Deborah Yao

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AI Senior Editor at PYMNTS.com

Editor-in-Chief at The AI Innovator

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Fujitsu's AI Avatars Let Users Make Multilingual Business Presentations

1 week ago | theaiinnovator.com | Deborah Yao

TLDRFujitsu’s new AI Auto Presentation tool lets users create avatars of themselves to deliver automated, multilingual presentations and respond to questions in real time. The technology integrates with Microsoft 365 Copilot and supports over 30 languages, offering customizable content and autonomous slide transitions. Now available for trial via the Fujitsu Research Portal, the tool will see a global rollout in Q3 2025 and is designed to streamline business communication and boost productivity.
AWS Unveils Strands, a Simpler Way to Build AI Agents

1 month ago | theaiinnovator.com | Deborah Yao

TLDRStrands Agents is a free, open-source toolkit from AWS that helps developers build AI agents using just a model, tools and a prompt. It relies on powerful AI models like Claude or GPT to plan steps, use tools and complete tasks without needing detailed instructions. Strands works locally or in the cloud, comes with ready-made tools and is supported by companies like Meta and Anthropic.
Executive Q&A: EY AI Assurance Leader Says Governance Is 'Table Stakes' in AI Era

1 month ago | theaiinnovator.com | Deborah Yao

TLDRAI governance is becoming foundational — not just for compliance, but to guide investment, decision-making, and responsible deployment. EY is embedding generative AI across audit workflows, improving quality, speed, and usability with tools like EYQ Assurance Knowledge and its global Canvas platform. Effective AI oversight requires cross-functional teams, not bloated councils, and must be proactive rather than reactive to evolving global regulations.
OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive's Startup in Bold Bet to Reinvent Devices for the AI Age

1 month ago | theaiinnovator.com | Deborah Yao

TLDROpenAI has acquired Jony Ive’s AI hardware startup io for $6.5 billion, marking a bold push into consumer devices designed for the AI era. The deal deepens the partnership between Sam Altman and Ive, merging top-tier AI research with world-class hardware and product design to create a “new family of products.”This move could challenge Apple’s dominance, as OpenAI positions itself to redefine how people interact with AI – beyond screens and toward entirely new interfaces.
Google to Reinvent Search as an Integrated AI Assistant

1 month ago | theaiinnovator.com | Deborah Yao

TLDRGoogle unveiled a host of new AI capabilities to be integrated into Search via AI Mode, including agentic checkout and virtual try-ons. Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Flash, the latest from its flagship AI model family.
Darth Vader Has Something to Say to You, Young Padawan

1 month ago | theaiinnovator.com | Deborah Yao

Fortnite has taken voice communications to a galactic new level. In the game Fortnite Battle Royale, you can do something no young padawan – or battle-hardened bounty hunter – has done before: Talk to Darth Vader. And yes, he’ll respond. In real-time. With AI. Let that sink in like a lightsaber through a hapless storm trooper. Vader’s in-game presence has long loomed large – previous versions featured him as a silently lethal general.
FDA Taps Generative AI to Speed Up Drug Review Process

1 month ago | theaiinnovator.com | Deborah Yao

TLDRThe FDA is deploying generative AI to all of its centers to speed up the drug review process. A pilot among scientific reviewers showed that generative AI let them finish complex tasks in minutes, rather than days. The FDA’s AI integration could significantly shorten timelines for new therapies, marking a major shift in regulatory speed and efficiency.
Amazon Q Developer is Now Multilingual

2 months ago | theaiinnovator.com | Deborah Yao

Amazon Q Developer, the tech giant’s coding assistant, is now supporting multiple languages, addressing a critical need in software development. The new languages being supported are Mandarin, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Hindi, Portuguese and others. This enhancement lets developers worldwide interact with the AI-powered assistant in their native languages, breaking down barriers in global software development.
Economical and Multimodal: OpenAI's GPT-4.1 and Meta's Llama 4

2 months ago | theaiinnovator.com | Deborah Yao

TLDROpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 family offers improved coding skills and instruction-following abilities while supporting one million token context windows. GPT-4.1 is 26% cheaper than GPT-4o and come with deeper agentic capabilities for tasks like multi-document analysis. Meta’s new Llama 4 Scout and Maverick are natively multimodal, with Scout offering an unprecedented 10 million token window. The models outperform competitors like GPT-4.5 and Gemini 2.0 Pro on STEM benchmarks.
Amazon Ramps Up Fight Against Counterfeit Goods With Multimodal AI

2 months ago | theaiinnovator.com | Deborah Yao

TLDRAmazon invested over $1 billion in 2024 to combat counterfeit goods using AI and expanded enforcement. Multimodal AI models blocked more than 99% of suspected fake listings before brands had to act. Amazon’s Counterfeit Crimes Unit has taken action against over 24,000 bad actors since 2020. Amazon said it invested more than $1 billion in 2024 to combat counterfeits, expanding its use of AI and deepening its partnerships with law enforcement and brands to fight e-commerce fraud.