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Dfinity Launches Caffeine, an AI Platform that Builds Production Apps From Natural Language Prompts

Dfinity on Wednesday launched Caffeine, an AI platform that builds, deploys and continuously updates production web applications from natural-language prompts without human coding, running on the decentralized Internet Computer Protocol. The publicly available service — tested by more than 15,000...

Rethinking How Life Sciences Organizations Approach AI - Mathias Cousin of Deloitte

In this podcast episode, Mathias Cousin, Managing Director at Deloitte, discusses how life‑sciences firms can successfully adopt AI by focusing on high‑impact "string of pearls" use cases, investing in data quality, and hiring AI‑native talent. He emphasizes practical change‑management tactics...

OpenAI Has Five Years to Turn $13 Billion Into $1 Trillion

OpenAI is generating roughly $13 billion in annual revenue—about 70% from $20/month ChatGPT subscribers—despite only ~5% of its 800 million users paying. The company has locked in more than 26 gigawatts of compute capacity from vendors including Oracle, Nvidia, AMD...

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EAGLET Boosts AI Agent Performance on Longer-Horizon Tasks by Generating Custom Plans

2025 was supposed to be the year of "AI agents," according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and other AI industry personnel. And it has been, in many ways, with numerous leading AI model providers such as OpenAI, Google, and even...

Sam Altman: ChatGPT Will Get More 'Friendly' Again, Even Erotically So

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will roll out a new ChatGPT update in the coming weeks that restores elements users liked from prior models and, starting in December, will introduce age-gating that allows verified adults to engage in...

Mozilla’s Firefox Adds Perplexity’s AI Answer Engine as a New Search Option

Mozilla has integrated Perplexity's AI-powered answer engine into its Firefox browser, allowing users to choose AI as their search option alongside traditional engines like Google and Bing. Following positive feedback from a limited pilot in select markets, this feature will...

OpenAI Unveils “Wellness” Council; Suicide Prevention Expert Not Included

OpenAI has established an Expert Council on Wellness and AI to enhance ChatGPT's safety features amid increasing scrutiny following a lawsuit alleging the chatbot acted as a "suicide coach" for a teenager. The council comprises eight experts in technology's impact...

Google Meet Launches an AI-Powered Makeup Feature

Google Meet has introduced an AI-powered makeup filter, enhancing its "Portrait touch-up" feature to compete with similar offerings from Microsoft Teams and Zoom. The filter provides users with 12 customizable makeup options that remain consistent during movement, ensuring a natural...

Gmail Now Uses AI to Help You Find Meeting Times

Google has introduced a new AI-powered feature in Gmail called "Help me schedule," which streamlines the process of finding and suggesting meeting times based on users' Google Calendar availability and the context of email exchanges. By utilizing the Gemini AI,...

Coco Robotics Taps UCLA Professor to Lead New Physical AI Research Lab

Coco Robotics has appointed UCLA professor Bolei Zhou as chief AI scientist to lead a new physical AI research lab, aiming to leverage five years of data collected from its last-mile delivery robots. The company, which has gathered millions of...

You’ll Soon Be Able to Shop Walmart From ChatGPT

Walmart has partnered with OpenAI to introduce a feature allowing customers to shop for products directly through ChatGPT, enhancing the online shopping experience for groceries and household essentials. This new capability, set to launch later this fall, will include a...

OpenAI Wants to Stop ChatGPT From Validating Users’ Political Views

OpenAI has announced plans to modify ChatGPT to reduce perceived bias by preventing the AI from reflecting users' political language. A recent paper highlights that this change aims to foster a more neutral exchange of ideas and discourage validation of...

Aquawise Will Show Off Its AI-Driven Water Quality Tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Aquawise is set to unveil its AI-driven water quality monitoring technology at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, aiming to revolutionize aquaculture practices in Southeast Asia. By utilizing satellite imagery and a physics-based AI model, the Bangkok-based startup offers continuous water quality monitoring—an...

#173: OpenAI Dev Day, AI Gets Political, Sora Copyright Drama Continues, Gemini Enterprise & AI’s Impact on Job Hunting

The episode recaps recent AI headlines, highlighting OpenAI’s Dev Day announcements, the growing politicization of AI, ongoing copyright controversy around Sora, and Google’s Gemini Enterprise launch, while also discussing AI’s influence on job hunting. The hosts blend news updates with...

Google to Invest $15B in Indian AI Infrastructure Hub

Google's investment in India will roll out over the next five years, through 2030.

Can We Repair the Internet?

From addictive algorithms to exploitative apps, data mining to misinformation, the internet today can be a hazardous place. Books by three influential figures—the intellect behind “net neutrality,” a former Meta executive, and the web’s own inventor—propose radical approaches to fixing...

Visa Just Launched a Protocol to Secure the AI Shopping Boom — Here’s What It Means for Merchants

Visa has launched the Trusted Agent Protocol, a new security framework aimed at distinguishing legitimate AI shopping assistants from malicious bots, addressing a crucial challenge in the surge of AI-driven commerce. As AI traffic to U.S. retail sites has skyrocketed...

Streamlining Fund Compliance with AI-Ready Data - Sandro Venturini of UBS

In this interview, UBS Executive Director Sandro Venturini discusses how AI‑ready data can streamline cross‑border fund compliance by cutting legal and business costs, aligning stakeholders, and establishing a single source of truth for fund launches. He highlights the practical benefits...

Never Fight a Megatrend: Cisco’s Jeetu Patel

In a MIT Sloan podcast, Cisco President Jeetu Patel frames AI as a megatrend surpassing even the internet and automobile revolutions, emphasizing that the new wave demands re‑imagined data‑center and networking infrastructure—Cisco’s core business. He argues that AI’s rapid, exponential...

Oracle AI World 2025 - We're Live in Las Vegas for All the Latest Oracle News as It Happens

We're live in San Francisco ahead of Dreamforce 2025.

China Wants to Sink Data Centers Underwater - Could This Be the Next Frontier in Computing?

China is launching ocean-cooled data centers near Shanghai, using renewable energy to cut cooling costs and advance sustainable computing.

Google’s Photoshop-Killer AI Model Is Coming to Search, Photos, and NotebookLM

Google is integrating its Nano Banana image‑editing model from Gemini 2.5 Flash into Search (Lens and AI Mode), Google Photos, and NotebookLM, letting users perform conversational image edits and apply new Nano Banana–powered video styles directly in those apps. The...

OpenAI Partners with Broadcom to Produce Its Own AI Chips

OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom to produce its own computer chips to power its AI data centers. The deal is the latest in a series of partnerships designed to reduce the company’s reliance on Nvidia and secure enough computing...

California Becomes First State to Regulate AI Companion Chatbots

California has enacted SB 243, becoming the first state to regulate AI companion chatbots, aiming to safeguard children and vulnerable users from potential harms. The legislation introduces stringent guidelines for the development and deployment of these technologies, mandating transparency and...

A New Wave of 'Shadow AI' Is Worrying Workplaces

New Microsoft research shows that the use of shadow AI is once again on the rise.

This New AI Technique Creates ‘Digital Twin’ Consumers, and It Could Kill the Traditional Survey Industry

A new research paper quietly published last week outlines a breakthrough method that allows large language models (LLMs) to simulate human consumer behavior with startling accuracy, a development that could reshape the multi-billion-dollar market research industry. The technique promises to...

YouTube Music Is Channeling Spotify’s AI DJ with This New Feature – and Early Testers Love It Despite One Big...

Despite some frustrations, beta users are enjoying YouTube Music's new AI host – especially its music trivia commentary.

Salesforce Announces Agentforce 360 as Enterprise AI Competition Heats Up

Salesforce announces an upgraded version of its Agentforce platform designed to help enterprises build and deploy AI agents.

Slack Is Turning Slackbot Into an AI Assistant

Slack is testing an update for Slackbot that transforms it into an AI assistant. Presently, it operates as a tool for delivering reminders and notifications. With the update, Slackbot can create custom plans tailored to your workspace, sift through a...

Anduril’s New EagleEye MR Helmet Sees Palmer Luckey Return to His VR Roots

Anduril Industries has unveiled its new EagleEye MR helmet, marking a significant return to virtual reality for co-founder Palmer Luckey. This advanced mixed reality headset is designed for military applications, integrating augmented and virtual reality capabilities to enhance situational awareness...

From Tool Sprawl to Defensible Value in AI for Legal - with Christo Siebrits of AbbVie

In this podcast episode, Christo Siebrits, AbbVie’s senior associate and general counsel, explains how legal teams can transition from a chaotic array of AI tools to a defensible, value‑driven AI strategy. He emphasizes safe generative‑AI adoption through human‑in‑the‑loop workflows, careful...

Breaking the Bottleneck: Why AI Demands an SSD-First Future

Presented by Solidigm As AI adoption surges, data centers face a critical bottleneck in storage — and traditional HDDs are at the center of it. Data that once sat idle as cold archives is now being pulled into frequent use to...

Nvidia’s AI Empire: A Look at Its Top Startup Investments

Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 100 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's largest investments.

Strange AI-Generated Clips of Musicians with Animals Are Going Viral

It's fake. And odd. If nothing else, generative AI has proven useful for people who want to make odd stuff for no real reason. The latest thing? Musicians accompanied by animals. Accompanied in the official, musical sense, and also in an even...

When Dirt Meets Data: ScottsMiracle-Gro Saved $150M Using AI

How a semiconductor veteran turned over a century of horticultural wisdom into AI-led competitive advantage  For decades, a ritual played out across ScottsMiracle-Gro’s media facilities. Every few weeks, workers walked acres of towering compost and wood chip piles with nothing more...

Weaponized AI Can Dismantle Patches in 72 Hours — but Ivanti's Kernel Defense Can Help

Adversaries from cybercrime gangs to nation-state cyberattack squads are fine-tuning weaponized AI with the goal of defeating new patches in 3 days or less. The quicker the attack, the more time to explore a victim’s network, exfiltrate data, install ransomware...

OpenAI No Longer Forced to Save Deleted Chats—But some Users Still Affected

Court ends controversial order forcing OpenAI to save deleted ChatGPT logs.

Copilot on Windows Can Now Create Office Documents and Connect to Gmail

Microsoft is updating its Copilot app on Windows to allow it to create documents from a chat session and connect to Gmail and Outlook accounts. The updated Copilot app is rolling out initially to all Windows Insiders, ahead of a...

Will Updating Your AI Agents Help or Hamper Their Performance? Raindrop's New Tool Experiments Tells You

It seems like almost every week for the last two years since ChatGPT launched, new large language models (LLMs) from rival labs or from OpenAI itself have been released. Enterprises are hard pressed to keep up with the massive pace...

Enabling Strategic Procurement with AI, From Frustration to Foresight - with Rob DeSantis of Arkestro

The post highlights a podcast episode where Rob DeSantis of Arkestro explains how AI can shift procurement from a risk‑averse, tool‑limited function to a strategic, foresight‑driven capability, delivering 20‑30% cost savings that directly boost earnings per share. He argues that...

Connecting the Dots Across Discovery - with Ben Ninio of Deloitte

In this AI in Business podcast episode, Ben Ninio of Deloitte explains how enterprises are reshaping scientific discovery by using language as a unifying "hack" across R&D fields such as pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and industrial chemistry. He shows how large language...

What Did OpenAI Announce at DevDay? Apps SDK, MCP UI & Impact to SaaS - EP99.20-APPS

In this episode of the "Day in AI" podcast, hosts Michael and Chris break down OpenAI’s DevDay announcements, highlighting the new Apps SDK, the MCP UI overhaul, and what these changes could mean for SaaS developers. They weave humor and...

Nvidia Researchers Boost LLMs Reasoning Skills by Getting Them to 'Think' During Pre-Training

Researchers at Nvidia have developed a new technique that flips the script on how large language models (LLMs) learn to reason. The method, called reinforcement learning pre-training (RLP), integrates RL into the initial training phase rather than saving it for...

OpenAI’s Sora Has Already Hit More than 1 Million Downloads

OpenAI’s social AI video-generating app, Sora, has reached over 1 million downloads in fewer than five days since its launch. That’s according to Sora head Bill Peebles, who said on Wednesday that Sora racked up downloads faster than ChatGPT did...

The AI Industry Is at a Major Crossroads

Hey there, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Hayden Field, senior AI reporter at The Verge and your Thursday episode guest host. I’m subbing in for Nilay while he’s still out on parental leave, and I’m excited to keep diving into...

Sora Hit 1M Downloads Faster than ChatGPT

This level of consumer adoption is worth noting because Sora remains an invite-only app, while ChatGPT was more publicly available at launch. That makes Sora's performance more impressive.

Sustainable Recommender Systems for Tourism

The post interviews doctoral candidate Ashmi Banerjee about her research on AI-driven recommender systems that mitigate exposure bias and promote sustainable tourism. She describes using large language models to generate synthetic data, designing recommendation architectures that balance user satisfaction with...

DC Comics Won’t Support Generative AI: ‘Not Now, Not Ever’

DC wants Superman and other characters under the stewardship of human artists. DC Comics president and publisher Jim Lee said that the company “will not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork,” assuring fans that its future will remain rooted in human creativity....