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AI meeting notetaker app companies have realized that transcribing meetings and providing summaries alone is not enough to justify their business models and valuations.
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. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman head to trial this week in a case with sweeping consequences.
impersonation, and account takeovers, there are enough digital security problems out there as it is. And with the rise of agentic AI, more activity is being carried out by agents on behalf of humans—creating different risks that something could go awry.Now, working with initial contributions from Go
On Tuesday, Red Hat principal software engineer Sally O’Malley released a new open source tool called Tank OS to make it easier to deploy and manage OpenClaw agents more safely. “This was a fun project that I put together on the weekend that I knew would be a really good fit for AI and where we’re
When people talk about artificial intelligence, they usually focus on what it produces: Human-like text, stunning images, or eerily accurate recommendations. What rarely gets attention is how AI understands anything in the first place. That understanding begins with encoders.
BCI (brain-computer interface) technology — in which neural signals are routed from a person’s head to a computer — was once the stuff of science fiction, but these days the technology represents a competitive corner of the tech industry.
After a yearslong legal feud, Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are heading to trial this week in Northern California in a case that could have sweeping consequences.
selected on Monday during the first day of trial for Musk v. Altman in a federal court in Oakland, California.
The race to secure electricity for AI models has reached new heights: Meta has signed an agreement with the startup Overview Energy that could see a thousand satellites beam infrared light to solar farms that power data centers at night. In 2024, Meta’s data centers used more than 18,000 gigawatt-ho
Public web pages are actively hijacking enterprise AI agents via indirect prompt injections, Google researchers warn.Security teams scanning the Common Crawl repository (a massive database of billions of public web pages) have uncovered a growing trend of digital booby traps.
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. Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model.
SponsoredIn partnership withInfosys Topaz Artificial intelligence may be dominating boardroom agendas, but many enterprises are discovering that the biggest obstacle to meaningful adoption is the state of their data.
There have been plenty of rumors about OpenAI’s hardware plans, which involve launching a pair of earbuds.
China’s top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), said on Monday it has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI startup founded by Chinese engineers that relocated to Singapore before Mark Zuckerberg scooped it up late last year. The move mark
the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence.In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to play the famously difficult game of Go with a kind of mastery that went far beyond mimicry.Silver has since founded his own company, Ineffable Intelligence, that ai
Skye, an iPhone app still in private testing, wants to change how people interact with AI on their smartphones.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In February, I picked up a flyer at an anti-AI march in London. I can’t say for sure whether or not its writers meant to riff on South Park’s underpants gnomes.
Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion to join the race for novel AI models that could outperform large language models. According to its newly launched site,
On Monday, Microsoft and OpenAI announced that they have, once again, renegotiated the deal binding the two companies.
China has blocked US tech giant Meta’s acquisition of the AI company Manus that was founded by Chinese tech entrepreneurs.
