AI Task Force adviser: AI will threaten humans in two years

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12.07.2025

An artificial intelligence task force adviser to the UK prime minister has a stark warning: AI will threaten humans in two years. The adviser, Matt Clifford, said in an interview with TalkTV that humans have a narrow window of two years to control and regulate AI before it becomes too...

Google launches fully managed cloud ML platform Vertex AI

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11.07.2025

Google Cloud has launched Vertex AI, a fully managed cloud platform that simplifies the deployment and maintenance of machine learning models. Vertex was announced during this year’s virtual I/O developer conference and somewhat breaks from...

Study finds AI can slash global carbon emissions

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10.07.2025

A study from the London School of Economics and Systemiq suggests it’s possible to cut global carbon emissions without giving up modern comforts—with AI as our ally in the climate fight. According to the duo’s...

US-China AI chip race: Cambricon’s first profit lands

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09.07.2025

The US-China AI chip race has entered a new phase as Chinese chip designer Cambricon Technologies reports its first-ever quarterly profit. The milestone emerges against a backdrop of escalating US export controls that have increasingly...

Is America falling behind in the AI race?

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08.07.2025

Several major US artificial intelligence companies have expressed fear around an erosion of America’s edge in AI development. In recent submissions to the US government, the companies warned that Chinese models, such as DeepSeek R1,...

It’s time for law firms to go all-in on AI

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07.07.2025

Amid the excitement over how AI will revolutionise healthcare, advertising, logistics, and everything else, one industry has flown under the radar: the legal profession. In fact, the business of law is a strong contender for...

Industry leaders back open-source AI definition

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06.07.2025

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has unveiled a definition framework to evaluate whether AI systems can be classified as open-source. The announcement of the first Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) was made at All Things...

AI bias harms over a third of businesses, 81% want more regulation

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05.07.2025

AI bias is already harming businesses and there’s significant appetite for more regulation to help counter the problem. The findings come from the State of AI Bias report by DataRobot in collaboration with the World...

Meta unveils SeamlessM4T multimodal translation model

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04.07.2025

Meta researchers have unveiled SeamlessM4T, a pioneering multilingual and multitask model that facilitates seamless translation and transcription across both speech and text.  The internet, mobile devices, social media, and communication platforms have ushered in an...

IEA: The opportunities and challenges of AI for global energy

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03.07.2025

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has explored the opportunities and challenges brought about by AI with regards to global energy.   Training and deploying sophisticated AI models occur within vast, power-hungry data centres. A “typical AI-focused...