Seattle has been using AI to listen to every 911 medical call since 2023. Nobody was told.
Seattle has been using AI to listen to every 911 medical call since 2023. Nobody was told.

The Seattle Fire Department has been using artificial intelligence to listen to every 911 medical call in the city since December 2023, according to a GeekWire investigation published this week. The AI, built by Copenhagen-based startup Corti, monitors…

EA just built a full advertising platform inside its games, and 120 million players are the audience
EA just built a full advertising platform inside its games, and 120 million players are the audience

Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a platform that lets brands buy dynamic, real-time ad placements inside the company’s sports games. The system delivers ads through stadium signage, digital ad boards, scoreboards, and broadcast-style overla…

Marvell details vision of optically-interconnected data centers spanning across thousands of kilometers — new interconnects sampling later this year would allow CSPs to pool resources based on workload

Marvell shares its vision for optically connected data centers, connecting devices across hundreds of kilometers, and the company already has hardware to build them.

Adani and Jabil plan to build AI data-centre hardware in India
Adani and Jabil plan to build AI data-centre hardware in India

Adani and Jabil are teaming up to make AI hardware in India. The Adani Group, India’s infrastructure-and-energy conglomerate, and Jabil, the US contract manufacturer, said on Monday they intend to form a strategic alliance to build a vertically integra…

Monday.com launches Monday Ventures, a $200m fund for workplace-AI startups
Monday.com launches Monday Ventures, a $200m fund for workplace-AI startups

Monday.com is becoming an investor. The Israeli work-management company has launched Monday Ventures, a corporate fund that will put up to $200m into startups building the next generation of workplace AI, according to a report in the Israeli business d…

Zhipu shares jump as Wall Street bets China AI fills the Anthropic gap
Zhipu shares jump as Wall Street bets China AI fills the Anthropic gap

Zhipu shares are flying. The Chinese AI lab, listed in Hong Kong as Knowledge Atlas Technology, surged as much as 48 per cent on Monday before closing up about 33 per cent, as Wall Street banks bet that China is the clear winner from Washington’s clamp…

Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with a $234m round led by HCLTech
Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with a $234m round led by HCLTech

Sarvam, the Bengaluru company building India’s sovereign AI stack, has become the country’s newest AI unicorn. It has raised $234m in the first close of a $300m Series B, at a $1.5bn valuation, led by IT services giant HCLTech, which is putting in $150…

Meta face recognition for its glasses came from a Pentagon contractor, WIRED reports
Meta face recognition for its glasses came from a Pentagon contractor, WIRED reports

The Meta face recognition system for its smart glasses was built on software licensed from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon and police contractor, according to a WIRED investigation. Reporters Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra found a leaked, still-active …

Anthropic lawsuit says it oversold the usage on its $200 Claude Max plans
Anthropic lawsuit says it oversold the usage on its $200 Claude Max plans

An Anthropic lawsuit filed in California this week accuses the AI company of overselling its priciest Claude subscriptions. The complaint, brought by Washington, D.C. customer Karl Kahn, claims Anthropic’s “Max 5x” ($100 a month) and “Max 20x” ($200 a …

NewCore raises $66m to give AI agents a corporate identity
NewCore raises $66m to give AI agents a corporate identity

NewCore has come out of stealth with $66m to solve a problem most companies have not named yet: who, or what, is logging into their systems. The identity-security startup, based in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, is building a platform to govern both human…