Transformer architecture, the one innovation that supercharged AI: Best ideas of the century

Today’s most powerful AI tools – those that can summarize documents, generate artwork, write poetry or predict how incredibly complex proteins fold – all rest on the shoulders of the “transformer”. This neural network architecture, first announced in 2017 at a modest conference center in California, allows machines to process information in a way that…

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China blocks Nvidia H200 AI chips that US government cleared for export – report | Nvidia

Suppliers of parts for Nvidia’s H200 have suspended production after Chinese customs authorities blocked shipments of the newly approved artificial intelligence processors from entering China, according to a report. Reuters could not immediately verify the information, which appeared in the Financial Times citing two people with knowledge of the matter. Nvidia did not immediately respond…

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Why Enterprises Keep Getting Stuck with Research Hardware

Share “AI Buyers’ Remorse: Why Companies Are Getting Stuck With Research Hardware” on Twitter Share “AI Buyer’s Remorse: Why Companies Get Stuck With Research Hardware” on Facebook Share “AI Buyer’s Remorse: Why Companies Get Stuck With Research Hardware” on LinkedIn Many customers purchase AI systems originally designed for research labs and attempt to integrate them…

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Shield AI Signs Contract with Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology to Accelerate and Indigenize Taiwan-Developed AI Pilots

TAIPEI, February 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Shield AI today announced that it has signed a contract with Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) to advance the development, demonstration and deployment of AI-driven unmanned systems. The collaboration will integrate Shield AI’s Hivemind platform into NCSIST’s intelligent unmanned systems, supporting both software development and…

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Microsoft builds AI Red Team in Israel as cyber risks accelerate

Microsoft’s development center in Israel is creating a new Israeli AI Red Team, focused on identifying weaknesses and threats in artificial intelligence systems. The new group will simulate advanced attacks against the company’s AI-based services and operate within Microsoft’s internal security organization. At the same time, Microsoft is recruiting around 50 employees for cybersecurity positions…

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How AI Search Summaries Are Redefining B2B Demand Generation

Generative AI is being reshaped how buyers discover information and how marketers design campaigns. Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered research summaries have had a huge impact on the effectiveness of long-form content, condensing the buyer’s journey and forcing marketers to rethink how to reach their audiences. Visibility is no longer guaranteed by publication volume. What matters is…

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Making AI smarter without more training data | UCR News

A study by UC Riverside researchers offers a practical solution to one of artificial intelligence’s toughest challenges by enabling AI systems to reason more like humans, without requiring new training data beyond testing questions. In a preprint paper entitled “Test-Time Matching: Unlocking Compositional Reasoning in Multimodal Models”, assistant professor Yinglun Zhu and students introduce a…

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