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ByteDance Launches Doubao Real-Time AI Voice Assistant for Phones
The company behind TikTok is rolling out a smartphone AI assistant that behaves less like an app and more like a secretary
DeepSeek ‘Integrates Thinking’ Into New AI Models
DeepSeek has debuted two new versions of an experimental artificial intelligence (AI) model. “DeepSeek-V3.2 is our first model to integrate thinking
Tariffs? Customs? FML. AI’s chance to revolutionize logistics
Supply chain chaos in recent years put a spotlight on everything from port backups to last-mile delays, spurring a wave of startup activity (and significant funding) across the board. Some...
New agentic capabilities in AWS Transform enable rapid modernization of any code or application
Customers can accelerate the reduction of their legacy tech debt and shift valuable resources toward innovation.
FDA offers staff ‘agentic AI’ to support pre-market reviews, administrative tasks
The FDA is offering staff a broad set of agentic AI tools despite concerns that the technology can behave unpredictably
Investors Renew Funding for Core AI Capabilities
A new wave of funding rounds across the artificial intelligence (AI) startup ecosystem is signaling that investors are continuing to place big bets on
Forrester Analyst Takes For Digital Content in 2026
Forrester’s analysts speculate on the trends in digital content for 2026 as businesses continue to invest in and expect business value from generative AI.
John Giannandrea leaving Apple following AI strategy miss
Apple has announced that John Giannandrea, the company’s Machine Learning and AI Strategy boss, is retiring from the company. The…
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI
An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
From cloud-native to AI-native: Why your infrastructure must be rebuilt for intelligence
To keep up, companies need to rebuild for AI — using GPUs, vector databases and smarter MLOps — so IT can finally become a driver of real innovation, not just...
The State of AI: welcome to the economic singularity
This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job...
At NeurIPS, NVIDIA Advances Open Model Development for Digital and Physical AI
NVIDIA releases new AI tools for speech, safety and autonomous driving — including NVIDIA DRIVE Alpamayo-R1, the world’s first open industry-scale reasoning vision language action model for mobility — and...
Why Your Company Needs a Chief Data, Analytics, and AI Officer
Who should be in charge of data, analytics, and AI? While there are many possible divisions of responsibility and reporting structures, a combined role—the CDAIO (Chief Data, Analytics, and AI...
OSTP’s Misguided Effort to Deregulate AI
With growing concern about unregulated AI, OSTP is asking precisely the wrong questions, Ankit Khosla, Alice Fisher and Christabel Randolph write.
Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys bet tightens its grip on the chip-design stack
The $2 billion investment in Synopsys, which makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips, deepens their existing partnership at a time when analysts scrutinize circular AI-industry deals and warn...
Amazon’s AI chatbot Rufus drove sales on Black Friday
On Black Friday, Amazon sessions that resulted in a sale were up 100% in the U.S. when the AI chatbot Rufus was used. They only increased by 20% when Rufus...
California utilities try AI to combat costly wildfire liabilities
Massive Wildfire Liabilities Push Utilities to Use AI to Stop Blazes
Runway rolls out new video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark
Gen 4.5, a new AI model that allows users to generate high-definition videos based on written prompts.
More Than 20 Million Americans’ Work Can Be Replaced with Today’s AI, MIT Study Says
A new study from MIT estimates that 11.7 percent of the American workforce could be replaced with today’s AI systems.
Amazon and Visa Team to Boost Agentic Commerce
Visa and Amazon Web Services want to help developers and enterprises deploy agentic AI commerce projects. To that end, the companies announced Monday
Amazon Connect Gets Agentic AI Boost As AWS Pushes To Regain Market Share
AWS signals a competitive posture in the CCaaS market with new agentic AI capabilities for Amazon Connect ahead of AWS re:Invent 2025. Can it beat competitors?
AI could double the US economy’s growth rate over the next decade, says Anthropic
A new study found that Claude reduces the time work-related tasks take by an average of 80% – with some important caveats.
Jorja Smith’s record label wants royalties from ‘AI clone’ song I Run by Haven
The label claims Haven’s dance hit I Run was made using AI trained on the award-winning singer’s voice.
Small changes make some AI systems more brain-like than others
Artificial intelligence systems that are designed with a biologically inspired architecture can simulate human brain activity before ever being trained on any data, according to new research from Johns Hopkins...
Startup Minitap Tops DeepMind’s Mobile AI Benchmark, Raises $4.1 Million Seed Round
Minitap’s young founders topped Google DeepMind’s AndroidWorld benchmark and raised a seed round to build an AI tool that gives agents control of real mobile apps.
ByteDance Challenges Alibaba’s Reign in China’s AI Cloud Market
ByteDance is best known in the U.S. as the owner of TikTok. In China, the tech giant is also becoming known as a major force in cloud computing—so much so...
The Risk Of Prompt Injection : Your AI Copilots Can Be Hacked With Words
Your “friendly” chat interface has become part of your attack surface. Prompt injection is an acute risk to your safety, individually and as a business.
New AI could teach the next generation of surgeons
Doctors too busy? AI offers med students real-time expert feedback
The question isn’t wether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will be
Will the bubble ravage the economy when it bursts? What will it leave of value once it pops?
How A Tiny Polish Startup Became The Multi-Billion-Dollar Voice Of AI
ElevenLabs’ computer voices are so convincing they could fool your mother. That’s both a blessing and a curse for the four-year-old company.
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”
How elite business schools like Wharton are overhauling curriculum as AI reshapes Wall Street bankers’ futures
The University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt are revamping business education as AI transforms Wall Street.
‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI
In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it
Used by Adobe, Canva and Meta, Germany’s Black Forest Labs lands €258 million to scale its visual-AI platform
Freigburg-based Black Forest Labs, the visual intelligence company behind FLUX, today announced a €258 million ($300 million) Series B in order to accelerate research and development, hiring, and infrastructure efforts...
78% of IT job postings already require AI skills
AI is poised to reshape baseline skills for a successful career in IT. Reskilling to remain relevant — and to establish future IT role pipelines — will be paramount.
From low-code to vibe code: Why you may no longer need software engineers
Vibe coding lets anyone build apps in plain English using AI, unleashing innovation – but without guardrails, risks in security, quality, and compliance loom.
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Latest AI Group Chat Features Like Those In ChatGPT Are Fundamentally Changing Mental Health Therapy
AI is getting group chat features. OpenAI has done so with ChatGPT. This has profound impacts on therapists and clients for mental health therapy. An AI Insider scoop.
Tsinghua University Releases the First University-Wide Framework Governing AI in Teaching and Research
Tsinghua University recently released the “Tsinghua University Guiding Principles for the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Education” (Guiding Principles), the institution’s first comprehensive, university-wide framework that sets systematic, multi-level guidance...