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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia high school students on Tuesday testified in court about the horrors of being shot during their algebra class 2 years ago, and recounted through tears seeing a classmate in a pool of blood, then seeing blood on their own bodies and fearing they might die.Various students took the stand at the trial of Colin Gray, the father of Colt Gray, who investigators said had carefully planned the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at the school northeast of Atlanta that left two teachers and two students dead and several others wounded.This is one of several cases around the…
Indian conglomerate Adani Group said on Monday it would invest $100 billion over the next decade to build data centers specialized for AI across the country, a move that underscores India’s ambition to play a larger role in the global AI race. The investment, which will run through 2035, is aimed at building renewable-energy-powered data centers designed to support AI workloads, the company said. It expects the plan to catalyze an additional $150 billion in related investments and result in a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India over the decade. Adani is making this commitment against a backdrop of…
Indian IT giant Infosys said on Tuesday it has partnered with Anthropic to develop enterprise-grade AI agents, as automation driven by large language models reshapes the global IT services industry. Under the partnership, Infosys plans to integrate Anthropic’s Claude models into its Topaz AI platform to build so-called “agentic” systems. The companies claim these agents will be able to autonomously handle complex enterprise workflows across industries such as banking, telecoms, and manufacturing. The tie-up was announced at India’s AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, which will see top executives from AI companies and Big Tech alike in attendance.…
Big questions are swirling around AI’s real impact — and consultants are racing to supply the answers.Over the past year, consulting firms have begun deploying armies of AI agents as they work to transform their own operations and advise clients to do the same — automating research, building task-specific tools, and building proprietary AI models.McKinsey & Company CEO Bob Sternfels said last month that his firm has launched tens of thousands of internal AI agents in recent years, and eventually plans to have one for all of the company’s 40,000 employees.Amid the rapid rollout, consultants are now asking themselves a…
At Meta’s Manhattan office, employees line up for Mediterranean lamb loaded with mint and pomegranate molasses and dessert options like cassis and pear mousse. At KKR’s headquarters nearby, staff at the private equity firm order from a rotating lunch menu and have access to a full-service barista counter and a smoothie and juice bar.The competition over who does lunch best isn’t confined to the office. A recent debate on X pitted Anthropic’s pre-plated meals against OpenAI’s self-serve setup.”The glib answer is, it’s still cheaper than giving bonuses, stock options, and ownership.Against a backdrop of widespread corporate austerity, at Big Tech,…
Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit. The models, dubbed Tiny Aya, are open-weight — meaning their underlying code is publicly available for anyone to use and modify — support over 70 languages, and can run on everyday devices like laptops without requiring an internet connection. The model, launched by the company’s research arm Cohere Labs, supports South Asian languages such as Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi. The base model contains 3.35 billion parameters — a measure of its size and complexity. Cohere…
Salesforce cofounder Parker Harris addressed the controversy over CEO Marc Benioff’s ICE jokes in an internal meeting, saying he was “not OK with it,” Business Insider has learned.”Marc made a very bad joke,” Harris, who is the company’s chief technical officer, said. “But that’s something that Marc did, and I’m not gonna call him out in public out on the internet.”A transcript of Harris’ remarks at a meeting of the product and tech team last week was posted by an employee to a Slack channel. Business Insider verified that the transcript was accurate.Salesforce did not respond to a request for…
For the past three years, AI has been mostly a cost-cutting tool. A growing number of founders and investors are trying to move beyond that era.The next chapter of AI, they argue, will be defined by new kinds of products — apps, games, companions, and services that simply couldn’t exist before large language models. They call it AI’s “Second Wave.””The first wave of AI made existing things cheaper. Automation. Efficiency,” said Kylan Gibbs, a former Google DeepMind product manager who runs AI startup Inworld. “The next wave makes things that couldn’t exist before. New products. New experiences. New revenue. That’s the…
As American Heart Month gets underway, experts are warning that heart issues during pregnancy could set the stage for future risks from stroke and heart attack.Cardiovascular disease during pregnancy is the leading cause of pregnancy-related death in the United States, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).It also raises a woman’s lifetime risk of future cardiovascular problems, including stroke, heart attack and high blood pressure by 60% or more depending on the type of pregnancy complication, according to a recent analysis by the American Heart Association (AHA).Obesity crisis is worsening heart disease risks during and after pregnancy: Experts “Pregnancy is…
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