
EMASS announced its next‑generation 16 nm ECS‑DoT edge AI SoC is entering final development stages, moving toward tape‑out at TSMC. The new chip builds on the 22 nm version while adding an integrated BLE subsystem, expanded on‑chip SRAM, fine‑grained power management, a dedicated object‑detection accelerator, and FP16/FP32 floating‑point support. These enhancements preserve the ultra‑low‑power ethos and maintain software compatibility, enabling developers to scale to more demanding always‑on workloads without redesign. EMASS positions the device as a catalyst for new edge‑intelligence use cases that require higher performance and longer battery life.

Director Adam Bhala Lough’s new documentary *Deepfaking Sam Altman* chronicles his quest to interview OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, which stalled after months of silence. To break the deadlock, Lough commissioned a full‑body deepfake—Sam Bot—produced in India, turning the synthetic avatar into the film’s...

Smart Data Solutions (SDS) announced the appointment of Mark Fidow as chief technology officer to accelerate its AI‑native healthcare workflow automation platform. Fidow brings more than 30 years of technology leadership across healthcare, payments, fintech and aviation. He will steer...

Syncrux unveiled Optix, an agentic AI platform designed to operate as a browser‑based digital employee that can plan, execute, and verify multi‑step workflows without rigid scripts. The system adapts in real time to UI changes and offers a Watch Mode...

By December 2025, Wall Street banks have moved AI from pilot projects to daily operations, with generative tools lifting productivity across engineering, operations, and customer service. JPMorgan reports a 6% productivity rise and aims for 40‑50% gains, while Wells Fargo anticipates...

A new CodeRabbit study finds AI‑generated pull requests contain 1.7 times more issues than human‑written code, averaging 10.83 problems versus 6.45. The defects span critical and major categories, with security, logic and performance errors notably higher. While AI reduces spelling...

Insurance leaders Allianz, Aviva and Zurich have moved AI from pilot projects to production tools that sit directly in daily workflows. Allianz’s Insurance Copilot automates claim data gathering, document analysis and email drafting, speeding settlements. Aviva’s generative‑AI summariser condenses lengthy...

AVASOFT announced its membership in the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), joining an ecosystem of security vendors integrated with Microsoft’s security stack. The company’s solutions now tightly connect with Microsoft Entra, Intune, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Purview, Sentinel, and...

OpenAI has unveiled the "Academy for News Organizations," a new learning platform designed to help journalists and publishers adopt artificial‑intelligence tools. Developed with the American Journalism Project and the Lenfest Institute, the on‑demand program offers practical training, translation examples, and...

AstraZeneca is scaling AI‑driven clinical‑trial tools beyond the lab, embedding them in Thailand’s national health system and screening over 660,000 patients. Its CREATE study showed a 54.1% positive predictive value for an AI chest‑X‑ray algorithm, prompting a three‑year, 415 million‑baht rollout...

OpenAI announced that developers can now submit ChatGPT applications for inclusion in a new directory accessed via the Tools menu. Submissions will undergo a review process, and approved apps can be launched directly in conversations using the “@” command. A...

In February 2025, engineering firm Arup lost $25 million after attackers used AI‑generated video and audio to impersonate senior leaders and convince an employee to transfer funds. The breach highlighted a critical weakness: a lack of identity resilience, the ability to...

TileDB launched Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform, as a Snowflake Connected App for Healthcare and Life Sciences. The integration unifies complex scientific data—genomics, proteomics, imaging, and documents—across TileDB arrays and Snowflake tables within a single catalog. Automatic RSA key...
Glow, an independent social and digital marketing agency, has introduced CreatorView, an AI‑driven platform that vets influencers for brand safety and alignment. The move reflects a broader trend of agencies expanding into software sales as AI shortens product development cycles...

A recent AI Security Institute report shows that one‑third of UK citizens have turned to artificial intelligence for emotional support, companionship or social interaction. Nearly one in ten users engage with chatbots weekly and 4 % do so daily, with general‑purpose...

OpenAI is in early discussions to raise as much as $100 billion, which could lift its valuation to roughly $750 billion—a 50% jump from its October share sale. The company reports an annualized revenue run rate of $19 billion and aims for $30 billion...

Fortinet and Arista Networks unveiled a Secure AI Data Center solution, first deployed at Monolithic Power Systems, that merges Fortinet’s ASIC‑accelerated security with Arista’s ultra‑low‑latency networking. The reference architecture offers a modular, zero‑trust design, zero‑touch provisioning and hardware‑offloaded TLS that...

Penguin AI, a healthcare AI specialist, announced a partnership with global advisory firm FTI Consulting to embed its AI platform into FTI’s revenue cycle management (RCM) transformation services. The integration aims to automate claims denial and appeals workflows, delivering faster...

Following the deadly Bondi beach attack, AI‑generated deepfakes and manipulated images flooded social platforms, especially X, with false narratives ranging from psy‑ops to misidentified perpetrators. Prominent examples included a deep‑faked video of NSW Premier Chris Minns, fabricated crisis‑actor photos, and...
OpenAI released GPT‑5.2‑Codex, an agentic coding model built on GPT‑5.2 with enhanced cybersecurity capabilities. The model achieved top scores on Capture‑the‑Flag, CVE‑Bench (87%) and a 72.7% pass rate on Cyber Range tests, demonstrating improved long‑horizon code understanding. Enterprise users can...
The episode spotlights General Intuition, a stealth AI startup developing a universal agent and world model, now in late‑stage fundraising for several hundred million dollars at a valuation exceeding $2 billion. It recaps the company’s technology vision—building a general‑purpose AI that...

Google introduced Gemini 3, an upgraded AI model now embedded in Google Maps, enabling conversational, context‑aware navigation. The integration lets users ask natural‑language queries for coffee shops, scenic lunch spots, or traffic‑aware detours, and receive real‑time, multi‑criteria recommendations without leaving the...

Adobe faces a proposed class‑action lawsuit alleging it used pirated books to train its SlimLM language model. The suit, filed by author Elizabeth Lyon, claims the model’s training data derives from the SlimPajama‑627B dataset, which copies the RedPajama and Books3...
Transformers v5 introduces a major redesign of tokenizers, consolidating each model’s tokenizer into a single, transparent file and exposing the full architecture—normalizer, pre‑tokenizer, model, post‑processor, and decoder—as inspectable properties. The library now defaults to a Rust‑based backend for speed, while...

OpenAI has opened ChatGPT to third‑party developers, allowing apps to be invoked directly within conversational flows via @‑mentions or contextual suggestions. Early partners such as Adobe, Target, Canva and Figma are already offering image editing, shopping and design tools that...

Renowned mathematician Terence Tao has argued that the term “artificial general intelligence” overstates what current systems can achieve. He proposes calling the capability “artificial general cleverness” (AGC), describing it as the ability to solve complex problems using improvised, sometimes random,...

Unitree has introduced the world’s first Robot App Store, initially offered in beta for its $13,500 G1 humanoid robot. The marketplace hosts a handful of pre‑built routines such as Funny Actions, Twist Dance, and a Bruce Lee martial‑arts sequence, and allows...
JPMorgan Chase rolled out an internal LLM‑powered assistant suite two‑and‑a‑half years ago, and adoption surged to over 60% of its 250,000‑plus workforce without mandates. The rapid, organic uptake stemmed from a connectivity‑first architecture that embeds AI into existing data, CRM,...
Media executives anticipate 2026 will shift from frantic AI experimentation to disciplined sorting of what scales and what doesn’t. They warn that AI‑driven traffic volatility will push firms to prioritize stable revenue models and audience trust. Human‑first storytelling and differentiated,...

Amazon announced that longtime AWS executive Peter DeSantis will head a new AI-focused organization. The unit will oversee Amazon’s AI models such as Nova, custom silicon development, and quantum computing initiatives. DeSantis brings 27 years at Amazon, including eight as...

Tech billionaires are turning space into the next frontier for AI data centers, citing limitless solar power and reduced terrestrial footprint. Google’s Project Suncatcher aims to launch a cluster of up to 81 low‑Earth‑orbit satellites by 2027, each packed with...

Urban VPN Proxy, a free Chrome and Edge extension, was found to covertly capture every AI prompt users type and transmit the data to analytics servers for resale. Security firm Koi Security identified a hidden script added in the July 9 2025...

The episode explains how AI‑driven answer engines like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity are reshaping the top and middle of the commerce funnel by turning lengthy product research into rapid, guided Q&A and offering intuitive comparison tables, while their impact...

Amazon is in advanced talks to invest at least $10 billion in OpenAI, a move that could lift the startup’s valuation past $500 billion. The cash infusion is aimed at covering OpenAI’s soaring server expenses, including a $38 billion cloud agreement with Amazon...

Google announced its next experimental AI project, CC, which delivers a personalized "Your Day Ahead" email by accessing Gmail, Calendar, and Drive data. The service is currently in a U.S. and Canada waitlist, with priority given to AI Ultra and...

Google unveiled Gemini 3 Flash, a faster and cheaper AI model that now serves as the default engine in the Gemini app and AI‑enhanced search. The model hits 33.7% on the Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark and 81.2% on the MMMU‑Pro multimodal reasoning...

AI blindness – the failure to verify data fitness for AI – is costing businesses billions as inaccurate outputs drive poor decisions. Research shows only 42% of executives fully trust AI‑generated insights, highlighting a widening trust gap. Legacy data tools,...

Mozilla has named Anthony Enzor‑DeMeo as its new chief executive, signaling a fresh strategic direction for the Firefox maker. The appointment arrives as AI‑driven browsers from Perplexity, Arc, OpenAI and Opera pressure traditional players. Enzor‑DeMeo pledged to embed AI features...

A fabricated AI‑generated video claiming a coup in France and the ousting of President Emmanuel Macron went viral, reaching 13 million views before Meta finally removed it. The clip, posted by a user named “ISLAM,” featured staged footage of police and...

The tutorial demonstrates how to build a two‑agent CrewAI pipeline that leverages the Gemini Flash model for real‑time research and writing. It walks through environment setup, secure Gemini authentication, and the definition of a researcher and a writer agent with...

Skana Robotics unveiled SeaSphere, an AI‑driven software that lets underwater autonomous vessels exchange data and coordinate missions without surfacing. The platform uses mathematically‑focused AI algorithms to enable real‑time decision‑making across large fleets. Skana, founded in 2024, is targeting European defense...
Patronus AI, backed by $20 million, unveiled Generative Simulators—a dynamic training architecture that creates adaptive, continuously evolving environments for AI agents. The platform aims to replace static benchmarks, which have struggled to predict real‑world performance, by generating on‑the‑fly challenges and feedback....

Meta has released version 21 of its Ray‑Ban and Oakley smart‑glasses, introducing a new audio suite that includes Conversation Focus. The feature uses AI‑driven microphones to isolate the voice of a person you’re speaking with, cutting out background chatter. It is...

NVIDIA released the Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B model alongside a fully open evaluation recipe built with the NeMo Evaluator library. The blog details how developers can reproduce the model‑card results, inspect structured logs, and run the same benchmarks on any inference endpoint. Published YAML...

Generative AI is flooding WhatsApp groups, especially diaspora “auntie” networks, with realistic but fake videos and messages. The article shows how older relatives often trust this content as they would traditional broadcast media, leading to misinformation spread during the holiday...

Microsoft clarified that AI agents in Windows 11 will not automatically access personal folders. Users must approve each file‑access request or grant permanent permission through a dialog box. Permissions can be set per agent—Copilot, Researcher, Analyst—but apply to all personal directories...

Advanced reasoning models have now passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams, with Gemini 3.0 Pro scoring 97.6% on Level I and GPT‑5 achieving 94.3% on Level II. The study tested six leading AI systems on 980 mock questions, showing...

OpenAI announced that former UK Chancellor George Osborne will serve as Managing Director and Head of OpenAI for Countries, overseeing the global Stargate data‑center expansion beyond the United States. The "for Countries" initiative, added to Project Stargate in May 2025,...

Donald Trump issued an executive order launching the “Genesis Mission,” an AI‑driven “Manhattan Project” intended to fuse federal scientific data into a national platform for rapid breakthroughs. Critics, including former science advisor Arati Prabhakar and academic leaders, warn the initiative is...

Swedish creative director Petter Rudwall launched Pharmaicy, an online marketplace selling code modules that make chatbots behave as if they are under the influence of substances such as cannabis, ketamine, and ayahuasca. The service requires a paid ChatGPT tier to...