How AI Is Reshaping M&A Strategy Amid Trade Tensions and Global Volatility

As we head into summer 2025, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) stands at a crossroads. Geopolitical tensions, economic headwinds, and rapid advances in technology are forcing dealmakers to rethink how they source, structure, and close transactions. Trade policy is emerging as a major variable. Unpredictable tariffs, shifting…

Tom Dunlop, CEO and Founder of Summize – Interview Series

Tom Dunlop, CEO & Founder at Summize is an accomplished commercial and technology lawyer, Tom’s experience with reviewing contracts was the catalyst that led to Summize. Prior to this, he worked as a Global Legal Director for several fast-growth technology companies. Summize is transforming Contract Lifecycle Management…

AI tool speeds up government feedback, experts urge caution

An AI tool aims to wade through mountains of government feedback and understand what the public is trying to say. UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said: “No one should be wasting time on something AI can do quicker and better, let alone wasting millions of taxpayer…

Alibaba Wan2.1-VACE: Open-source AI video tool for all

Alibaba has unveiled Wan2.1-VACE, an open-source AI model designed to shake up how we create and edit videos. VACE isn’t appearing out of thin air; it’s part of Alibaba’s broader Wan2.1 family of video AI models. And they’re making a rather bold claim for it, stating…

Getting Language Models to Open Up on ‘Risky’ Subjects

Many top language models now err on the side of caution, refusing harmless prompts that merely sound risky – an ‘over-refusal’ behavior that affects their usefulness in real-world scenarios. A new dataset called ‘FalseReject’ targets the problem directly, offering a way to retrain models to respond…