Malaysia has captured 32% of Southeast Asia’s whole AI funding—equal to US$759 million—between H2 2024 and H1 2025, establishing itself because the area’s dominant vacation spot for synthetic intelligence funding as large infrastructure enlargement and excessive shopper adoption converge to reshape the nation’s know-how panorama, in accordance with the e-Conomy SEA 2025 report launched by…
A €1.2 trillion AI prize sits on the desk for Europe’s financial system, and the area has the talent and uncooked components to assert it. While the worldwide narrative usually focuses on competitors with the US and China, the view from the bottom in Europe is a area of untapped potential, world-class talent, and deep…
OpenAI has launched group chats inside ChatGPT, giving folks a option to bring as much as 20 others into a shared dialog with the chatbot. The characteristic is now out there to all logged-in customers after a brief pilot earlier this month, and it shifts ChatGPT from a largely one-on-one instrument to one thing that…
The Royal Navy is handing the first line of its recruitment operations to a real-time AI avatar known as Atlas. Atlas is powered by a big language mannequin and has been deployed to subject questions from potential submariners. The deployment reveals how AI can assist a shift from gradual text-based triage to quick and immersive…
Enterprise AI deployment has been going through a basic rigidity: organisations want subtle language fashions however baulk on the infrastructure prices and power consumption of frontier programs. NTT Inc.’s current launch of tsuzumi 2, a light-weight giant language mannequin (LLM) working on a single GPU, demonstrates how companies are resolving this constraint—with early deployments displaying efficiency matching…
Over half of us now use AI to search the web, but the stubbornly low data accuracy of widespread instruments creates new business dangers. While generative AI (GenAI) affords plain effectivity beneficial properties, a brand new investigation highlights a disparity between person belief and technical accuracy that poses particular dangers to company compliance, authorized standing,…
In its pursuit of a direct-to-consumer (DTC) first business model, Levi Strauss is weaving AI and cloud platforms into its core operations. The almost 175-year-old attire firm is leveraging Microsoft applied sciences to modernise its client experiences and enhance inside productiveness. Levi Strauss’ method gives a case examine for different enterprises in using a unified…
Alibaba is updating its synthetic intelligence chatbot Qwen as it pushes to meet up with instruments like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The revised app replaces the older Tongyi model and have become accessible on each main app shops on Friday, final week. In its app-store descriptions, Alibaba calls Qwen the “strongest official AI assistant for its fashions”…
Security leaders face a brand new class of autonomous menace as Anthropic details the primary cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by AI. In a report launched this week, the corporate’s Threat Intelligence crew outlined its disruption of a complicated operation by a Chinese state-sponsored group – an evaluation made with excessive confidence – dubbed GTG-1002 and…
When Visa unveiled its Intelligent Commerce platform for Asia Pacific on November 12, it wasn’t simply launching one other cost function—it was constructing AI commerce infrastructure to resolve a disaster most retailers haven’t seen but: their web sites are being flooded by AI brokers, and there’s no dependable strategy to inform which of them are authentic consumers and that…