Ozone’s Platform Tries to Simulate How Publisher Content Appears in AI Answers
Ozone has launched a free experimentation platform that lets publishers simulate how their articles appear in AI answer engines such as ChatGPT. The tool, part of Ozone’s new R&D Labs sandbox, shows content structuring, retrieval and citation to help publishers optimize visibility and set future licensing guardrails. Eight U.S. publishers, including the Wall Street Journal and CNN, have been testing the platform for three months. Early feedback notes that AI‑generated answer click‑through rates hover around 0.3 %, prompting a cautious, watch‑and‑learn approach.
Google Says Its AI-Powered Ads Helped Aritzia Lift Online Sales by 80%
Google announced that its AI‑powered ad suite, particularly AI Max, helped fashion retailer Aritzia boost online revenue by 80%. The company is expanding AI‑driven ad formats in its new AI Mode and testing “direct offers” that deliver real‑time promotions. Google’s fourth‑quarter ad...
America and China Can Make AI Safer
The article argues that the United States and China, as the world’s leading AI developers, must cooperate to make artificial intelligence safer. It highlights how AI can be weaponized to create pathogens, launch autonomous cyber‑attacks, or spread convincing deepfakes, posing...
Retailers Are Bringing AI Into Stores in More Ways
Retailers are experimenting with AI‑driven tools inside brick‑and‑mortar locations, from Vitamin Shoppe's interactive touchscreen advisor to Guitar Center's QR‑based Rig Advisor. Smart fitting rooms equipped with AI screens have rolled out at brands like Victoria’s Secret, while Walmart is testing...
What Local Game Developers Really Think About Using GenAI Artworks as ‘Placeholders’
Game studios worldwide are increasingly using generative AI to create placeholder artwork, but many developers argue these AI‑generated assets hinder creative iteration and often remain in shipped products. The practice has sparked player backlash, with fans accusing studios of laziness,...
From Resilience to Reinvention: The AI Advantage for India’s Small Businesses
India’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) account for roughly 30 % of GDP and employ millions, yet only 35 % have a clear AI roadmap. A NASSCOM whitepaper shows 94 % believe AI can transform their businesses, while 65 % lack knowledge of...
This Nigerian Founder Got an Offer From Elon Musk’s xAI After His AI Startup Went Viral
Nigerian entrepreneur Sulaiman Adewale’s AI‑driven banking assistant Xara, built on WhatsApp, has attracted 45,000 users and processed about $5 million in transactions within ten months. The platform lets users query spending and schedule payments through natural‑language chat, using a fine‑tuned large...
AI-Assisted Fraud Makes Big Debut in FBI's Cybercrime Stats
The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Complaint Centre report introduced AI‑assisted fraud as a distinct category, documenting $893 million in losses. Overall cybercrime losses topped $20 billion, a 26 percent rise from 2024, with investment scams leading at $8.6 billion. AI‑generated content fueled business‑email‑compromise, voice‑cloning,...
Digital China Posts Higher Revenue as AI Business Expands
Digital China reported FY2025 revenue of RMB 143.8 billion ($20.9 billion), a 12% increase, with AI‑related sales climbing to RMB 33 billion ($4.8 billion), up 48%. Growth was driven by its Smart Vision AI platform, KunTai computing products, and a surge in electronic components distribution tied...
AI Data Centre Startup Firmus Eyes Off Another $725 Million Raise as It Readies to IPO on the ASX
Sydney‑born Firmus Technologies announced a $505 million USD (A$725 million) strategic equity raise led by Coatue with Nvidia participation, lifting its post‑money valuation to roughly $5.3 billion USD (A$8 billion). The funding will accelerate the rollout of its "green AI factories" across the Asia‑Pacific...
Like Having A Digital Specialist Who Lives In A Mac Mini: Time Under Tension Partners With OpenAI To Boost AI...
Sydney‑based generative AI agency Time Under Tension has joined the OpenAI Services Partner program, giving Australian businesses direct access to OpenAI’s latest models and pilot agentic AI systems. The firm will leverage its three‑year track record in AI strategy, custom...
Kargo Launches Closed Beta For Agentic Media Buying & Creative Engine
Kargo has opened a closed beta for Project KERA, an AI‑driven media‑buying and creative engine that turns a single campaign brief into a fully executed, performance‑ready plan. The platform unifies planning, creative development, activation and real‑time optimisation across CTV, mobile,...
Former Tenstorrent Execs Launch AI& to Build Japan’s Full-Stack AI Infrastructure
Former Tenstorrent executives David Bennett and Shimpei Hara have launched AI&, a vertically‑integrated Japanese AI company. The startup secured $50 million in seed funding and $2 billion in infrastructure capital to build a full‑stack AI platform, including data centers, orchestration software, models...
Anthropic Is in Takeoff, Altman Gets Farrow'd
Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, is experiencing rapid growth after securing new funding and expanding its enterprise customer base. At the same time, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced heightened scrutiny following a controversial public incident dubbed “Farrow’d.” The newsletter...
Skills: The Common Language of Human-AI Collaboration
AI is moving from a speculative tool to a daily colleague, prompting HR leaders to rethink their function as "Hybrid Resources" that manage both people and AI agents. A recent Cornerstone OnDemand webinar highlighted that 77% of employees already use...
Tradie AI Receptionist Startup Banks $900,000 in Pre-Seed
Australian startup Chime Labs secured $900,000 AUD (~$600,000 USD) in a pre‑seed round led by 500 Global and supported by angel investors. Founded by former Googlers Alexis Griveau and Mathew Pretel, the company offers an AI‑powered receptionist that answers calls...
GitLab Duo CLI: Agentic AI for the Development Lifecycle, Now in the Terminal
GitLab has launched the Duo CLI in public beta, extending its AI‑driven Duo Agent Platform to the terminal. The tool offers two operating modes—a chat‑based interactive mode and a headless mode for scripts and CI/CD pipelines. It integrates security guardrails...
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Why Harness AI Uses a Knowledge Graph, Not Raw APIs
Harness AI agents now rely on a schema‑driven Knowledge Graph instead of raw Model Context Protocol (MCP) API calls. By modeling entities, relationships, and field metadata, the platform can answer multi‑module queries with Harness Query Language (HQL) in just two...
Taiwan’s Next Strategic Opportunity
Nvidia’s GTC highlighted a strategic pivot toward space‑based AI computing, featuring Starcloud’s orbital data centre equipped with an H100 GPU. The event emphasized tokens as the new unit of AI efficiency, while showcasing embodied AI through robots and digital twins....
Overcoming Inference Challenges
Enterprises scaling large language model (LLM) inference face mounting operational complexity as model variants multiply and GPU fleets span from H100s to T4s. Manual, guess‑and‑check deployments waste expensive GPU capacity, cause latency spikes, and hinder reliable Day 2 operations. Red Hat Services...
AI Agent Observability: The Developer's Guide to Agent Monitoring
AI agents require observability that goes beyond traditional APM metrics, capturing every LLM call, tool execution, and sub‑agent handoff. The OpenTelemetry `gen_ai` semantic conventions provide a standardized span model—`gen_ai.request`, `gen_ai.invoke_agent`, and `gen_ai.execute_tool`—enabling structured tracing and unified dashboards. Sentry’s auto‑instrumentation supports...
AWARD Lab GenAI Sprint Launches with Leonardo.ai and OMA
AWARD has teamed with Leonardo.ai and the Outdoor Media Association to launch the first AWARD Lab GenAI Sprint, a competition for AWARD Crash and Uni alumni that runs May 7‑9. Teams use Leonardo.ai to generate creative concepts for a non‑profit brief...
Singapore: Corporate Lab to Advance Automotive AI Innovation
Singapore launched the AUMOVIO‑NTU Corporate Lab to accelerate AI‑driven transformation in the automotive sector. Since 2019 the lab has generated 131 research papers, filed 104 patents and earned 10 patent awards, demonstrating a strong output pipeline. Its flagship AI Pathfinder...
Hong Kong: Secure Edge AI with Compute-in-Memory Innovation
University of Hong Kong researchers unveiled a Co‑Located Authentication and Processing system that merges compute‑in‑memory with hardware‑based security using memristors. The architecture eliminates the von Neumann bottleneck, delivering a 146‑fold boost in energy efficiency and an 18‑fold reduction in chip area...
True Partnership Targets AI Adoption in Thai Companies
True Digital Academy has teamed up with global consultancy Thoughtworks to launch an AI‑first transformation program for Thai enterprises. The partnership introduces a turnkey framework built around the academy’s PromptSphere model, targeting people, technology, and business pillars. It blends curriculum...
New Survey Explores Women’s Willingness to Pay for Breast Cancer AI
A new JACR survey of 2,500 women aged 40 and older examined willingness to pay for AI‑enhanced mammography. Participants faced price points of $50, $200 and $500 and varied information frames, with 27% opting in when shown an advertisement and...
From Folding Boxes to Fixing Vacuums, GEN-1 Robotics Model Hits 99% Reliability
Generalist unveiled GEN‑1, a physical AI robot that reaches 99% success on delicate, repetitive tasks such as folding boxes, packing phones, and servicing robot vacuums. The system leverages over half a million hours of human‑captured manipulation data via wearable "data...
Rapid AI Evolution Collides with Sophisticated Scams
Thailand’s financial sector is moving into a "Banking 5.0" era where generative AI shifts from experiment to core infrastructure, accelerating automation, fraud detection and personalized services. Regulators, led by the Bank of Thailand, are deploying AI‑based supervision to shift oversight from...
AI Software More than Halves Hospital's MRI Exam Times
Experts at the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam have integrated AI‑driven synthetic imaging software into their MRI scanner, cutting abdominal exam times from roughly 23 minutes to nine minutes. The AI fills in missing slices, allowing technologists to acquire...
AI Outcomes Inconsistent
Australian governments are deepening digital transformation, with AI usage rising to 70% of public‑sector staff, up from 58% a year earlier. While AI now supports document handling, data analysis and decision support, agencies report uneven results when AI is layered...
Premier Health Launches 2 Clinical Decision-Support Tools
Premier Health, a five‑hospital system in Dayton, Ohio, is deploying two AI‑driven clinical decision‑support tools across its network. The first, UpToDate Expert AI, merges evidence‑based medical content with advanced artificial intelligence and has received approval from the system’s AI governance...
Anthropic Tops $30 Billion Run Rate, Seals Broadcom Deal
Anthropic announced its revenue run rate has surpassed $30 billion, a dramatic rise from $9 billion at the end of 2025. The surge is driven by accelerating demand for its Claude AI services, with more than 1,000 enterprise customers now spending over...
Turning AI Ideas Into Reality at SAP: What to Do Next?
SAP announced a comprehensive AI roadmap for its Human Capital Management suite, unveiling a unified AI platform that embeds generative models across recruiting, talent management, and employee experience. The company emphasizes data hygiene, pilot‑scale experiments, and robust change‑management as prerequisites...
The Danger in the Global South’s Pursuit of AI as a Magical Cure
Western nations are grappling with an AI backlash, dubbed a "botlash," focused on bias, privacy, and environmental costs. In contrast, governments across the Global South champion AI as a cure for poor governance, corruption, and sluggish development, embedding it in...
AI Is Now Taking over Game Servers, and Stormgate Is the First Casualty
Multiplayer servers for the RTS Stormgate will go offline at month‑end after its hosting partner Hathora was acquired by AI firm Fireworks AI, which is repurposing the infrastructure for AI inference. Frost Giant Studios will release an offline‑only patch but...
“The Problem Is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders Don’t Trust CEO
OpenAI unveiled a draft industrial‑policy agenda that includes $100,000 research fellowships and up to $1 million in API credits to steer AI toward public benefit. Simultaneously, The New Yorker published an investigation based on over 100 insider accounts that question CEO...
Biological Intelligence: Strategic Rationale for Anthropic's $400 Million Acquisition of Coefficient Bio
Anthropic announced a $400 million all‑stock acquisition of Coefficient Bio, a boutique AI‑biology startup with fewer than ten employees. The deal gives Anthropic a proprietary vertical model based on Discrete Walk‑Jump Sampling (dWJS), enabling high‑success‑rate protein design and end‑to‑end drug‑discovery workflows. Valued...
SAP and ODI Team Up to Make Enterprise Data AI‑Ready
SAP and the Open Data Institute (ODI) have launched a global program to create AI‑ready data foundations for enterprises. The initiative underpins IDEA (Interchange for Data and Enterprise AI), a neutral framework that defines governance, semantics, and lineage across heterogeneous...
Unlock Efficient Model Deployment: Simplified Inference Operator Setup on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Amazon announced the SageMaker HyperPod Inference Operator as a native EKS add‑on, delivering one‑click installation and managed upgrades. The operator automates IAM role creation, S3 bucket provisioning, VPC endpoint setup, and required add‑ons, removing the need for complex Helm charts....
Visual Studio Code 1.114 Streamlines AI Chat
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.114, adding video playback to the AI chat image carousel and a new Copy Final Response command that extracts the last Markdown block from chat replies. The #codebase tool is now dedicated exclusively to semantic...
Designing an AI-Ready Accounting Function
Gartner’s Finance Symposium 2026 outlines five imperatives for building an AI‑ready accounting function. It calls for shifting from periodic, manual tasks to continuous, machine‑driven processes that enable faster, more accurate reporting. The firm stresses that by 2030, 90% of finance...
Meta Will Soon Release New AI Models Developed by Alexandr Wang
Meta’s Superintelligence team is poised to launch its first AI models, developed under the leadership of Alexandr Wang, who joined after Meta’s $15 billion acquisition of Scale AI. The models are slated for an open‑source license, signaling Meta’s effort to regain...
Survey: Manufacturing Workers Are Skeptical of Adopting AI
A PwC‑Manufacturing Institute survey of over 100 manufacturing leaders reveals deep skepticism toward AI on the shop floor. While 48% rate frontline leaders as effective, 54% lack confidence in those leaders’ ability to steer AI change, and 62% of workers...
Survey: Manufacturing Workers Are Skeptical of Adopting AI
The panel of automation leaders highlighted rapid advances—autonomous mobile robots, AI‑driven vision, digital twins, and predictive maintenance—yet manufacturing workers remain skeptical of AI adoption. Companies are prioritizing quick ROI, data accuracy, and interoperable solutions over technology for its own sake,...
AI in Construction Step 3: Driving Innovation
The article outlines the third step in a series on AI in construction, emphasizing the need for a robust digital foundation that integrates data systems, BIM, IoT, and drones. It argues that AI’s effectiveness hinges on centralized, interoperable data platforms...
Radim Marek: Don't Let Your AI Touch Production
AI coding agents now generate SQL that looks correct but often ignores execution plans, locking behavior, and data distribution, leading to costly production incidents. Radim Marek argues that the missing piece is real‑time awareness of the production schema, including table...
Manufacturers Test AI-Translation Tech to Improve Worker Communications
U.S. manufacturers are increasingly deploying AI‑driven translation tools to bridge language gaps on the shop floor, from translating SOPs and safety signs to providing live captioning for town‑hall meetings. A Pennsylvania foundry with 1,000 employees is piloting real‑time earpieces for...
Google Photos Adding ‘AI Enhance’ Button and Video Playback Speed Controls, Rolling Out Now
Google Photos is rolling out two new features for Android users worldwide: an AI Enhance button that instantly balances lighting and contrast, and video playback speed controls ranging from 0.25× to 2×. The AI Enhance tool uses on‑device machine learning to apply...
The AI Jobs Scare Meets 250 Years of Data
Morgan Stanley’s new study compares five historic innovation waves—canals, railroads, electrification, post‑war electronics, and the internet—to today’s AI surge, finding that each wave eventually spurred productivity gains after an initial disruption. The analysis notes that AI’s early labor market impact...
Ease the Teacher-Hiring Process with AI (Downloadable)
School districts face ongoing teacher‑hiring shortages, prompting leaders to explore AI solutions. Emerging AI agents can autonomously screen applications and generate interview questions. Golf School District 67 in Morton Grove, Illinois, created a library of highly structured prompts that work with...
