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What should you cook for dinner on a budget of 20 euros when you have a guest with a gluten intolerance? A shopper might ask a shop assistant for advice or consult, for example, Hopla, the AI-powered shopping assistant launched by French supermarket chain Carrefour. Behind this…
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Scimplify's annualized revenue run rate has tripled to $200 million as it eyes U.S. expansion.
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As AI and its impacts become harder to avoid, other countries are setting rules for its use. New Zealand has some catching up to do.
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Microsoft president Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
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AI can improve access to settlement services in Canada, but human expertise must remain central to complex, legal and sensitive newcomer needs.
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Anthropic and OpenAI accused Chinese AI developers of mining their models’ answers to train cheaper copycats. Here’s how distillation works and why it’s so hard to stop
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On 13 September, leading luminaries and up-and-coming talents in mathematics and computer science congregated at the annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany for a week of discussion, networking, and—naturally—wurst. Having attended several of these events in the past, the ma…
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There has been a string of incidents reported over the past few months where AI agents have hacked companies. Now, a case involving a government website has been revealed for the first time
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In the first weeks of July, a wave of sad posts rolled through Chinese social media, as people lamented friends and lovers they were about to lose. “He has become a bond in my life, rooted deep in my heart, my spiritual pillar,” one user of Bytedance’s Douboa wrote, according to…
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