Author: Art Ryan

Seeking efficiency gains, governments worldwide are pushing for greater adoption of AI in the public sector. Facing the threat of losing work to automation, public sector workers, including teachers and nurses, are starting to fight back. AI in the Public Sector For governments, AI tools offer the chance to improve public services, streamline administrative processes and reduce costs. Among the most commonly cited areas for improvement are digital portals and interfaces, where AI can enhance interactions with tax authorities, healthcare systems and other public services. Internal systems for sharing and organizing data are also targets for AI-powered reform. However, throughout…

Last month, Perplexity AI announced that it is working on its own browser, Comet, a move that, according to Aravind Srinivasan, is essential for creating AI agents with enough control to function effectively—especially within restrictive ecosystems like iOS. “The plan is to do develop an operating system with which you can do almost everything,” Srinivasan explained, highlighting why Perplexity is focusing on this approach. Unlike standalone AI apps, which are often limited by platform restrictions, a browser allows AI to operate seamlessly across different applications, facilitating deeper integrations and better automation. The goal is to build AI-powered agents capable of…

China’s spending spree on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is rapidly accelerating, with China Unicom, one of the country’s “big three” state-owned telecommunications network operators, budgeting a 28 per cent increase in capital expenditures for computing power in 2025. The aggressive spending approach comes as China’s Big Tech companies have also unveiled ambitious AI investment plans. Alibaba Group Holding, owner of the Post, recently said it had earmarked at least US$52 billion for building AI and cloud computing infrastructure over the next three years, marking the largest computing power project by a private Chinese company. As state-owned infrastructure operators, private enterprises and local governments unite…

Human Resources (HR) provider company Adecco S.A. has officially launched in Indonesia. They claim to be ready to help address labor issues in Indonesia. More than 120 business leaders, industry experts, as well as representatives from local and multinational companies, gathered to discuss how Adecco can contribute to shaping the future workforce in Indonesia. Adecco Indonesia Country Director, Justin Tan, understands that the recruitment landscape in Indonesia is highly competitive, with the presence of major players such as Michael Page, Robert Walters, WeNetwork, and PERSOLKELLY. However, he believes that Adecco has a unique advantage with a strong global network and local expertise in offering data-based HR…

Agent Catalyst, a new toolkit from Domo designed to simplify agentic AI development, is now generally available. Unlike AI assistants and chatbots that respond to queries, agents are generative AI applications able to act autonomously. Among their capabilities are surfacing insights and recommending actions, as well as performing certain repetitive tasks such as documentation and code generation. Agents have become the dominant trend in AI development over the past year because they can make both nontechnical and trained data experts better informed and more efficient. Agent Catalyst was introduced on March 19 during Domopalooza — Domo’s annual user conference in Salt…

Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data without permission. The company says in a blog post that when it detects “inappropriate bot behavior,” the free, opt-in tool lures crawlers down a path of links to AI-generated decoy pages that “slow down, confuse, and waste the resources” of those acting in bad faith. Websites have long used the honor system approach of robots.txt, a text file that gives or denies permission to scrapers, but which AI companies, even well-known ones like Anthropic and Perplexity…

OpenAI and Meta Platforms have held separate discussions with India’s Reliance Industries over potential partnerships to expand their artificial intelligence offerings in the country, technology news website The Information reported on Saturday. A possibility being discussed involved a relationship between Reliance Jio and OpenAI to distribute ChatGPT, according to The Information, which cited two sources familiar with the matter. OpenAI also discussed with employees cutting the ChatGPT subscription price to as low as several dollars instead of $20 a month, according to the report, which added that it is not clear if OpenAI has discussed the idea of price reduction…

Developing and maintaining advanced artificial intelligence systems can be financially challenging. Likewise, spending on the much-needed AI infrastructure is not expected to slow soon. That’s because big tech companies are expected to spend more than $500 billion by early next decade as the focus shifts to running AI models rather than training them. High-end technology, such as GPUs and TPUs, are necessary for building and running AI models and training big AI models. These parts are costly as they cost thousands of dollars and require frequent maintenance and upgrading. Operational costs are further increased by the processing and storage capacity…

NVIDIA Stock Analysis: Quiet Strength Building Underneath the Surface Price Snapshot: NVIDIA stock recently closed around $117.86, holding just above the core price zone where most recent trading activity has been concentrated — around $117.57. This zone represents what professionals call a “fair value area” — a kind of balance point where buyers and sellers have found temporary agreement. Nvidia stock analysis with our orderFlow Intel Key Takeaways from Our AI-Based Order Flow Analysis: What Is OrderFlow Intel? OrderFlow Intel is a specialized form of market analysis that goes beyond price charts. It tracks how trades are actually being executed…

Developing and maintaining advanced artificial intelligence systems can be financially challenging. Likewise, spending on the much-needed AI infrastructure is not expected to slow soon. That’s because big tech companies are expected to spend more than $500 billion by early next decade as the focus shifts to running AI models rather than training them. High-end technology, such as GPUs and TPUs, are necessary for building and running AI models and training big AI models. These parts are costly as they cost thousands of dollars and require frequent maintenance and upgrading. Operational costs are further increased by the processing and storage capacity…

Google recently brought Audio Overviews, a feature that lets you generate podcasts with AI hosts to the free version of Gemini. Now, the tech giant has announced that users can now generate Audio Overviews based on Deep Research. What it means is that users can now use in-depth reports generated by Gemini into a conversational podcast with two AI hosts. To give you a quick recap, Gemini’s Audio Overview feature essentially creates 10 minute long shows that are narrated by AI hosts who discuss the subject users have fed via Google Docs, PDFs or YouTube videos. This is really useful for students and…

San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Perplexity has announced its interest in acquiring TikTok, as the Chinese-owned social media giant faces a looming U.S. deadline to either divest from its parent company, ByteDance, or risk being banned in the country. In a blog post, Perplexity outlined its vision for integrating AI-powered search capabilities with TikTok’s extensive video library, aiming to revolutionise the user experience. The company emphasised that its independence as a smaller tech player makes it uniquely suited to develop TikTok’s recommendation algorithm without monopolistic concerns. The potential sale of TikTok has attracted multiple interested parties, with U.S. President Donald…

Just last month Lambda, which offers computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software, raised a $480 million Series D that reportedly valued the company at $2.5 billion. That same day, Together AI, a developer of a cloud platform to allow developers to build on open and custom artificial intelligence models, raised a $305 million funding round at a $3.3 billion valuation. What the rounds had in common was one investor: chip giant Nvidia. That should come as little surprise to anyone who has watched AI funding in the last two-plus years since Microsoft agreed to a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment into OpenAI — the first and loudest shot in the…

Artificial intelligence is advancing fast, but is it ready to replace humans? According to Google DeepMind CEO, it is only a matter of time before it becomes a reality. Demis Hassabis believes that artificial general intelligence (AGI), a type of artificial intelligence which is as smart as or smarter than humans, will start to emerge in the next five or 10 years. “I think today’s systems, they’re very passive, but there’s still a lot of things they can’t do. But I think over the next five to 10 years, a lot of those capabilities will start coming to the fore…

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) will work with US firm Shield AI in its effort to develop artificial intelligence (AI) that can pilot combat aircraft. On 5 March the company signed a pact with Shield AI and the US firm’s South Korean distributor, Quantum AI, said KAI on 19 March. Source: Korea Aerospace Industries South Korea sees great potential for AI to operate indigenous collaborative combat aircraft KAI will use Shield AI’s Hivemind Enterprise – an AI model that has been tested on other aircraft types – to verify the AI pilot it is developing indigenously. It believes that using Hivemind…

In recent years, Meta has introduced many AI features and capabilities to its apps, even going so far as experimenting with AI-generated characters complete with unique profiles and personalities, before scrapping them after they were deemed creepy and unnecessary. In yet another move that may not be received well among users, Meta wants to use AI to facilitate interactions between friends by helping them write comments on Instagram. X user Jonah Manzano, who often tests new social media features, spotted a “Write with Meta AI” prompt on Instagram that allows people to get AI-generated suggestions for comments to users’ posts. Users who have access to the test feature will see…

Chinese tech giant Tencent on Friday night launched the official version of its T1 reasoning model, stepping up competition in China’s increasingly crowded artificial intelligence sector. The upgraded T1 model offers faster response times and enhanced capabilities for processing extended text documents, the company said in a post on its official WeChat account. T1 can “keep the content logic clear and the text neat and clean”, the post said, while the hallucination rate is “extremely low”. The launch comes amid heightened rivalry in China’s AI landscape following DeepSeek’s introduction of models that offer comparable or superior performance to Western systems…

Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems A single researcher with a desktop computer will be able to deliver accurate weather forecasts using a new AI weather prediction approach that is tens of times faster and uses thousands of times less computing power than conventional systems. Weather forecasts are currently generated through a complex set of stages, each taking several hours to run on bespoke supercomputers, requiring large teams of experts to develop, maintain and deploy them. Aardvark Weather provides a blueprint to replace the entire process by training…

Feature can analyze users’ questions, summarize relevant information and provide additional direct links Those accessing General Handbook: Serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will now find an AI-powered search assistant available to help them find answers to their questions. The General Handbook is an online book of policies, instructions and information for leaders and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The handbook’s contents are prepared, updated and overseen by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “This search assistant can analyze users’ questions and summarize potentially relevant information found in the handbook,”…

Expanding Human Capabilities with AI Leading AI developers are making artificial general intelligence (AGI) their primary goal, securing billions in funding to advance the technology, as per Bloomberg. AGI refers to AI systems capable of performing as well as or better than humans across most tasks, with the software industry expected to be the first to experience its transformative effects. Eiso Kant, co-founder of Poolside, spoke with Bloomberg’s Tom Mackenzie about AGI and the evolving AI landscape. Kant noted that AI is already increasing software development efficiency by 20–30%, with over 100 million professional developers worldwide benefiting from these advancements.…