In a shocking statement, a senior defense official revealed to Defense One that the Pentagon's interest in autonomous killer robots is accelerating. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, stated that the Pentagon plans to reduce funding for artificial intelligence research in favor of actual AI weapon systems. He noted, 'We will no longer invest in 'artificial intelligence' because I don't know what that means. We will invest in autonomous killer robots.' The official added that the current government is more focused on weapon systems.

Baidu's Wenxin Intelligent Agent Platform has announced full integration with the DeepSeek model, now available for free to all users. The Wenxin Intelligent Agent Platform, launched by Baidu, is a platform for building intelligent agents based on the Wenxin large model, aimed at helping users quickly create and deploy intelligent agent applications.

The renowned AI art tool Midjourney today announced a range of important organizational feature updates for its website platform, aimed at significantly enhancing user management and the efficiency of organizing images. The core of this update lies in the introduction of a more sophisticated folder system. Users can now enjoy improved folder grouping capabilities and can create new content directly within folders. This improvement makes it more intuitive and convenient to classify and archive images. Additionally, Midjourney has optimized the workflow for handling images across different pages.

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, an increasing number of local governments are beginning to incorporate AI into their administrative services, aiming to enhance service quality and efficiency through intelligent means. Recently, the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone and Shenzhen Futian District have launched smart government assistants based on the DeepSeek large model, marking an important step in the application of AI in the government sector. In the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, the new smart government assistant has officially been put into use after testing by multiple enterprises. This assistant can not only handle consulting tasks but also perform...

In the field of artificial intelligence, the rise of DeepSeek has sparked widespread attention and concern in the West. However, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch has welcomed this emerging force, believing that DeepSeek's new models will promote the development of the open source ecosystem. Mistral, dubbed the 'European OpenAI,' has consistently advocated for open source principles, emphasizing the importance of openness and collaboration since its establishment in 2023. In an interview with Business Insider,

With the advancement of artificial intelligence technology, multi-agent systems are increasingly capable of handling complex tasks across various fields. These systems are composed of multiple specialized agents that collaborate to leverage their individual strengths and achieve common goals. Such collaboration excels in areas like complex reasoning, programming, drug discovery, and safety assurance, as the structured interactions between agents not only enhance problem-solving efficiency but also allow for mutual correction, thereby improving each agent's output. Research indicates that this collaborative approach often outperforms in tasks that require rigorous reasoning or fact verification.

The National Supercomputing Internet Platform recently announced the launch of the "AI Ecosystem Partner Acceleration Program," offering a series of benefits for enterprise users, including three months of free access to the DeepSeek API and supporting it with a computing power resource pool of ten million core hours. It is reported that the platform has completed the deployment of the full version of the DeepSeek model image. Currently, the platform has achieved interconnection with over 20 supercomputing and intelligent computing centers across 14 provinces, aggregating over 6,500 types of computing products, including nearly 2 AI model services.

Meta has recently launched a new risk policy framework aimed at assessing and mitigating the risks associated with cutting-edge AI models, with the intention to halt development or restrict the release of these systems when necessary. This framework, named 'Cutting-edge AI Framework', outlines how Meta will categorize AI models into high-risk and critical risk categories, and take appropriate measures to reduce risks to an 'acceptable level'. In this framework, critical risks are defined as those uniquely capable of executing specific threat scenarios, while high risk implies

Today, Alibaba's 1688 platform officially launched a new round of recruiting activities in Beijing and announced a significant decision during the event: all AI products aimed at merchants will be completely free. This initiative aims to further assist merchants in enhancing their business intelligence, reducing operational costs, and achieving more efficient operations.

Recently, the Honor YOYO Smart Agent Store announced the official launch of the DeepSeek-R1 trial version, bringing a brand new intelligent experience to Honor phone users. As long as users have their Honor phone system version at MagicOS 8.0 or above and upgrade the YOYO Assistant to version 80.0.1.503 or above, they can be among the first to experience this feature.

Recently, an AI system developed by Google DeepMind—AlphaGeometry2—has successfully surpassed the average level of gold medalists at the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), demonstrating outstanding performance in solving geometry problems. AlphaGeometry2 is an upgraded version of the AlphaGeometry system released by DeepMind last year. According to the latest research from the research team, this system can solve 84% of the geometry problems from the IMO over the past 25 years.

Artificial intelligence chip company Cerebras Systems announced on Thursday a partnership with French open-source AI technology firm Mistral, assisting the latter in setting a new speed record. Mistral aims to compete with open-source rivals like Meta and China's DeepSeek, which shook the global market last month with their low-cost and high-performance technologies. All three companies are in competition with OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT.

JetBrains, a company known for developing the IntelliJ IDE and the Kotlin language, has recently launched its first AI coding assistant, Junie. This new tool aims to assist developers with everyday development tasks and is capable of understanding the context of existing projects, providing support for the creation of new applications and feature expansions. Junie successfully solved a variety of common developer tasks in the highly regarded SWE-Bench Verified benchmark test.