Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner’s allergies. Lately, there have been some close calls. “Sometimes people will tell me they have a shellfish allergy, and I’ll come back, and they won’t ask me any questions,” says Madison, who asked that her last name be withheld to […]
San Antonio City Councilmember Ric Galvan remembers when data centers first arrived in his city in the 2000s, looking like relatively unassuming office buildings. But that’s changed in recent years, as data centers have grown into massive “hyperscale” facilities spanning millions of square feet and housing the physical infrastructure for AI. There are now more […]
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Does AI research have a conflict of interest problem?
Powerful AI tools are burning through budgets, prompting a rethink of how the technology is priced ahead of frontier lab IPOs
The move aims to improve the tech group’s balance sheet health as AI spending soars
Homeward, a startup that helps homeowners buy before selling their existing homes or get cash offers for their properties, has raised a $120 million Series D round, Crunchbase News reports exclusively.
Cohere has released Embed 5, a new embedding model family. It targets enterprise search, RAG, and agentic retrieval. The model family ships in 2 tiers. Embed 5 Pro targets maximum retrieval quality. Embed 5 Fast targets latency and cost on the live query path. Both accept text, images, and fused text plus image inputs. Both […]
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In this comprehensive coding guide, we explore Google Research’s Kauldron—a JAX training library optimized for research velocity and modularity. Learn how konfig turns experiments into plain dictionaries, kontext wires components via string paths, and ktyping enforces runtime shape checks.
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Cloudflare has released Clef (27B) and Clef-flash (9B), open-weight decision models that return typed probabilities instead of text. They are Jev-API compatible, accept images, and run on Workers AI at 209.3 ms and 38.8 ms median latency.
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As it opens a new location, the social club prepares grant applications in 2 hours instead of 3 days and liquor-license materials in 3 hours instead of 4 days.
Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.
Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress.
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.
Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.
Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah. The idea was to build the world’s biggest data center — a 40,000-acre AI campus with nine gigawatts of power, or more than double the average power usage of […]
At OpenAI’s annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals – primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early runaway success. CEO Sam Altman walked onstage to cheers and announced Dots, a “real-deal AI” agent powered by GPT-6 Astra, “inspired by the cool agents that we […]
A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google’s side in a ruling on Wednesday, writing that PMC […]
Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you point your phone’s camera at. By sharing your camera in Gemini Live, you can have Google’s AI help with things like reading small text, describing your surroundings, finding or identifying objects around […]
The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It’s a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.
Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.
Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time.
Amazon Web Services’ Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.
Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.
OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok’s opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.
Researcher Toby Ord discusses rising anxiety about AI’s existential risks
New findings by Asymmetric Security provide further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to conduct hacks
Our sense of smell helps us to keep a few shreds of privacy intact and maintains a dividing line between real and virtual worlds
Planned 400-megawatt data centre near Tokyo will be among Asia’s largest projects outside China
The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times
Accruing income at home from land and power abroad has an old name: empire
Productivity gains in analysis are getting stuck in physical-world bottlenecks
