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The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"

—Pope Leo XIV

Multiverse Computing Unveils Quasar 438B, Citing Benchmark Lead over Mistral and NVIDIA

Quasar 438B, Multiverse Computing's newly introduced reasoning model for enterprise AI applications and coding.

The company said Quasar 438B scored 43 on Artificial Analysis’ Intelligence Index, ahead of Mistral Medium 3.5 at 30, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra at 38 and Inkling at 42.

Google Takes Gemini into Legal and Finance with Industry-Specific AI Agents

Google Gemini logo representing Google’s expansion of Gemini Enterprise into legal and financial services.

Google Cloud on Tuesday launched two industry-specific versions of Gemini Enterprise for legal and financial services. Gemini Enterprise for Legal uses purpose-built skills for tasks including contract review, legal research, regulatory monitoring and data access requests. It also uses secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors to connect AI agents with legal systems while retaining existing… Continue reading Google Takes Gemini into Legal and Finance with Industry-Specific AI Agents

Google Offers Free 1-Year AI Plans to College Students, Adds New Gemini Study Tools

Google has offered free AI tools to college students in US and rest of the world free for a year.

Under the offer, students in the United States can get Google AI Pro free for 12 months. Students in India and other countries can get Google AI Plus free for a year. Google has also launched a dedicated student hub in Gemini with study notebooks, flashcards, quizzes and more.

He Thought Gemini Was His Wife. Now His Father Is Suing Google.

the latest lawsuit against Google's AI chatbot Gemini alleges that a ,man took his life after his delusional thoughts were encouraged by Artificial Intelligence

The latest lawsuit against Google is one among filed by families of victims who claimed the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot encouraged harmful thoughts of users.