“Humans who don’t embrace AI in a company will be replaced by humans who do,” Anthony Tan, founder of Grab, Southeast Asia’s preeminent ride-hailing company, said in an 11 March CNBC interview. “The same will apply to companies.”
Tag: AI
FIRST JOB INTERVIEW QUESTION: HOW SKILLED ARE YOU IN AI?
One in four tech jobs being posted specifies AI-related skills, with the proportion rising to 36 percent in the information-tech patch of that sector, The Wall Street Journal reported.
MCDONALD’S SUPERSIZES ITS AI INVESTMENT
AI is the main course in the technological makeover the burger chain is making to its 43,000 restaurants.
MISTRAL EMBRACES OPEN-SOURCE IN NEW AI MODELS
Mistral, the French AI developer, says it will unveil new platforms “pretty soon” that will outperform DeepSeek’s R1 model.
HELLO, AI. GOODBYE PROGRAMMERS.
One thing AI does especially well is to write computer code quickly and efficiently—more so than the hundreds of thousands of humans who make, and used to make, a living doing the same thing.
META PUSHES DEVELOPMENT OF VOICE-POWERED AI
Due to be released in a few weeks, Meta’s new LLaMA 4 AI will feature improved voice operation, as the AI industry moves its platforms from text to voice controls.
MERGE WITH AI OR BE REPLACED
Humans are being pressured in their work and personal lives to merge with AI in 24/7 “collaborative” existence, in order to avoid obsolescence.
AI BRIEFS
The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is considered to be the world’s best source of weather prognoses. Now those forecasts are even better.
AI INVENTS A MATERIAL AS STRONG AS STEEL, LIGHT AS STYROFOAM
An AI at the University of Toronto has invented a lattice-structured nanomaterial that shows the strength of carbon steel but is as airy as Styrofoam.
DEEPSEEK CLAIMS DAILY COST-PROFIT RATIO OF 545 PERCENT
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI start-up that shocked the industry in January by claiming a world-class AI was built for a sliver of what Western developers have spent, now says its V3 and R1 models show a cost-profit ratio as high as 545 percent every day.









