While tech giants pour billions into computational power to train frontier AI models, China’s DeepSeek has achieved comparable results by working smarter, not harder. The DeepSeek V3.2 AI model matches OpenAI’s GPT-5 in reasoning benchmarks despite using ‘fewer total training FLOPs’ – a breakthrough that could reshape how the industry thinks about building advanced artificial

Enterprise leaders are entering 2026 with an uncomfortable mix of volatility, optimism, and pressure to move faster on AI and quantum computing, according to a paper published by the IBM Institute for Business Value. Its findings are based on more than 1,000 C-suite executives and 8,500 employees and consumers. While only around a third of

Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London have established a frontier AI research lab to overcome historic deployment challenges. Speed and scale have defined the current AI boom. But for enterprises, the primary obstacles to deployment are different: trust, accuracy, and lineage. Addressing these barriers, Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London have announced a five-year partnership

MuleSoft veteran to drive product innovation as CData scales connectivity platform for AI systems and autonomous agents CData Software, a provider of enterprise data connectivity solutions, today announced the appointment of Ken Yagen as Chief Product Officer (CPO). Yagen will lead product strategy and engineering as CData scales its connectivity platform for enterprises deploying agentic

Eaton to scale go-to-market strategy and drive adoption of Ataccama’s unified, agentic data trust platform Ataccama, the agentic data trust company, today announced the appointment of Andrea Eaton as Chief Marketing Officer to help lead the company’s global go-to-market strategy at a critical juncture as global enterprises accelerate data quality efforts so they can operationalize

With stronger consistency, faster generation, and expanded image capabilities, Vidu Q2 Image Generation delivers a full-stack upgrade for creative workflows ShengShu Technology, a global leader in multimodal generative AI, today launched advanced image generation on Vidu Q2, expanding its flagship model into a leading AI image platform. The new capabilities upgrade the reference-to-image features from

Two 23-year-olds from rural France beat Google DeepMind on industry benchmark within 40 days, backed by six unicorn founders including Hugging Face and SumUp Minitap, the AI-powered mobile development platform, today announced it has raised $4.1 million in seed funding co-led by Moxxie Ventures and Mercuri, with participation from EWOR, Tekton Ventures, Amigos Venture Capital,

Adastra Group, a leading global IT consultancy and services provider specializing in AI, data and cloud transformations, announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Agentic AI Specialization, a new category launched within the AWS AI Competency. This Specialization recognizes Adastra as an AWS Partner that enables customers to deploy autonomous AI

Researchers at Socket have uncovered more details of a sophisticated software supply-chain operation linked to the Contagious Interview campaign attacking developers who rely on packages from NPM. They report finding a “full stack” operation behind the attacks, where code hosting, package distribution, staging servers and command-and control (C2) infrastructure are orchestrated much like a legitimate

Qdrant has released Qdrant 1.16, an update of the Qdrant open source vector database that introduces tiered multitenancy, a capability intended to help isolate heavy-traffic tenants, boost performance, and scale search workloads more efficiently. Announced November 19, Qdrant 1.16 also offers ACORN, a search algorithm that improves the quality of filtered vector search in cases