Microsoft unveiled a host of new artificial intelligence features and developer tools at its annual Build conference on Tuesday (May 21), underscoring the tech giant’s commitment to AI across its product lines. “We’re riding an extraordinary platform wave,” said Kevin Scott, Microsoft’s chief technology officer...
French startup “H” has raised $220 million for its goal of building artificial general intelligence. The company — led by a group of Google DeepMind veterans — had been known as Holistic AI before their rebrand Tuesday (May 21), Bloomberg News reported. (Holistic is also...
The European Council (EC) has approved the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, saying this law is the first of its kind in the world and may set a global standard for the regulation of AI. The new law aims to harmonize rules on AI; promote the use of “safe...
In a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly woven into the fabric of our daily lives, Microsoft is betting that the future of computing will be powered by AI — and that users will want that intelligence at their fingertips rather than in the...
Artificial intelligence (AI) firms have reportedly begun offering “AI-in-a-box” tools for companies to run in-house. It’s a trend that presents a threat to the AI cloud computing business of Chinese tech giants like Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, the Financial Times (FT) reported Saturday (May 18). According to the report, among the...
Kyndryl has teamed up with Nvidia to provide both technology and services to businesses that are looking to implement generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) solutions. The company will use the Nvidia NeMo platform and Nvidia NIMinference microservices to address use cases like customer support, IT operations automation, fraud and loss prevention and...
The CEO of Snap, developer of Snapchat, says the messaging platform is increasing its spending on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. “There was a recognition that we’d fallen behind the curve on the machine learning side, which, to some degree, was reflected in the business performance,” Evan Spiegel said...
Business schools are adding AI-related curricula as interest in the technology continues to grow. That’s according to a Sunday report by the Financial Times (FT), citing a 40-country survey by education consultant CarringtonCrisp, showing that almost half of respondents anticipate learning about artificial intelligence (AI) in the...
The U.K. is reportedly working toward greater transparency into how tech firms train artificial intelligence (AI) models. These efforts, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (May 19), come as creators are voicing concerns that their work is being copied and used without their consent by...
