Chris Mahl is President and Chief Executive Officer at Pryon. With more than two decades of experience at some of the world’s most well-known enterprise software companies, Chris specializes in scaling go-to-market and operational strategies for technology companies at all stages of growth. Pryon provides a…
Canada Must Become the New Leader in AI: The Road to 2029
Canada has a remarkable claim to fame in the realm of artificial intelligence. While the United States and China dominate the global stage with massive venture capital flows and booming tech giants, Canadians can point to many of AI’s pioneering minds—from Geoffrey Hinton, often hailed as…
Is Robot Exploitation Universal or Culturally Dependent?
People in Japan treat cooperative artificial agents with the same level of respect as they do humans, while Americans are significantly more likely to exploit AI for personal gain, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports by researchers from LMU Munich and Waseda University…
Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion
PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein folding models.
The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Prize to AlphaFold2 marks an important moment of recognition for the of AI role in biology. What…
Alibaba Cloud targets global AI growth with new models and tools
Alibaba Cloud has expanded its AI portfolio for global customers with a raft of new models, platform enhancements, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools. The announcements, made during its Spring Launch 2025 online event, underscore the drive by Alibaba to accelerate AI innovation and adoption on a global…
UK forms AI Energy Council to align growth and sustainability goals
The UK government has announced the first meeting of a new AI Energy Council aimed at ensuring the nation’s AI and clean energy goals work in tandem to drive economic growth. The inaugural meeting of the council will see members agree on its core objectives, with…
JPEG AI Blurs the Line Between Real and Synthetic
In February of this year, the JPEG AI international standard was published, after several years of research aimed at using machine learning techniques to produce a smaller and more easily transmissible and storable image codec, without a loss in perceptual quality. One possible reason why this…
ChatGPT hits record usage after viral Ghibli feature—Here are four risks to know first
Following the release of ChatGPT’s new image-generation tool, user activity has surged; millions of people have been drawn to a trend whereby uploaded images are inspired by the unique visual style of Studio Ghibli. The spike in interest contributed to record use levels for the chatbot…
4 signals AI will continue to be a narrative in 2025
AI innovations have taken the world by storm since ChatGPT’s debut in November 2022. We’ve seen more organisations integrate AI into their workflows: a recent survey by McKinsey revealed that 78% of the respondents work in organisations that use AI in at least one business function….
Bespoke LLMs for Every Business? DeepSeek Shows Us the Way
Once upon a time, the tech clarion call was “cellphones for everyone” – and indeed mobile communications have revolutionized business (and the world). Today, the equivalent of that call is to give everyone access to AI applications. But the real power of AI is in harnessing it for the…