AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests before construction is threatened

Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models

Palantir says it cannot switch off NATO’s Maven AI system

Palantir says neither it nor the US government can remotely shut down Maven, its AI-powered battlefield system used by NATO’s top military command.

IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation

IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an Apache 2.0 speech recognition and translation model. It ranks #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.68% average English WER, alongside updated Turbo CTC and 4.1 2B Plus models.

I tried ChatGPT’s latest Chrome upgrade and it surprised me

OpenAI’s new Chrome integration makes ChatGPT a more convenient part of everyday browsing while challenging Google’s efforts to make Gemini the default AI assistant inside its own browser

Leading European Financial Services Organizations Embrace Open Models to Build Proprietary Intelligence

At GTC Berlin, banks, payment companies and financial data providers are showing what production-scale intelligence looks like — built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, powered by open weight models and running on their own infrastructure.

NVIDIA Cosmos Opens New Tools to Train, Evaluate and Deploy World Models

To help developers rapidly build world models, which help physical AI systems understand and simulate the real world, NVIDIA has expanded the Cosmos platform with new training tools, simulation checkpoints and Cosmos Data Factory blueprints.

Canadian publisher Boréal ends relationship with novelist Thélyson Orélien over alleged use of AI

Author withdrawn from France’s Prix Goncourt last month has repeatedly denied using artificial intelligence to write novel The publisher of top-selling Haitian Canadian writer Thélyson Orélien, who was removed from France’s most prestigious literary prize list last month, has confirmed the author…

New prize launches for books co-written with AI

After months of controversy over the possible use of AI by winners of prestigious awards, the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA is rewarding fiction written with the help of LLMs A prize for AI-written books has launched this week.