Prime Minister Keir Starmer will announce on Monday that the UK government will partner with tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon to train 7.5 million workers in AI skills. Starmer will also announce £187 million ($253 million) in funding to enhance tech skills for one million secondary school students through the “TechFirst” program, which […]
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As AI reshapes society, policymakers must prioritize global tech regulation, IP reform, and readiness for workforce disruption. These are the key points made by AI expert Professor Shalom Lappin, supported by thorough research in his new book, Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Revolution. Lappin, who holds academic positions at Queen Mary University of London, King’s College
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Apple is under pressure to prove it still has its edge, despite unmet promises to enhance iPhones with generative AI, as competitors surge ahead with the tech. Apple will unveil its latest plans for its popular devices and the software behind them at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), starting Monday in Silicon Valley. Apple’s
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AMD’s recent acquisition may weaken Nvidia’s dominance in the AI hardware space. On Wednesday, chipmaker AMD announced it had acquired Brium, a stealth-mode startup focused on AI software optimization. Financial terms were not disclosed. According to a sparse blog post on Brium’s website, the company develops machine learning tools that enable AI inference—the process by
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Building advanced robotics projects at home is gradually getting simpler. This week, Hugging Face, an AI development platform, introduced SmolVLA, an open-source robotics model. According to the company, SmolVLA—trained on community-contributed datasets with compatible licenses—surpasses much larger robotics models in both simulated and real-world settings. In a blog post, Hugging Face states that “SmolVLA is
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Last month, Google announced SynthID Detector, a tool that can identify AI-generated text, images, videos, and audio. There are some limitations. Currently, the tool is only accessible to “early testers” via a waitlist. Also, SynthID mainly works with content generated by Google AI services like Gemini (text), Veo (video), Imagen (images), or Lyria (audio). It
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Artificial intelligence is all around us—crafting emails, suggesting films, even powering self-driving cars—but what about the invisible AI? Who (or what) is working in the background creating the algorithms that operate out of sight? And how much can we really trust them? We interviewed two experts from UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, part
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The wave of data company acquisitions persisted on Monday as Snowflake moved to acquire Crunchy Data. Late Monday, cloud data platform Snowflake revealed its plan to acquire Crunchy Data, a partner specializing in Postgres databases. A source familiar with the transaction estimated its value at approximately $250 million. Deal Terms Undisclosed as Snowflake Remains Silent
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Microsoft Bing announced Monday the launch of Bing Video Creator in its app, allowing users to generate videos from text prompts using OpenAI’s Sora model. Sora Becomes Freely Accessible for the First Time via Bing Although OpenAI has restricted Sora’s video generation to paying users, its integration with Bing now makes it accessible for free
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Last week, Google quietly launched an app that enables users to run various open-source AI models from the Hugging Face platform directly on their smartphones. Named Google AI Edge Gallery, the app is currently available on Android, with an iOS version on the way. It lets users browse, download, and run supported models that can