Tech industry experts are urging IT decision-makers to be wary of AI vendor gimmicks such as free tokens, and to adopt a multi-vendor and multi-model strategy to avoid vendor lock-in.
“Don’t be afraid to adopt a multi-vendor approach to get value from different AI tools rather than risk lock-in with a single one,” said Max Goss, senior director analyst at Gartner.
It is unlikely one AI vendor…
OpenAI has signed a partnership agreement with Visa that allows the company’s AI agents to use the payment card for e-commerce transactions. The agreements lets users shop for everything from groceries and diapers to airline tickets without having to manually enter a lot of information.
“As AI agents become active participants in the economy, Visa’s focus is on ensuring that transactions are…
Los pioneros de la IA Anthropic y OpenAI parecen dirigirse hacia sus respectivas salidas a bolsa, lo que deja a los directivos de TI cuyas organizaciones dependen de sus modelos de IA preguntándose qué les deparará el futuro. Una de las principales preocupaciones es la posibilidad de un aumento de costes para el uso empresarial, especialmente en los modelos más avanzados. Al ofrecer…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has announced a steep price cut for its recently launched flagship AI model, V4-Pro. The company has reduced pricing for the model by 75%, just a month after unveiling the V4 generation, which includes V4 Pro and V4 Flash.
Earlier, usage costs ranged from $0.0145 for one million tokens (cache hit) to $3.48 for one million output tokens. Following the revision, the V4…
Google this week launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new AI model that’s expected to be significantly better at programming than its predecessors. The new model is also said to be four times as fast as its competitors, Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5, and more than twice as fast as Gemini 3.1 Pro.
Google stressed the possibility of using the model as a tool for autonomous AI agents, which could, among…
Arxiv, the open-access repository where researchers publish scientific articles before they have undergone formal peer review, is introducing stricter rules against AI-generated articles containing obvious errors and fabricated content. Researchers who submit texts with clear signs of so-called “AI slop” can now be banned from the platform for a year, according to 404 Media.
Red flags could…
Google Chrome can automatically download a local AI model that takes up to 4 gigabytes of hard drive space on a computer when certain AI features are enabled, according to The Verge.
The file, called weights.bin, is used by Google’s Gemini Nano AI model to provide writing assistance, autocomplete, and fraud protection directly on the device. (Nano has been around since Gemini was introduced in…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella last week announced that the company now has more than 20 million enterprise users paying for Microsoft Copilot, according to TechCrunch. That’s up 33% from the 15 million paying customers Microsoft claimed in January.
The AI assistant is now directly integrated in programs such as Word, Excel, and Outlook and Microsoft is rolling out new agent features that allow…
AI represents a fundamental shift in how organizations work and innovate. It demands an equally fundamental shift in how CIOs approach governance.
Forward-looking leaders are moving beyond traditional gatekeeping by creating “paved roads”: secure, pre-approved pathways that embed security controls, automated data protections, and real-time monitoring directly into AI workflows so teams can…
Over the years, enterprise IT execs have gotten frighteningly comfortable having little control or visibility over mission-critical apps, from SaaS to cloud and even cybersecurity. But generative AI (genAI) and agentic systems are taking that problem to a new extreme, with vendors able to dumb down a system IT is paying billions for without so much as a postcard.
It’s not necessarily that AI…
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute indicates that AI chatbots trained to be extra warm, friendly, and empathetic can also become less reliable, according to the BBC.
The researchers analyzed more than 400,000 responses from five different AI models from Meta, Mistral AI, Alibaba, and OpenAI. The results showed that the “kinder” versions more often gave incorrect answers, reinforced…
Venture funding of AI companies in 2026 will easily smash funding records set in 2025, with some heavy deals already consummated in the first quarter, according to market researchers.
Data from Crunchbase shows that $300 billion poured into 6,000 startups worldwide during the first quarter of 2026. That’s a quarterly record for venture funding in AI companies, a Crunchbase news report said.
A…
텐센트는 오픈AI 출신의 핵심 AI 과학자 야오순위(Yao Shunyu)를 영입한 이후 처음으로 자사 AI 모델 ‘훈위안(Hunyuan)’을 대대적으로 업데이트했다. 현재 프리뷰로 공개된 ‘Hy3’ 모델은 복잡한 추론부터 코딩에 이르기까지 전반적인 성능이 향상된 것이 특징이다.
중국 기술 대기업 텐센트는 바이트댄스(ByteDance), 알리바바(Alibaba), 딥시크(DeepSeek) 등 경쟁사들과 비교해 아직 격차를 좁히는 단계에 있다. 중국은 미국 주요 기업들에 대응하기 위해 오픈소스 AI에 적극 투자하고 있다. 텐센트는 2023년 당시 훈위안 대형언어모델(LLM)이 동시기 챗GPT와 라마(Llama)보다 더 강력하고 지능적인 선택지라고 주장한 바 있다.
텐센트는 문샷 AI(Moonshot…
Tencent has updated its Hunyuan AI model, its first major release since it recruited Yao Shunyu, a leading AI scientist from OpenAI. Tencent’s Hy3 model, currently available in preview, offers improvements in areas from complex reasoning to coding.
The Chinese technology conglomerate is playing catch-up with other Chinese AI developers including ByteDance, Alibaba and DeepSeek. China is betting…
The soap refill dispenser at a cafe in TRACE Expert City — a technology hub in Colombo, Sri Lanka — boldly declares that it was delivered by ”USAID, from the American people.”
The device is a relic from the past, reflecting goodwill that once existed between the US and Sri Lanka. Now, as external aid through USAID and other entities dries up, the island nation is looking inward for its…
A new study published by the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI) has flagged that modern AI models exhibit peer preservation behaviour, and may resist or interfere with shutdown decisions involving other AI systems, even when explicitly instructed not to.
The researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Santa Cruz tested…
Microsoft is expanding its Microsoft 365 Copilot “Researcher” agent with new multi-model capabilities designed to improve the accuracy and depth of AI-generated research outputs.
The update introduces a “Critique” system that assigns separate roles for generation and evaluation, alongside a “Council” feature that compares outputs from multiple models and highlights agreement, divergence, and…
OpenAI just killed Sora.
That’s an amazing development. When the company rolled out the video-creation site, and later the app, reviewers called it a trailblazer because it combined video creations with sound effects, spoken dialog, and the ability for users to generate a specific character using a reference image and reuse them in multiple videos (a Sora 2 feature called “Character”).
Sora was…
Anthropic’s Claude is getting a new feature that allows the AI model to use your computer to perform tasks automatically. Both Cowork and Code can then navigate the screen by pointing, clicking, and scrolling, open files, use the browser, and run development tools without the need for special integrations.
The feature also supports the recently launched Dispatch, which allows a user to assign…
미스트랄은 기업이 자체 데이터를 기반으로 AI 모델을 학습하고 조정할 수 있도록 지원하는 신규 플랫폼 ‘포지(Forge)’를 선보였다. 범용 AI 시스템의 한계를 넘어, 기업 환경에 특화된 모델 구축을 지원하겠다는 전략이다.
현재 대부분의 AI 시스템은 공개 인터넷 데이터를 활용해 개발되며, 다양한 일반 업무를 수행하도록 설계돼 있다. 그러나 기업은 고유 프로세스, 규제 요건, 맞춤형 소프트웨어 환경, 조직에 축적된 경험 등 내부에 깊이 내재된 지식에 의존해 운영된다.
미스트랄은 공식 발표를 통해 “포지는 범용 AI와 기업 특화 요구 사이의 간극을 메우는 플랫폼”이라며 “광범위한 공개 데이터에 의존하는 대신, 조직은 시스템과 워크플로, 정책에 반영된 내부 맥락을 이해하는 모델을 학습시킬 수 있다”라고…
Music giant BMG has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind the popular chatbot Claude, alleging it trained its AI models using copyrighted song lyrics from artists such as the Rolling Stones, Bruno Mars, and Ariana Grande.
“Anthropic’s practice of training AI models on copyrighted works from torrent sites is in direct violation of the standards required of all responsible actors,”…
La IA generativa es una IA que se caracteriza por generar contenido —texto, código, voz, imágenes y vídeos— a partir de indicaciones. Desde el lanzamiento de DALL-E para imágenes en 2021, y posteriormente, al año siguiente, de ChatGPT para texto, y de Midjourney y Stable Diffusion para imágenes, no son pocas las empresas que han mostrado su interés por descubrir cómo puede transformar sus…
Mistral has introduced Forge, a new platform aimed at helping enterprises move beyond generic AI systems by enabling them to train and adapt models on proprietary data.
Today’s AI systems are largely developed using open internet data and are built to handle a wide variety of general tasks. However, enterprises depend on deeply embedded internal knowledge, including proprietary processes,…
Mistral has introduced Forge, a new platform aimed at helping enterprises move beyond generic AI systems by enabling them to train and adapt models on proprietary data.
Today’s AI systems are largely developed using open internet data and are built to handle a wide variety of general tasks. However, enterprises depend on deeply embedded internal knowledge, including proprietary processes,…
Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI, claiming the generative AI (genAI) firm used their encyclopedia and dictionary texts to train AI models such as ChatGPT without permission, according to Reuters.
The lawsuit alleges OpenAI copied nearly 100,000 articles from Britannica’s material and claims ChatGPT can reproduce content almost verbatim, which risks…
GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems.
In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had solved 31% of its mathematical challenges, a rise from the previous score best of 19%.
The newest version has continued the progress, tackling a range of mathematical problems set by…
人工知能、特に近年目覚ましい発展を遂げている大規模言語モデル（LLM）をはじめとする生成AIの普及は、世界の電力需要の構造に根底から変革をもたらそうとしている。従来のインターネット検索やクラウドサービスと比較して、生成AIは計算リソースに対する要求が桁違いに大きいという根本的な特徴を持っている。この電力消費は大きく「学習（トレーニング）」と「推論（インファレンス）」の二つのフェーズに分けることができる。学習フェーズにおいては、数千億から数兆というパラメータを持つ巨大なニューラルネットワークに対し、インターネット上の膨大なテキストや画像データを読み込ませ、最適化計算を昼夜を問わず数ヶ月間にわたって実行し続ける必要がある。この過程で使用される最先端のグラフィックス処理装置（GPU）群は、一つあたり数百ワットから一千ワット超の電力を消費し…
A new study published in the journal _Nature Medicine_ raises concerns about the safety of Open AI’s health service ChatGPT Health, which in many cases fails to recommend emergency care when it ‘ actually needed, according to The Guardian.
Researchers tested ChatGPT Health with 60 realistic patient scenarios, ranging from mild discomfort to acute medical conditions. Three doctors assessed in…
AI導入が世界的に進む中、日本企業は依然として後れを取っている。ランスタッドが2024年に発表した調査では、AIを職務で活用している人材の割合は15カ国中最下位の19％にとどまった。ランスタッドのデジタルタレントソリューション事業本部、常務執行役員本部長の北上由香氏は、この背景には日本特有のIT構造があると指摘する。
「日本の事業会社では、いまだに自社に所属するエンジニアが二、三割程度しかいません。大規模案件になればなるほど外部ベンダーに丸投げする構造が続いており、結果として自社にノウハウが蓄積されないままです」
一部の大手銀行や外資系企業では内製化の動きが進んでいるものの、全体としては依然としてSIer依存が強い。AI導入においては、技術そのものよりも「自社のビジネスやデータの意味を理解しているか」が重要になるため、この構造は大きな障壁…
AI agents are becoming more common in practice, but their use is still heavily focused on programming, according to new analysis by Anthropic of millions of interactions between humans and AI agents, where researchers studied how tools like Claude Code and public API solutions are used in real-world environments.
According to the report, software development accounts for nearly half of all…