Startups & Funding
Exclusive: Scotch Raises $20M Series A To Disrupt Legacy Liquor Retail Tech With AI
Scotch, a Denver-based AI-native operating system for liquor store owners, has raised $20M in Series A funding. The...
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Startups & Funding
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
Flourish, a neuroscience-focused AI company backed by Jeff Bezos, has secured $500 million in funding at a reported...
Wired AI
Ethics & Regulation
AI can now coach amateur virologists, and top tech leaders want Congress to act on DNA security
Tech leaders including Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are calling for Congress to mandate DNA synthesis screening to...
The Decoder
AI Agents
Amazon brings AI shopping assistant to retailers with Kate Spade
Amazon is launching an Agentic Shopping Assistant built on AWS that enables retailers to deploy customized AI shopping...
AI News
AI Agents
Amazon develops a warehouse robot that workers can speak to
Amazon has unveiled an upgraded version of its Proteus warehouse robot that can now understand natural language...
The Verge AI
LLM
Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights
Miso Labs has released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8 billion parameter text-to-speech model that uses residual vector...
MarkTechPost
AI Agents
Meet OpenJarvis: A Local-First Framework for On-Device Personal AI Agents with Tools, Memory, and Learning
Stanford researchers released OpenJarvis, an open-source framework that enables personal AI agents to run entirely...
MarkTechPost
Ethics & Regulation
OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons
OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI leaders have signed a letter to lawmakers urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA...
Wired AI
Healthcare AI
Biodefense in the Intelligence Age
The article discusses an action plan for leveraging AI technology to enhance biological resilience and biodefense...
OpenAI Blog
AI Agents
Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”
MIT researchers developed a method to train AI agents to ask better questions by using the classic game Battleship as a...
MIT News AI
AI Agents
How to Build a Document Intelligence Backend with iii Using Workers, Functions, and Cron Triggers
The article describes building a document intelligence backend using iii by registering modular functions and reusing...
MarkTechPost
LLM
Ideogram 4.0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution and improved text rendering
Ideogram has released version 4.0 of its text-to-image model as an open-weight model featuring native 2K resolution,...
The Decoder
AI Agents
The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain
Nvidia's robotics lead Spencer Huang discusses a new humanoid robot that combines Chinese hardware with American...
Wired AI
Ethics & Regulation
Trump's new executive order wants AI companies to voluntarily submit models for government safety reviews
The White House issued an executive order requiring government agencies to strengthen cyber defenses with AI tools and...
The Decoder
Ethics & Regulation
Trump’s EO Furthers Model Exclusivity, Harming Cyber Defenders
A Trump Executive Order aims to strengthen relationships between AI model providers and the federal government, but...
AI Business
Startups & Funding
Safeguarding SaaS Success in the Changing AI Market
The article discusses how SaaS companies must adapt to the AI market by integrating AI technologies into their...
AI Business
AI Agents
Amazon’s search bar will invent AI-generated products you can’t buy
Amazon's updated search bar will now show you AI-generated images of products as you describe them. For now, the in-app...
The Verge AI
AI Agents
Amazon will show AI product images when you search for some reason
Amazon is implementing AI-generated product images and visual search technology to help users discover relevant...
TechCrunch AI
Ethics & Regulation
This Is How Trump Finally Signed the AI Executive Order
Donald Trump signed an AI executive order on Monday night after previously shelving the original version. The article...
Wired AI