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Amazon reportedly wants to get in on the AI “reasoning” model game. According to Business Insider, Amazon is developing an AI model that incorporates advanced “reasoning” capabilities, similar to models like OpenAI’s o3-mini and Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s R1. The model may launch as soon as June under Amazon’s Nova brand, which the company introduced at its re:Invent developer conference last year. Reasoning models take a step-by-step, more considered approach to answering queries. This tends to boost their reliability in domains like math and science. The report says Amazon aims to adopt a “hybrid” reasoning architecture for its new model,…

While several of Google’s rivals, including OpenAI, have tweaked their AI chatbots to discuss politically sensitive subjects in recent months, Google appears to be embracing a more conservative approach. When asked to answer certain political questions, Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini, often says it “can’t help with responses on elections and political figures right now,” TechCrunch’s testing found. Other chatbots, including Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Meta AI, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT consistently answered the same questions, according to TechCrunch’s tests. Google announced in March 2024 that Gemini wouldn’t answer election-related queries leading up to several elections taking place in the U.S., India, and…

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House members voted 159-13 on Tuesday for a school safety bill that supporters say is aimed at preventing a school shooting like the one in September that killed two teachers and two students at Apalachee High School.But some lawmakers remain uneasy about its proposed creation of a statewide student database of disciplinary, mental health and law enforcement information to evaluate students who might commit violence. And although the House also passed a bill Tuesday to give a tax incentive to people who pay for gun storage devices or training, Democrats say the Republican-majority General Assembly isn’t…

United States President Donald Trump had set the motion to redesignate Yemen’s Houthis in January.The US has designated Yemen’s Houthi movement, known formally as Ansar Allah, as a “foreign terrorist” organisation, the US Department of State has said. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the department had restored the designation, which carries with it sanctions and penalties for anyone providing “material support” for the group. “The Houthis’ activities threaten the security of American civilians and personnel in the Middle East, the safety of our closest regional partners, and the stability of global maritime trade,” he said in a statement…

We still didn’t get a straight-up definition of exactly what an AI agent is during Bret Taylor’s Mobile World Congress fireside chat in Barcelona on Tuesday. The Sierra founder and OpenAI board chair preferred to sidestep CNN moderator Anna Stewart’s question asking how “agentic AI” is “any different to a GenAI chatbot” by suggesting everyone hates the former but is delighted by the “empathetic” responses AI agents can serve up. Given his new startup is building a customer service AI agent, you’d expect Taylor to be evangelical about the tech’s potential. And he did not disappoint: “I am more excited…

On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members of the AI community to lead breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and AI aficionados attending our newest event, which will be held in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley. There’s just one catch: You have to apply by this Friday, March 7, 2025, before midnight to be considered as a speaker, so head right here to do so. You only have four days left to…

The SANS Institute and OPSWAT on Tuesday published the 2025 ICS/OT Cybersecurity Budget Report. The report, based on a survey of 180 individuals representing critical infrastructure sectors around the world, shows that over a quarter of organizations have experienced one or more security incidents involving OT or control systems in the past year. It’s worth noting that the actual percentage is likely higher considering that 11% were unsure and nearly 20% were unable to answer due to company policy. The most common initial attack vector was a compromise in the IT environment that allowed the attacker to move to the…

Attorneys seeking approval of the $2.8 billion legal settlement for college sports pointed to nearly 102,000 athletes who signed up to receive damages from the action, while batting down objections to what they described as the “intergalactic paradigm shift” the settlement will create across the NCAA.In a motion filed in federal court Monday, plaintiff attorneys in the House settlement also noted that only 343 of nearly 390,000 people covered by the class-action lawsuit had opted out, while only 73 had submitted objections to the court.Meanwhile, 101,935 had either filed a claim form or updated their payment information, which gives them…

Cohere For AI, AI startup Cohere’s nonprofit research lab, this week released a multimodal “open” AI model, Aya Vision, the lab claimed is best-in-class. Aya Vision can perform tasks like writing image captions, answering questions about photos, translating text, and generating summaries in 23 major languages. Cohere, which is also making Aya Vision available for free through WhatsApp, called it “a significant step towards making technical breakthroughs accessible to researchers worldwide.” “While AI has made significant progress, there is still a big gap in how well models perform across different languages — one that becomes even more noticeable in multimodal…

The use of AI by companies is expanding rapidly. This requires the collection and processing of vast amounts of corporate data. The threat of sensitive company data and PII leaking is serious and heavily regulated by governments. One problem is that AI data processing is performed on devices with GPUs (such as Nvidia), while the data source (as in parameters and prompts) is delivered through connected devices more commonly using standard CPUs (such as Intel). Mapping the data from one device to another has been achieved in software with the use of Bounce Buffers. But these add overhead to the…