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"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Flock, the police-tech giant known for its network of some 120,000 automatic license plate readers around the US, announced some changes to its platform last Thursday. The updates are meant to prevent…
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
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. What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies? When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him how to calm down when he was anxious or mad. Six years later, she…
Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.
When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. They practiced breathing like dragons to manage feeling mad and sniffing like bunnies to boost his energy. But in the six years they’ve known each other,…
In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the ancient root of North America. There her team of geochemists found water that had been confined underground for more than a billion years. This ancient brine turned out to be a habitat…
On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."
How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.
When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place.
The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?
Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]
