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India’s frugal AI models are a blueprint for resource-strapped nations

The new book "LeanSpark" examines frugal innovation in India, including how startups Sarvam AI and Krutrim overcome cost and ...

Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google just released the latest version of its open AI model, Gemma 4, on Thursday. Crucially, Gemma 4 is a fully open-source ...
CBS News

Should you use AI to file your taxes? Experts warn it can lead to costly mistakes.

Americans are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Claude to help prepare their tax returns, but experts warn the technology can deliver outdated or inaccurate ...
TechCrunch

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets ...
The Washington Post

AI is just another technology Americans don’t like but can’t stop using

Americans feel gloomy about artificial intelligence, and everyone connected to the industry knows it. “AI is not very popular in the U.S. right now,” Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO who runs ChatGPT, ...
CNBC

Legal AI startup Harvey valued at $11 billion in funding round, as VCs spread bets beyond model companies

The 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list will be revealed Tuesday, May 19th Harvey announced it raised $200 million in fresh capital at an $11 billion valuation. The company offers AI tools for legal and ...
Nature

Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers

A major artificial-intelligence conference has rejected 497 papers — roughly 2% of submissions — whose authors violated AI-use policies in their peer reviews of other articles submitted to the meeting ...
Wall Street Journal

Meta Executive Will Spearhead Push to Get Employees Using More AI

Meta Platforms’META1.24%increase; green up pointing triangle chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, is taking over supervision of the company’s efforts to adopt artificial intelligence throughout ...
CNBC

Anthropic says Claude can now use your computer to finish tasks for you in AI agent push

Anthropic is trialling a feature that lets users send prompts to Claude from a smartphone. Claude will complete the task on its own on a person's computer. Anthropic's product underscores its push ...
Gothamist

NYC schools get AI guidance using 'red light, green light' model

When it comes to artificial intelligence in schools, assigning grades gets a red light, translations get a green — and research gets a yellow. The city education department released its long-awaited ...
Fierce Healthcare

Health Tech Weekly Rundown: Perplexity rolls out AI-powered medical records search; Doximity survey examines how docs use AI

Stay up-to-date on the latest in health tech, digital health and health AI news with this weekly brief. This is news from the week of March 16-20. Perplexity teams with b.well on AI-powered medical ...