The app reads your email inbox and your meeting calendar, then gives you a short audio summary. It can help you spend less time scrolling, but of course, there are privacy drawbacks to consider.
A “thought experiment” about the impacts of AI sent stocks tumbling earlier this week. It’s probably going to keep happening.
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.
OpenAI has closed another round of funding, totalling $110 billion being newly committed to the maker of ChatGPT, which it says has more than 900 million weekly active users and over 50 million consumer subscribers. Amazon is investing $50 billion and striking a deal that includes plans for custom models and more. Nvidia and SoftBank […]
In many ways, Samsung’s new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things – particularly the Privacy Display on the S26 Ultra, which looks like an extremely cool bit of tech and a really useful new feature – and a lot of iterative year-over-year changes. The new camera features, […]
It’s the day of the Pentagon’s looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons, or potentially be designated a “supply chain risk” and potentially lose hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts. Amid the intensifying public statements and threats, tech workers […]
Can AI firms set limits on how and where the military uses their models? Anthropic is in heated negotiations with the Pentagon after refusing to comply with new military contract terms that would require it to loosen the guardrails on its AI models, allowing for “any lawful use,” even mass surveillance of Americans and fully […]
The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.
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While Anthropic has an existing partnership with the Pentagon, the AI company has remained firm that its technology not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weaponry.
Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.”
Suno lets users create music using natural language prompts, making it possible for people with little experience to generate audio with little effort.
The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across the country are blocking data center construction. As the AI debate has been flattened to “doomers versus boomers,” one state legislator is attempting to walk a middle road. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Alex Bores, a New York State Assemblymember and candidate for U.S. Congress. Bores sponsored New York’s […]
OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.
Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI.
Plus, Keir Starmer neutralises potential Send rebellion
Without careful handling, AI power demand could push up electricity prices and sink net zero plans
Results from chip group gave Wall Street indices an early knock but ‘progress’ in US-Iran talks aid afternoon recovery
Group’s shares surge 25% as CEO says ‘most companies are late’ to realise how much technology will affect employment
Televised gala offers a showcase and opportunity for the best of Chinese tech
CEO Dario Amodei says start-up ‘cannot in good conscience’ agree to US government’s terms
Keshav Murugesh of WNS, part of Capgemini, on how India’s outsourcing services will handle agentic AI
Spiralling electricity demand threatens to hold the US back in its technological race with China
US holding talks with AI groups to identify vulnerabilities in Chinese networks and feed US war planning
Project Prometheus in new talks with Abu Dhabi and JPMorgan over vehicle to buy up businesses disrupted by the technology
Fintech infrastructure company Plaid revealed on Thursday that it has completed a new fundraise to provide liquidity to employees at a valuation of $8 billion.
Some organizations are viewing the new Trump accounts program as an opportunity to “reset” the discussion on employee financial health.
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In the escalating ‘race of “smaller, faster, cheaper’ AI, Google just dropped a heavy-hitting payload. The tech giant officially unveiled Nano-Banana 2 (technically designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). Google is making a definitive pivot toward the edge: high-fidelity, sub-second image synthesis that stays entirely on your device. The Technical Leap: Efficiency over Scale The […]
The post Google AI Just Released Nano-Banana 2: The New AI Model Featuring Advanced Subject Consistency and Sub-Second 4K Image Synthesis Performance appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Microsoft researchers have introduced CORPGEN, an architecture-agnostic framework designed to manage the complexities of realistic organizational work through autonomous digital employees. While existing benchmarks evaluate AI agents on isolated, single tasks, real-world corporate environments require managing dozens of concurrent, interleaved tasks with complex dependencies. The research team identifies this distinct problem class as Multi-Horizon Task […]
The post Microsoft Research Introduces CORPGEN To Manage Multi Horizon Tasks For Autonomous AI Agents Using Hierarchical Planning and Memory appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Perplexity has released pplx-embed, a collection of multilingual embedding models optimized for large-scale retrieval tasks. These models are designed to handle the noise and complexity of web-scale data, providing a production-ready alternative to proprietary embedding APIs. Architectural Innovations: Bidirectional Attention and Diffusion Most Large Language Models (LLMs) utilize causal, decoder-only architectures. However, for embedding tasks, […]
The post Perplexity Just Released pplx-embed: New SOTA Qwen3 Bidirectional Embedding Models for Web-Scale Retrieval Tasks appeared first on MarkTechPost.
OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory introduce DraftNEPABench, a new benchmark evaluating how AI coding agents can accelerate federal permitting—showing potential to reduce NEPA drafting time by up to 15% and modernize infrastructure reviews.
Silicon Valley built AI coding agents that can handle most of the grunt work. Now, the most valuable skill in tech is deciding what they should do.
Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers.
The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down.
Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Plus: All you need to know about TAT-8 and undersea cables.
Google’s latest image model, Nano Banana 2, is a powerful AI photo editor that punctures reality. Well, sometimes.
