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Providence Health Care Ventures and ViewsML are using AI-driven virtual biomarker staining to speed cancer research and digital pathology—cutting analysis from weeks to days.

Many US-built AI systems fall short but competing against tech giants neither easy nor cheap

Michael Smith Health Research British Columbia conferred a Scholar Award to FHS Assistant Professor Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon. Background photo: DC Studio

The United Arab Emirates aims to compete with the U.S. and China in artificial intelligence. An Emirati AI lab, the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM), has released K2 Think, an open-source model designed to rival established AI chatbots. Researchers claim K2 Think, with 32 billion parameters, outperforms larger models like OpenAI's ChatGPT and China's DeepSeek in benchmark tests. It reportedly leads all open-source models in mathematical performance and is optimized for math, coding, and scientific research. The model's efficiency promises comparable or better computing power at a lower cost, a strategy similar to DeepSeek's market disruption. IFM emphasizes transparency by open-sourcing not only the models but also their entire development processes. This includes providing researchers with training code, datasets, and model checkpoints. The UAE and other Arab nations are investing in AI to diversify their economies away from fossil fuel dependence. K2 Think represents a significant step in the UAE's ambition to become a major player in the global AI landscape.

Research explores how empathy and the incentive to appear human affect the ability to distinguish between AI and human-written text. Results show that while AI can mimic human-like writing, humans str...

Alignment als Geheimnis des Lernerfolgs für Sprachmodelle Universität und Autoren: Die Studie wurde von Loek van Rossem und Andrew M. Saxe an der University College London durchgeführt. Ziel der Studi...

A Pew Research Center survey found that most American workers do not use AI chatbots in their jobs, with 55% rarely or never using them and 29% being completely unfamiliar with them. Only 16% of workers report regular use of AI chatbots, with younger workers and those with post-graduate degrees being more likely to adopt them. Among users, the most common applications are research, editing content, and drafting reports, and while 40% find chatbots helpful for working faster, only 29% believe they improve work quality. The main reason for non-adoption is the perceived lack of relevance to one's job, and employer attitudes towards chatbot use are largely neutral.

Researchers developed a novel approach to improve object counting in text-to-image models using a counting loss mechanism, enhancing accuracy without additional optimization steps. Their plug-and-play...

Mastering AI is a craft. Getting initial results is trivial, but achieving constant quality requires both knowledge and experience. This conference is for marketers, designers, and developers interest...