Digital personalization in the healthcare industry is critical to elevate the customer experience. In keeping with that theme, CVS Health CEO David Joyner identified advancing digital strategies as one of four priorities for 2025 during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call Wednesday (Feb. 12). The newly redesigned CVS Health app will help “drive simplicity and efficiency…
Vice President JD Vance told European and Asian leaders in Paris on Tuesday that the Trump Administration was adopting an aggressive, America First approach to the race to dominate all the building blocks of artificial intelligence, and warned Europeans to dismantle regulations and get aboard with Washington. On his first foreign trip since taking office,…
Among the many storylines emerging in the wake of the sudden rise of Chinese AI development firm DeepSeek has been the importance of talent retention, which has taken on a new sense of urgency in light of the country’s growing tech race with the United States, according to analysts. The debut of the little known…
To many Chinese, DeepSeek’s success is a victory for China’s education system, proof that it equals that of the United States or has even surpassed it. The core team of developers and scientists behind DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up that has jolted the A.I. world, all attended university in China, according to the company’s founder. That’s…
France’s AI champion Mistral AI is a French political darling, with French President Emmanuel Macron greeting its free application for its Le Chat chatbot last week with an enthusiastic post, declaring “vive Le Chat!” The French government has also stepped up its support for the flagship startup with a series of contracts. Over the past…
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When Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek shocked Silicon Valley and Wall Street with its powerful new A.I. model, Marc Andreessen, the Silicon Valley investor, went so far as to describe it as “A.I.’s Sputnik moment.” Presumably, Mr. Andreessen wasn’t calling on the federal government to start a massive new program like NASA, which was our…
BEIJING: Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence (AI) model that it claimed surpassed the highly acclaimed DeepSeek-V3. The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max’s release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work and with their families,…
When it comes to AI, I’d consider myself a casual user and a curious one. It’s been creeping into my daily life for a couple of years, and at the very least, AI chatbots can be good at making drudgery slightly less drudgerous. But whenever I start to feel convinced that tools like ChatGPT and…
China’s DeepSeek has reshaped the pathways to hi-tech breakthroughs and shown how talent and software integration can be more powerful than scale, money or a “copycat” approach, according to observers. The meteoric arrival of DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) model also highlighted the need for US-China cooperation on innovation, despite Washington’s “small yard, high fence” policy…