Artificial Intelligence

New AI-powered climate models can now predict regional climate impacts — including flooding, drought, and heat wave patterns — at resolutions of 1 kilometre, compared to the 100-kilometre resolution of traditional models.

Open-source AI models — led by Meta's Llama 3.2, Mistral's Mixtral, DeepSeek's R2, and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion — now power 38% of enterprise AI applications, up from 15% in 2024.

The FTC has proposed new regulations for AI voice cloning technology after testing revealed that the latest systems produce speech indistinguishable from real human voices in 97% of blind listening tests.

A World Bank study of AI-powered precision agriculture across 15 countries found that farms using AI systems reduced water consumption by 30% while increasing crop yields by 22%.