Google wants to kill your expensive voice transcription subscription

Google AI Edge Eloquent is a free dictation app for Mac that transcribes and polishes your speech on-device, no subscription, no cloud, and no privacy concerns.

Alphabet just raised $85 billion for AI, smashing the largest equity offering in history
Alphabet just raised $85 billion for AI, smashing the largest equity offering in history

The public markets have been asked whether they believe in AI, and they have answered with $85 billion. Alphabet’s record-shattering equity offering, which priced on 2 June, is not just the largest stock sale in tech history. It is the largest equity o…

Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did
Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did

No phishing link. No malware. No SIM swap. Hackers took over high-profile Instagram accounts over the weekend by doing something disarmingly simple: they asked Meta’s AI customer support chatbot to change the email address on someone else’s account. Th…

Anthropic picks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, with a SpaceX computing deal worth $1.25 billion per month buried in the fine print
Anthropic picks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, with a SpaceX computing deal worth $1.25 billion per month buried in the fine print

Anthropic has selected Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its initial public offering, with JPMorgan Chase also working on the deal, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The Claude developer is weighing going public as soon as October after filing conf…

The EU is asking households to cut electricity use during peak hours because AI data centres are straining the grid
The EU is asking households to cut electricity use during peak hours because AI data centres are straining the grid

The European Commission has called on households across the bloc to reduce electricity consumption during peak hours, citing the rapid growth of AI data centres, accelerating electrification, and rising overall digital infrastructure demand as factors …

Virtual barbarians at the gate: securing the AI blind spot
Virtual barbarians at the gate: securing the AI blind spot

Many companies have quickly moved to adopt artificial intelligence in their systems, embedding it into virtually everything from customer apps to internal systems. That speed has created new pressure for security teams, because AI-enabled applications …

EU says tech sovereignty package about “protecting citizens”

The European Union today unveiled its plan to reduce its reliance on US and overseas tech providers to power its economy, saying its proposals were about “making our own choices”. Dubbed the “Europe…

Microsoft unveils Project Solara AI, a chip-to-cloud platform built to power a new generation of ‘agent-first’ enterprise devices — hardware designed to run AI agents instead of traditional apps

Microsoft has unveiled Project Solara, an Android-based chip-to-cloud platform for AI-first enterprise devices. The system combines Qualcomm and MediaTek hardware, Azure-hosted agents, and adaptive interfaces, with referen…

Trump signs AI executive order seeking 30-day government access to frontier models before release — voluntary framework will include classified benchmark to determine which models qualify

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that asks AI companies to give the federal government early access to their most capable models.

AI is saving workers hours a week. Most of it is being thrown away
AI is saving workers hours a week. Most of it is being thrown away

The promise of workplace AI was always time: hours handed back to employees buried in routine work. A new study suggests the hours are real and that most companies are quietly losing them again. According to research from Workday, surveying 3,200 busin…