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Chinese AI groups get creative to drive down cost of models

01.ai, Alibaba and ByteDance have cut ‘inference’ costs despite Washington curbs on accessing cutting-edge chips

World - Financial Times - October 19

AMD’s AI punches are landing where it counts — against Nvidia

Not every AI customer wants or can afford Nvidia’s powerhouse Blackwell chip.

Business - MarketWatch - October 19

Nuclear energy stocks hit record highs on surging demand from AI

Amazon and Google deals to deploy small modular reactors are latest step in sector’s revitalisation

Business - Financial Times - October 20

The AI edge in cybersecurity: Predictive tools aim to slash response times

AI's ability to sift through massive amounts of data, identify patterns and constantly learn makes it invaluable in cybersecurity.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 20

Perplexity AI Hopes to Double Its Valuation to $8 Billion

The Jeff Bezos-backed AI company is looking to raise around $500 million in its new funding round.

Business - Inc. - October 20

Perplexity AI seeks valuation of about $9 billion in new funding round

Perplexity started the year with a roughly $500 million valuation and has continued attracting significant investor interest alongside the generative AI boom.

Business - CNBC - October 21

IBM debuts open source Granite 3.0 LLMs for enterprise AI

IBM is launching its new open source Granite 3.0 family of models for enterprise AI as it looks to a future state of generative computing.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 21

Three in four Europeans support the use of AI by police and military, study says

Most Europeans support the use of AI technologies like facial recognition by the police and military for surveillance, a report from IE University found.

Business - CNBC - October 21

TikTok owner sacks intern for allegedly sabotaging AI project

ByteDance dismissed person in August it says ‘maliciously interfered’ with training of artificial intelligence models. The owner of TikTok has sacked an intern for allegedly sabotaging an internal ...

World - The Guardian - October 21

Slack researcher discusses the fear, loathing and excitement surrounding AI in the workplace

Artificial intelligence’s recent rise to the forefront of business has left most office workers wondering how often they should be using the technology and worried about whether a computer will ...

Tech - ABC News - October 21

Gartner: 2025 will see the rise of AI agents (and other top trends)

Also keep an eye on AI governance tools, hybrid computing, disinformation security, post-quantum cryptography and even more out-there tech.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 21

Microsoft introduces ‘AI employees’ that can handle client queries

US company gives customers the ability to build own virtual agents as well as releasing 10 off-the-shelf bots. . Microsoft is introducing autonomous artificial intelligence agents, or virtual ...