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Amazon has hundreds of thousands of robots in its warehouses, but that doesn’t mean all of its robotic initiatives are a success story. The e-commerce giant has halted its Blue Jay warehouse robotics project just months after unveiling the tech, as originally reported by Business Insider and confirm
ago, Ketan Joshi read a statistic about artificial intelligence and climate change that caught his eye. In late 2023, Google began claiming that AI could help cut global greenhouse gas emissions by between 5 and 10 percent by 2030.
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s adding a music-generation feature to the Gemini app. The company is using DeepMind’s Lyria 3 music-generation model to power the feature, which is still in beta. To use the feature, you’ll describe the song you want to create, and the app will generate a track
The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called music “the universal language of mankind.” Is that still true when the so-called music is being generated by a probabilistic robot instead of a human? We’re about to find out.
Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models—such as what they do when called on to act as companions, therapists, medical advisors, and so on—to be scrutinized with the same kind of rigor as their ability to code or do math. As LLMs improve, people are asking them to p
have catastrophized about robots taking away jobs. On February 1, the paradigm shifted: bots are creating jobs. Now, 518,284 humans—and rapidly counting—are offering their labor to AI agents on a new online marketplace called RentAHuman.
“We’re out of airspace now. We can do whatever we want,” Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen tells me from the pilot’s seat of his Aston Martin helicopter.
To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience or the logic of cause and effect, has helped us hunt, avoid being hunted, plant crops, forge social bonds, and in general survive in a world that d
As a large provider of technology services operating in multiple industries, Infosys is one of the names that quickly come to mind when decision-makers consider possible providers of consultation on and practical implementation of any AI project – discrete or organisation-wide.
Indian AI lab Sarvam on Tuesday unveiled a new generation of large language models, as it bets that smaller, efficient open source AI models will be able to grab some market share away from more expensive systems offered by its much larger U.S.
Indian AI company Sarvam plans to bring its newly released AI models to users by deploying them on Nokia and HMD feature phones, cars, and its own smart glasses. The company, backed by the likes of Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures, said at the ongoing India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi that
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen, an Australian man in his mid-30s, with a rural Catholic upbringing, is a founder
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from software design giant Autodesk as part of a larger $1 billion round from backers, including AMD, Emerson Collective, Fidelity, Nvidia, and others. World Labs, which emerged from stealth in 2024 with $230 million at a $1 billion valua
OpenAI is expanding its footprint in India and moving into the country’s higher-education system through partnerships with leading academic institutions.
Microsoft has confirmed that a bug allowed its Copilot AI to summarize customers’ confidential emails for weeks without permission. The bug, first reported by Bleeping Computer, allowed Copilot Chat to read and outline the contents of emails since January, even if customers had data loss prevention
For leaders in the financial sector, the experimental phase of generative AI has concluded and the focus for 2026 is operational integration.While early adoption centred on content generation and efficiency in isolated workflows, the current requirement is to industrialise these capabilities.
Marketing is one of the few operations no industry can afford to ignore, which is why we have a veritable host of AI-powered marketing tools being shoved into marketers’ faces today.
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized
The release of Alibaba’s latest Qwen model challenges proprietary AI model economics with comparable performance on commodity hardware.While US-based labs have historically held the performance advantage, open-source alternatives like the Qwen 3.5 series are closing the gap with frontier models.
American International Group (AIG) has reported faster than expected gains from its use of generative AI, with implications for underwriting capacity, operating cost, and portfolio integration.
