Google is launching a new Gemini app on Mac that allows you to interact with the AI assistant without switching windows on your desktop. With the app, you can use the Option + Space shortcut to pull up a floating chat bubble, where you can ask Gemini questions and share your window. Before sharing your […]
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Emergent’s Wingman lets users manage and automate tasks through chat on platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram.
When Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc got COVID despite being vaccinated and boosted, he tried to fund research for a better solution. What he quickly found out? You can’t just write a check in biotech. Regulators require a commercialization plan, and philanthropy doesn’t move science through clinical trials or get you a license on university IP. Now, he’s bootstrapping a cancer drug platform targeting pancreatic cancer, a disease that […]
You can share anything on their screen with Gemini to get help with what they’re looking at in the moment, including local files.
Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.
Gizmo, an AI-powered learning platform, has attracted more than 13 million users and just secured $22 million in Series A funding.
LinkedIn says hiring is down 20% since 2022, but blames higher interest rates — not AI — for the slowdown.
The startup says it grew its ARR by $70 million in just 20 months after launching an AI agent platform for marketers.
OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its agent-building toolkit, as agentic AI continues to grow in popularity.
Pro-industry campaign groups deploy millions amid growing public support for tighter regulation
Many executives will be following Meta’s plans for an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg with interest
Although the conventional wisdom in tech is that real ambition means staying independent, sometimes joining forces through an acquisition by a large, established company is what it takes to improve your mission’s odds. Guest author Louis Blankemeier, co-founder and CEO of Cognita, explains how that process worked for his healthcare startup.
HR leaders joined Deloitte and Zoom for a closed-door UNLEASH America boardroom to discuss unlocking human potential in the age of AI. Read on to uncover HR’s responsibilities and where the function needs to focus its efforts when redesiging work.
Gallup’s 2025 data puts the continent at the bottom of the global engagement table. For HR leaders gathering in Amsterdam next week, the numbers are both a challenge and a business case.
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New research on GLP-1s point to a clear need for more sustainable models—ones that pair access with clinical oversight, behavior change and cost management strategies.
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Upper-middle class tripled since 1979 despite fewer marriages, according to new research. Here are the facts behind the figures.
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The regulatory fog shows no sign of lifting. That’s where compliance AI agents can help.
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Meta disclosed base salaries as high as $650,000. What HR leaders should know before using the figures as a benchmark.
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The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship. An undertapped opportunity in digital marketing, privacy-led UX treats user consent not as a tick-box compliance exercise, but rather as the first overture in an ongoing customer relationship.…
The assumption that the US holds a durable lead in AI model performance is not well-supported by the data, and that is just one of the uncomfortable findings in Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index Report, published this week. The report, produced by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence, is a 423-page annual assessment of where […]
The post The US-China AI gap closed. The responsible AI gap didn’t appeared first on AI News.
Singapore-based DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have formed a joint venture to be called GEODASH Aerosystems, to build an agricultural spraying drone for large industrial farms. The companies say the near-production drone technology is designed to remove the need to map a field to be treated before each flight, and the need to rebuild flight plans […]
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A vibe-coding application creation company, Emergent, has released Wingman, an autonomous agent that can address and take control of the applications used to manage daily tasks. The company’s press release states: “The best technology should be accessible to everyone”, and cites the difficulty that users without a technical background have in creating software applications. It […]
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Enterprise cloud environments now have access to an undo feature for AI agents following the deployment of Commvault AI Protect. Autonomous software now roams across infrastructure, potentially deleting files, reading databases, spinning up server clusters, and even rewriting access policies. Commvault identified this governance issue and the data protection vendor has launched AI Protect, a […]
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Google DeepMind research team introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a significant upgrade to its embodied reasoning model designed to serve as the ‘cognitive brain’ of robots operating in real-world environments. The model specializes in reasoning capabilities critical for robotics, including visual and spatial understanding, task planning, and success detection — acting as the high-level reasoning model […]
The post Google DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Bringing Enhanced Embodied Reasoning and Instrument Reading to Physical AI appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Explore how OpenAI products like ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs bring AI into real-world use for work, development, and everyday tasks.
An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.
A new study examines the impact of the rise of AI-generated websites on the internet—and found some surprising results.
Once a $4 billion apparel juggernaut, Allbirds will rebrand as NewBird AI, a “GPU-as-a-Service” company. Hey, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
Apple quietly threatened to kick Elon Musk’s AI app, Grok, from its App Store in January over its failure to curb the surge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding X, according to NBC News. It was a muted show of force from one of tech’s most powerful gatekeepers, made behind closed doors even as the undressing […]
Adobe is fully embracing AI tools that enable creators to edit their work using descriptive prompts, instead of manually using specific Creative Cloud apps. The software giant’s new Firefly AI Assistant allows users to describe what they want to change by typing their own words into a conversational interface. Adobe says this marks a “fundamental […]
Parasail raised $32 million in a Series A, signaling a fractured future of models and compute.
The company uses AI to review code that, more often than not these days, has also been generated by AI.
Adobe says the assistant can work across apps like Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator and its other apps to do tasks for you.
Reid Hoffman says tracking AI token use can gauge adoption, but cautions it should be paired with context and not treated as a direct productivity metric.
