AI News & Articles

AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures,...

OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation...

Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules

Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions...

Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening

Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe...

Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch

The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone...

The hinge for Apple’s new foldable phone was built with AI

Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its...

Apple’s revamped Health app will calculate your ‘health age’ and readiness score

The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data. ...

Apple has a new way to prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slop

Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited,...

Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone

The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy. ...

Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?

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...

ControlAI’s Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it’s an adversary’ 

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...

Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address

Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses,...

‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI 

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between...

Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant

Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my...

AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?

Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't...

Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks

Cymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman...

Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform....

Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time

Besxar, a startup founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, wants to make the...

Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up

As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno...

JD.com expands physical AI in logistics with 3 million robots

JD.com is expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network under a new Physical...

CloudNC aims to accelerate AI supply chain machining

CloudNC has secured $20 million in new capital to scale its AI precision machining...

Samsung taps Mistral AI models for semiconductor manufacturing

Samsung has partnered with Mistral AI to deploy on-premises models across its semiconductor manufacturing...

Arm launches Total Design for Physical AI and robotics framework

Arm has launched Arm Total Design for Physical AI alongside a new robotics framework...

Coca-Cola uses AI to improve retailer ordering in Malaysia

Coca-Cola is using AI to recommend which products Malaysian retailers should order and in...

AI weather forecasting enters the energy market as Google targets grid operators with WeatherNext 3

Google’s newest AI weather forecasting model predicts wind speed at 100 metres above the...

YouTube Appears in 53% of Google AI Overviews for Vitamin and Supplement Searches

YouTube was the most frequently cited website in Google AI Overviews across a panel...

MG Ship adds AI route optimisation as logistics returns accelerate

MG Ship has introduced an AI route optimisation and carrier selection module as logistics...

M&T Bank expands enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul

M&T Bank has deployed AI copilots to more than 15,000 employees as the US...

50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating

Just over half of American adults, 50.5%, say a partner’s romantic or sexual relationship...

OneRail uses Nvidia AI for real-time last-mile delivery optimisation

OneRail has launched an AI-powered delivery platform that uses Nvidia technology to help retailers,...

NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B

NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion to scale the open-source...