How Moonshot AI beat GPT-5 & Claude at a fraction of the cost
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 Thinking model outperformed GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 across key benchmarks—at just $4.6M training cost.| AI News
Author: Olga Zharuk, CPO, Teqblaze When it comes to applying AI in programmatic, two things matter most: performance and data security. I’ve seen too many internal security audits flag third-party AI services as exposure points. Granting third-party AI agents access to proprietary bidstream data introduces unnecessary exposure that many organisations are no longer willing to […] The post Local AI models: How to keep control of the bidstream without losing your data appeared first on AI News.| AI News
In its pursuit of a direct-to-consumer (DTC) first business model, Levi Strauss is weaving AI and cloud platforms into its core operations. The nearly 175-year-old apparel company is leveraging Microsoft technologies to modernise its consumer experiences and improve internal productivity. Levi Strauss’ approach provides a case study for other enterprises in using a unified technology […] The post How Levi Strauss is using AI for its DTC-first business model appeared first on AI News.| AI News
New insight from the CQF Institute, a worldwide network for quantitative finance professionals (quants), reveals that fewer than one in ten specialists believe new graduates possess the AI and machine learning skills necessary to succeed in the industry. This highlights a growing issue in quantitative finance: a lack of human understanding and fluency in the […] The post Quantitative finance experts believe graduates ill-equipped for AI future appeared first on AI News.| AI News
Alibaba is updating its artificial intelligence chatbot Qwen as it pushes to catch up with tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The revised app replaces the older Tongyi version and became available on both major app stores on Friday, last week. In its app-store descriptions, Alibaba calls Qwen the “most powerful official AI assistant for its models” […] The post Alibaba rolls out revamped Qwen chatbot as model pricing drops appeared first on AI News.| AI News
Security leaders face a new class of autonomous threat as Anthropic details the first cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by AI. In a report released this week, the company’s Threat Intelligence team outlined its disruption of a sophisticated operation by a Chinese state-sponsored group – an assessment made with high confidence – dubbed GTG-1002 and detected […] The post Anthropic details cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by AI appeared first on AI News.| AI News
When Visa unveiled its Intelligent Commerce platform for Asia Pacific on November 12, it wasn’t just launching another payment feature—it was building AI commerce infrastructure to solve a crisis most merchants haven’t noticed yet: their websites are being flooded by AI agents, and there’s no reliable way to tell which ones are legitimate shoppers and which are malicious bots. […] The post Visa builds AI commerce infrastructure for the Asia Pacific’s 2026 Pilot appeared firs...| AI News
According to IBM, the primary barrier holding back enterprise AI isn’t the technology itself but the persistent issue of data silos. Ed Lovely, VP and Chief Data Officer at IBM, describes data silos as the “Achilles’ heel” of modern data strategy. Lovely made the comments following the release of a new study from the IBM […] The post IBM: Data silos are holding back enterprise AI appeared first on AI News.| AI News
New US data centre projects in Texas and New York will receive $50 billion in new funding, part of a plan to grow US computing capacity for advanced AI work. The facilities, built with Fluidstack, are designed for Anthropic’s systems and will focus on power and efficiency needs that come with training and running large […] The post New data centre projects mark Anthropic’s biggest US expansion yet appeared first on AI News.| AI News
Baidu’s latest ERNIE model, a super-efficient multimodal AI, is beating GPT and Gemini on key benchmarks and targets enterprise data often ignored by text-focused models. For many businesses, valuable insights are locked in engineering schematics, factory-floor video feeds, medical scans, and logistics dashboards. Baidu’s new model, ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, is designed to fill this gap. What’s interesting […] The post Baidu ERNIE multimodal AI beats GPT and Gemini in benchmarks ...| AI News
Google has rolled out Private AI Compute, a new cloud-based processing system designed to bring the privacy of on-device AI to the cloud. The platform aims to give users faster, more capable AI experiences without compromising data security. It combines Google’s most advanced Gemini models with strict privacy safeguards, reflecting the company’s ongoing effort to […] The post Google reveals its own version of Apple’s AI cloud appeared first on AI News.| AI News
According to Wiz, the race among AI companies is causing many to overlook basic security hygiene practices. 65 percent of the 50 leading AI firms the cybersecurity firm analysed had leaked verified secrets on GitHub. The exposures include API keys, tokens, and sensitive credentials, often buried in code repositories that standard security tools do not […] The post Wiz: Security lapses emerge amid the global AI race appeared first on AI News.| AI News
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 Thinking model outperformed GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 across key benchmarks—at just $4.6M training cost.| AI News
OpenAI told an Indian court that deleting training data used for ChatGPT would conflict with its legal obligations in the United States.| AI News
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Go free in India for one year from November 4. Here's a deep dive into the competitive strategy behind the move| AI News
Discover how CaseGuard Studio’s AI-powered redaction platform automates data protection with 98% accuracy. Ideal for law enforcement, healthcare, legal, and financial sectors.| AI News
Dell Technologies used the Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas to announce the latest generation of AI acceleration servers which come equipped with Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra GPUs. The systems claim to deliver up to four times faster AI training capabilities compared to previous generations, as Dell expands its AI Factory partnership with Nvidia amid intense […]| AI News
Dell’s AI Factory and Data Platform, built with NVIDIA, help enterprises move beyond pilots by unifying infrastructure and data.| AI News
Millions of US federal government workers are about to get a new AI assistant on their devices for free in the form of Microsoft Copilot.| AI News
The privacy defenders at Proton have deployed an upgrade to their AI assistant, Lumo, that promises faster and more intelligent responses.| AI News
A leak suggests that OpenAI is about to launch a powerful new open-source AI model, potentially within hours.| AI News
The Qwen team from Alibaba have just released a new version of their open-source reasoning AI model with some impressive benchmarks.| AI News
