The South Korean government spent 1.2 trillion won ($850m) on developing AI textbooks for schools, but the national programme has been rolled back after just four months, amid allegations of inaccurate texts, concerns about privacy, and increased workloads on staff and pupils. Writing in Rest Of World, journalist Junhyup Kwon...
IBM has announced enhancements to the natural language processing (NLP) capabilities of Watson Discovery. Watson Discovery is an AI-powered intelligent search and text-analytics platform that can retrieve critical information buried in enterprise data. In one...
There has been a lot of excitement and many headlines generated by the recent launch of DeepSeek. And, while the technology behind this latest iteration of Generative AI is undoubtedly impressive, in many ways its...
Anthropic has announced its AI assistant Claude can now search the web, providing users with more up-to-date and relevant responses. This integration of web search functionality means Claude can now access the latest information to...
ARC Prize has launched the hardcore ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, accompanied by the announcement of their 2025 competition with $1 million in prizes. As AI progresses from performing narrow tasks to demonstrating general, adaptive intelligence, the ARC-AGI-2...
Baidu has launched its latest foundation AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1, and is offering them free for individuals through ERNIE Bot. The company says that it aims to “push the boundaries of multimodal...
Meta is planning to release AI chatbots that possess human-like personalities, a move aimed at enhancing user retention efforts. Insiders familiar with the matter revealed that prototypes of these advanced chatbots have been under development,...
Open-source AI development took centre stage at Huawei Connect 2025 last week, with Huawei laying out implementation timelines and the technical specifics around making its entire AI software stack publicly available by year-end. The announcements...
Microsoft and Apple have decided against taking up board seats at OpenAI. The decision comes as regulatory bodies intensify their scrutiny of big tech’s involvement in AI development and deployment. According to a Bloomberg report...
UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid has greenlit a series of AI-based projects that aim to tackle racial inequalities in the NHS. Racial inequality continues to be rampant in healthcare. Examining the fallout of COVID-19 serves...