Researchers from Microsoft have unveiled a scanning method to identify poisoned models without knowing the trigger or intended outcome. Organisations integrating open-weight large language models (LLMs) face a specific supply chain vulnerability where distinct memory leaks and internal attention patterns expose hidden threats known as “sleeper agents”. These poisoned models contain backdoors that lie dormant

The second day of the co-located AI & Big Data Expo and Digital Transformation Week in London showed a market in a clear transition. Early excitement over generative models is fading. Enterprise leaders now face the friction of fitting these tools into current stacks. Day two sessions focused less on large language models and more

At a glance Microsoft Research releases PazaBench and Paza automatic speech recognition models, advancing speech technology for low resource languages. Human-centered pipeline for low-resource languages: Built for and tested by communities, Paza is an end-to-end, continuous pipeline that elevates historically under-represented languages and makes speech models usable in real-world, low-resource contexts. First-of-its-kind ASR leaderboard, starting

At a glance Imitation learning becomes easier when an AI agent understands why an action is taken. Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models (PIDMs) predict plausible future states, clarifying the direction of behavior during imitation learning. Even imperfect predictions reduce ambiguity, making it clearer which action makes sense in the moment. This makes PIDMs far more data‑efficient than traditional approaches. Imitation learning teaches AI agents by example: show the

Apollo.io, a leading AI-native go-to-market platform, today announced that Matt Curl has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Founder Tim Zheng will continue as Chairman of the Board. Curl and Zheng have partnered closely for nearly six years, and Curl has worked with Apollo across multiple stages of the company’s journey, including advising the

EdgeLake’s advancement to LF Edge Stage 2 (Growth) signals growing adoption and maturity, reinforcing LF Edge’s momentum in production-ready edge infrastructure. With MCP enabling real-time AI access to live edge data without centralization, EdgeLake strengthens LF Edge’s momentum in AI-native, production-ready edge architectures. LF Edge projects are seeing increased cross-community collaboration and real-world implementations, demonstrating

Two new Jina reranker models deliver low-latency, production-ready relevance for hybrid search and RAG workloads Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today made two Jina Rerankers available on Elastic Inference Service (EIS), a GPU-accelerated inference-as-a-service that makes it easy to run fast, high-quality inference without complex setup or hosting. These rerankers bring low-latency, high-precision

Three robotic products, FF Futurist, FF Master, and FX Aegis, start sales and pre-order collection on the same day, with the first batch of deliveries planned for the end of February. The Mobile Manipulator Robot Series is planned to be launched later in February. Pricing of the three robots was also announced with the FF

For a time, it seemed to be the type of transaction that writes the headlines. Nvidia, whose chips have powered a lot of the AI boom, reportedly lining up an eye-popping $100 billion investment into OpenAI, ChatGPT’s parent company. Big money, big ambition, big future. And then – seemingly out of nowhere –  the deal was just …

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a broad multi-hour outage beginning on Monday evening, disrupting two critical layers of enterprise cloud operations. The outage, which lasted over 10 hours, began at 19:46 UTC on Monday and was resolved by 06:05 UTC on Tuesday. The incident initially left customers unable to deploy or scale virtual machines in