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Alibaba Cloud on Thursday launched QwQ-32B, a compact reasoning model built on its latest large language model (LLM), Qwen2.5-32b, one it says delivers performance comparable to other large cutting edge models, including Chinese rival DeepSeek and OpenAI’s o1, with only 32 billion parameters. According to a release from Alibaba, “the performance of QwQ-32B highlights the power of reinforcement learning (RL), the core technique behind the model, when applied to a robust foundation model like Qwen2.5-32B, which is pre-trained on extensive world knowledge. By leveraging continuous RL scaling, QwQ-32B demonstrates significant improvements in mathematical reasoning and coding proficiency.” AWS defines RL [...]
Google on Thursday unveiled new security controls for Chrome Enterprise, allowing IT departments to help employees better distinguish between work and personal browsing profiles. Employees using Google Workspace or Google Identity will see a new sign-in experience that shows what’s managed and shared with their organization when they create a separate work profile for bookmarks, history, and other data. Chrome Enterprise Core businesses also have new policies and customizations, while Chrome Enterprise Premium provides advanced data protection and secure access, the company said. The browser suite includes new secure sign-ins, user authentication, and identity management across Google services. Google Identity [...]
Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. That’s the highest download number since 2023. LibreOffice, which runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, is a standalone desktop office productivity software that is free to use. Downloads have picked up since The Document Foundation, which manages its development, released version 25.2 last week. It has emerged as the most popular open-source suite, with alternative versions such as Apache’s OpenOffice losing steam. The last version of OpenOffice was released in 2023. “We estimate around 200 million [LibreOffice] [...]
Amazon Web Services customers can expect to hear a lot more about agentic AI in future with the news that the company is setting up a dedicated unit to promote the technology on its platform. The division will be headed by Swami Sivasubramanian, until now Amazon’s VP of AI and data services. “I’m excited about leading a new organization focused on advancing the power of agents, and look forward to bringing the latest innovation into the hands of our customers,” Sivasubramanian wrote on Wednesday in a LinkedIn post that set out the company’s agentic AI ambitions. “Agentic systems offer possibilities [...]
If you overlook the introduction of the iPhone 16e with its own Apple-designed 5G modem along with the release of new iPads, Macs and processors, you might argue that Apple didn’t make an impression at this year’s Mobile World Congress. However, it clearly did, as — thanks to rumors from two of the world’s most well-connected Apple bloggers — its mobile plans are casting a large shadow across the industry. These plans seem to involve the rapid development of faster and more performant mobile processors, intense effort to bring highly competitive and very fast 5G modems to market, platform-wide implementation of artificial intelligence, and [...]
I’m not gonna lie to you: Writing these Android Upgrade Report Cards isn’t always exhilarating. By and large, these reports tend to reinforce the same trends we see time and time again from the same small group of Android device-makers. Even when those trends are somewhat unpredictable in nature, that, too, often feels like a predictable quality. This Android upgrade cycle is decidedly different. With Android 15, officially launched in early September 2024, no one followed their typical upgrade performance patterns. Everything was topsy-turvy. And almost nothing played out in the way we’d expect. This exact type of underemphasized variability [...]
Google has launched an experimental search mode that replaces traditional links with AI-generated summaries, as it ramps up efforts to integrate AI amid growing competition. Currently, Google Search displays AI Overviews, which provide summaries above traditional search results. The new AI Mode expands on AI Overviews with improved reasoning and multimodal capabilities, allowing it to handle more complex queries, Google said in a blog post. “You can ask anything on your mind and get a helpful AI-powered response with the ability to go further with follow-up questions and helpful web links,” the company added.AI Mode runs on a customized version [...]
Apple has publicly been pushing back against a UK order that demands it create encryption backdoors, and it has now formally appealed that order to the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal. The filing is only slightly concerned with the UK market, said Fred Chagnon, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group. The United States has also echoed Apple’s concerns. The greater objective is getting the UK authorities to back off on the request, which would hopefully discourage other governments from trying the same tactic, Chagnon said, describing it as preventing a potential domino effect. Let’s say that Apple lets the order [...]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) spent a great deal of time deciding whether it should investigate Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI as a potential merger situation, but in the end, decided to open and close the investigation within 24 hours. In explaining why the the investigation was closed so quickly, Joel Bamford, CMA executive director, wrote in a LinkedIn post, “looking at the evidence in the round (including the recent changes), we have found that there has not been a change of control by Microsoft from material influence to de facto control over OpenAI. Because this change of control [...]
Microsoft is planning a string of new AI agents to automate mundane tasks and improve worker productivity. The company on Wednesday announced two AI-based sales agents that can autonomously follow up on sales leads. The company is also focusing on using agents to automate workflows across other sectors. The sales agents, which are available in Microsoft 365 Copilot, connect to data in Microsoft 365 and Salesforce and Dynamics CRM systems to automatically generate and communicate with sales leads. Salespeople spend hours verifying leads, writing to customers and then waiting for responses, said Bryan Goode, corporate vice president for business applications and platforms [...]