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Google Labs is working on a new AI-powered game-creation platform called Playground for users to build browser-based games using simple text prompts.
The “father of the iPod” says the first generation of AI gadgets failed to solve real problems — and the next wave will need to earn consumers’ trust.
The financing includes an $8M seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital, and a $30 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures.
The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video or an audio clip, is generated using AI.
The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.
Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
Anthropic has launched Claude for Google Workspace in public beta for all paid plan users, embedding it in Docs, Sheets, and Slides sidebars and connectors. It competes directly with Google's native Gemini and Microsoft 365 Copilot, with review-before-edit controls and enterprise-focused limits.
Google and Constellation Energy have completed a 3,590 MW long-term power agreement covering PJM, the largest U.S. grid, triggering more than $4.3 billion in new investment. The deal combines 890 MW of nuclear power from uprates at 11 existing reactors with 2,700 MW of long-term supply from Constellation’s existing PJM fleet, reflecting an era in which AI data centers must increasingly bring their own power.
Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.
Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans.
DeepSeek is considering expanding its current funding round from an initial RMB 50 billion (about US$7.4 billion) to as much as RMB 100 billion (about US$14.9 billion), driven by heavy subscriptions from state funds, listed-company investment arms, and venture capital. The round is taking shape as a pre-IPO move, as DeepSeek builds a large Huawei Ascend cluster in Inner Mongolia and prepares for a STAR Market listing in 2027.
OpenAI has released 722 AI-generated mathematics manuscripts grouped into 372 problem families, with Lean formalizations for some results. The release tests academic transparency and governance as mathematicians assess the claims and the formal verification gaps.
Meta and Sierra, together with six companies including Walmart, Stripe, Shopify, and Rocket, released the Personal Agent Protocol (PAP), an industry standard for AI agent identity and trust. The protocol uses OAuth-based tiered identity authentication and aims to reduce friction between businesses and AI agents.
Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent.
Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns.
From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.
