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Adecco–Salesforce Team-Up Brings Practical AI Back Down to Earth
For years, companies chased big, flashy AI ideas that looked exciting on stage but rarely turned into tools people could rely on.
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High Robot Costs Expose a Long-Ignored Gap in U.S. Manufacturing
For decades, American manufacturers have lived with a frustrating reality: they knew automation could help them compete, but the price of U.S.-made robots kept that dream out of reach.
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New USPTO Rules Clear Up Long-Standing Confusion Around AI Inventions
For many years, businesses using AI to build new products faced a confusing question: if AI helped invent something — or even generated a full design — could that invention be patented, and who would be the inventor?
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Falling Robot Costs Give Businesses New Confidence in Automation
For a long time, automation felt out of reach for small and mid-sized businesses.
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DeepMind’s New Robot “Brains” Point to Real-World Help Ahead
For years, the world of robotics felt like a future that never arrived.
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AWS’s $50B AI Push Hints at a Stronger Tech Future for SMBs
For a long time, the future of AI felt like something happening far away—in secret labs, government programs, and giant companies with giant budgets.
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Claude Opus 4.5 Brings Needed Clarity to Everyday AI Work
For years, many small teams tried to use AI tools that looked impressive in demos but fell apart in real work.
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Retail has always been a tough business.
Retail has always been a tough business.
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For years, many businesses looked at AI from the outside.
For years, many businesses looked at AI from the outside.
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For years, small teams in the AI space watched from the sidelines.
For years, small teams in the AI space watched from the sidelines.
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Every business owner has heard about AI, but for many small-to-mid-sized teams it still seemed like a tool for big labs, not everyday workflows.
Every business owner has heard about AI, but for many small-to-mid-sized teams it still seemed like a tool for big labs, not everyday workflows.
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For small and mid-sized business owners watching AI policy with wary eyes, the regulatory horizon in Europe just got more interesting—and for good reason.
For small and mid-sized business owners watching AI policy with wary eyes, the regulatory horizon in Europe just got more interesting—and for good reason.
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Every small business owner has heard the promise of artificial intelligence: smarter tools, better insights, faster workflows.
Every small business owner has heard the promise of artificial intelligence: smarter tools, better insights, faster workflows.
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Elon Musk’s Grok and the Dark Side of AI Creativity
AI was supposed to unlock creativity — turning imagination into reality with a few clicks. But as Elon Musk’s Grok platform unveils its new image-to-video feature, the line between innovation and invasion just got a lot thinner.
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Partner Robotics Raises $14 Million to Bring AI and Automation to Construction
For decades, the construction industry has stood apart from the digital revolution. While factories filled with robots and offices ran on software, construction sites remained places of dust, sweat, and manual work.
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The End of Free AI: Why Small Businesses Are Now Paying for Precision
Just a year ago, most small business owners thought AI was something for tech giants or startups with big budgets. Today, more than half of small businesses in the U.S. are already using it.
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WPP’s AI Platform Brings Big-Agency Creativity to Small Businesses
For years, small businesses have watched big brands win attention with sleek campaigns and massive creative budgets. Hiring a top agency like WPP or Ogilvy was simply out of reach.
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SoftBank’s $5.4 Billion Bet on ‘Physical AI’ and the Future of Everyday Robotics
Not long ago, robots felt like something out of reach. Small business owners could admire them from afar but never imagine having one sweep their floors, stock their shelves, or greet their customers.
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Nvidia’s $2 Billion Bet on India’s Deep-Tech Future
For years, India’s deep-tech community lived in the shadows. Bright minds built prototypes and bold ideas, but funding was scarce, and recognition was even harder to come by.
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From Prompts to Purpose: The Rise of Agentic AI at Work
Not long ago, using AI at work meant typing a prompt and waiting for a reply. You asked; it answered. Simple, powerful — but limited.
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AI and Robots Are No Longer Optional — They’re the New Connective Tissue of Business
Not long ago, artificial intelligence and automation were seen as shiny extras — nice to have, but not necessary. Today, that idea feels outdated.
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AI Steps In Where Compliance Teams Fall Short
Privacy rules have never been tougher — or more confusing. Small and mid-sized businesses often find themselves tangled in endless forms, audits, and acronyms just to stay compliant.
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China’s Robot Surge Puts Global Manufacturers on Notice
For decades, China was known as the world’s factory — powered by low-cost labor and massive production capacity. But that model is shifting fast.
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AI News Is Everywhere — But Readers Still Don’t Believe It
Once upon a time, the biggest problem in journalism was keeping up with the news. Now, it’s convincing readers that the news is true.
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The U.S. Eyes Quantum Firms — Betting on the Next Tech Revolution
For years, the race to build quantum technology felt like a global relay — and America was watching from a few steps behind.
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AI Artists Hit the Charts — and Change How We Define “Talent”
For decades, music was the sound of human stories. Every lyric, every beat, every note carried emotion — and came from someone who had the skill, access, and luck to get heard.
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Apple’s Tabletop Robot: Bringing Emotion and Intelligence to the Smart Home
Apple is reportedly developing a new class of intelligent robots and devices — including a ‘tabletop robot’ — designed to bring its signature mix of design, privacy, and polish to the smart home.
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Meta’s Open Robotics Platform: The Android Moment for Machines
Meta has announced plans to build an open software platform for robotics — a universal operating system designed to make it easier, faster, and cheaper for anyone to build intelligent machines.
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IBM and AMD Achieve Real-Time Quantum Error Correction
IBM and AMD announced a breakthrough that could change everything: real-time quantum error correction — a step that could finally make quantum computing stable enough for real-world use.
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MIT’s Virtual Worlds Are Teaching Robots to Learn Like Humans
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have built a new AI tool that lets robots learn inside virtual worlds. It’s a breakthrough that could make training robots as easy as training chatbots.
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AI Agents Go to Work: From Experiments to Everyday Operations
Just a year ago, “AI agents” felt like something out of a tech conference demo — impressive, but still far from the daily grind of business life.
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NVIDIA’s Physical AI: When Machines Learn to Move
At NVIDIA’s AI Day in Sydney, the company unveiled its vision for a new kind of intelligence — one that doesn’t just think, but moves. From humanoid robots to self-learning factories, this marks the beginning of an era where digital minds meet physical reality.
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Quantum Meets AI: A New Platform Promises to Shrink the Impossible
For years, quantum computing sat at the edge of possibility — dazzling in theory, but too complex, fragile, and expensive for real business use.
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OpenAI & Nvidia’s Trillion-Dollar Play: Betting the Farm on AI Infrastructure
For years, the story of artificial intelligence has centered on algorithms — who could build the smartest, fastest, or most creative model.
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The EU AI Act: How Europe Just Set the Rules for Artificial Intelligence
The European Union’s AI Act has officially entered its implementation phase, marking the first major attempt to create a legal framework for how AI should be built, deployed, and trusted.
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Tech Leaders Call Time-Out on Superintelligence — But Is It Too Late?
The race toward superintelligent AI began as a quest for progress — a drive to build machines that could think, reason, and create beyond human limits.
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Cloudflare’s Quantum Leap: The Internet’s New Armor
Cloudflare announced that over half of all human web traffic now runs through post-quantum encryption. In simple terms, the web just got a new kind of armor — one designed to survive the coming age of quantum computers.
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Humanoid Robots Get a $200M Boost — and a Global Wake-Up Call
For decades, humanoid robots were the stuff of imagination — walking, talking machines that always seemed just a few breakthroughs away from reality.
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Meta’s AI Shake-Up: Cutting Jobs to Chase Bigger Intelligence
Not long ago, Meta’s AI teams were booming — a sign of Silicon Valley’s faith that humans and machines would grow together.
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Amazon’s ‘Blue Jay’ and ‘Eluna’ Aim to End the Warehouse Grind
For years, Amazon’s warehouses have been the beating heart of e-commerce — and a cautionary tale of human endurance pushed to the limit.
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AI Speeds Discovery: From New Drugs to Next-Gen Materials
For most of modern science, progress has been slow by design. Researchers spent years running experiments, testing chemical compounds one by one, and waiting for results that sometimes never came.
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Eyes in the Sky: San Francisco Police Turn to AI Drones
San Francisco has always been a testing ground for technology—self-driving cars, delivery robots, and now, AI-powered police drones.
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Salesforce Bets $15B on San Francisco’s Next AI Wave
For the last few years, Silicon Valley hasn’t felt quite like itself. Once the global epicenter of innovation, San Francisco has seen startups leave for cheaper cities, investors grow cautious, and local talent scatter.
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Humanoids Go Stealth: The Next AI Boom Gets a Body
For years, the story of artificial intelligence has been one of screens and servers. AI could talk, draw, and reason—but only through keyboards and code.
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Philadelphia Steps Up: City Task Force to Shape Responsible AI Use
Across the U.S., local governments have been rushing to figure out how to handle artificial intelligence. City employees are already experimenting with AI—using it to sort data, answer public questions, or even predict service needs—but there’s been one big problem: no clear rules.
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California Draws the Line: Chatbots Must Now Say They’re AI
For years, it’s been easy to forget that the friendly voice or helpful message online might not come from a person at all. Chatbots and virtual assistants have blended so smoothly into everyday life that many people never realized they were talking to artificial intelligence.
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From Niche to Neighborhood: Serve Robots Join DoorDash’s Delivery Army
For years, delivery robots felt like a futuristic idea that never quite arrived. We saw flashy videos of small machines rolling down sidewalks, but they stayed locked in pilot programs and test zones.
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U.S. Energy Department Fuels the Next Wave of AI Infrastructure
For all the breakthroughs in artificial intelligence over the past few years, progress has quietly been hitting a wall — not because of lack of innovation, but because of power.
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The Fed Sounds the Alarm: Quantum Could Break Blockchain Privacy
For years, blockchain has been praised as one of the most secure technologies ever built — a decentralized system protected by cryptography so strong it was called “unbreakable.”
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AI Becomes the Weakest Link in Corporate Data Security
For years, the biggest threat to company data came from hackers, phishing scams, or weak passwords.
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IBM Arms Businesses for the Coming Quantum Security Shift
For decades, digital security has relied on encryption — complex math that keeps private information safe from hackers.
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OpenAI Bets on AMD to Power the Next AI Boom
Just a few years ago, the biggest challenge in artificial intelligence wasn’t talent or ideas — it was hardware.
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White House Puts AI and Quantum at America’s Core
For years, American innovation has moved at lightning speed — but without a clear sense of direction.
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Harvard’s Quantum Breakthrough Ends the Reset Era
For years, quantum computers have been like race cars that could never finish a lap — fast, powerful, but always stalling before crossing the line.
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When Washington Waits, the States Step In — AI Laws Go Local
For years, tech companies have lived by a kind of unspoken promise: eventually, Washington would step in with one clear set of rules for artificial intelligence.
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Is RaaS the New SaaS? How Robots Are Joining the Subscription Economy
Not long ago, automation was something only giant factories could afford. Robots came with sky-high price tags, complex installation, and specialized training — all before they even powered on.
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AI Scams Are Exploding — and Trust Is the Real Casualty
It wasn’t long ago that most scams were easy to spot — the emails were clumsy, the fake websites looked cheap, and the messages had a certain “too good to be true” charm.
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Albania Just Appointed an AI Minister — and Half the Room Walked Out
For years, governments have promised that technology would make politics more transparent, efficient, and fair. But no one expected it to stand at the podium.
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OpenAI Wants to Build the Future in Your Hands — Literally
For most of us, AI has always lived behind screens — something we typed into, swiped past, or scrolled through. It answered questions, generated content, and powered apps, but it was never with us.
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Hospitals Rushed to Embrace AI — But Healing Takes More Than Data
For years, the story sounded almost too good to be true. Artificial intelligence would take the guesswork out of medicine — catching diseases early, cutting paperwork, and saving lives with speed and precision.
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Meta’s New Plan to Read the Room — and Sell It Back to You
For years, our private messages felt like safe spaces — places to vent, joke, and ask questions without a spotlight. But Meta’s latest move might change that comfort zone.
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5 Things You Must Fix Before Your Business Bleeds Dry
Every business leaks money — the question is where.
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Robots Learn to Fix What They Don’t Fully Understand
Robots are no strangers to the factory floor.
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Texas Pushes AI Law Into Uncharted Legal Territory
The internet has always had blind spots—places where harmful content slipped through legal cracks.
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Alibaba Bets Big on a Trillion-Parameter AI Future
For years, China’s tech giants struggled to match the size and influence of U.S. AI models.
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Microsoft Tests Paying Creators for AI Training Fuel
For years, writers, artists, and publishers have complained that their work was being used to train AI models without credit or compensation.
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From Commands to Action: Agentic AI Learns to Get Things Done
For decades, factories and warehouses have relied on automation to keep things running.
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AI Could Rewrite Global Trade, If Gaps Don’t Hold Us Back
WTO says AI could lift trade 40% by 2040—if adoption is inclusive.
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photonic quantum leaps for everyday R&D
Quantum used to feel like sci-fi homework—big promises, fuzzy timelines.
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Humanoids that tackle real, messy work
Humanoid robots are leaving the hype reel and stepping onto real floors.
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how AI pays for content
A big test is underway. A U.S. judge is pressing for details before approving Anthropic's proposed $1.5 billion deal with authors.
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text-to-world sims you can walk through
Picture this: you type a prompt, and a whole world appears.
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Edge compute, present virtue: Jetson Thor lands for robots
For years, robot brains were too weak to think on their own.
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Humanoid reality check: present limits matter for shops
The new Tesla Optimus 2.5 demo looks shiny—literally—but the video is a useful gut check.
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Teen AI safeguards close a past safety void
Parents, schools, and brands have been waiting for real teen protections in chatbots.
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Robot MMA Could Become the Next Big Tech Sport
Developers are testing robots built for cage-style combat. It's wild, but it may push robotics forward and create a brand-new spectator sport.
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Restaurant Bans Phones, Sees Sales Jump
A family-run diner told customers to leave phones at the door. Within weeks, sales rose and table turn times improved.
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The Scientists Who Sent Smells Over the Internet
Researchers have figured out how to send scents digitally, not just sights and sounds. It could change how we shop, learn, and connect.
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The QR Code Backlash
QR codes spread fast during the pandemic. Now many people are finding the old way—like printed menus—still works better.
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Your Devices Are Learning to Work Without Wi-Fi
Phones, laptops, and even appliances are getting smarter chips that run apps and services without needing the cloud. This makes tools faster, safer, and more useful in daily life.
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AI and Energy: Smarter Power for a Changing World
Artificial intelligence is starting to guide how electricity flows across power grids. Smarter systems could cut waste, prevent blackouts, and speed up the shift to clean energy.
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AI Discovers New Paths to Beating Cancer
AI systems are finding cancer-fighting drugs and treatment strategies in weeks instead of years. This could speed up cures and save millions of lives worldwide.
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Robots Are Moving Out of Factories
Robots are leaving factory floors and entering warehouses, farms, and even hospitals. The shift shows how automation is becoming part of daily life, not just manufacturing.
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AI Solves Protein Puzzle That Could Transform Medicine
AI can now predict protein shapes in hours instead of years—reshaping medicine, farming, and materials science.
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Google's Gemini gets a powerful image editor built in
Google upgraded the Gemini app with a new DeepMind image editor that does precise, multi-step photo changes while keeping people and pets looking like themselves. This matters because pro-level edits now live inside a mainstream app, which boosts creativity but also raises safety questions.
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Apple Wallet Opens to Digital IDs in More States
Apple is expanding support for driver's licenses and state IDs in Apple Wallet. More states are now on board, making phones closer to replacing physical wallets.
Freelancers Are Cashing In
From AI side gigs to global marketplaces, independent talent is turning expertise into income faster than ever. Here's what's driving the boom—and how to capitalize.
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Elon's $300 Anime Girlfriend: Why Pay-Walled Intimacy Bots Are Risky
Pay-walled AI companions promise on-demand romance, but experts warn they can deepen isolation and enable emotional manipulation.
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Who is Rubin, and why is he taking your job?
Nvidia's Rubin GPU lineup promises affordable robot brains, enabling $30K humanoids to automate warehouse tasks and reshape labor economics.
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Beyond ChatGPT: Unlocking Configure GPT & Agent Mode—6 Automations You Can Deploy Tonight
OpenAI's Configure GPT panel and Agent Mode let anyone create custom AI assistants and automate tasks without coding. Deploy six powerful automations tonight.
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Light can now be "Frozen."
Italian researchers achieve breakthrough in photonic computing by creating supersolid light states, enabling ultra-fast, low-power AI processing that could revolutionize computing.
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Europe is moving first
The EU AI Act leads global AI regulation with strict compliance requirements, while the US and China take different approaches. Companies must adapt to region-specific rules or face penalties.
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Meet Claude, ChatGPT's cooler little brother
Anthropic's Claude 3 offers longer memory, better compliance, and a more natural conversational style than ChatGPT. Discover why enterprise users prefer this under-the-radar AI assistant.
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DeepSeek, Where are they now?
DeepSeek's massive GPU investment and V3 model performance analysis. How the Chinese AI startup's $800M bet on Nvidia chips is paying off in the competitive LLM market.