Browsing: AI News & Trends

The world of search is just changing so quickly right now that even seasoned marketers are suddenly double-checking their playbooks.The most recent update to how SEO and SEM are morphing in 2025 reports that artificial intelligence isn’t just changing search, “it’s literally dictating the entire nature of where information is found, ranked and served!”That shift is the emerging reality and Generative Engine Optimization, or GEO, is playing a central role in it – certainly if you go by what AI-driven engines have to offer today (more on that later when we take a look at how artificial intelligence now curates and synthesizes answers…

Banks that want to lend with a conscience have perhaps just received a major helping hand. Indian tech major Tech Mahindra (TECHM) has introduced a new platform “ i.GreenFinance ” which seeks to assist banks and lenders in negotiating the complex universe of green and sustainability-linked financing with the help of AI. IT Brief Asia+1i.GreenFinance is not just another fintech widget. Developed with Amazon Web Services (AWS) the tool leverages cloud-based computing and generative-AI to automate ESG ( environment, social, governance ) data collection, scoring, reporting and compliance – from loan origination through to disbursement and post-fund usage tracking.This will require real-time scrutiny, audit-ready…

You know that image you have, of a day when Photoshop might work like the computer in “Star Trek”?Choose a lighting, say, snap your fingers and there you go: It shifts the shadows; moves stuff around; cleans up text; hell, maybe it even whirls your sketch into something akin to a finished poster?Well, the moment may be now. Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Firefly just received a massive upgrade: Nano Banana Pro – the new image-producing / manipulation model running on Gemini 3 from Google.And the integration means that going forward, creators working in Firefly or Photoshop can borrow some of Nano Banana Pro’s…

Bizarre how a perfectly fine day can turn inside out. Now imagine this: Your phone rings, your sister’s quaking voice comes over the line and at some point before you have time to address it, a knot forms in your stomach.That’s exactly why these new AI-fueled “family voice” scams are so successful so quickly – they flourish on fear long before reason comes into play.One recent story detailed how the bad guys are now employing sophisticated voice-cloning techniques to replicate loved ones so uncannily, people let down their guard and watched helplessly as their life savings disappeared in minutes.And here’s how real the risk can…

A new phase in the AI arms race quietly started this week – and whether a computer beats you or not, there is no turning back. It’s what the physical guts are behind them: hardware.Foxconn and OpenAI said they would collaborate to develop and fabricate key infrastructure within the United States for artificial-intelligence work in data centers.That covers power systems, networking gear, cooling – all the bits and pieces that high-performance AI calls for.As part of the agreement, Foxconn will work to make AI racks and associated components through its manufacturing capacity in the U.S.The somewhat secretive nature of both systems became instantly more so…

Large language models (LLMs) sometimes learn the wrong lessons, according to an MIT study.Rather than answering a query based on domain knowledge, an LLM could respond by leveraging grammatical patterns it learned during training. This can cause a model to fail unexpectedly when deployed on new tasks.The researchers found that models can mistakenly link certain sentence patterns to specific topics, so an LLM might give a convincing answer by recognizing familiar phrasing instead of understanding the question.Their experiments showed that even the most powerful LLMs can make this mistake.This shortcoming could reduce the reliability of LLMs that perform tasks like…

More than 300 people across academia and industry spilled into an auditorium to attend a BoltzGen seminar on Thursday, Oct. 30, hosted by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (MIT Jameel Clinic). Headlining the event was MIT PhD student and BoltzGen’s first author Hannes Stärk, who had announced BoltzGen just a few days prior.Building upon Boltz-2, an open-source biomolecular structure prediction model predicting protein binding affinity that made waves over the summer, BoltzGen (officially released on Sunday, Oct. 26.) is the first model of its kind to go a step further by generating novel protein binders that are ready to…

The world of writing is moving so quickly these days that some people can barely catch their breath.A fresh report being passed along with this latest piece of research indicates that 61% of professional scribes say they are currently using AI as part of their daily work, and a quarter even depend on it each day.It’s funny – when you’re speaking to writers, you hear it to their tone: a little “damn this is really helping me!” with the undertone of “hold up… is this going to REPLACE us one day?”The poll takes a closer look at how people are using these tools. When…

A federal judge has come in and ordered OpenAI to stop, quoting a statutory maximum of $2 million that apparently applies when you name your product “Cameo” after a video-generation feature like Sora’s despite not actually mentioning the lawsuit but I guess having to write about it just once is too much.Irritating as hell.That ruling was prompted by an argument from Cameo, claiming that OpenAI’s branding is a little too close for comfort – which we’ve already explained in greater depth within our coverage of the dispute between the pair and its ongoing follow-ups as well as this breakdown when it comes…

There is growing attention on the links between artificial intelligence and increased energy demands. But while the power-hungry data centers being built to support AI could potentially stress electricity grids, increase customer prices and service interruptions, and generally slow the transition to clean energy, the use of artificial intelligence can also help the energy transition.For example, use of AI is reducing energy consumption and associated emissions in buildings, transportation, and industrial processes. In addition, AI is helping to optimize the design and siting of new wind and solar installations and energy storage facilities.On electric power grids, using AI algorithms to…