AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assist…
People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawyer, a product designer, a…
UK company Fractile has today raised a $220M Series B as it continues to build next-generation inference hardware for AI. The round was led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Founders Fund, with partici…
A London-based AI startup set up just months ago, which believes it’s pursuing the fastest path to surpassing human intelligence, has today come out of stealth, having raised over $650m at a $4.65bn v…
Google is reportedly in talks to make Elon Musk’s SpaceX its launch partner for its orbital data centers as part of its Project Suncatcher initiative.
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Sir Demis Hassabis today hailed a multi-billion-dollar investment in the startup he founded which was spun out of Google DeepMind and focuses on leveraging AI to help drug discovery as a “massive vote…
The bank said the security lapse was due to the use of an “unauthorized” AI software app.
World models recently made our list of 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now. Watch executive editor Niall Firth explain why this emerging area of AI is gaining so much attention. Join MIT Technology Review editors and reporters for a subscriber-only Roundtables discussion, “Can AI Learn to Understand the World?” exploring how AI may evolve to…
N8n, the Berlin-based startup which helps businesses automate tasks, has more than doubled its valuation to $5.2bn in less than a year following a strategic investment from German software giant SAP, …
Thinking Machines Lab is testing full duplex AI that can listen and respond at the same time, but the real test is whether faster voice chats feel useful once people can try them.