Author: Art Ryan

Google, OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz and a group of 400 entertainment industry celebrities were among those who submitted 8,755 comments on a request for ideas for a U.S. AI Action Plan. The comment period for the plan ended Saturday (March 15), and according to a White House statement, the comments would aid in the “development of an AI Action Plan to sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance.” Among the comments was a group of more than 400 Hollywood actors, directors, musicians, writers and other insiders who have signed an open letter to the Trump administration urging the government not to weaken copyright laws for AI model…

SoftBank has agreed to acquire chip start-up Ampere Computing for $6.5bn as the Japanese tech group’s founder Masayoshi Son expands his ambitions in artificial intelligence. The deal is the latest big move by Son, who has said SoftBank will build a vast infrastructure for AI that includes chip design, production, energy, robotics and data centres. Ampere makes processors for cloud computing and data centre applications based on technology from UK chip designer Arm, which is majority-owned by SoftBank. Arm intends to launch its own chip this year after securing Facebook owner Meta as one of its first customers, in a…

Bye-bye, cash flow headaches. Hello, artificial intelligence (AI) fortune-telling. The latest PYMNTS Intelligence data from the March 2025 edition of the “Invoice-to-Pay Automation Tracker® Series” reveals that the transformation of accounts payable (AP) departments from back-office functions to strategic powerhouses is well underway, with AI playing an outsize role in unlocking greater efficiency and real-time insights. The report finds that the integration of AI into enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can allow AP teams to use predictive analytics to forecast cash flow, optimize working capital, and anticipate payment trends. Automation has long been a priority for finance leaders, but AI can help…

Deloitte has unveiled a platform that offers a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that are ready to deploy and will perform business functions. The new Zora AI by Deloitte portfolio currently includes functional agents for finance, and it will be expanded to include others for human capital, supply chain, procurement, sales and marketing, and customer service, the company said in a Wednesday (March 19) press release. “We are entering the autonomous enterprise era where agents can transform work and business models, ushering in entirely new ways of working,” Deloitte U.S. CEO Jason Girzadas said in the release. “Our vision with Zora AI is to assist…

Elon Musk’s xAI and chipmaker Nvidia have joined a $30 billion artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project. The AI Infrastructure Fund, backed by BlackRock, Microsoft and Abu Dhabi AI investment group MGX, announced the two-high profile sign-ups Wednesday (March 19), noting that their ultimate goal was to raise up to $100 billion for artificial intelligence (AI) development. “The global buildout of AI infrastructure will benefit every company and country that wants to achieve economic growth and unlock solutions to the world’s greatest challenges,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, said in the announcement. “AI factories built on Nvidia full-stack AI infrastructure will convert data into intelligence that will accelerate every industry…

As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption accelerates, Asia is emerging as a global hub for high-performance AI data centers These AI data centers are critical for AI training, deep learning models as well as large-scale cloud computing. The region’s leading AI data centers leverage cutting-edge technology, high-speed connectivity and energy-efficient designs to support industries such as finance, healthcare and autonomous systems. Here are six of the most advanced AI data centers in Asia. 1. Alibaba Cloud Zhangbei data center (China) Alibaba Cloud’s Zhangbei data center is one of China’s most advanced AI facilities, supporting Alibaba’s AI model training and cloud services.…

NVIDIA has launched Dynamo, an open-source inference software designed to accelerate and scale reasoning models within AI factories. Efficiently managing and coordinating AI inference requests across a fleet of GPUs is a critical endeavour to ensure that AI factories can operate with optimal cost-effectiveness and maximise the generation of token revenue. As AI reasoning becomes increasingly prevalent, each AI model is expected to generate tens of thousands of tokens with every prompt, essentially representing its “thinking” process. Enhancing inference performance while simultaneously reducing its cost is therefore crucial for accelerating growth and boosting revenue opportunities for service providers. A new generation…

Prezent, a startup empowering customers to build slide decks using generative AI, has raised $20 million as it further develops and refines its AI models for different use cases and expands into new markets. AI has many different applications — one of which is generating decks for business presentations, as it turns out. Off-the-shelf models tend to be not very good at this because they don’t understand industry-specific language and jargon. That’s where Prezent’s technology comes in. Los Altos-based Prezent, which has a subsidiary in Bengaluru, was founded in 2021 by Rajat Mishra, who previously worked at companies including Cisco…

Google announced several artificial intelligence-driven health initiatives on Tuesday at its ‘The Check Up’, the company’s annual health-focused event. Here is everything the California-based company announced: AI enhancements in search One of the major updates is an improvement in health-related search results. AI-powered Overviews, launched last year, are designed to provide more detailed and relevant responses to complex medical queries. Google claims users are now more satisfied with these results. The feature is also expanding to more countries and languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. Additionally, a new feature called “What People Suggest” is being introduced to help users find information…

New AI-powered innovations make it quick and simple to analyze customer feedback across all channels, specific locations, and take targeted action to improve experiences, reduce churn, and improve lifetime value QUALTRICS X4, SALT LAKE CITY, March 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — New innovations available now from Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the experience management category, allow organizations to improve customer relationships proactively using omnichannel insights from every part of the customer journey – across digital, location and customer care. The new capabilities in the XM for Customer Experience™ suite – including Location Experience Hub and Qualtrics® Assist for CX – allow businesses to bring together…

An Italian newspaper has said it is the first in the world to publish an edition entirely produced by artificial intelligence. The initiative by Il Foglio, a conservative liberal daily, is part of a month-long journalistic experiment aimed at showing the impact AI technology has “on our way of working and our days”, the newspaper’s editor, Claudio Cerasa, said. The four-page Il Foglio AI has been wrapped into the newspaper’s slim broadsheet edition, and is available on newsstands and online from Tuesday. “It will be the first daily newspaper in the world on newsstands created entirely using artificial intelligence,” said Cerasa. “For…

Nvidia announced new chips for building and deploying artificial intelligence models at its annual GTC conference on Tuesday. CEO Jensen Huang revealed Blackwell Ultra, a family of chips shipping in the second half of this year, as well as Vera Rubin, the company’s next-generation graphics processing unit, or GPU, that is expected to ship in 2026. Nvidia’s sales are up more than sixfold since its business was transformed by the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022. That’s because its “big GPUs” have most of the market for developing advanced AI, a process called training. Software developers and investors are closely watching…

Capgemini today announced the introduction of customized agentic solutions designed in collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. Capgemini will deliver end-to-end AI services tailored to meet the diverse needs of specific industries when implementing AI agents, from healthcare and financial services to manufacturing and telco. By leveraging the power of NVIDIA NIM and a dedicated agentic gallery, Capgemini will be able to streamline deployment and reduce complexity for enterprise clients looking to derive actionable insights to achieve agentic-driven business transformation. With the combination of Capgemini’s deep industry expertise and NVIDIA’s state-of-the-art technology, enterprises will benefit from faster time-to-value…

The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) issued a warning Tuesday on the dangers of generative artificial intelligence (AI), calling it a double-edged sword that can strengthen cybersecurity and but can also be exploited for cybercrime. At the GovX.0 Summit in Pasay City, Robert Sanchez Paguia, CICC Data Protection Officer, said that while generative AI is a breakthrough technology, it poses significant risks to privacy, security and public trust. “Generative AI refers to a subset of artificial intelligence that focuses on creating new content such as text, images, audio and even code,” he said. “Unlike the traditional artificial intelligence, which…

Programming notes: Platformer will be off Thursday to deal with my ongoing eye situation. 👀 Also: This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic, and I also co-host a podcast at the New York Times, which is suing OpenAI and Microsoft over allegations of copyright infringement. See my full ethics disclosure here. Today, let’s talk about the Trump administration’s effort to develop an action plan for artificial intelligence in America. While the administration has solicited the public for ideas about how it should proceed, officials have already made it quite clear what kind of actions they’ll support…

Nvidia is releasing what it’s calling an AI foundation model for humanoid robotics. Announced at GTC 2025 in San Jose, the model, dubbed Groot N1, is a “generalist” model, trained on both synthetic and real data. In a video introducing Groot N1, Nvidia says it features a “dual-system architecture” for “thinking fast and slow,” inspired by human cognitive processes. Groot N1 is an evolution of Nvidia’s Project Groot, which the company launched at its GTC conference last year. Project Groot was geared toward industrial use cases, but Groot N1 broadens the focus to humanoid robots in a range of different…

Nvidia at GTC 2025 announced a new lineup of “AI personal supercomputers” powered by the company’s Grace Blackwell chip platform. Jensen Huang, the semiconductor company’s founder and CEO, unveiled the two new machines, DGX Spark (previously called Project Digits) and DGX Station, during his keynote on Tuesday. The computers will allow users to prototype, fine-tune, and run AI models in a range of sizes at the edge. “This is the computer of the age of AI,” Huang said during the presentation. “This is what computers should look like, and this is what computers will run in the future. And we have a whole…

General Motors is turning to Nvidia to help bring AI to the physical world in an expanded collaboration designed to touch every aspect of the automaker’s business, including factories, robots, and self-driving cars. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who announced the partnership Tuesday during his keynote at the company’s GTC conference in San Jose, said the time for autonomous vehicles has arrived. “We’re looking forward to building with GM AI in all three areas,” he said onstage. “AI for manufacturing, so they can revolutionize the way they manufacture; AI for enterprise, so they can revolutionize the way they work to…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote Tuesday at the company’s GTC 2025 conference stuck with tradition and was chock full of announcements. But the company also snuck in a little history lesson. During the automotive portion of his speech, Huang referred to AlexNet, a neural network architecture that gained widespread attention in 2012 when it won a computer image recognition contest. Designed by computer scientist Alex Krizhevsky in collaboration with Ilya Sutskever (who’d go on to found OpenAI) and AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, AlexNet achieved 84.7% accuracy in an academic competition called ImageNET. The breakthrough result led to a resurgence of interest in deep learning, a subset of machine…

Nvidia is collaborating with Disney Research and Google DeepMind to develop Newton, a physics engine to simulate robotic movements in real-world settings, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at GTC 2025 on Tuesday. Disney will be among the first to use Newton to power its next-generation entertainment robots, like the Star Wars-inspired BDX droids — one of which waddled onstage next to Huang during his Tuesday keynote. Nvidia plans to release an early, open-source version of Newton later in 2025. For years, Disney has pitched the idea of bringing these Star Wars-inspired robots to its parks around the world. There have been several controlled…