April 2025

Why it matters: AI Revolution: Ending Disease and Abundance explores how AI transforms health, science, and global prosperity.

CivitAI, possibly the most popular AI model repository on the internet, has finally conceded to pressure from payment facilitators MasterCard and Visa to radically revise their policies on NSFW content – and particularly their TOS regarding celebrity LoRAs, one of the site’s most popular user-submitted content streams, which enable people to use freely downloadable adjunct…

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to gain importance across industries, the need for integration between AI models, data sources, and tools has become increasingly important. To address this need, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a crucial framework for standardizing AI connectivity. This protocol allows AI models, data systems, and tools to interact…

In a significant move toward redefining how companies align product strategy with business impact, Bagel AI has announced a $5.5 million Seed funding round led by at.inc/, with additional backing from Demo Capital, Loyal VC, CS Angel, and notable angel investors including Zoom’s former CPO Oded Gal, CyberArk Founder Udi Mokady, and Atlassian’s former Head…

Artificial intelligence is transforming industries at an unprecedented pace, and the world of translation is no exception. As AI-driven language models grow more sophisticated, one question continues to surface: Will AI replace human translators? At RWS, we believe the answer is clear—AI will never replace human expertise, but it will fundamentally change how humans and…

Arsham Ghahramani, PhD, is the co-founder and CEO of Ribbon. Based in Toronto and originally from the UK, Ghahramani has a background in both artificial intelligence and biology. His professional experience spans a range of domains, including high-frequency trading, recruitment, and biomedical research. Ghahramani began working in the field of AI around 2014. He completed…

When chemists design new chemical reactions, one useful piece of information involves the reaction’s transition state — the point of no return from which a reaction must proceed. This information allows chemists to try to produce the right conditions that will allow the desired reaction to occur. However, current methods for predicting the transition state…

Huawei Technologies is preparing to mass-ship a pair of advanced artificial intelligence chips – the Ascend 910C and upcoming Ascend 920 – marking a big moment in the global AI hardware arena. These new chips are poised to fill a void left by U.S. export restrictions that have curbed China’s access to top-tier AI accelerators…

Why it matters: Future of AI Insights from Tech Visionary explores how Demis Hassabis is shaping ethical, creative AI progress.

A common view in current machine learning research is that machine learning itself can be used to improve the quality of AI dataset annotations – particularly image captions intended for use in vision-language models (VLMs). This line of thinking is driven by the high cost of human annotation, and the added burden of supervising annotator…