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Sam Altman, OpenAI: ‘Lucky and humbling’ to work towards superintelligence

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Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI , has shared candid reflections on the companys journey as it aims to achieve superintelligence. With ChatGPT recently marking its second anniversary, Altman outlines OpenAIs achievements, ongoing challenges, and vision for the future of AI. The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning, Altman reflects.

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The Emergence of Self-Reflection in AI: How Large Language Models Are Using Personal Insights to Evolve

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Artificial intelligence has made remarkable strides in recent years, with large language models (LLMs) leading in natural language understanding, reasoning, and creative expression. Yet, despite their capabilities, these models still depend entirely on external feedback to improve. Unlike humans, who learn by reflecting on their experiences, recognizing mistakes, and adjusting their approach, LLMs lack an internal mechanism for self-correction.

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Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

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Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves , those frustrating slowdowns and speedups that usually have no clear cause but lead to congestion and significant energy waste.

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DeepSeek R1 vs OpenAI o1: Which One is Faster, Cheaper and Smarter?

Analytics Vidhya

The DeepSeek R1 has arrived, and it’s not just another AI modelit’s a significant leap in AI capabilities, trained upon the previously released DeepSeek-V3-Base variant. With the full-fledged release of DeepSeek R1, it now stands on par with OpenAI o1 in both performance and flexibility. What makes it even more compelling is its open weight […] The post DeepSeek R1 vs OpenAI o1: Which One is Faster, Cheaper and Smarter?

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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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Top 7 meeting intelligence platforms in 2025

AssemblyAI

Companies lose millions to unproductive meetings with executives spending up to 23 hours per week in conversations that often lead to more questions than answers. Still, the real cost isn't just time—it's the valuable insights, decisions, and action items that slip through the cracks between meetings. Meeting intelligence platforms aim to change this paradigm.

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Google launches A2A as HyperCycle advances AI agent interoperability

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AI agents handle increasingly complex and recurring tasks, such as planning supply chains and ordering equipment. As organisations deploy more agents developed by different vendors on different frameworks, agents can end up siloed, unable to coordinate or communicate. Lack of interoperability remains a challenge for organisations, with different agents making conflicting recommendations.

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Meta FAIR advances human-like AI with five major releases

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The Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team at Meta has announced five projects advancing the company’s pursuit of advanced machine intelligence (AMI). The latest releases from Meta focus heavily on enhancing AI perception the ability for machines to process and interpret sensory information alongside advancements in language modelling, robotics, and collaborative AI agents.

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Midjourney V7: Faster AI image generation

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Midjourney has announced the alpha release of its V7 image generation model for testing by the AI community. The new model packs improvements in text prompt understanding, image quality, and feature coherence. V7 is an amazing model. Its much smarter with text prompts, image prompts look fantastic, image quality is noticeably higher with beautiful textures, and bodies, hands, and objects of all kinds have significantly better coherence on all details, Midjourney explained.

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AI giants pay thousands for creators’ unused footage to train models

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The race for AI video training has taken an unexpected turn. Major tech companies are now paying content creators thousands of dollars for their unused footage, marking a significant shift in how artificial intelligence companies acquire training data. In a revealing report from Bloomberg , tech giants including Google, OpenAI, and Moonvalley are actively seeking exclusive, unpublished video content from YouTubers and digital content creators to train AI algorithms.

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Agentic AI Explained: Smarter Conversations, Better Experiences

AI has transformed how enterprises deliver customer service, enabling faster engagement, problem-solving, and cost savings. However, traditional AI Agents often rely on rigid conversation flows, risking customer trust when conversations stray from predefined paths. These limitations prevent businesses from fully realizing AI’s potential for cost-efficiency and productivity.

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Meta accused of using pirated data for AI development

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Plaintiffs in the case of Kadrey et al. vs. Meta have filed a motion alleging the firm knowingly used copyrighted works in the development of its AI models. The plaintiffs, which include author Richard Kadrey, filed their Reply in Support of Plaintiffs Motion for Leave to File Third Amended Consolidated Complaint in the United States District Court in the Northern District of California.

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UK Government signs off sweeping AI action plan  

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AI is set to become a cornerstone of the UKs vision for economic and societal renewal with a sweeping action plan unveiled today by Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The government has committed to all 50 recommendations outlined in the ambitious AI Opportunities Action Plan created by Matt Clifford CBE, tech entrepreneur and chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency.

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Microsoft advances materials discovery with MatterGen

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The discovery of new materials is key to solving some of humanity’s biggest challenges. However, as highlighted by Microsoft , traditional methods of discovering new materials can feel like finding a needle in a haystack. Historically, finding new materials relied on laborious and costly trial-and-error experiments. More recently, computational screening of vast materials databases helped to speed up the process, but it remained a time-intensive process.

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The role of machine learning in enhancing cloud-native container security

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The advent of more powerful processors in the early 2000s started the computing revolution that led to what we now call the cloud. With single hardware instances able to run dozens, if not hundreds of virtual machines concurrently, businesses could offer their users multiple services and applications that would otherwise have been financially impractical, if not impossible.

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The AI Productivity Shift: How 3,000 Pros And 140K Users Are Transforming Work

Hubstaff’s new report, The AI Productivity Shift, highlights how 3,000+ professionals and 140,000+ users are transforming the way they work with AI. Adoption is high—85% are using AI—and the potential is just beginning. Teams that integrate AI into daily workflows report 77% faster task completion, 70% improved focus, and stronger results across the board.

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Alarming rise in AI-powered scams: Microsoft reveals $4 Billion in thwarted fraud

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AI-powered scams are evolving rapidly as cybercriminals use new technologies to target victims, according to Microsoft’s latest Cyber Signals report. Over the past year, the tech giant says it has prevented $4 billion in fraud attempts, blocking approximately 1.6 million bot sign-up attempts every hour showing the scale of this growing threat.

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US Sanctions Backfire: Huawei’s AI Chips Accelerate China’s Self-Reliance

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Huawei Technologies is preparing to mass-ship a pair of advanced artificial intelligence chips the Ascend 910C and upcoming Ascend 920 marking a big moment in the global AI hardware arena. These new chips are poised to fill a void left by U.S. export restrictions that have curbed Chinas access to top-tier AI accelerators from U.S. firms like Nvidia.

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Gemma 3: Google launches its latest open AI models

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Google has launched Gemma 3, the latest version of its family of open AI models that aim to set a new benchmark for AI accessibility. Built upon the foundations of the companys Gemini 2.0 models, Gemma 3 is engineered to be lightweight, portable, and adaptableenabling developers to create AI applications across a wide range of devices. This release comes hot on the heels of Gemmas first birthday, an anniversary underscored by impressive adoption metrics.

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L’Oréal: Making cosmetics sustainable with generative AI

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LOral will leverage IBM’s generative AI (GenAI) technology to create innovative and sustainable cosmetic products. The partnership will involve developing a bespoke AI foundation model to supercharge LOrals Research & Innovation (R&I) teams in creating eco-friendly formulations using renewable raw materials. In turn, this initiative is designed to reduce both energy and material waste.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Microsoft releases Phi-4 language model on Hugging Face

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Microsoft has officially released its latest language model, Phi-4, on the AI repository Hugging Face. The model is available under the permissive MIT licence, allowing broad usage for developers, researchers, and businesses alikea significant step for democratising AI innovations. Unveiled in December 2024, Phi-4 has been drawing attention for its cutting-edge capabilities despite its compact size.

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Autoscience Carl: The first AI scientist writing peer-reviewed papers

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The newly-formed Autoscience Institute has unveiled Carl, the first AI system crafting academic research papers to pass a rigorous double-blind peer-review process. Carls research papers were accepted in the Tiny Papers track at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Critically, these submissions were generated with minimal human involvement, heralding a new era for AI-driven scientific discovery.

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How AI Can Help Healthcare Providers Respond to a Changing Society

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Much has been said about AIs potential to accelerate the quest for new treatments and cures, but its potential to improve care in facilities worldwide cannot be overlooked As we look towards the future, it's clear that the way we think of healthcare facilities will evolve far beyond what we know them to be today. Hospitals will transcend being simply buildings or places of healing, into dynamic environments that reflect the complex rhythms of human behavior and social interactions.

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Is Robot Exploitation Universal or Culturally Dependent?

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People in Japan treat cooperative artificial agents with the same level of respect as they do humans, while Americans are significantly more likely to exploit AI for personal gain, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports by researchers from LMU Munich and Waseda University Tokyo. As self-driving vehicles and other AI autonomous robots become increasingly integrated into daily life, cultural attitudes toward artificial agents may determine how quickly and successfully these techn

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Prospect, Personalize, Profit: The New Way Sales & Marketing Teams Are Aligning with AI

Speaker: Kevin Burke, Founder & Managing Director at Digital One and AI & Automation Consultant

AI and automation are currently transforming the way sales and marketing teams operate. Generative AI crafts personalized outreach at scale, while conversational AI bots are engaging prospects in real time. Robotic process automation streamlines manual workflows by triggering tasks the moment a prospect takes a key action, and advanced AI analytics surface hidden patterns in the pipeline, improve forecasting, and help teams make data-driven decisions with confidence.

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Daniel Cane, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of ModMed – Interview Series

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Daniel Cane is co-CEO and cofounder of South Florida-based ModMed , a healthcare IT company that is transforming healthcare through specialty-specific, intelligent platforms to increase practice efficiency and improve patient outcomes. Founded in February 2010, ModMed has grown to over 1,200 employees and has raised over $332 million in total investment.

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Cisco: Securing enterprises in the AI era

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As AI becomes increasingly integral to business operations, new safety concerns and security threats emerge at an unprecedented paceoutstripping the capabilities of traditional cybersecurity solutions. The stakes are high with potentially significant repercussions. According to Ciscos 2024 AI Readiness Index , only 29% of surveyed organisations feel fully equipped to detect and prevent unauthorised tampering with AI technologies.

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The Future of AI in Real Estate and Rentals

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Real estate is the world's oldest and largest asset class. Yet, the sector has a heavy tech debt. Agents still process documents manually, schedule viewings via calls or texts, and rely on spreadsheets or outdated CRMs to manage critical operations. While other industries are being completely disrupted by AI, many real estate businesses are still patching over inefficiencies with incomplete solutions.

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AI and Big Data Expo Global: Less than 4 weeks to go!

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AI and Big Data Expo Global is under four weeks away. Set to take place at the Olympia, London, on 5-6 February 2025, this must-attend artificial intelligence and big data event is for professionals from all industries looking to learn more about the newest technology solutions. Key highlights: Headline speakers: The event boasts a stellar line-up of more than 150 speakers from leading global organisations including NVIDIA, LinkedIn, Unilever, Sainsburys, Co-op, Salesforce, BT Group, Meta, Lloyd

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Singapore-based Firmus wins recognition for AI data centre design

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Singapore-based Firmus Technologies has been recognised with the Asia Pacific Data Centre Project of the Year award for its AI Factory facility. The facility stands out for its advanced infrastructure and focus on energy efficiency, reflecting broader efforts to meet the rising demands of AI computing sustainably. The AI Factory is part of Firmus’s ongoing initiative to transform existing ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) into GPU-powered AI computing platforms.

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Study claims OpenAI trains AI models on copyrighted data

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A new study from the AI Disclosures Project has raised questions about the data OpenAI uses to train its large language models (LLMs). The research indicates the GPT-4o model from OpenAI demonstrates a “strong recognition” of paywalled and copyrighted data from O’Reilly Media books. The AI Disclosures Project, led by technologist Tim O’Reilly and economist Ilan Strauss, aims to address the potentially harmful societal impacts of AI’s commercialisation by advocating

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The Dual-Edged Sword of AI in Cybersecurity: Opportunities, Threats, and the Road Ahead

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As we move into 2025, the cybersecurity landscape is entering a critical period of transformation. The advancements in artificial intelligence that have driven innovation and progress for the last several years, are now poised to become a double-edged sword. As security professionals, these tools promise new capabilities for defense and resilience. On the other hand, they are being co-opted more and more by malicious actors , leading to a rapid escalation in the sophistication and scale of cyber

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