Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn’t manipulated by AI. A new feature, called “Reference Image,” will arrive with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup later this month and is supposed to use the device’s new camera sensor to “sign every pixel it sees.” The iPhone 18 Pro and […]
At Wednesday’s iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document laying out how it plans to balance AI “ambient listening” and users’ privacy. It says the raw audio from the new […]
OpenAI’s announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics’ legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both an undeniable achievement and a striking demonstration of just how rapidly AI is transforming mathematics. But before it was even formally announced, the breakthrough had been complicated by the unusual […]
Suno’s new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno’s Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was “trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on.” The data includes content licensed […]
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these systems do? On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan is joined by Connor Leahy, an AI researcher, entrepreneur, and now the U.S. Executive Director of […]
The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.
Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.
The main event was the tech giant’s highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups
Latest departure highlights mounting unease inside Silicon Valley companies racing to build ever more powerful systems
American Express Chief Colleague Experience Officer Monique Herena is HR Executive’s 2026 HR Executive of the Year.
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The chief people officer helped grow the organization from 130 employees to more than 1,400, while annual recurring revenue jumped from $10 million to $320 million.
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Two of the biggest workplace issues in recent years are highlighting the value of human skills.
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Employers are adding more to benefits plans and employees aren’t using it. That’s money leaking out of the plan.
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As insurers consider AI risk, it’s useful to look at how advanced analytics evolved in insurance.
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Explore the challenges organizations face in identifying future leaders, how a new generation of AI is helping close those gaps, why rich behavioral data from employee recognition provides a stronger picture of how leadership emerges across an organization, and how AI can transform these signals into actionable insights.
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OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that solution would be a huge feather in OpenAI’s cap. But the announcement has been overshadowed by accusations…
Today, Meta has introduced Muse, a personal AI agent that takes actions rather than just answering questions. Muse can send emails, book travel, negotiate bills, and pursue long term goals. It keeps working after you close the app and returns only when it needs approval. The bigger story for AI devs is architectural. Each user […]
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Voice agent teams keep hitting the same wall. The catalog holds 400 voices and the brief asks for the one that is not in it: a Quebecoise receptionist for a Montreal dealership, a narrator in his sixties with lecture hall authority. Briefs outnumber any catalog, and cloning closes the gap one speaker at a time, […]
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Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.
In an interview with Crunchbase News, Sean Jacobsohn, a partner at venture firm Norwest, discusses where he still sees openings in the crowded market for finance software, how far companies should trust AI with accounting work, why HR startups may be better off attacking the secondary products of large platforms, and why he tests a CEO’s sales ability before investing.
Samsung has partnered with Mistral AI to deploy on-premises models across its semiconductor manufacturing and engineering operations. The agreement was announced during the bilateral state summit held in Paris between South Korea and France. Samsung will integrate Mistral’s software suite – including its flagship Mistral Large model – into internal semiconductor facilities to build customised […]
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CloudNC has secured $20 million in new capital to scale its AI precision machining technology across global supply chain networks. The investment round was led by US venture investor Nimble Ventures, with participation from Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, and LM Ventures, the venture capital fund of Lockheed Martin. Founded in 2015, CloudNC operates from […]
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A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence “could kill all humans” by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are carelessly racing to build “superhuman systems” they cannot control. In a post on […]
Students who use AI to help them study tend to perform worse at school than those who don’t, according to data from a global OECD educational report. The situation is more complex than it sounds though, with certain types of AI use giving learners a slight boost, especially among students taught to critically assess how […]
Amazon’s Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor’s mouth with “human-dubbed” audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it to “additional titles” in the future. In its announcement, Prime Video says it […]
As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.
If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or partner with a handful of start-ups launching spacecraft that spend time in orbit before they return to Earth. But the vehicle that goes to space and comes back to […]
Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.
New ‘agent’ called Muse designed to make customised suggestions based on chats and social media activity
