Amazon’s updated search bar will now show you AI-generated images of products as you describe them. For now, the in-app feature only surfaces AI images of clothing and home goods, allowing you to tap on the image that best matches what you’re looking for and search for similar-looking items. In a blog post, Amazon positions […]
This week we’ve got tandem hands-ons with Google’s new Gemini AI agent – Spark – from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. Their takeaways are similar: It’s so effective that it’s scary. Spark knew that David’s dog is named Frida and knew the first name of Jay’s wife, even though neither of them explicitly […]
Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated “stories” culled from the personal data in your Google account.
If Alphabet’s record-breaking $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see that investors are ready to chow.
Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable’s footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude.
Mark Zuckerberg expands group’s AI push as it seeks to turn messaging app into bigger business
Legal claim by Jess Asato challenges whether AI model-makers are liable for what their systems produce
School and university curricula aren’t nimble enough to keep up with rapid tech transformation
Move comes amid concerns that AI will exacerbate youth unemployment
Tech giant’s first stock offering in more than two decades gets strong demand as investors shrug off huge investment plans
All told, global venture funding reached $92 billion in May, marking the second-largest monthly total on record, just behind February, Crunchbase data shows. Of that, Anthropic raised $50 billion, or 54% of the month’s total funding.
Contact center AVP is terminated following a viral TikTok video post concerning former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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Global HR knows diverse teams are the goal. But the same message can inspire in one culture and alienate in another.
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Workers ages 45 to 61 are filling many prescriptions, and they have many surgical procedures scheduled.
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New data shows 60% of this year’s tech layoffs are tied to AI investment and automation. Here’s how HR can help ease confusion.
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The gap between working operationally and within strategy isn’t a big one. Many companies don’t ask for it, and CHROs don’t push for it.
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New data shows organizations are prioritizing retention and wellbeing as performance demands rise and leaner teams continue to take on more responsibility.
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Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chiparrived this week, with numbers that are genuinely difficult to contextualise: qubits 1,000 times more reliable than those of the first generation models, a mean qubit lifetime of 20 seconds against an industry norm measured in microseconds, and a revised roadmap targeting a commercially scalable quantum computer by 2029. Behind those […]
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Walmart has reportedly begun limiting employees’ use of an internal AI assistant called Code Puppy after demands placed on the LLM backing the tool were higher than expected. Employees of Walmart were encouraged to use Code Puppy without any stricture or stipulations as to the limits of use, but Walmart is now assigning employees a […]
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Standardising grid data through SAP S/4HANA allows E.ON to modernise infrastructure and execute AI deployments. The utility giant manages infrastructure across three distinct domains: energy grids, customer solutions, and energy infrastructure solutions. Maintaining operations across this scope requires continuous capital expenditure on IT hardware and software maintenance. Leadership initially questioned the business case supporting large-scale […]
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NVIDIA released Cosmos 3, open omnimodal world models pairing an autoregressive VLM reasoner with a diffusion generator for physical AI.
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Hermes Desktop is a no-terminal GUI sharing one agent core, skills, and memory with the Hermes Agent CLI.
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Gemma 4 12B feeds vision and audio straight into the LLM backbone, running locally under an Apache 2.0 license.
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OpenAI outlines its public policy agenda for AI, including safety, youth protection, workforce transition, and global standards to ensure AI benefits society.
OpenAI outlines a blueprint for U.S. governance of frontier AI, proposing a federal framework for safety, resilience, and national security.
Soccer fans on r/WorldCup2026Tickets are using Claude to build DIY ticketing software, exchanging on back channels, and leaving scalpers scrambling.
Several real estate listings in the San Francisco Bay Area are offering to exchange a home for a piece of the AI startup.
The company’s RTX Spark chips might finally turn the “AI PC” into reality.
After shelving the original executive order last month, Donald Trump finally got on board Monday night.
Spencer Huang, Nvidia’s robotics lead, tells WIRED that the new bot combines the best of both worlds.
Four people suing Elon Musk’s AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.
Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google’s AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The new conduct rule imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) requires Google to let website owners keep their content out of features like AI Overviews and prevent it from being used […]
In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center buildout throughout the US, Google is touting its efforts to minimize the environmental impact by actually increasing water for local communities. The company laid out five commitments around water use in a new blog post published Wednesday, including a goal to replenish more water […]
At Microsoft’s annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a super app, in-house reasoning models, a cybersecurity tool, and OpenClaw-esque AI agents. All this news added up to a clear message: Microsoft is positioned to be one of the biggest players in AI, and it’s […]
The Series F round values Coralogix at $1.6 billion and comes less than a year after its previous raise.
