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Anxiety is growing among Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) in security operation centres, particularly around Chinese AI giant DeepSeek. AI was heralded as a new dawn for business efficiency and innovation, but for the people on the front lines of corporate defence, it’s casting some very long and dark shadows. Four in five (81%) UK The post Why security chiefs demand urgent regulation of AI like DeepSeek appeared first on AI News.

The artificial intelligence company Perplexity’s audacious offer to acquire Chrome has sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley, but questions remain about whether the move represents a genuine strategy or a calculated publicity stunt. Perplexity AI made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser last Tuesday, a figure that exceeds the startup’s own $18 billion The post Is Perplexity AI’s $34.5b Chrome bid a strategic master stroke or elaborate PR stunt? appeared first on AI News.

Malaysia’s race to build a homegrown AI workforce has entered a new phase with Huawei’s pledge to train 30,000 local professionals, as the tech giant expands its commitment to growing the local AI ecosystem. The announcement comes as Malaysia continues developing its broader digital strategy framework Speaking at the Huawei Cloud AI Ecosystem Summit APAC The post Huawei commits to training 30,000 Malaysian AI professionals as local tech ecosystem expands appeared first on AI News.

While AI might feel ubiquitous, it primarily operates in a tiny fraction of the world’s 7,000 languages, leaving a huge portion of the global population behind. NVIDIA aims to fix this glaring blind spot, particularly within Europe. The company has just released a powerful new set of open-source tools aimed at giving developers the power The post NVIDIA aims to solve AI’s issues with many languages appeared first on AI News.

Market disruption and shockwaves through Silicon Valley marked Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch, challenging some of the fundamental assumptions of how artificial intelligence companies had operated and scaled. In less than a couple of years, the Beijing-based newcomer has accomplished what many thought impossible: creating AI models that compete with industry giants while spending only a The post DeepSeek: The Chinese startup challenging Silicon Valley appeared first on AI News.

Alibaba is moving into the smart glasses market with a device powered by its own AI models, part of a wider $52.4 billion furthering of AI and cloud computing. The Quark AI Glasses marks the company’s first step into the wearables category and is due to launch in China by the end of 2025. The The post Human-in-the-loop work drives AI powering Alibaba’s smart glasses appeared first on AI News.

DeepSeek’s plan to train its new AI model, R2, on Huawei’s Ascend chips has failed and forced a retreat to Nvidia while delaying launch. For months, the narrative pushed by Beijing has been one of unstoppable technological progress and a march towards self-sufficiency. However, reality has a habit of biting back. The recent troubles of The post DeepSeek reverts to Nvidia for R2 model after Huawei AI chip fails appeared first on AI News.

Anthropic has detailed its safety strategy to try and keep its popular AI model, Claude, helpful while avoiding perpetuating harms. Central to this effort is Anthropic’s Safeguards team; who aren’t your average tech support group, they’re a mix of policy experts, data scientists, engineers, and threat analysts who know how bad actors think. However, Anthropic’s The post Anthropic details its AI safety strategy appeared first on AI News.

A week after Huawei announced its decision to open-source the CANN (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks) software toolkit, the tech industry is still processing what this move means for the future of AI development. By making its Huawei CANN open source alternative to CUDA freely available to developers worldwide, the Chinese tech giant has fired The post Can Huawei’s open-sourced CANN toolkit break the CUDA monopoly? appeared first on AI News.

SoundHound AI, already a major player in voice assistants, is now giving its technology a pair of eyes. Imagine driving past a landmark and, without pulling out your phone, asking your car, “What’s that building over there?” and getting an instant answer. That’s what SoundHound AI is building.  With the launch of Vision AI, SoundHound’s The post SoundHound is giving its AI the power of sight appeared first on AI News.