazon is testing a feature in its Amazon Shopping app that uses agentic AI to help customers buy items from other brands while remaining within Amazon’s app. The feature that’s in beta is called Buy for Me. It is live in the Amazon Shopping app for a subset of the company’s customers in the United States and with a limited number of brand stores and products, Amazon said in a Thursday (April 3) press release. “We’re always working to invent new ways to make shopping even more convenient, and we’ve created Buy for Me to help customers quickly and easily find and buy products from other brand stores…

Fiveonefour, a data engineering solutions company, today announced the launch of Aurora, a suite of AI agents that automate engineering workflows, enabling teams to productize and operationalize proprietary data. Fiveonefour’s initial deployment of Aurora was with their customer, F45 Training, the boutique fitness franchise, to enhance the user experience on the F45 LionHeart platform by improving real-time fitness analytics delivery. Companies are eager to capture the full value of their data but face constrained budgets and limited-capacity data engineering teams, creating an imbalance in supply and demand that drives billions of dollars in service spend. Developers who use generative AI…

Phenom, an applied AI company specializing in HR, will host a live virtual event diving deep into the most advanced Agentic AI innovations announced at IAMPHENOM. These innovations covered X+ Ontologies, X+ Agent Studio, and a new range of verticalized X+ Agents that are transforming how humans and AI together augment work. The HR Innovation Showcase will educate and inspire talent acquisition and talent management professionals across healthcare, retail, financial services, manufacturing, hospitality, transportation, restaurant, and education on the transformative power of intelligence and automation for hiring, developing and retaining talent. Technology leaders will demonstrate specific use cases of applied AI that…

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a cornerstone of innovation and economic transformation globally, and in Saudi Arabia, its impact is both profound and far-reaching. As the Kingdom embarks on a journey to realize the goals of Vision 2030, AI is playing a pivotal role in driving progress, fostering economic diversification, and empowering organizations to embrace the future of technology. At the heart of Vision 2030 lies a commitment to harnessing cutting-edge technologies such as AI to build a knowledge-based economy and establish Saudi Arabia as a leading global hub of innovation. The recently announced Riyadh Declaration underscores the importance of…

The Technology and Innovation Report 2025, released on Thursday by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), sounds the alarm on growing inequality in the AI landscape and lays out a roadmap for countries to harness AI’s potential. The report shows that just 100 companies, mostly in the United States and China, are behind 40 per cent of the world’s private investment in research and development, highlighting a sharp concentration of power. At the same time, 118 countries – mostly from the Global South – are missing from global AI governance discussions altogether. UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan underlined the importance of…

NYC is a leader in technology and one of the smartest cities in the world. PIX11 News got an inside look at the most cutting-edge AI technology and gadgets, helping to advance public safety, fight hunger, and even help race car drivers win at the Jacob Javits Center. Here, there are CEOs, sports leaders, and world leaders. They all come together with one mission: to make the world a better place. Ask anybody in the smart city world, and they know trailblazer and pioneer Aarti Tandon. In the technology field, which men mostly dominate, Tandon is running this show. This…

Atua AI (TUA), the multichain AI productivity platform for Web3, has expanded its integration with Bitcoin’s decentralized network to support scalable and secure AI operations. This development builds upon earlier efforts to anchor core AI functions on Bitcoin’s trusted blockchain, reinforcing Atua AI’s infrastructure with added transparency, immutability, and data integrity. By anchoring operational checkpoints and verifiable data to the Bitcoin network, Atua AI introduces a new level of trust into decentralized AI workflows. This includes time-stamping outputs from modules like Chat, Writer, and Classifier, enabling users to audit AI-generated decisions while preserving the confidentiality and provenance of on-chain data.…

Scale AI, an American startup that assists other businesses in building and creating their artificial intelligence (AI) tools, aims to boost its revenue to $2 billion by the end of this year.  Last year, the company generated a significant profit, with earnings of approximately $870 million. Additionally, its annual run rate reached up to $1.5 billion. Additionally, they’re working on a deal that would allow people to buy or sell shares of the company, which could suggest that Scale AI is valued at $25 billion. Essentially, they’re rapidly expanding because many companies seek their assistance with AI, making them an…

Samsung announced the rollout of new artificial intelligence (AI) features to its latest Galaxy A series smartphones on Wednesday. The South Korean tech giant is bringing several new AI features under the “Awesome Intelligence” suite. It is a toned-down subset of the Galaxy AI suite designed for the company’s midrange handsets. While the Awesome Intelligence moniker adds several AI features, it missed out on the generative features being offered to Samsung’s flagship S series. Notably, the Awesome Intelligence features are currently available on the Samsung Galaxy A56, Galaxy A36, and Galaxy A26 phones. Samsung Brings Awesome Intelligence Features to Its Galaxy A…

Amazon is introducing a new “Recaps” feature for Kindle users to help them recall plot points and character arcs before picking up the latest book in a series. While the company’s press release for the new feature doesn’t mention AI, Amazon confirmed to TechCrunch that recaps are AI-generated. “We use technology, including GenAI and Amazon moderators, to create short recaps of books that accurately reflect book content,” Amazon spokesperson Ale Iraheta said in an emailed statement. Users have taken to Reddit to share their concerns about the use of AI for the feature, with some questioning how accurate recaps will be. Although the company…

Generative AI has vastly expanded the toolkit available to hackers and other bad actors. It’s now possible to do everything from deepfaking a CEO to creating fake receipts. OpenAI, the biggest generative AI startup of them all, knows this better than anyone. And it has just invested in another AI startup that helps companies defend against these kinds of attacks. New York-based Adaptive Security has raised a $43 million Series A co-led by OpenAI’s startup fund and Andreessen Horowitz, it announced Wednesday. This marks OpenAI’s first investment in a cybersecurity startup, OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch. Adaptive Security simulates AI-generated “hacks” to train employees to spot these threats. You…

Zach Yadegari, the high school teen co-founder of Cal AI, is being hammered with comments on X after he revealed that out of 18 top colleges he applied to, he was rejected by 15. Yadegari says that he got a 4.0 GPA and nailed a 34 score on his ACT (above 31 is considered a top score). His problem, he’s sure — as are tens of thousands of commenters on X — was his essay. As TechCrunch reported last month, Yadegari is the co-founder of the viral AI calorie-tracking app Cal AI, which Yadegari says is generating millions in revenue, on a $30…