What do we do when the household appliances start chatting among themselves?
Your toaster may ‘talk’ to your fridge, they may even talk to you, but we’d do well to remember that we’re defined by our human communities, not our electronic ones
Your toaster may ‘talk’ to your fridge, they may even talk to you, but we’d do well to remember that we’re defined by our human communities, not our electronic ones
Beijing consults companies on ways to stop west acquiring its advanced technologies and star start-ups
US specialist venture firm Dimension Capital raises $800mn fund to back AI-designed medicines
The UK utility company is investing $1.75bn in a developer focused on supplying power to data centres
In this interview with Crunchbase News, Daniel Docter, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, discusses how AI is reshaping SaaS and why he doesn’t believe the business model is headed for extinction, why he thinks distribution may ultimately separate the winners from the losers among AI startups, and more.
While 2026 has shown encouraging signs, with Black-founded startups raising approximately $643 million by late May, the strongest quarter since mid-2022, the improvement was driven largely by a handful of unusually large financings. James Norman and Sean Green, co-founders of Black Operator Ventures share their thoughts on how Black founders can close the Series A gap.
Formulary rejections rose sharply across payer types, often delaying—or preventing—patients from receiving prescribed medications.
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HSBC Singapore’s people head discusses moving past mere coping mechanisms to embed genuine psychological safety into everyday operations
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Many professionals are hunting for a guarantee of career survival rather than confronting the more urgent questions of market relevance.
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The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advanced materials. Every new generation of AI technology demands more processing power, more memory, greater energy efficiency, and…
Enterprises evaluating Chinese open-weight models this month face a question that has nothing to do with benchmarks: whether using one will still be straightforward in a year. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 arrived on July 16 as the largest open-weight model yet released, and within days it had reopened a policy argument in Washington that had […]
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Bristol Myers Squibb is purchasing an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD built on the chipmaker’s Vera Rubin architecture to support artificial intelligence use across its drug discovery and development operations. The pharmaceutical company said it will be the first life sciences group to acquire a DGX SuperPOD based on Vera Rubin. Nvidia introduced the architecture earlier this […]
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NVIDIA has released Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter open world model built to run on-device. It helps robots and vision AI agents understand surroundings, reason in real time, and generate robot actions locally. The Cosmos 3 family included Cosmos 3 Nano (16B) and Cosmos 3 Super (64B) shipped on May 31, 2026 at GTC Taipei. […]
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Meta has open-sourced Astryx, the React and StyleX design system it ran internally for eight years across 13,000+ apps. It ships 150+ accessible components, seven themes, dark mode, templates, and an agent-ready CLI under MIT — with React 19+ required.
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Once a quirky bastion of amateur vulva jewelry and pet portraits, Etsy is now deluged with mass-produced goods and AI knockoffs. Some customers don’t seem to mind.
Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.
Last month, more than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google’s military contracts and deals with ICE. Two organizers, Amanda Campos and Eva Jones, tell us why.
Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as a whole. So what happens when a company like SpaceX – a giant gamble, and, in my opinion, terribly overpriced – is fast-tracked into the Nasdaq-100? Does […]
Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley’s Hound Dog to Beyoncé’s Say My Name, and Harry Styles’ As It Was. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Monday, claims that this […]
Adobe’s Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app.
Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.
Under the new system, the protocol will take a looser, “stateless” approach to session IDs on the server side, similar to how most ordinary websites already work.
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn’t resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
Free tools are the most widely used by companies with focus on efficiency savings rather than developing new products
A new study from Kyndryl finds a drop in AI workforce readiness, highlighting a growing problem for HR. Kyndryl’s CHRO offers strategies to stay ahead and why the Human Systems Architect role could be key.
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As hiring accelerates, how do you keep trust when speed outpaces verification? AI may be improving efficiency, but is introducing new risks.
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The groups, including the NAACP, estimate that sticking with the current rules will increase the number of uninsured people by 50%.
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CEO Maria Black, marking her 30th year at ADP, says that managing a workforce is only getting more complex, and so is HR’s role.
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Ghost job fines are coming, ghosting is at record highs and research says discouraged candidates may not come back.
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies. David Sacks, the president’s AI and crypto “czar” until…
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same lineage. Flash targets real-time interaction. Plus targets high-quality generation. Both are delivered as hosted models through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, not as downloadable weights. The release focuses on four things developers hit in production: broader […]
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OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.
China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases suggest America’s lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight, just as the technology is becoming […]