American Express is introducing a new framework designed to ensure AI agents only make purchases their users have authorized, potentially preventing costly mistakes and disputes as AI-powered shopping grows.
The new X Subscription combines X’s paid features with AI tools like Grok and Cursor, offering plans ranging from $8 to $200 per month.
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Google is making it easier to build and use personal Android apps created with AI, without having to make them available to everyone on the Play Store.
Pluto Security has raised $42 million Jump Capital, TLV Partners, Ansa Capital and angel investors.
University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield.
The country’s tech giants are snapping up products never designed for advanced AI to satisfy soaring computing demands
The fund believes Britain is emerging as one of the winners of the tech boom
The technology consultancy seeks to calm jitters with an investor day this week
Fraudulent use of AI in the jobs process is forcing the warm and fuzzy realms of the former to work with the suspicious minds of the latter
Guidelines are vital to ensure overstretched forces in England and Wales can use the systems to speed up investigations
Declines for Samsung and SK Hynix drag Kospi sharply lower as investors fret over scale of AI investment
Alibaba’s Qwen team has introduced QwenGyre, an elastic reinforcement learning RL framework for extreme-long-horizon agent training. QwenGyre is an online reinforcement learning system from Alibaba that trains coding agents through unmodified, black-box harnesses. It targets rollouts that run for hours and process close to 1M tokens. The QwenGyre elastic RL framework was used on Qwen’s […]
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Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.
Musk, we find your lack of security disturbing.
Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it’s now launching two new models it claims can go toe-to-toe with the industry’s best. The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are available […]
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.
Trump vs Norway; chōsen-seki; mathematicians and AI, RIP Quartz; Wallace and Gromit
Used right, the technology can unleash human creativity rather than destroy it
FT interview: tech billionaire touts release of new Muse Wonder model after vast spending to challenge rivals in AI race
TII has released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B speech recognition model for Arabic with an Emirati focus. It reports 20.92% average WER on 6 Arabic test sets, but weights and an API are not yet available.
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We checked 12 AI live translation tools, including Palabra.ai, Google Live Translate, DeepL Voice, Teams Interpreter and Wordly, against official pages for languages, latency, platforms and pricing.
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Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the “primary AI inference system” for Microsoft’s products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it’s also more capable of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks. Maia 300 will […]
Ambi is releasing apps for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch that enables ambient capture
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Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
While equity investors look to sunny futures, creditors are scrutinising liabilities like leases on data centres
Research for the FT shows major economies are withstanding the Iran shock but concerns about rising public debt will loom over IMF and World Bank meetings
Kanishka Narayan to tell companies to exercise stricter control over autonomous models and build safeguards
vLLM Semantic Router released Decision 3.0, 5 Apache-2.0 multimodal decision models from 0.8B to 27B. They answer choice, yes/no and score questions about text and images in one call, without generating text.
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Cloudflare released Clef-omni, an Apache-2.0 multimodal decision model built on Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B. It scores text, images, audio and video in one call for $0.15 per million input tokens, while Clef-flash drops to $0.038.
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When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” you’d be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful are falling in line and trying to give Trump the great AI rebrand he […]
Voice AI’s often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break
