A view of the TSMC Global R&D center in Hsinchu, Taiwan on April 15, 2025. Ann Wang | Reuters Thursday offered markets a rare respite from the incessant geopolitical upheavals. Yet the week’s headlines still reflect broader global dynamics. Case in point: Taiwan’s $250 billion investment in chip production in the United States, which is…
Anxiety over AI-driven employment disruptions is growing. But until new paths to success become clearer, many will stick to the beaten path: elite colleges, coveted bachelor’s degrees. Parents and students view admissions reference charts during an information session on predicted scores and application strategies for 2026 regular admissions held by Jongro Academy at the 600th…
Solos Technology has filed a major patent infringement lawsuit against Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS: META) regarding smart glasses technology, challenging Meta’s push into wearable hardware. Chinese regulators are conducting a thorough review of Meta’s proposed $2 billion acquisition of Manus AI, increasing the risk of delays or changes to the terms of the deal. CEO Mark…
An executive in my professional network recently updated his LinkedIn profile with this message: “Friends, if you received an email from me regarding an opportunity at my organization, you did not receive it. My work email address has been spoofed.” Deepfaking involves using AI to generate convincing fake communications (as in the case of my…
“Today, most investors still view AI and crypto as separate worlds. The real opportunity lies in the infrastructure layer that connects them: protocols that allow agents to discover counterparties, negotiate, validate and settle transactions programmatically,” said Ran Levitzky, general partner at Magenta Venture Partners. When asked which sector or trend is currently being ignored and…
Visteon (VC) just used CES 2026 to showcase a group of AI-focused products, including its Snapdragon-based high-performance computing cockpit platform, an AI-ADAS module powered by NVIDIA, and a new cognitoAI integration from TomTom. Check out our latest analysis for Visteon. Despite the flurry of CES announcements regarding AI cockpits and ADAS, Visteon’s recent stock price…
We may not have a killswitch for AI as a whole, but Mozilla gives users the option to disable AI in its Firefox browser (even though it could have simply not included these features in the first place). In a blog postthe company announced that it would include a toggle in the next version of…
Today we are launching Voxtral Transcribe 2, two next-generation speech-to-text models delivering industry-leading transcription quality, diarization, and ultra-low latency. The family includes Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch transcription and Voxtral Realtime for live applications. Voxtral Realtime is open-weight under the Apache 2.0 license. We’re also launching an audio playground in Mistral Studio to test…
More than 90% of teachers express concerns about their overreliance, but less than half teach the use of generative AI in the classroom. A classroom at a middle school in Gwanak-gu, Seoul, pictured on December 1. Nearly 95 percent of middle and high school students in Seoul have experience using generative AI tools, a study…
OpenAI will integrate 750 megawatts of ultra-low latency computing from the chipmaker Cerebral to accelerate the response time of its artificial intelligence (AI) models. The capacity resulting from the agreement will be put into service in several stages, starting this year and lasting until 2028, according to press releases issued by the companies on Wednesday…