The G7's focus on AI and digital security over crypto suggests decentralized regulation, impacting global digital asset strategies.
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Most organizations are struggling to use AI insights. Even as it’s been easier than ever to produce predictions, recommendations and scores, many data science and business teams end up with a stockpile of unused information that doesn’t drive meaningful transformation. Decision intelligence helps organizations bridge that gap by embedding insights [...]
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Nvidia’s new RTX Spark is one of the most interesting personal computing announcements in years. That’s because it’s not just another PC platform, but tries to redefine the role of the personal computer in the age of AI. Announced at Computex 2026, RTX Spark is Nvidia’s new platform for slim Windows laptops and compact desktops, designed to combine an Arm-based CPU, Blackwell-based RTX graphics, and a large, unified memory architecture into a single AI-first computing system.
We have all grown accustomed to a cloud-centric AI model over the past few years. We open an application, send a request over the network, and a hosted service in a distant data center provides the intelligence. ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, and similar systems have trained the market to think of AI as something that lives elsewhere. RTX Spark proposes a different model. It asks a simple yet disruptive question: What if the model, the agent, the data, and the application could all live on your own machine? Nvidia is not
AIs struggle to understand documents designed for humans; the DocLang working group seeks to flip that imbalance with its specification for machine-readable business documents “built from the ground up for LLM tokenizers.”
The working group, founded by IBM, Nvidia, and Red Hat and hosted by the Linux Foundation’s LF AI & Data project, aims to create an open, universal, AI-native document format designed to improve how enterprises prepare, exchange, and govern document data for AI systems. ABBYY and Human Signal will also be involved in its development, and other contributors are welcome.
“Enterprises today work across a fragmented landscape of document formats, including PDFs, JPEGs, and other file types built primarily for human consumption rather than AI interpretation,” the group said in its launch announcement.
“This disconnect can introduce complexity, raise costs, and reduce reliability when extracting meaning from business documents,” as organizations increasingly rely on genera
Hot AI companies can’t stop talking about forward-deployed engineers (FDEs), which are now very much in vogue.
FDEs, in case you haven’t heard, are hired by companies looking (hoping?) to successfully deploy AI tools and services. It’s one of the hotter professions in a world still trying to understand the impact of AI on careers.
So, what exactly are FDEs — are they techy lone rangers like the ones OpenAI, Google and Microsoft are hiring? Turns out it’s not so much about individual engineers who swoop in to design and roll out AI deployments; it’s more about a team of engineers working together at customer sites.
At least, that’s the view at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
In fact, according to Taimur Rashid, managing director of the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, the FDE concept pre-dates the current generative AI (genAI) gold rush. The same kinds of engineering teams were needed for the earlier machine-learning and cloud eras to help companies with deployments.
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Amazon's water usage highlights the urgent need for sustainable practices in tech, as AI growth strains resources and regulatory pressures mount.
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Tech is helping to identify and save new specimens and could open ‘genomic goldmine’ of fungi data
The rise of AI and digitisation could be a turning point in the “race against extinction” faced by botanists trying to identify and save vital plants before they vanish, according to a major report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
New technology is enabling scientists to track how flowering times have shifted by weeks around the world, rapidly identify new specimens and even get crucial genetic data from 180-year-old fungus specimens, potentially opening a “genomic goldmine”. Digitisation and online access to millions of specimens that were until now only accessible in archives is also producing new insights, especially in the global south.
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Mistral AI's disinformation issue could undermine Europe's AI credibility, prompting increased regulatory scrutiny and investor caution.
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