Ernst & Young Introduces Metaverse, AI to Its Hiring Process With New eVe Platform 

Ernst & Young Introduces Metaverse, AI to Its Hiring Process With New eVe Platform 

Ernst & Young (EY), one of the ‘Big Four’ consultancy firms, has integrated the metaverse element from Web3 into its hiring process. The London based firm, that also has offices in India, has launched a service called eVe, that essentially offers a warm-up pre-interview preparation for candidates applying for a…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says ‘The Age of AI Has Started’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says ‘The Age of AI Has Started’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Saturday that global collaboration and cooperation in technology will continue, even if the incoming U.S. administration imposes stricter export controls on advanced computing products. President-elect Donald Trump, in his first term in office, imposed a series of restrictions on the sale of U.S. technology…

Amazon Doubles Down on AI Startup Anthropic With Another  Billion

Amazon Doubles Down on AI Startup Anthropic With Another $4 Billion

Amazon.com pumped another $4 billion into OpenAI competitor Anthropic, as the e-commerce giant goes up against Big Tech rivals in a race to capitalize on generative artificial intelligence technology. This doubles Amazon’s investment in the firm known for its GenAI chatbot Claude, but it remains a minority investor, the startup…

OpenAI Planning AI-Powered Web Browser, Could Rival Google Chrome: Report

OpenAI Planning AI-Powered Web Browser, Could Rival Google Chrome: Report

OpenAI is reportedly planning to build a native web browser powered by artificial intelligence (AI). As per a report, the AI firm is planning to take on Google Chrome with its browser platform and has started discussing its plans with several website and app developers. Separately, the AI firm is…

Brave Search Gets AI-Powered Chat Feature With Support for Follow-Up Queries

Brave Search Gets AI-Powered Chat Feature With Support for Follow-Up Queries

Brave rolled out a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Brave Search on Thursday. Earlier this year, the San Francisco-based software company introduced ‘Answer with AI’ to its search engine, a feature that shows AI-generated summaries for searched queries. Now, it has added an extension to this feature dubbed AI chat…

Adobe Develops SlimLM That Can Process Documents Locally on Devices Without Internet Connectivity

Adobe Develops SlimLM That Can Process Documents Locally on Devices Without Internet Connectivity

Adobe researchers have published a paper that details a new artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of processing documents locally on a device. Published last week, the paper highlights that researchers experimented with existing large language models (LLMs) and small language models (SLMs) to find how to reduce the size of…

Chinese DeepSeek-R1 AI Model With Advanced Reasoning Capabilities Released, Can Rival OpenAI o1

Chinese DeepSeek-R1 AI Model With Advanced Reasoning Capabilities Released, Can Rival OpenAI o1

A Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model was released on Wednesday which claims to take on OpenAI’s o1 AI model in terms of advanced reasoning. Dubbed DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, the large language model (LLM) is said to have outperformed the o1 model on several benchmarks. Notably, the AI model is available to test…

NASA Showcases AI-Powered Computational Tools to Advance Scientific Research at SC24 Event

NASA Showcases AI-Powered Computational Tools to Advance Scientific Research at SC24 Event

At the Supercomputing Conference or SC2024, NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Nicola Fox, detailed new computational tools intended to advance space science. NASA plans to employ a large language model across its science divisions, bolstered by foundation models tailored to Earth science, heliophysics, astrophysics, planetary science, and…

Google Reportedly Working on AI-Powered ‘Help Me Draw’ Feature for Google Keep

Google Reportedly Working on AI-Powered ‘Help Me Draw’ Feature for Google Keep

Google is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Google Keep. The company’s note-taking app might soon offer AI-powered feature that can turn hand-drawn text and sketches into images. Dubbed Help Me Draw, the evidence of the feature were said to be found within the latest version…

NASA Utilises Supercomputing to Drive Space Exploration and Earth Research

NASA Utilises Supercomputing to Drive Space Exploration and Earth Research

Supercomputing is transforming scientific research at NASA, aiding discoveries that span from our planet to the farthest reaches of space. At the International Conference for High Performance Computing (SC24), NASA is showcasing how this technology supports critical missions, including the Artemis programme, sustainable aviation, and studies of cosmic phenomena. Dr…