Cheshire Police harnessing AI to help officers catch stalkers

Cheshire Police has become the first force in the UK to use artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool during stalking investigations. The force hopes the technology will identify suspects' patterns of behaviours at a much earlier stage. Det Ch Insp Danielle Knox, who leads its stalking unit, said that while AI would never "replace the human element", it would instead "enhance" what officers currently do. "We have ethics committees and checks and balances in place to make sure the algorithms work in the way we want them to," she said....

Buzzy Sentient AI Thriller ‘Hot Spot’ From Agnieszka Smoczynska Finds French Distribution With The Jokers

Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s (“The Silent Twins”) highly anticipated sentient AI thriller “Hot Spot” has found French distribution with The Jokers, in a deal that was brokered by Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales. Focus Features previously acquired worldwide rights to the film, excluding France, Poland and Greece. Set in the near future in a society ruled by sentient artificial intelligence, “Hot Spot” follows a private investigator who stumbles upon a rebel group capable of undermining the digital overlord while investigating a murder case. BAFTA and Intl.

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Fortinet Battles Evildoers With AI, Joins Big Cap 20: Check Out Stocks Just Added To Sector Leader, Other IBD Best Stocks Lists

IBD stock screens are regularly updated to add new stocks to watch, as well as weed out those that have started to show weakness. In the tables below, you'll see which stocks have been added to or removed from lists like the IBD 50, Sector Leaders and the IBD Big Cap 20. The market rally continued to gain momentum Tuesday…

DeepSeek’s ‘Tech Madman’ Founder Is Threatening US Dominance in AI Race

With his wispy frame and reserved style, Liang Wenfeng can come off as shy, nervous even, in meetings. The founder of DeepSeek—the Chinese startup that recently upended the world of artificial intelligence—is prone to faltering speech and prolonged silences. But new hires learn quickly not to mistake his quiet rumination for timidity. Once Liang processes the finer points of a discussion, he fires off precise, hard-to-answer questions about model architecture, computing costs and the other intricacies of DeepSeek’s AI systems. Employees refer to Liang as lâobân, or “boss,” a common...

Nvidia Breaks Through $3T Market Cap Once Again

Nvidia climbed above a $3 trillion market capitalization for the first time since Feb. 28, pushing its valuation to nearly $3.2 trillion, according to Dow Jones Market Data, Barron’s reports. The stock (NVDA) rose 5.6% Tuesday to $129.93 a share, adding to a gain of more than 5% Monday on news of a U.S.-China trade deal. Nvidia was the most active stock in the S&P 500 Tuesday and the third-best performer in the Nasdaq 100 on the news that Arabia’s state-backed Humain will be purchasing hundreds of thousands of Nvidia...

Anthropic, Google score win by nabbing OpenAI-backed Harvey as a user

Popular legal AI tool Harvey will now be using leading foundation models from Anthropic and Google, moving beyond strictly using OpenAI’s, Harvey announced in a blog post on Tuesday. This is noteworthy because Harvey is one of the OpenAI Startup Fund’s most successful early-backed portfolio companies. The OpenAI Startup Fund is an OpenAI-associated fund to back companies developing products on top of AI technologies, primarily OpenAI’s own. While Harvey says it’s not abandoning OpenAI, merely adding more models and clouds, this is still a huge coup for OpenAI’s big competitors....

Noncoders are using AI to prompt their ideas into reality. They call it ‘vibe coding.’

The aspiring app developers of today no longer have to be fluent in coding. Instead, many are describing apps into existence using plain English. In a world increasingly fueled by the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence, user-friendly large language models like ChatGPT and Claude are now able to transform plain-language requests into working computer code, enabling novice programmers to cobble together programs that would otherwise be above their pay grade.

FDA plans to embrace AI agencywide

OpenAI has been connecting with various companies in an effort to incorporate its generative artificial intelligence technology, and federal agencies are rumored to be part of that effort. While a contract with Open AI has yet to be confirmed, the Food and Drug Administration is suggesting that AI will be a part of its operations sooner rather than later. The announced an "aggressive timeline" to deploy artificial intelligence internally immediately, with full integration across all FDA centers by June 30, following the completion of a new generative AI pilot for...

Cisco Enters AI Partnership With Saudi Arabia

Cisco CSCO 0.23%increase; green up pointing triangle will enter a multi-year artificial intelligence partnership with Saudi Arabia, joining its HUMAIN initiative to accelerate the country’s AI development.

The networking and security company said Tuesday the partnership aims to build the world’s most open, scalable, resilient and cost-efficient AI infrastructure, and position Saudi Arabia as a global leader in digital innovation.