Artificial Intelligence on IT News https://it-news.uk/tags/artificial-intelligence/ Recent content in Artificial Intelligence on IT News Hugo en-us Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 Frontier AI Models Now Hold the Lead for Just 7 Weeks — and the Window Is Shrinking https://it-news.uk/posts/frontier-ai-models-hold-lead-7-weeks-eci/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/frontier-ai-models-hold-lead-7-weeks-eci/ <p>The top of the AI leaderboard used to be a long-term parking spot. Now it&rsquo;s more like a turnstile.</p> <p>The Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI), which tracks how language models perform across multiple benchmarks on a single unified scale, shows that the median time a frontier model holds the #1 ranking is now just seven weeks. Since February 2024, when Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude 3 Opus first nudged GPT-4 off the top, the crown has changed hands 17 times.</p> Apple quietly lobbies US government for access to Chinese DRAM chips https://it-news.uk/posts/apple-lobbies-us-government-cxmt-dram-chips/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/apple-lobbies-us-government-cxmt-dram-chips/ <p>Apple has been quietly lobbying the White House for permission to buy memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China&rsquo;s largest DRAM manufacturer, according to the Financial Times. The company first approached the US Commerce Department more than a month ago and has since reached out to other Washington officials, people familiar with the matter told the paper.</p> EA Executive Bullish on Generative AI for Streamlining Game Development https://it-news.uk/posts/ea-exec-generative-ai-game-development/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:48:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/ea-exec-generative-ai-game-development/ <p>One of the biggest pain points in the modern video game industry is the sheer length of development cycles. Back in the PlayStation 2 era, a game could ship in as little as 18 months. Today, five years — or more — has become the norm. Can the latest generative AI tools close that efficiency gap? At least one senior Electronic Arts executive thinks so.</p> Google DeepMind Invests $75 Million in A24 to Co-Develop AI Filmmaking Tools https://it-news.uk/posts/google-deepmind-a24-ai-film-tools/ Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:16:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/google-deepmind-a24-ai-film-tools/ <p>A new kind of alliance is taking shape in Hollywood — one that pairs the creative muscle of an iconic independent film studio with the artificial intelligence expertise of one of the world&rsquo;s leading AI research labs. Google DeepMind has invested $75 million (approximately ¥509 million) in A24, the studio behind breakout hits such as <em>Everything Everywhere All At Once</em>, <em>The Backrooms</em>, and <em>Marty Supreme</em>, with the two companies set to collaborate on building next-generation AI tools for filmmaking.</p>