Author: Art Ryan

Mistral has rolled out a complete AI coding stack, including Codestral 25.08, that aims to solve the key problems stopping generative AI from taking hold in enterprise software development. The integrated suite of tools is designed to create a secure, customisable, and efficient AI-native development environment. While AI coding assistants have shown immense promise over the past year, their actual adoption inside large companies has been slow going. According to Mistral AI, this isn’t about the performance of the AI models themselves, but rather the fundamental ways these tools are built, delivered, and managed. Many organisations – especially in heavily regulated…

OpenAI announced Tuesday the launch of Study Mode, a new feature within ChatGPT that aims to help students develop their own critical thinking skills, rather than simply obtain answers to questions. With Study Mode enabled, ChatGPT will ask users questions to test their understanding and, in some cases, refuse to offer direct answers unless students engage with the material. OpenAI says Study Mode is rolling out to logged in users on ChatGPT’s Free, Plus, Pro, and Team plans starting Tuesday. The company expects to introduce Study Mode to its Edu subscribers, which largely consists of young people whose school administrator’s have purchased…

Intuit has introduced updated automated accounting features for its QuickBooks product. The new enhancements are designed to offer companies the use of artificial intelligence (AI) automation to help eliminate the use of “multiple disconnected tools,” Intuit said in a news release Tuesday (July 29). “As businesses grow in size and complexity, we know that they need a financial technology platform that provides deeper customisation, enhanced automation and features to get critical jobs done,” Ciarán Quilty, Intuit’s senior vice president of international, said in the release. “We’re committed to listening to our customers to help businesses and accountants work smarter, not harder, whilst gaining the financial expertise and…

The artificial intelligence sector in China has entered a new phase intensifying AI competition with the United States, as Chinese megacities launch massive subsidy programmes. At the same time, domestic firms are hoping to reduce their dependence on US technology. The stakes extend far beyond technological supremacy, with both nations viewing AI dominance as critical to future economic and strategic power. Shanghai’s US$139 million AI investment gambit Shanghai has unveiled an ambitious one billion yuan (US$139 million) subsidy programme for its artificial intelligence industry, marking the latest in the technological race as major cities in China engage in fierce AI…

Google has made its most powerful AI video creator, Veo 3, available for everyone to use on its Vertex AI platform. And for those who need to work quickly, a speedier version called Veo 3 Fast is also ready-to-go for quick creative work. Ever had a brilliant idea for a video but found yourself held back by the cost, time, or technical skills needed to create it? This tool aims to offer a faster way to turn your text ideas into everything from short films to product demos. 70 million videos have been created since May, showing a huge global appetite for…

MoneyWatch YouTube to roll out new AI-powered technology aimed at identifying teen users By Edited By July 29, 2025 / 4:04 PM EDT / CBS News YouTube announced on Tuesday it is planning to roll out a new age-estimation technology that will identify users under the age of 18. The new feature is intended to protect young teens from harmful content, the company says. Powered by artificial intelligence, the tool will be able to assess a person’s age based on the types of videos they’ve watched, the categories of the videos, and how long the person has had their account —…

-Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), the AI Marketing Cloud, today announced the appointment of Nate Yohannes as President of Zeta Data & AI Lab and Global Head of Research and Development. A proven leader at the intersection of artificial intelligence and product innovation, Yohannes brings over 15 years of experience spanning senior roles at Meta, Microsoft, and the White House. Most recently, he served as Product Management Lead for GenAI in Ads Ranking at Meta, where he led the strategy and development of AI systems built on Meta’s Llama to enhance the company’s core advertising business. Yohannes joined Meta from the Office…

Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly in advanced talks on a deal that would give Microsoft continued access to OpenAI’s technology after that company achieves artificial general intelligence (AGI). Under the companies’ current deal, Microsoft would lose access to any new technology from OpenAI when that company’s board determines it has developed AGI, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (July 29). This provision has been a barrier to OpenAI’s efforts to transform itself into a for-profit corporation, and a new agreement could help it move toward that goal, according to the report. The companies could reach an agreement within weeks, although things could change because a deal has not been…

Z.ai’s new GLM-4.5 AI model costs 11 cents per million input tokens and 28 cents per million output tokens, CNBC reported Monday (July 28), citing its interview with Z.ai CEO Zhang Peng. For DeepSeek R1, those costs are 14 cents and $2.19, respectively, according to the report. Z.ai’s GLM-4.5 is open source and can operate on eight Nvidia H20 chips, per the report. The company said in a Monday blog post that the GLM-4.5 model series features two models — GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air — that satisfy the requirements of agentic applications by unifying reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities. They are hybrid reasoning models that offer a…

NTT Data has tapped Mistral AI to be its partner in offering generative AI solutions to global enterprises, giving the artificial intelligence (AI) startup immediate access to 75% of the Fortune global 100 that are clients of the Japanese giant. The two companies, which announced their partnership on Tuesday (July 29), will combine NTT Data’s suite of global IT services with Mistral AI’s open-weight generative models. Mistral AI, which is widely considered Europe’s answer to OpenAI, is a developer of frontier AI models but has lacked the global enterprise infrastructure and customer support systems at a scale of big companies like NTT Data. With the partnership,…

All transactions, whether eCommerce or in brick-and-mortar settings, happen in a merchant’s environment. Click a buy button, or present a card at the register, and the conversion from browsing to buying is complete. But there’s a new wrinkle. It’s a semi-intelligent middleman, so to speak, that abstracts away some of the complexity for merchants’ customers. Artificial intelligence agents will reshape how consumers discover and make purchases, moving beyond what PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster has termed the familiar “search, scroll, click and buy” paradigm to a more intuitive “say it and get it” experience, all in a matter of seconds. As a result, we’ll see a re-architecture of the…

Scale AI competitor Micro1 is finalizing a Series A round valuing the startup at $500 million, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Micro1 provides data labeling services to artificial intelligence labs, a sector that has grown tremendously in recent years as high-quality, human-generated datasets have become more important in training advanced AI systems. Micro1 has capitalized on this trend by building an AI-powered recruitment engine enabling AI labs to target specialized experts instead of large pools of low-wage labor. The company has told investors it has crossed $50 million in annualized revenue, up from $10 million earlier this…

OpenAI just took a big leap forward with artificial intelligence. ChatGPT agent acts as more than just a chatbot; it serves as a real assistant that takes action on your behalf. We’re talking about planning trips, managing your email, making dinner reservations, summarizing long reports, and even running code, all with your permission. If you’ve used tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini, you know they’re great at answering questions and writing content. But ChatGPT agent goes beyond that. It doesn’t just suggest, it does. If you didn’t know, OpenAI is one of the world’s leading AI research labs.…

ScanTech AI Systems Inc. (the “Company” or “ScanTech AI”) (Nasdaq: STAI), a leading innovator in advanced security screening technologies, today announced that it has entered into a non-binding Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with Visiontec Systems Ltd. (“Visiontec”) for the planned purchase of additional SENTINEL Fixed Gantry CT inspection systems. The systems are intended for deployment at one of the world’s largest nuclear power facilities. The Company believes that this LOI represents a strategic expansion of ScanTech AI’s presence in the energy and infrastructure sectors, building on the Company’s initial $3.5 million engagement with Visiontec. The Company estimates the value of the planned system…

With demand for AI-powered browsers on the rise, Microsoft on Monday launched a new feature in its Edge browser called Copilot Mode, which allows users to browse the web while being assisted by AI. The idea is that the AI can become a helper that can understand what the user is researching, predict what they want to do, and then take action on their behalf. How well it works in practice remains to be seen, but Microsoft notes that Copilot Mode is still considered an experimental feature. It’s also opt-in by default during these tests and is currently free for any Mac or…

Anthropic says its rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude to curb usage among subscribers who are running its AI coding tool, Claude Code, “continuously in the background, 24/7.” Anthropic says the rate limits also aim to stop a handful of users who are violating Claude’s usage policy by sharing accounts and reselling access to Claude Code. The new rate limits will go into effect August 28 for subscribers to Anthropic’s $20-per-month Pro plan, as well as its $100 and $200-per-month Max plans, the company said Monday in an email to subscribers and a post on X. Anthropic says its…

Google on Monday announced an update to its Chrome web browser that will introduce AI-generated store reviews to U.S. shoppers with the aim of helping to determine the best places to make a purchase. The feature, which will be available by clicking an icon just to the left of the web address in the browser, will display a pop-up that informs consumers about the store’s reputation for things like product quality, shopping, pricing, customer service, and returns. The feature, which is currently available only in English, will generate the summaries based on reviews from partners, including Bazaarvoice, Bizrate Insights, Reputation.com,…

Tesla has signed a $16.5 billion deal to get its next-generation chips from Samsung. “Samsung’s giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Tesla’s next-generation AI6 chip,” Elon Musk posted on X late Sunday evening. “The strategic importance of this is hard to overstate.” Tesla’s AI6 (AKA Hardware 6) chip is the company’s bet on an all-in-one chip design that can scale from powering its driver assistance system known as Full Self-Driving (Supervised) to Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots, all the way to high-performance AI training in data centers. Musk noted Tesla is working with TSMC to make AI5 chips, which just…

Not everyone is happy that the Trump administration gave Nvidia the green light to start selling its H20 advanced AI chips in China again. A group of 20 national security experts and former government officials wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick on Monday urging the Trump administration to reverse its recent decision to let Nvidia resume selling its H20 AI chips in China. The letter called the Trump administration’s recent decision a “strategic misstep” that will have detrimental effects on the U.S.’s AI “edge” for both military and civilian use cases. The letter specifically called out H20’s AI…

While the development of increasingly powerful AI models grabs headlines, the big challenge is getting intelligent agents to communicate. Right now, we have all these capable systems, but they’re all speaking different languages. It’s a digital Tower of Babel, and it’s holding back the true potential of what AI can achieve. To move forward, we need a common tongue; a universal translator that will allow these different systems to connect and collaborate. Several contenders have stepped up to the plate, each with their own ideas about how to solve this communication puzzle. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is one of the big…