Nvidia's acquisition of SchedMD raises AI community concerns
Nvidia announced it will acquire SchedMD, the developer of the open‑source Slurm workload manager that runs on roughly 60% of the world’s supercomputers. The deal has sparked anxiety among AI labs and supercomputing experts who fear Nvidia may limit access to this critical scheduling software.
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In 2025 generative AI moved from experimental prototypes to mainstream video‑game releases, appearing in titles hailed as game of the year. Major publishers such as Ubisoft, EA, and Microsoft announced partnerships with AI firms to generate dialogue, NPC behavior, and even whole gameplay sequences. Indie developers responded by branding their products as AI‑free, highlighting a cultural split within the industry. Executives claim AI will democratize development by cutting production cycles and budgets, while critics warn it could dilute creative ownership.
Britain’s rail network could handle an extra billion journeys by the mid‑2030s, driven by AI becoming the operating system across infrastructure, rolling stock and stations. The report outlines a shift to predictive, data‑driven maintenance using sensors, LiDAR and vibration monitors,...

Modern language models are now capable of solving multi‑step visual puzzles, as demonstrated by a color‑changing Zelda shrine challenge. Google Gemini 3 Pro, OpenAI GPT‑5.2‑Thinking, and Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 were tested on the same screenshot, with GPT‑5.2 solving it consistently and quickly, Gemini 3 Pro...

MeetKai and the GSMA announced a joint initiative to close the AI language gap for low‑resource languages, targeting the roughly 7,000 world languages with fewer than 20 currently supported by high‑resource AI models. The partnership will create culturally aligned language...

Kaspersky discovered fifteen GitHub repositories masquerading as proof‑of‑concept exploits that actually deliver the WebRAT backdoor and infostealer. The fake exploits, some generated with generative AI, bundle a password‑protected ZIP containing a decoy DLL and a malicious dropper named rasmanesc.exe, which...
Agentic AI Ethics: Dealing With The Autonomy Problem 🤖 As AI systems become more autonomous, a new ethical challenge is emerging. How do we ensure agentic AI systems act in ways that remain aligned with human values? In this video,...
AlphaFold celebrated its five‑year anniversary, having transformed protein structure prediction with atomic‑level accuracy and a public database of over 200 million models used by millions worldwide. The system’s evolution to AlphaFold 3 adds DNA, RNA, and drug interaction modeling, leveraging diffusion models...

On December 14, 2025, an AI‑generated image purporting to show Donald Trump with six women from a Jeffrey Epstein‑related photo was posted online. The synthetic version contains obvious AI artifacts—a misshapen right hand, a Google Nano Banana watermark, and one missing...

Google has signed a corporate power purchase agreement to fund a new natural‑gas power plant in Illinois that incorporates carbon capture and storage (CCS). The plant will supply electricity to Google’s expanding AI data centers, which can draw between a...

Google has signed a corporate power purchase agreement to back a new natural‑gas power plant in Illinois equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. The plant will supply electricity to Google’s expanding AI‑driven data centers, which can demand from...

Semperis has been honored as Cohesity’s FY2025 Security Partner of the Year, recognizing its AI‑driven identity security solutions. The award underscores the joint launch of Cohesity Identity Resilience, a unified offering that safeguards Microsoft Active Directory while integrating Cohesity’s modern...
MINISFORUM and AMD announced a joint AI Application Product Experience Event in Beijing, unveiling the AI Mini Workstation MS‑S1 MAX and AI NAS N5 Pro. The MS‑S1 MAX combines a 16‑core Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 CPU, Radeon™ 8060S GPU, and up to 128 GB LPDDR5x memory, enabling local inference of...

Tangentia unveiled the TiA EDI Agent, the first AI‑driven autonomous assistant for electronic data interchange (EDI) on its TiA Platform. The agent, nicknamed “Eddie,” overlays predictive intelligence onto existing EDI workflows, enabling real‑time monitoring, error correction, and automated ticketing without...

AI readiness hinges on leadership alignment, not just technology hype. While 78% of firms now deploy AI in at least one function, 95% of generative‑AI pilots fail to deliver measurable value, highlighting a gap between executive enthusiasm and operational clarity....

Kirby Medical Center, a nationally recognized critical access hospital in Illinois, has entered an enterprise partnership with Switchboard, MD to automate its patient communications. The collaboration expands an earlier AI‑voice pilot for prescription refill intake into a full‑scale contact‑center platform...

Seekr and Stephano Slack have formed a strategic partnership to deploy AI agents that automate 401(k) plan auditing and financial data extraction. Leveraging SeekrFlow™, the solution reduces manual extraction from roughly 50 hours to as little as two hours, a...
Skywork.ai unveiled Skywork, a multimodal AI workspace that consolidates text, slide, data visualization, design, web, audio, and research agents into a single platform. The solution promises real‑time collaboration, multilingual document generation, and one‑click website publishing, eliminating the need for multiple...

The article argues that artificial intelligence is transitioning from pure pattern‑matching to true reasoning capabilities. While today’s models excel at spotting correlations and automating tasks, the next generation will explain its logic, generate hypotheses, and infer causality. Techniques such as...

Appdome announced its strongest G2 Winter 2026 performance, earning 37 badges across 75 reports—a 76 percent increase from the previous cycle. The company secured No. 1 rankings in the RASP Tools Momentum Grid and Grid Report and entered the top three for bot...

The article outlines how AI is reshaping Christmas for businesses, from predictive gift recommendations and personalized playlists to automated home environments and supply‑chain optimization. Retailers use AI for demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, and loyalty incentives, turning the holiday rush into...
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Stop Wasting Money On AI Agents: 5 Rules For Choosing The Right Use Cases #AI #agents promise to transform business operations, but success depends entirely on choosing the right tasks to #automate . This guide reveals five essential criteria for...

InstaDeep unveiled Nucleotide Transformer v3 (NTv3), a multi‑species genomics foundation model that processes 1 megabase windows at single‑nucleotide resolution. The U‑Net‑style architecture combines down‑sampling, transformer layers, and up‑sampling to deliver both prediction and controllable sequence generation. NTv3 was pre‑trained on 9 trillion base...
Theia introduced a markerless bat‑tracking module that captures full‑body biomechanics and bat trajectory using only synchronized video. Built on the Theia3D platform, the solution eliminates sensors, markers, and fixed installations, enabling portable camera‑based swing analysis. Early deployments at Driveline Baseball...

Google Health AI released MedASR, an open‑weights medical speech‑to‑text model built on the Conformer architecture. The 105‑million‑parameter model is trained on roughly 5,000 hours of de‑identified physician dictations and clinical conversations across radiology, internal and family medicine. Benchmarks show MedASR...

When the AI haters get laws written to regulate AI it probably will be an AI that writes them. Irony of all ironies. At @hf0 in San Francisco I saw a company that does exactly that, and already has been...
“Amazon’s rapid evolution in its view of AI-powered commerce underscores how quickly online retail is changing, and the risks the company faces if it doesn’t act aggressively to maintain control over its future.”

The tutorial walks through building a Pre‑Emptive Churn Prevention Agent that automatically spots inactive users, evaluates their churn risk, and drafts personalized re‑engagement emails using Google Gemini. It creates a mock customer database, defines a risk‑analysis prompt, and generates incentive‑driven...

IMO this was a much-needed feature in ChatGPT. You can now pin chats. Now @OpenAI @Sama do the same for folders ;) https://t.co/CBNWrG6gqu
The Pistoia Alliance’s recent poll highlights a “scientific content crisis” in the life sciences, with 27% of professionals unaware of the data sources their AI models use, thereby affecting AI’s reliability. https://t.co/DvUqDe87IJ #AI #Data #research #Elsevier #PistoiaAlliance

Meta's decision to end its professional fact‑checking program sparked criticism over trust and reliability. Meanwhile, AI large language models are increasingly used to generate news summaries, headlines, and content across platforms. New research reveals these models exhibit communication bias and...
One cool thing about following 35,000 people in the AI world, particularly academics, is that you see how AI is being used to change and improve literally everything. Like in biology.
This has dramatically sped me up. I am using it to speak to my phone right now, and that means I don't have to tap on my keyboard. It also converts everything to perfect English and doesn't make mistakes like...

Ali Altaf is steering AI adoption in U.S. healthcare by embedding governance, explainability, and compliance into enterprise‑scale platforms. His work tackles the $1 trillion annual administrative waste and rising cyber threats that consume 25‑30% of hospital budgets. Platforms like CrediSync automate...
This is magic. You click on a button, you talk, and it writes a post for you. I've been using it for a couple of weeks, and it's very well integrated into everything on the iPhone.
Grok Imagine lets me imagine the @1x_tech Neo with different clothing. I haven’t played with it for a while. Damn it is good. https://t.co/SvVseT52oX

Zhipu AI unveiled GLM-4.7, a large language model tuned for autonomous programming and "vibe coding" website creation. The model introduces Preserved Thinking to maintain reasoning across extended dialogs and builds on Interleaved Thinking from GLM-4.5. It achieved a 73.8% score...

AI Bubble Warning A new MIT study reveals 95% of generative AI pilot projects fail to deliver real business impact, pointing to integration gaps and inflated expectations. #AI #IoT https://t.co/pTmnSzfQMH The Times of India https://t.co/3QV8XF1fkp
There's something so magical about turning 2d videos into 4d reconstructions. Every video becomes a spatio-temporal portal back in time - one that you can revisit from any angle. Research like d4rt is turning science fiction into reality; and it's getting...

Dyson has launched the Spot+Scrub Ai, a premium robot vacuum that also mops and features a bagless base station with self‑emptying cyclone technology. Priced around £1,050, the unit includes a roller‑style mop, onboard water tank, and AI that can recognise over...
Most marketers think the Gemini vs ChatGPT debate is about which AI writes better copy. It’s not. This is a platform war, not a chatbot comparison—and the decision you make now affects cost, speed, leverage, and long-term growth. In...
The Transformer architecture is fundamentally a parallel processor of context, but reasoning is a sequential, iterative process. To solve complex problems, a model needs a "scratchpad" not just in its output CoT, but in its internal state. A differentiable way to...

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team unveiled two AI voice models: Qwen3‑TTS‑VD‑Flash, which crafts custom voices from detailed textual prompts, and Qwen3‑TTS‑VC‑Flash, which can clone a speaker’s voice from just three seconds of audio and render it in ten languages. Both models...
Most marketers think the Gemini vs ChatGPT debate is about which AI writes better copy. It’s not. This is a platform war, not a chatbot comparison—and the decision you make now affects cost, speed, leverage, and long-term growth. In this...
Would papers get rejected if they used legal code with variable names instead of Greek laden pseudo code?
Should NVIDIA sell chips to CHINA?

Peeling back the layers of AI! This infographic unravels the complex world from Neural Networks to Deep Learning. Dive deeper into AI with the insights from @ingliguori's 'The Digital Edge' 👉 https://t.co/Nrh6BBTRcF #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning https://t.co/8mNht9QunA
The @xAI team is making progress
further reward crafting for hand-centric (tm) PPO model. Closing in on what I want. need to slow down max velocities and I want more stepping/stride + less tip toe on left foot ideally. almost cant believe this is actually just RL! https://t.co/ro56yI8yaV
China unveils six-armed humanoid robot for complex industrial tasks https://t.co/Mom3j4DI8a #humanoid #Robotics #Robot #Tech #AI