Personal AssistantsGoogle
Google’s first smart speaker in six years arrives next week
Google is launching its first new smart speaker in six years, the Google Home Speaker, with preorders opening June 17th...
The Verge AI
Personal AssistantsGoogle
The Gemini-Powered Google Home Speaker Is Finally Here
Google has released a new smart speaker powered by its Gemini AI chatbot, marking the company's first major smart...
Wired AI
Startups & Funding
Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom
A Canadian pension giant is acquiring an 8.2% stake in CtrlS, an Indian tech company operating over 15 data centers....
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation
DeepL has acquired Mixhalo to enhance its live-event audio streaming and translation capabilities. The acquisition...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
I Sold My AI Startup Before Revenue: Here’s What Investors Missed — And Founders Shouldn’t
An angel investor shares insights from selling his AI startup before generating revenue, discussing why deep technical...
Crunchbase News
Personal Assistants
Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’
Pinterest has launched 'Ask Pinterest,' an experimental AI-powered shopping app that enables users to discover products...
TechCrunch AI
AI AgentsGoogle
Google Cloud generative AI automates council planning operations
Google Cloud is deploying generative AI to automate council planning operations across UK municipal agencies, helping...
AI News
Startups & Funding
Hyperscalers may soon be unable to fund their AI buildout from cash flow alone
Major hyperscalers including Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle are spending on AI infrastructure at 70%...
The Decoder
Healthcare AIOpenAI
A near-autonomous AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry
OpenAI and Molecule.one demonstrated how a near-autonomous AI chemist powered by GPT-5.4 successfully improved a key...
OpenAI Blog
Startups & Funding
The next humanoid robot might not look human at all
Genesis AI, a French startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has unveiled Eno, a new general-purpose humanoid...
The Verge AI
LLM
MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA): a Two-Branch Block-Sparse Attention Trained on a 109B-Parameter MoE With a 3T-Token Budget
MiniMax released MSA, a sparse attention mechanism built on Grouped Query Attention that reduces per-token attention...
MarkTechPost
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI
OpenAI’s Deployment Simulation Extends Pre-Deployment Risk Assessment to Agentic Coding Through Simulated Tool Calls
OpenAI introduced Deployment Simulation, a method that replays past conversations through candidate models before...
MarkTechPost
Research & Papers
Could AI tell you where you left your keys?
Researchers have developed a new spatial memory system for robots that efficiently captures and recalls details about...
MIT News AI
Research & Papers
How to Build Memory-Efficient Transformers with xFormers Using Packed Sequences, GQA, ALiBi, SwiGLU, and Causal Attention
This article demonstrates how to implement xFormers, a toolkit for building memory-efficient Transformer models on GPUs...
MarkTechPost
LLM
Introducing LifeSciBench
LifeSciBench is a new expert-authored and expert-reviewed benchmark designed to evaluate how AI systems perform on...
OpenAI Blog
AI Agents
Databricks’ new agentic coworker Genie One brings AI automation to every part of the business
Databricks launched Genie One, an agentic AI tool designed to help business teams automate workflows and orchestrate...
SiliconANGLE
AI Agents
The AGI moment? Databricks’ new releases zero in on support and deployment of AI agents
Databricks released a new Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing architecture designed to support AI agents in...
SiliconANGLE
LLMAnthropic
Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Anthropic's business popularity is growing significantly among enterprise users despite recent tensions with the Trump...
TechCrunch Startups
Startups & Funding
Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls
Bland, a voice AI startup founded in 2023, has raised $50 million in funding to expand its AI agents that handle phone...
SiliconANGLE