“Some of the companies at the forefront of AI are telling Qualcomm, ‘By 2028, I need to make sure that I have the ability to run at least a hundred billion parameter model into a phone.’” Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon said this on Sources, Al…
CERN and French AI company Mistral signed a statement of intent on 15 October to build a “Large Physics Model“, which CERN calls the first foundation model for collider physics. It will be trained on simulated Large Hadron Collider data to help reconst…
Amazon is in talks to buy the AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Kate Clark and Lauren Thomas reported the talks, citing people familiar with the matter. A deal could come soon if …
TikTok chief executive Shou Chew expects AI to deliver a major scientific breakthrough within two to three years. He named physics, biotech, chemistry and materials science. Chew spoke on Monday at DBS Bank’s Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore…
Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a small model that picks between fixed answer options instead of writing text. Microsoft built it on Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.5-9B and then post-trained it, according to the Foundry model card. Achint Sri…
China has agreed to moderate its exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars to the EU, which EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said could cut them by more than half. He announced it on Friday in press remarks in Beijing, after the second round of EU-…
AUS trade body has opened a patent case against 20 companies over the power systems inside AI servers. Foxconn, Luxshare and Quanta are among them.The US International Trade Commission acted after a complaint by power-chip maker Vicor, it said on Frida…
Europe must give its startups the capital to grow without leaving the continent, Jean-Christophe Laloux said. The incoming chief executive of the European Investment Fund spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. “It’s not enough to innovate in Europe…
Chipmaker Cirrus Logic made a surprise offer for Synaptics last month, trying to break up its agreed sale to Onsemi, Liana Baker and Yiqin Shen reported for Bloomberg. Cirrus Logic is the ‘Party A’ named in an updated Synaptics filing on Thursday, peop…
Established software companies have to rebuild their products around AI, not add it as one more feature, SAP’s chief AI strategy officer Sean Kask said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. “Like the famous quip that every company is becomin…